Celebrated LGBT theater director 'is fired over claims he's a sex pest who performed oral sex on one shocked co-worker, inappropriately touched another - and told victim he masturbated to gang rape scene in Jodie Foster movie'
Michael A. Shepperd, longtime artistic director at Los Angeles' Celebration Theatre, was fired after at least two actors alleged sexual misconduct
He was accused of performing oral sex on co-worker Michael Taylor Gray in 2006, and inappropriately touched actor Andrew Diego, it is claimed
Shepperd denied any wrongdoing, and said that any sexual activity was consensual
The allegations came to light after actor
Andrew Diego said Shepperd had touched him inappropriately during a 2019 production of The Producers