Michael Shaeffer

playwright, poet, director, teacher, funk soldier, full-contact cook

[SiouxperCon @SiouxperCon]

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Plot your weekend at SiouxperCon 2023: To Sioux Falls & Beyond benefitting @MakeAWish #SouthDakota & #Montana
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[Michael Shaeffer @arctickle]

@BoreiaArtopoios @OED Aatrocious.

[Michael Shaeffer @arctickle]

I've got Tony Stank money, not Tony Stark money.

[Michael Shaeffer @arctickle]

@maxverbosity Phillip's The Concept of Anxiety (installment 2 of 5 in his Too Many Notes) had the best use of Pink Floyd in a theatrical setting including any Pink Floyd concerts. #mnfringe

[Joseph Scrimshaw @JosephScrimshaw]

I love a Pez dispenser that looks like it’s actively eating Pez

[Matthew A. Everett @MatthewAEverett]

#mnfringe show 9 - Everything Bagel: hearing spoken word this good from Michael Shaeffer again made the 15 year hiatus just blink away; the words and pop culture references and jokes just dance and bounce off the walls; deliriously fun; great stuff - 5 stars

[Matthew A. Everett @MatthewAEverett]

#mnfringe show 8 - Too Many Notes: never too many words for me from phillip andrew bennett low; this time it was the hilarious, borderline sacrilegious Santa/Christ narrative, but every show is different; each a greatest hit well worth revisiting, and I shall - 5 stars

[Michael Shaeffer @arctickle]

3 days until the Aug 5 premiere of Everything Bagel. Chipotle guacamole will NOT cost extra! @mnfringe @StrikeTheater #mnfringe

[Michael Shaeffer @arctickle]

4 days 'til the premiere of Everything Bagel. Today's excerpt: I have sat stoic as a hungover bartender multi-tasked on her phone detailing that mornin's robust vomit session as she dropped off my plate of runny eggs. @mnfringe @StrikeTheater #mnfringe

[Michael Shaeffer @arctickle]

5 days before the premiere of Everything Bagel. Today's bit: Yes, the lost hiker cameo (played by Paul Rudd) has diluvial amounts of jugular blood. @mnfringe @StrikeTheater #mnfringe

[Michael Shaeffer @arctickle]

6 days before the premiere of Everything Bagel. Today's out-of-context bit: Would you ride to town with baloney? Never! @mnfringe @StrikeTheater #mnfringe

[Michael Shaeffer @arctickle]

7 days until the August 5 premiere of Everything Bagel. Today's excerpt: Sunday shoes were kicked off; Tipper Gore was ticked off. Tina turned in one of the best albums of her entire career. @mnfringe @StrikeTheater #mnfringe

[Michael Shaeffer @arctickle]

8 days until the premiere of Everything Bagel. Today's excerpt: Footloose went all the way to number one and FUN was the only thing girls truly wanted. @mnfringe @StrikeTheater #mnfringe

[Michael Shaeffer @arctickle]

9 days until the premiere of Everything Bagel: My argument has so many layers, when peeled, I am armed w/the likes of Bowie, the Boss, an ex-Beatle, borderlines, bustin' ghosts, and Benatar on this battlefield. @mnfringe @StrikeTheater #mnfringe

[Michael Shaeffer @arctickle]

10 days until the August 5 premiere of Everything Bagel. Today's excerpt: We all cope with fear: spiders, cancer, elevators, rejection, rejection in an elevator. @mnfringe @StrikeTheater #mnfringe

[Michael Shaeffer @arctickle]

11 days until the premiere of Everything Bagel. Today's excerpt: I am kneeling in the sand, caressing a dead seagull, as a recently resurrected playwright materializes in the stratosphere. @mnfringe @StrikeTheater #mnfringe

[Michael Shaeffer @arctickle]

12 days until the premiere of Everything Bagel. Today's excerpt: I hear Vanya's body strike a nearby buoy with a resounding and haunting bong! @mnfringe @StrikeTheater #mnfringe

[Michael Shaeffer @arctickle]

13 days until the premiere of Everything Bagel. Today's excerpt: this is death spiraling down after death signifying death and the Rapture. @mnfringe @StrikeTheater #mnfringe

[Michael Shaeffer @arctickle]

14 days until the Aug 5 premiere of Everything Bagel. Today's excerpt: in my nightmare, the moon has already turned as black as sack cloth. @mnfringe @StrikeTheater #mnfringe

[Michael Shaeffer @arctickle]

15 days until the Aug 5 premiere of Everything Bagel. Today's snippet: My skeleton is living life in the fast lane, like Don Henley if he were 18 years older, or like Glenn Frey... if he was still alive. @mnfringe @StrikeTheater #mnfringe