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THE WIDE STANCE: A Theatrical Essay on the Two Party System!
Joseph teams with top Twin Cities Theater talent for an audience interactive political comedy just in time for the 2008 RNC!
Can sudden political activism save a terrible show? YOU, the audience, must decide.
The Wide Stance is an audience-interactive political comedy that casts "the show" as "the nation" in an absurdist take on modern politics, media frenzy and the popular vote. Complete with politicians, pundits and product placement, this fast-paced, unruly show puts our current political system through a "speed-dating" process in which the audience is given the power to affect change—but only with limited options. Written by Joseph Scrimshaw and Tom Poole! Directed by Randy Reyes! Featuring a bevy Twin Cities theater super stars, with script in hand for freshness:
Warren Bowles, Caroline Cooney, Steve Hendrickson, Ryan Parker Knox, Tracey Maloney, Lindsay Marcy, Kris Nelson, Randy Reyes, Joseph Scrimshaw and Phyllis Wright
Performances are at The Playwright's Center in South Minneapolis
2301 Franklin Ave East
THREE SHOWS ONLY!
Friday, August 29 at 7:30
Saturday, August 30 at 7:30
Sunday, August 31 at 7:30
Tickets are $15. Fringe Button discount: $13
For reservations call 612-280-9210
or buy tickets online here!
Murder! The newest member of the knitting group has been brutally stabbed
with a pair of knitting needles!
Who is innocent? Who is guilty?
Who will finish their scarf first?
SMASH HIT RETURNS!
The show was a smash hit last April with SIX SOLD OUT SHOWS!
Catch it this October!
Saturday, Oct 4th; Sunday Oct, 5th
Saturday, Oct 11th; Sunday Oct, 12th
Saturday, Oct 18th; Sunday Oct, 19th
Saturday, Oct 25th; Sunday Oct, 26th
All shows at 7 PM
Doors open for dining, drinking and stitching at 6 PM!
Make your reservations now at 612-825-8949!
Download the Photo!
Joseph's hit Holiday show returns to the Theater Garage!
A morbidly depressed Santa Claus climbs through the bedroom window of a happily married couple on Christmas Eve. Can the couple save Santa from himself? Or will Santa destroy the marriage by telling the couple where they fit on his naughty and nice list?
Find out this December! More info coming soon!
NEW ADVENTURES IN MATING!
Joseph's internationally produced comedy is enjoying it's second year of an ongoing, open-ended run Monday nights at the Bryant Lake Bowl!
Returning from its summer hiatus on Monday, September 8th
with a brand new Miranda--Megan Kelly!
8 PM EVERY MONDAY NIGHT until someone makes us stop!
For more info and tix visit adventuresinmating.com!
You can also become friends with Adventures in Mating
by visiting our
myspace page!
Download the new MATING photo here!
Download the new MATING press release here!
SCRIMSHAW BROTHERS NEWS!
THE SCRIMSHAW BROTHERS' NEW YEAR'S EVE SPECTACULAR!
Ring in the New Year with "the Twin Cities' Sharpest Sketch Comedy Team" (Pioneer Press) Featuring "smart, manic" (City Pages) comedy, music, dance, special surprise guests, and more broken resolutions than you can shake a Scrimshaw at! Complimentary party favors at both shows! The late show goes all the way to 2008!
Monday, December 31
7 PM & 10:30 PM
Tickets: $20 ($5 off with Fringe Button)
Buy tickets now!
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Latest Update: 8/19/2008
Welcome to josephscrimshaw.com!
Joseph's e-mail address through the web-site is currently fighting with
Microsoft. If you want to contact Joseph e-mail him at:
joseph.scrimshaw@gmail.com
Browse the site for updates on Joseph's projects (see below), articles, video and audio clips!
Joseph has been extremely busy in the last few months!
TRIUMPH of the SQUIRRELS!
Thanks to all who came to see
AN INCONVENIENT SQUIRREL
at the 2008 MN Fringe Festival!
The Squirrels were the #2 best-selling show of the festival
and received rave reviews such as
"MUST SEE!"-Pioneer Press
"...brilliantly squirrelly. Like the great Warner brothers cartoons, the adults are howling with laughter alongside their children"
-tcdailyplanet.com
"Scrimshaw fractures fairytale motifs in a fun way and presents a number of memorable characters, such as Evil Genius Squirrel and Thinks He's a Pirate Squirrel. By the end, there's a moral that's really not all that simple. That aside, there's also plenty of good physical humor, some deft parody and, above all, four guys dressed up as squirrels. What's not to like?"
-City Pages
Watch for Squirrel remounts!
Joseph recently partnered with premiere event planning company,
Event Lab,
to create a brand new variety show about our fair state entitled
STATE of the LOON:
The MN Variety Show!
Perfect for corporate entertainment events!
Visiting the Science Museum of Minnesota?
Don't miss
THE ADVENTURES of
CAPTAIN VIBRATION!
A short play about the science of sound and old radio foley artists
written and directed by Joseph!
Check here
to see when the show is playing!
Adventures in Mating plays EVERY MONDAY NIGHT UNTIL SOMEONE MAKES US STOP--8 PM at The Bryant-Lake Bowl!
For more info check out the web-site adventuresinmating.com!
New runs ofMating coming up in Seattle, Kentucky, and Indiana!
PLUS the Bulgarian version is still running!
Pioneer Press has named Joseph as one of three theater artists to
"keep an eye on in 2008"!
"...He's got a keen pen, a savvy business sense and seemingly boundless energy..."
City Pages has listed Joseph as a 2007 Artist of the Year!
Along with all other working Twin Cities' Playwrights!
Thanks to all who came to Fat Man Crying!
THE SHOW WILL BE BACK AT THE THEATER GARAGE
in DECEMBER 2008!
"EVERYONE LAUGHS
AT A FAT MAN...THE SHOW'S PERCOLATING TEMPO DELIVERS
LAUGH LINES LIKE TOYS DROPPING OFF THE ASSEMBLY LINE AT THE NORTH POLE..."
Read the whole tcdailyplanet.net review here!
"FINELY PITCHED COMEDY...SCRIMSHAW'S DIALOGUE IS
CONSISTENTLY FUNNY...SMART, WELL-CRAFTED..."
Read the whole City Pages review here!
Check out this feature article on Joseph and Fat Man Crying from the Friday, November 30th Pioneer Press--
What are you laughing at?
PLUS check out this A-LIST in City Pages
MACBETH IS NUMBER ONE!
Thanks to all who attended
Macbeth's Awesome Scottish Castle Party
at the 2007 MN Fringe Festival!
Macbeth was the #1 best-selling show by total tickets sold--a whopping 1,780 tickets AND #4 by percent of capacity with an amazing 91% of seats sold!
There is only one word to describe this success: awesome.
Joseph is being chased by a cougar! Watch the video here! Joseph is also cuddling with baby bears here! Joseph is making out with a bear here!
Read about the alleged "King of Comedy" in this May article from the MN Monthly!
If you have plans to visit Lima, Peru in the next year keep an eye out for Peor Obra--the Spanish language version of Joseph's hit Fringe show The Worst Show in the Fringe!
Joseph Scrimshaw is a critically acclaimed actor, an internationally produced playwright, an independent theater producer/director, and an occasional graphic designer. With his brother, Joshua, he is one half of The Scrimshaw Brothers Comedy Team. The Brothers were named City Pages' Artists of the Year in 2002 and have been described as "the utility men of comedy-jumping from sketches to slapstick to soliloquy without skipping a laugh" (Pioneer Press).
As a solo artist, Joseph is the author of MN Fringe Fest hits, The Worst Show in the Fringe (the #1 best-selling show of the Festival in 2002 and #4 in 2003),
Adventures in Mating (the #3 best-selling show in 2005), Die, Clowns, Die! (the #6 best-selling show in 2006), and Macbeth's Awesome Scottish Castle Party (the #1 best-selling show in 2007). His hit interactive romantic comedy Adventures in Mating is playing throughout the world with productions in Minneapolis, Seattle, New York, the UK, and Bulgaria and more productions in the works. Joseph is also a resident performer of Children's Theater and the Graphic Designer at
Old Gem Theater in New Richmond, Wisconsin.
As an actor Joseph has performed with the MN Shakespeare Company, Bedlam Theater, History Theater, the Mystery Cafe Theater and The Chicago Improv Festival.
As a freelance writer, Joseph has created (and sometimes performed) new works for Hardcover Theater, MN Historical Society, General Mills, MN Public Radio and The Current as well as upcoming projects for Science Museum of MN and MN Book Awards.
Joseph holds a BS in Visual Art, Rhetoric and Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature from the University of Minnesota. In 1996, he took beginning acting for non-acting majors. This was the beginning and end of his formal academic training as an actor.
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