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Coming to the 2008 Minnesota Fringe Festival!
An all new family friendly morality tale about squirrels!
In the lost village of the Squirrel-People, all the Squirrels are named for their most distinctive trait. There's Clumsy Squirrel, Wise Squirrel, Socially Awkward Squirrel. But the village is thrown into chaos when a young squirrel refuses to pick a name--the inconvenient squirrel!
An Inconvenient Squirrel is a live action cartoon for the stage
packed with chattering, scampering and existential identity crisis!
Designed to engage kids and adults on their own level, the show is a morality tale full of wit, intelligence...and a lot of grown men dressed as squirrels!
Performances are at The Thrust Theater in the
University of MN Rarig Center at 330 21st Ave S on:
Fri, Aug 1 @ 7 PM; Thurs, Aug 7 @ 5:30 PM;
Fri, Aug 8 @ 5:30 PM
Sat, Aug 9 @ 2:30 PM;
Sun, Aug 10 @ 4 PM
Adult Tickets are $12. Children's Tickets (under 12) are $5. Students/Seniors/MPR Members: $10. Tickets are available at the door or by contacting Uptown Tix at 651-209-6799 or via e-mail at www.uptowntix.com.
Download the high resolution photo!
Download the Press Release here!
DANCE of the WHISKY FAERIE!
Joseph is also teaming up with his wife dancer and choreographer
Sara Stevenson Scrimshaw for a brand new dance and storytelling show at the 2008 Minnesota Fringe!
Uncorked and mischievous, the Whisky Faerie captures a wandering storyteller--together they dance, soliloquize and spar through bizarre Celtic tales. Will he get his whisky or will she keep her freedom?
Performances are at the Southern Theater
1420 Washington Ave S in Minneapolis on
Thurs, July 31 @ 10 PM; Sat, Aug 2 @ 4 PM
Sun, Aug 3 @ 7 PM; Tues, Aug 5 @ 7 PM
Sat, Aug 9 @ 8:30 PM
Adult Tickets are $12. Children's Tickets (under 12) are $5. Students/Seniors/MPR Members: $10. Tickets are available at the door or by contacting Uptown Tix at 651-209-6799 or via e-mail at www.uptowntix.com.
Download the high resolution photo!
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?
AN ALL NEW MURDER MYSTERY COMEDY!
The show was a smash hit with SIX SOLD OUT SHOWS!
The show will be returning to the BLB this September/October!
Check back for more details!
Download the Photo!
Download a Group Photo!
Download the Press Release!
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!
Featuring: New scenes! New choices! New actress--Mo Perry!
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: 5/7/2008
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!
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!
What's Joseph doing at the Walker?
Hosting a gallery talk on jokes and comic theory
in relation to the art of Richard Prince!
One night only--
Thursday, June 5th at 7 PM!
For more info visit the calendar page!
You can also enter the joke contest by visiting the
Walker blogs!
Thanks to all who came to see
STITCH, BITCH N' DIE
this April at the Bryant Lake Bowl.
The show was a smash hit with SIX SOLD OUT SHOWS!
Watch for the return of this unique knitting based murder mystery comedy this fall!
NEW SHOWS at THE MN FRINGE!
Joseph is producing a brand new family friendly show entitled
AN INCONVENIENT SQUIRREL!
More info on the right!
PLUS, Joseph will be helping his wife--
dancer and choreographer Sara Stevenson Scrimshaw
with her first Fringe show--
DANCE of the WHISKY FAERIE
An exploration of bizarre Celtic stories and legends
featuring solo dances by Sara, storytelling by Joseph,
and Whisky by some burly men in Scotland!
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 premieres March 15th, 2008!
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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