Shane Essary
@shaneessary.bsky.social
Actor, Filmmaker, Punk Rock Chocolate-maker.
Hey Casting Directors! Do you need Jason Momoa but can't afford his rates? Hire me, Jason Temuoa! Half the rate, half the abs! #icandoitfor10mil #hellicandoitfor5 #whoamikiddingiwouldprobablydoitforajrbaconcheeseburgercombo
September 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Hey Casting Directors! Do you need Jason Momoa but can't afford his rates? Hire me, Jason Temuoa! Half the rate, half the abs! #icandoitfor10mil #hellicandoitfor5 #whoamikiddingiwouldprobablydoitforajrbaconcheeseburgercombo
Hey everyone! If you've ever been interesting in how the novel/fiction writing process works, etc, Meagan Thompson-Mann and Kirk R have created a new podcast just for people like you! Subscribe to Bad Lit Friends (www.badlitfriends.com) and check it out!
Bad Lit Friends
Bad Lit Friends is a writing podcast that barely knows what it's doing.
www.badlitfriends.com
August 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Hey everyone! If you've ever been interesting in how the novel/fiction writing process works, etc, Meagan Thompson-Mann and Kirk R have created a new podcast just for people like you! Subscribe to Bad Lit Friends (www.badlitfriends.com) and check it out!
For compilation purposes, I imagine the 75 don’t mean much other than sheer tenacity. There’s no self-tape/audition attached to them. So, out of the remaining 21, 19 had auditions requested, 6 callbacks, 4 books, 1 avail (no book), 1 offer (ghost) #actingstats
August 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
For compilation purposes, I imagine the 75 don’t mean much other than sheer tenacity. There’s no self-tape/audition attached to them. So, out of the remaining 21, 19 had auditions requested, 6 callbacks, 4 books, 1 avail (no book), 1 offer (ghost) #actingstats
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Uhhh I did this thing with @kirkrafferty.com and please clap because I feel very exposed.
Behold, the first episode of Bad Lit Friends! @badlitfriends.bsky.social is a podcast about writing that doesn't pretend to be art. Or good.
Don't hate us because we're beautiful. #writingcommunity #writesky
Behold, the first episode of Bad Lit Friends! @badlitfriends.bsky.social is a podcast about writing that doesn't pretend to be art. Or good.
Don't hate us because we're beautiful. #writingcommunity #writesky
Bad Lit Friends
Podcast · Bad Lit Friends · Bad Lit Friends is a writing podcast that barely knows what it's doing. And that’s the point. Hosted by fiction writers Meagan Thompson-Mann and Kirk Rafferty, this show is...
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August 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Uhhh I did this thing with @kirkrafferty.com and please clap because I feel very exposed.
Behold, the first episode of Bad Lit Friends! @badlitfriends.bsky.social is a podcast about writing that doesn't pretend to be art. Or good.
Don't hate us because we're beautiful. #writingcommunity #writesky
Behold, the first episode of Bad Lit Friends! @badlitfriends.bsky.social is a podcast about writing that doesn't pretend to be art. Or good.
Don't hate us because we're beautiful. #writingcommunity #writesky
And just booked a speaking role on a feature tomorrow!!
July 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
And just booked a speaking role on a feature tomorrow!!
Just got availed from my callback! This means they liked me enough to check that I can work the dates they're shooting. It doesn't mean I booked it, but it's a huge first step!
July 16, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Just got availed from my callback! This means they liked me enough to check that I can work the dates they're shooting. It doesn't mean I booked it, but it's a huge first step!
Submitted for a role a couple months ago. They had me read for a different character last night and this morning they are asking me to try out yet another. Sometimes, that's the game! My coach says it's a sign that they like you, they're just trying to find where you fit in their cast. #actinglife
July 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Submitted for a role a couple months ago. They had me read for a different character last night and this morning they are asking me to try out yet another. Sometimes, that's the game! My coach says it's a sign that they like you, they're just trying to find where you fit in their cast. #actinglife
Holy crap just got my first in-person commercial audition! Tomorrow! #actinglife
July 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Holy crap just got my first in-person commercial audition! Tomorrow! #actinglife
First lines completed
July 13, 2025 at 5:48 AM
First lines completed
Four days on set working behind the scenes; tonight I'm back in front of a camera on a recall. Supposed to get a line(s)!
July 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Four days on set working behind the scenes; tonight I'm back in front of a camera on a recall. Supposed to get a line(s)!
On set, Christmas in July
July 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
On set, Christmas in July
On set this week on a low budget Christmas movie and this weekend I'll be on set reprising my role as a Fetty addict on skid row, now with more lines! Two auditions down yesterday, including a zoom callback, got another audition due on Friday I'll be working on today and tomorrow. #acting
July 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
On set this week on a low budget Christmas movie and this weekend I'll be on set reprising my role as a Fetty addict on skid row, now with more lines! Two auditions down yesterday, including a zoom callback, got another audition due on Friday I'll be working on today and tomorrow. #acting
Just finished a self-tape for a huge commercial (for me, anyway). And in 45 minutes I've got my first callback audition via zoom for another decent little commercial! #actinglife
July 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Just finished a self-tape for a huge commercial (for me, anyway). And in 45 minutes I've got my first callback audition via zoom for another decent little commercial! #actinglife
My cat can count his treats. And that number is never enough. #mycatisabondvillain
April 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
My cat can count his treats. And that number is never enough. #mycatisabondvillain
What did you do at work yesterday?
March 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
What did you do at work yesterday?
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It's a good time for us to re-read Shelley's "The Masque of Anarchy" for a pep talk.
‘Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few.’
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-mas...
‘Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few.’
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-mas...
The Masque of Anarchy
As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
February 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It's a good time for us to re-read Shelley's "The Masque of Anarchy" for a pep talk.
‘Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few.’
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-mas...
‘Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few.’
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-mas...
I'm watching an old Mary Pickford silent film, "Fanchon the Cricket" and it's got the most goddamned annoying music playing over top of it and it took me 12 minutes to realize... It's a fucking silent film I can fuckin' mute this shit and won't miss a thing. #iAMSmart
February 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I'm watching an old Mary Pickford silent film, "Fanchon the Cricket" and it's got the most goddamned annoying music playing over top of it and it took me 12 minutes to realize... It's a fucking silent film I can fuckin' mute this shit and won't miss a thing. #iAMSmart
Some girl gave me her number and said "sure" when I asked if I could send her dick pics. Boy was she mad when I unloaded my whole Richard Nixon collection on her.
#dailyjokewriting #openmichereicome #whennetflixspecial
#dailyjokewriting #openmichereicome #whennetflixspecial
February 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Some girl gave me her number and said "sure" when I asked if I could send her dick pics. Boy was she mad when I unloaded my whole Richard Nixon collection on her.
#dailyjokewriting #openmichereicome #whennetflixspecial
#dailyjokewriting #openmichereicome #whennetflixspecial
I dunno when I decided I wasn’t going to buy that car, but probably somewhere between the “oh yeah you have to pump the brakes to get them to stop the car” (while I was driving) or when the body panel fell off.
February 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I dunno when I decided I wasn’t going to buy that car, but probably somewhere between the “oh yeah you have to pump the brakes to get them to stop the car” (while I was driving) or when the body panel fell off.
Just sent out my first unsolicited headshots to a dream project's casting director in the highly unlikely event that they will actually view it and think "yeah, I think we got an audition spot for you." #manifestation #mysuccessisinevitable
January 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Just sent out my first unsolicited headshots to a dream project's casting director in the highly unlikely event that they will actually view it and think "yeah, I think we got an audition spot for you." #manifestation #mysuccessisinevitable
Every time I go to Costco I feel like I’m about to join some sort of fundamentalist church and have a sudden desire to have like 8 kids
January 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Every time I go to Costco I feel like I’m about to join some sort of fundamentalist church and have a sudden desire to have like 8 kids
I need some more of these $50/30 minute shoots.
January 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I need some more of these $50/30 minute shoots.