Shawn Westfall
@shawnwestfall.bsky.social
Writer, improvisor, stutterer, USAF veteran; once described as "a bright high-energy guy" by The Washington Post. Being born and raised in Indiana is not something I recommend; leave as soon as you can. Currently writing a memoir about my speech impediment
I heard Mamdani is going to institute Stanis-Law (ski), where you have to constantly mine your own sense memories to locate motivation for your character
*sorry not sorry*
*sorry not sorry*
November 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I heard Mamdani is going to institute Stanis-Law (ski), where you have to constantly mine your own sense memories to locate motivation for your character
*sorry not sorry*
*sorry not sorry*
3-D Chess, I’m tellin’ ya. Right before the busiest travel season. People whose emotions are frazzled and whose dollars are stretched are going to be stranded, rerouted, forced to pay additional nuisance fees because of cancelled flights/reservations/accomodations. Masterful gambit, sir.
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
3-D Chess, I’m tellin’ ya. Right before the busiest travel season. People whose emotions are frazzled and whose dollars are stretched are going to be stranded, rerouted, forced to pay additional nuisance fees because of cancelled flights/reservations/accomodations. Masterful gambit, sir.
I’m at a Buc-ee’s in rural Virginia. My first time.
I’m never leaving.
I’m never leaving.
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I’m at a Buc-ee’s in rural Virginia. My first time.
I’m never leaving.
I’m never leaving.
“Fate specializes in practical jokes in bad taste: fate very seldom pulls out a card from the pack to help you” — Northrop Frye
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
“Fate specializes in practical jokes in bad taste: fate very seldom pulls out a card from the pack to help you” — Northrop Frye
Reposted by Shawn Westfall
This is very good
October 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is very good
The funniest novel ever written.
Kingsley Amis, gone three decades ago today.
Kingsley Amis, gone three decades ago today.
October 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The funniest novel ever written.
Kingsley Amis, gone three decades ago today.
Kingsley Amis, gone three decades ago today.
Reposted by Shawn Westfall
Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.
October 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.
Hey, fam -- let's say you couldn't make the rally in DC today due to a prior obligation. Do you have to return George Soros' money? Asking for a friend who already spent it on a really bitchin' Camaro
October 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Hey, fam -- let's say you couldn't make the rally in DC today due to a prior obligation. Do you have to return George Soros' money? Asking for a friend who already spent it on a really bitchin' Camaro
Tonight at the DC Arts Center: the improvised Shakespeare show I direct/perform is back as part of the Rails Comedy 8 pm block of shows. Ticket link in replies!
October 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Tonight at the DC Arts Center: the improvised Shakespeare show I direct/perform is back as part of the Rails Comedy 8 pm block of shows. Ticket link in replies!
Eating at Minetta Tavern this evening. I know the original in NYC was named after the Minetta Brook in Manhattan, but I always like pretending the one in DC was named after former US Secretary of Transportation (under the Bush I administration) Norman Y. Mineta.
October 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Eating at Minetta Tavern this evening. I know the original in NYC was named after the Minetta Brook in Manhattan, but I always like pretending the one in DC was named after former US Secretary of Transportation (under the Bush I administration) Norman Y. Mineta.
Perhaps the best insight into Hamlet's character I've come across is from Auden's "Lectures on Shakespeare": "He is fundamentally bored, and for that reason he acts theatrically."
October 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Perhaps the best insight into Hamlet's character I've come across is from Auden's "Lectures on Shakespeare": "He is fundamentally bored, and for that reason he acts theatrically."
“The history of libertarianism in the United States cannot be separated from the business of selling collectible coins” — Quinn Slobodian, “Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right”
October 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“The history of libertarianism in the United States cannot be separated from the business of selling collectible coins” — Quinn Slobodian, “Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right”
Tonight at Studio Theatre, 7pm
October 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Tonight at Studio Theatre, 7pm
"The other day I had a dream where capitalists created terrorism in order to force the state to better protect the business community" - a character in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Third Generation" (1979)
October 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
"The other day I had a dream where capitalists created terrorism in order to force the state to better protect the business community" - a character in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Third Generation" (1979)
Reposted by Shawn Westfall
Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.
October 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.
Tonight at the DCAC in Adams Morgan, 8 pm. Tix in the link!
The Merely Players: Improvised Shakespeare • Rails Comedy
Shakespeare! But improvised! Watch DC's funniest comedians improvise the bard's play, all while incorporating Shaksespearean tropes, themes, characters, settings, and language. 🎬 CLICK HERE TO GET ...
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September 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Tonight at the DCAC in Adams Morgan, 8 pm. Tix in the link!
The Merely Players had a blast at last night’s show @ Studio Theatre as part of Washington Improv Theater’s ‘s run. Missed us? No worries: tomorrow night we’re back at The DC Arts Center as part of Rails Comedy ‘s run of awesomeness. Tuesday, Sept 29, 8 pm in Adams Morgan. Tix link in comments!
September 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The Merely Players had a blast at last night’s show @ Studio Theatre as part of Washington Improv Theater’s ‘s run. Missed us? No worries: tomorrow night we’re back at The DC Arts Center as part of Rails Comedy ‘s run of awesomeness. Tuesday, Sept 29, 8 pm in Adams Morgan. Tix link in comments!
Tonight at Studio Theatre!
September 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Tonight at Studio Theatre!
Yep. All of this. When people ask me why I joined the military, I tell them because I had nowhere else to go.
September 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Yep. All of this. When people ask me why I joined the military, I tell them because I had nowhere else to go.
"Craziness, down through history, has performed impressively" -- John Updike
September 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"Craziness, down through history, has performed impressively" -- John Updike
"Shakespeare was the Michael Bay of his era": my interview with Washington Improv Theater on @dctheaterarts.bsky.social about The Merely Players, an improvised-Shakespeare show I direct & perform in. Next show: Sun 7 pm, @ Studio Theater. Also: link to buy tix! dctheaterarts.org/2025/09/19/f...
For The Merely Players, all of WIT’s a stage this fall
Director Shawn Westfall riffs on DC’s very own improvised Shakespeare group. By ANNA K. NELSON
dctheaterarts.org
September 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"Shakespeare was the Michael Bay of his era": my interview with Washington Improv Theater on @dctheaterarts.bsky.social about The Merely Players, an improvised-Shakespeare show I direct & perform in. Next show: Sun 7 pm, @ Studio Theater. Also: link to buy tix! dctheaterarts.org/2025/09/19/f...
When a British actor dies:
British media obits: "Critics still consider his 1992 performance of 'Hamlet' at the RST an unmatched stunning tour-de-force"
Same actor, US obits: "Best known as the villainous General Mogg in 'SpaceGoobers'"
British media obits: "Critics still consider his 1992 performance of 'Hamlet' at the RST an unmatched stunning tour-de-force"
Same actor, US obits: "Best known as the villainous General Mogg in 'SpaceGoobers'"
August 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
When a British actor dies:
British media obits: "Critics still consider his 1992 performance of 'Hamlet' at the RST an unmatched stunning tour-de-force"
Same actor, US obits: "Best known as the villainous General Mogg in 'SpaceGoobers'"
British media obits: "Critics still consider his 1992 performance of 'Hamlet' at the RST an unmatched stunning tour-de-force"
Same actor, US obits: "Best known as the villainous General Mogg in 'SpaceGoobers'"
I've never been prouder to (a) live in DC, and (b) be an Air Force veteran *pops salute*
Subway sandwich guy has been released on his own recognizance.
His attorney argued the felony charge was excessive, and the judge agreed.
Oh, and he’s a USAF veteran.
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
His attorney argued the felony charge was excessive, and the judge agreed.
Oh, and he’s a USAF veteran.
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
DC man accused of throwing sandwich at federal officer released from custody
Sean Dunn, accused of throwing a sandwich at a federal officer, is released on his own recognizance as the judge finds the felony charge excessive.
www.wusa9.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I've never been prouder to (a) live in DC, and (b) be an Air Force veteran *pops salute*
The thing about this new generation of Republican fascists is they don't actually *mind* being called fascists, and in fact enjoy cosplaying as fascists in the streets of my city #DCTakeover
August 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The thing about this new generation of Republican fascists is they don't actually *mind* being called fascists, and in fact enjoy cosplaying as fascists in the streets of my city #DCTakeover
For all that right-wing denigration of “participation trophies,” residue of culture wars from decades past, they’re awfully silent on Trump’s entitled and pathetic slavering after a Nobel Prize simply because Barack Obama has one and he doesn’t
August 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
For all that right-wing denigration of “participation trophies,” residue of culture wars from decades past, they’re awfully silent on Trump’s entitled and pathetic slavering after a Nobel Prize simply because Barack Obama has one and he doesn’t