About

Hi!  I’m Shawn Bowers.  It occurs to me that there’s a good chance you probably have no idea who I am.  That’s fine, I don’t expect you to know me just yet.  Do I want you to know me?  Yes.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, I am the following things: an actor, a producer, a writer, an improviser, a graphic designer, an illustrator, a director, a social networker, a promoter, a friend, a lover and some other junk that isn’t applicable.  I’ve been creating for as long as I can remember, though writing and acting are the predominant things that I do these days.

That stuff’s boring, the proof = the pudding, etc etc.  Let’s get to business.  Here are 101 Things You Can Know About Me:

Did you know:

1. I’m a (soon-to-be) graduate of the Second City Conservatory and iO Training Centers.
2. I work as a social networker and graphic designer for a new Chicago-based school called The Institute For Arts Entrepreneurship?
3. I also blog for them from time to time.
4. I’m one half of a two-man wunderduo called Scuba Mission.  Find out more about us here!
5. I used to write about celebrities and entertainment on Gather.com.  You can read some of that stuff here.
6. I auditioned to be the Oscar Meyer Wiener Kid when I was younger.  For this, I got a bumper sticker that said “My child cut the mustard at the Oscar Meyer Wiener Competition” which was on the bumper of our minivan till at least high school.
7. I’ve been published on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.  A couple of times.
8. I wrote and produced a play wherein the main character of Shawn Bowers travels back in time to have sex with himself.

9. I’m constantly friendable on Facebook.
10. I was the youngest member of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle because of the two years I spent reviewing movies for the now defunct Kansas City Star TeenStar section.  This, in effect, makes me a Teen Star.
11. I’m afraid of aging.
12. I’m addicted to my iPhone.  I, like everyone else in the world who owns one.
13. I was once detained by a hoard of police officers as a suspected hostage taker because someone mistakenly saw me with a paintball gun in the backseat of a car.
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