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 40 Things You Can Know About Me:
Did you know:
1. The dog in the picture above was named Ernie. When I was naming him as a kid, I said that he would be Ernie when he was a puppy, and then when he grew up, we would change his name to…obviously…Big Bird.
2. By day, I work with most of the city of Chicago for Groupon.
3. I’m one fifth of a five-man skit comedy performing concern called Saddle Dads.
4. I’m one half of a two-man wunderduo called Scuba Mission.
5. I was once mistaken for Chris Daughtry at a Taco Bell in rural Missouri. I’m the rural Missouri Chris Daughtry.
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 didn’t vote in the last election, but I told everybody I did and managed to get one of those “I Voted” stickers from someone else, so it looked very convincing.
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.
14. By day, I work with most of the city of Chicago for Groupon.
15. My favorite movie is Mission: Impossible or, possibly, You’ve Got Mail. Why are you looking at me like that?
16. I’m a graduate of the Second City Conservatory and iO Training Centers.
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18. I haven’t been to a dentist in two years.
19. I’m a comic book nerd and have been since I was a kid. Current favorites: Uncanny X-Men, Invincible Iron Man, X-Factor, The Walking Dead, The Avengers, Uncanny X-Force, Morning Glories, etc etc
20. I have a blog that’s about the kidnapping of my fictional son called Babies For My Son.
21. I have worked in the following places, in chronological order: Blockbuster, eAuction Depot, Shawnee Mission School District, Professional Manny, The Institute For Arts Entrepreneurship, Groupon
22. I am a proud owner of an iPhone, iPad and MacBook Pro. I’m living the iLife. It’s too much.
23. I once shilled Seinfeld DVDs for Wal-Mart.24. This list was originally supposed to be 100 things, but I couldn’t think of that many noteworthy things about myself.
25. There is a blog called Shawn Bowers Hogs the Internet about how good I am at the Internet.
26. I hate the movie Caddy Shack.
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