2026 - BUFFOON is a “comedy” “special” running around [for] 30 minutes [for around 30 people]. It is a piece recorded in the last year of my 20s. It’s not polished. It’s like a small book of poems or something. A chapbook. A bridge to better things. A haircut. A shirt you screen-print for your high school away game that you wear once and still have and look at and go, “Wow, this is really something. I kind of can’t believe it exists…”
I wasn’t even sure I would be releasing a “special” while or before it was being filmed. I was approached to do a “longer set” and have it be recorded with nice cameras and such, and was handed the footage to do with it whatever my spirit asked for. It is not a traditional comedy special, and the material is underdeveloped. But it is special.
Rolling around on the floor. Palm reading, lint rolling, firefighting, surprising, living, loving, guarding, flying. An attention-seeking talent show. Produced by Accidental Comedy, it was was taped in a single show inside of Dunlap’s Corner Bar, in the day time in front of a live audience of a lot of my best friends and loved ones. We did not turn the TVs in the bar off.
“BRIDGE WAS BROKE” from BALL PIT BUCKET FILLED WITH BRIDGE WATER (Ghost City Press) © Angelo Maneage
2023 - Ben Niespodziany invited several writers to share some form of their writing in some way. Among them were myself, CA Conrad, Vi Khi Nao, Annelyse Gelman, and dozens of other heroes. This self-produced short film is my contribution and features a piece from my small book of hybrid work called BALL PIT BUCKET FILLED WITH BRIDGE WATER. Here’s a link to the entire digital marathon.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARK HORNING
2022 - As part of the 2022 BorderLight Fringe Festival in Cleveland, Ohio, The Small Garden was a live variety show featuring 4 ten-minute acts. I told jokes and did things among playing the Yamaha YRS-24B Soprano recorder and pretending I was a car.
2021 - The Storyworth Podcast preserves grandpa and grandmas’ stories, family narrative, and keepsake. The first half of each episode is the retelling of a story told by an actor, the second half the person it happened to talking about it.
In this episode (episode #3), I play the role of Young Bob who found himself to be the key witness in a murder trial. And he loves to bring it up.
Clips from this episode have over 4.5 million views on Instagram Reels.
Wowza.
