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The Scrimshaw Brothers are a Minneapolis comedy team specializing in sketch and theatrical comedy. The Brothers are staples of the Minnesota Fringe Festival, among City Pages'2002 Artists of the Year and the creators of two Twin Cities' late night cabarets, Look Ma No Pants and The Scrimshaw Show. The Pioneer Press calls the Scrimshaw Brothers “the Twin Cities' sharpest sketch comedy team” and in 2003, Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine named The Scrimshaw Brothers as one of the Twin Cities' top ten family owned businesses.


Joseph Scrimshaw is an actor, writer, and producer. Joseph has performed with Bedlam Theater, Mystery Cafe, the History Theatre, the MN Shakespeare Project, and is a resident performer of children's theater at the Old Gem in New Richmond, Wisconsin. As an independent writer and producer, Joseph has created multiple top ten best selling Fringe shows including Worst Show in the Fringe Die, Clowns, Die!, and Macbeth's Awesome Scottish Castle Party; and is an occasional arts commentator on MPR and The Current with Mary Lucia. Joseph is now an internationally produced playwright. His hit romantic comedy Adventures in Mating has appeared in New York, Seattle, the UK, Bulgaria, and every Monday night at the Bryant Lake Bowl right here in Minneapolis. Joseph has been described as "physically fearless" by Pioneer Press and "King of Comedy" by MN Monthly. For more info on Joseph and his projects visit josephscrimshaw.com.


Joshua English Scrimshaw, as chance would have it, is also an actor, writer and producer, not to mention a "clever and inventive voice in comedy theater"(Star Tribune). In 2002, he collaborated with choreographer Adrienne English to create the dance and silent comedy show Shut Your Joke Hole, named by City Pages as one of the Twin Cities' ten best theater productions of the year. Joshua also teamed with Shanan Custer to write and produce From Here to Maternity, one of the top selling shows of the 2007 Minnesota Fringe Festival. This year, Joshua and Levi Weinhagen created the festival's top selling show, The Harty Boys in the Case of the Limping Platypus. In addition to writing and producing, Joshua has performed with many local theater companies playing such diverse roles as Orestes in Bedlam Theater's production of Jean Paul Sartre's The Flies, Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Theater in the Round's production of Twelfth Night and D.B. Cooper in Cheap Theater's original production DB Cooper Didn't Die. A frequent collaborator with Hardcover Theater, Joshua was featured in the final three installments of the hit Victorian serial London After Midnight and co-wrote Johnny Bocca's Sex Farce for Swingin' Lovers, an adaptation of the saucy Medieval classic, The Decameron. Next year Joshua will be reuniting with Hardcover for an adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's celebrated comedy novel, Right Ho, Jeeves.


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