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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We asked Dr. Henry Walton Jones Jr to comment on the assertion in today’s New York Times that Raiders of the Lost Ark has an uncomplicated happy ending, and he said

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well, fine: if that’s how they feel I won’t even submit to the Yale Drama Prize next year, that’ll show them. (If you’re in the sliver of my online friends who gets that joke, good luck with your continued playwriting endeavors.)

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I’ll admit I never expected to feel nostalgia for President Biden’s alertness and agility.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I noticed there’s some discourse happening about comedy in theater and I just wanted to single out B Street Theatre for doing it right (and @newplayexchange.bsky.social for spotlighting their work). Comedy tonight and also comedy tomorrow, why not.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

As a non-Michigander I don’t have a dog in this fight but why does this look like a bus bench ad for Bob Loblaw

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The scene at the White House today just keeps getting awesomer and awesomer

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Far be it from me to second-guess the Tonys but when I saw Death of a Salesman I didn’t think it was that great.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Folks who were troubled that the Biden White House appeared to be hiding his cognitive decline from the public take great comfort that the Trump White House puts his cognitive decline on full display daily.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Reports from the playwriting trenches: a courteous and professional rejection from an organization that apologizes for the oversight because they meant to reject me sooner.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

#tfw Phoebe Bridgers does a small last-minute pop-up show about fifteen minutes from your house so you go on over and y’know see her play and stuff

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

“One in three Americans is underbabied,” reports Dr Oz. By contrast, of course, President Trump has spent his life being overbabied, and was at that exact moment taking a nappy in his big boy chair.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Miraculously the spider has now acquired the proportional strength and speed of a putz

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Usually I’m suspicious of any organization that would include me on a list. But it’s an honor to be named a Eugene O'Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference Finalist among so many playwrights I admire and revere.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Rumors that I’m more likely to come to shows if the theater has pictures of my plays on the wall are entirely unconfirmed. But the show was great too.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The work pays off: thanks to all the planting I did last fall, my rejections crop is flourishing.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

“And if not, maybe we’ll just invade and take it.”

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Bowling Green State University announces broad cuts and suspensions of many academic programs, becoming the latest institution to comply with the Ohio legislature’s visionary fight against learning stuff.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

My play Fourteen Funerals at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati has been identified by the media as a good reason to leave the house this weekend. Which is an improvement over the past when newspapers named my plays as a good reason to shelter in your basement.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

One of the trippiest things about writing scripts is the way it launches a crack team of artists into creating artifacts from a nonexistent world. Martin Mortuary, for all your fake funeral needs, now through Sunday at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Hey Cincinnati — it’s your last week to enjoy Fourteen Funerals at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati. If you miss out, what are you gonna do — try to cheer yourself up with your nationally recognized street art and vibrant cultural sector? I mean good luck with that I guess.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

If your grandpa posted this you would immediately move him into a facility with no phone, stove, or military forces.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

See, things like this are why, anytime you meet a cis white man in a position of responsibility or authority, you just can’t help but assume he didn’t get there on merit.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

For a fraction of a second on Tuesday night, Scott Jennings was unexpectedly confronted with an unvarnished awareness of what he’s done with his life.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Let’s see if this thing is any good

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Y’all can have your Tonys, your Pulitzers, your People’s Choice Awards — a show I wrote is mentioned in Nothing For the Group. Bucket list updated.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Performances in roles that don’t get Oscar nominations, but every minute onscreen is a surehanded delight: Wendell Pierce. Superman William H Macy. Train Dreams Kelly McCormack, Sorry, Babe Peter Dinklage, Roofman MaryCatherine Garrison, Baltimorons Andrew Scott, Blue Moon

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

President Trump greeted the coffins of American soldiers who died in his elective war dressed like his next stop was a miniature golf course. But thank goodness he didn’t do something disrespectful like kneel before a football game.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I wasn’t present for the first day of school but the team has already reached out about a dumb editing error they found in the script so they’ve already passed the first test I obviously deliberately set up for them totally on purpose

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Thanks again to @ohioarts.bsky.social for selecting me as one of the 77 artists granted an Individual Excellence Award for my playwriting. Especially for such a weird little play. Means the world.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Happy closing to our musical MAY WE ALL at The Fleetwood Project. It’s not an ending; there’s always another verse.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Introducing the Trump administration representative who will be securing and inspecting the 2020 Fulton County election ballots

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Honored to receive an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. And psyched that they awarded this grant in response to a weird and twisted play I kinda suspected no respectable outlets would ever be perverse enough to endorse.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Sure, $1,408,500,000 sounds like a lot of money to you and me. But when you break it down by the number of people this presidency has killed, that’s only about $3,000 per person. And as hit man rates go, I’m guessing that’s fairly reasonable.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Law & Order: Special Preschool Unit

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I love that Scott Jennings is scorning theater kids when he and Donald Trump together wear more makeup than an entire cast of “Newsies Jr.”

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

If you think playwriting is terrifying now, sir, you should try it while being not Tom Hanks.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

And now a message from the guy who thought you should lose your job for suggesting that Charlie Kirk wasn’t always very nice

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Mr President, that doesn’t exactly narrow things down

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I came of age during a time when it seemed like reading Tom Stoppard was a necessary rite of passage for a young playwright. Getting over having read Tom Stoppard was an even more necessary rite. Only some of us made it through.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Miss me with your tight-lipped prudish judgment, Wordle. You think I wanted to go there? None of us wanted this, but here we are.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Barista said “I like your shirt.” I responded with an 8-10 minute discourse on the underlying premise of Krazy Kat and its place in comics history before I remembered that the appropriate reply is “Thank you.”

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Guys don’t freak out but Chris Cuomo has been displaced by darkest timeline Chris Cuomo

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Library back room humor is not like your earth humor

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

#tbt I’ve been pretty lucky with theater critics in recent years, but every time I learn there’s a new review of one of my plays there’s a reflexive trauma response, probably because of the morning this review in the paper of record had the audacity to drop unexpectedly on my physical doorstep.

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Eric Pfeffinger @ericpfeffinger.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Best part is, if anyone complains that I’m not at my work station I can just blame my Halloween costume

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