Shaffer is performing as Banquo, Lady Macduff, and Menteith in Macbeth with Reclaimed Performing Arts Company.
Performances are 2/6/26 and 2/7/26 at 7 p.m. in the Charles A. Brown Ice House Bethlehem, PA.
Tickets are available through the button below.
About the Company: Reclaimed Performing Arts Company is a Lehigh-Valley based performing arts company dedicated to creating artistic spaces free from the limitations of how we're perceived.
Shaffer is a performer in Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble's Improv Troupe!
About the Company: Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble (BTE) was founded in 1978 by recent graduates of Northwestern University, who relocated to Bloomsburg for two years of master classes with legendary acting teacher Alvina Krause (1893-1981).
Under Krause's inspiration, we established a resident ensemble of actors, directors, writers, and teachers who are empowered to articulate the theatre's mission and determine its artistic programming. Our goal was for a theatre that would, in Krause's words, be "as important to its community as schools and churches."
Nationally, BTE is a leader in the ensemble theatre movement as a co-founder of the Network of Ensemble Theaters. Since 1995, NET has grown into an over 160-member organization to promote ensemble theatre practice, and generate interest in ensemble as a sustainable model for community-based work. Through NET, we toured Letters to the Editor in California in 1998.
For a company based in a small town, BTE is surprisingly international. In 1991, the US State Department selected us to tour The Voice of the Prairie and Along the Susquehanna to five African nations. Two years later, African actors and musicians collaborated with us on a TIC show Under African Skies.
In 2016 Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble was presented the Outstanding Theatre Award by the National Theatre Conference.
Since its founding in 1978, BTE has welcomed and nurtured many new influences to complement the original dream. The successes we have yet to create and risks we have yet to dare are our sustenance.
Shaffer serves as the Vice President of Administration, Marketing Director, and Historian of Reclaimed Performing Arts Company.
About the Company: Reclaimed Performing Arts Company believes in embracing suspension of disbelief. Our mission is to remove the box put around performers through their perceived “type” by encouraging an artistic space that is free from the limitations of how we are seen. We strive to highlight artist’s experiences and encourage conversation
Reclaimed PAC's vision statements are:
To remove stereotyping and bias from the casting and production process.
To educate artists on their deserved resources and treatments thereby encouraging them to advocate for the respect and opportunity they deserve
To showcase and uplift the under highlighted voices of the performing arts community.
To learn more about Reclaimed Performing Arts Company, click the button below!
About the Play: Crashing on Earth mid flight test for the Vline Space Invader Institute, Zarp is immersed in an environment they never imagined being in. Zarp is forced to open a memory they put away a long time ago in hopes of getting home: the death of their parents.
Shaffer is the Playwright. To read more of their plays, please visit their NewPlayExchange page by clicking the button below.
UPCOMING PRODUCTION:
August 8, 2026: Reclaimed Performing Arts Company will produce Earth, I Want to Stay at East Hills Moravian Church in Bethlehem, PA.
PREVIOUS DEVELOPMENT:
As part of Shaffer's residency with Theatre4thePeople @theBarn in June of 2025, they developed Earth, I Want to Stay. For the duration of their time, Shaffer utilized what they've learned in their previous New Play Development process of the play to write revisions and deeper mine some details. During their residency, Isaac Byrne put together a virtual read-through of the script, which greatly helped in the development process!
From March 30th to April 5th of 2025, Earth, I Want to Stay went through a New Play Development Workshop as a Student Driven Project, part of the Bloomsburg University Players' Mainstage Season. There were student actors, designers, a dramaturg, and stage management in collaboration. Colin Search was the Director.
There was a sharing of the play on April 5th in the Theatre Lab of the Arts and Administration building on CU-Bloomsburg's campus.
Emily M. Shaffer
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