- Alfred Jarry
Alfred Jarry (September 8, 1873 - November 1, 1907) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side. Best known for his play "Ubu Roi" (1896), which is often cited as a forerunner to the theatre of the absurd, Jarry wrote in a variety of genres and styles. He wrote plays, novels, poetry, essays and speculative journalism. - Joss Whedon
Joss Hill Whedon (born Joseph Hill Whedon on June 23, 1964 in New York) is an American writer, director, executive producer, and creator of the well-known television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Angel", and "Firefly". He has also written several film scripts and several comic book series. After finishing at Winchester College in England, he went on to receive a film degree from Wesleyan University in 1987. - Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon is a Baltimore, Maryland-based absurdist electronic music composer/performer. He attended Purchase College in Purchase, New York where he completed his graduate studies in electro-acoustic and computer music composition. He studied under composer/conductor Joel Thome. Currently, he lives at Wham City in Baltimore, Maryland. Dan Deacon's compositional style is best classified in the future shock genre along with Video Hippos, Santa Dads, Blood Baby, … - Andy Kaufman
Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman (January 17, 1949 - May 16, 1984) was an American entertainer and performance artist. Though many refer to him as a comedian, Kaufman did not self-identify as one. He disdained telling jokes and engaging in comedy as it was traditionally understood; instead, he saw himself as a practitioner of anti-humor or dada absurdist performance art. - Daniil Kharms
Daniil Kharms (2 February, 1942) was an early Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist. - Jello Biafra
Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958) is more widely known by the stage name Jello Biafra. He first gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band the Dead Kennedys. After his time with the band concluded, he became more directly involved with political activism and took over the influential independent record label Alternative Tentacles, founded in 1979 by him and East Bay Ray. - Leslie Nielsen
Leslie William Nielsen OC is a Canadian-American comedian and actor. Although Nielsen’s acting career crossed a variety of genres in both television and movies, he achieved his greatest film success in comedies, including "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun" series of films. His portrayal of serious characters seemingly oblivious of (and complicit in) their absurd surroundings gave Nielsen a reputation as a comedian. - Robert Sheckley
Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 - December 9, 2005) was an American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical. Sheckley was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001. There are those who were shocked he was not given the Grand Master Award instead. - Beck Hansen
Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) is a Grammy Award-winning American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, known by his simple stage name of Beck. With his pop collage of musical styles, oblique, ironic lyrics, and post-modern arrangements incorporating samples, drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, … - N. F. Simpson
Norman Frederick Simpson (born 29 January, 1919) is an English playwright closely associated with the Theatre of the Absurd. To his friends, he is known as Wally Simpson, in comic reference to the abdication crisis of 1936. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a Belgian absurdist film director. He was born in Souvret (Courcelles) after the Second World War. He defends "popular" cinema, filming with very small budgets (2000 to 2500€ per film), and using unknown or non-professional actors. He calls himself "the director of the absurd". His films drift between realism and surrealism, and are often shown at film festivals of the genre. His life will be the subject of Yann Moix's next film, … - Misha Mengelberg
Misha Mengelberg (born June 5, 1935) is a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. He won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1961. Mengelberg was born in Kiev in Ukraine, the son of the conductor Karel Mengelberg, who was himself the nephew of the conductor Willem Mengelberg. He briefly studied architecture before entering the Royal Conservatory in The Hague where he studied music from 1958 to 1964. - Pyotr Mamonov
Pyotr Mamonov (born April 14, 1951) is a former Russian rock musician and songwriter, former frontman of the Moscow band "Zvuki Mu". Mamonov was one of the few rock musicians from former USSR who managed to achieve recognition abroad, through his collaboration with Brian Eno in the late 1980s. Around the same period he started acting in film, and over the next decade wrote, … - Rhys Hughes
Rhys Henry Hughes, is a Welsh writer and essayist. Born in Cardiff, Hughes is a prolific short story writer with an eclectic mix of influences, which include Italo Calvino, Milorad Pavić, Jorge Luis Borges, Stanisław Lem, Flann O'Brien, Vladimir Nabokov, Felipe Alfau, Donald Barthelme and Jack Vance. Much of his work is of a humorously eccentric bent, often parodies and pastiches with surreal and absurdist overtones, … - Lally Katz
Lally Katz (born 1978) is an award-winning Australian dramatist. Lally Katz was born in 1978 in New Jersey and moved to Australia as a teenager. She graduated from the University of Melbourne's Victoria College of Art in 2000. Katz has written 20 full length plays. Her postmodern and absurdist plays include "Black Swan of Trespass" (2003) and "The Eisteddfod" (2004), which have been recognized with a number of awards, both in the US and Australia. - Marina Carr
Marina Carr is an Irish playwright. Born in County Offaly, Carr attended University College Dublin before holding posts as writer-in-residence at the Abbey Theatre and Trinity College Dublin. She served as Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University in 2003. Her award-winning plays—largely poetic tragedies of rural Irish domestic life—have been produced around the world. Like the works of several other contemporary Irish playwrights, … - Tadeusz Kantor
Tadeusz Kantor was a Polish painter, assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director. Kantor was well renowned for his revolutionary performances in Poland and abroad. Born in Wielopole Skrzyńskie, Galicia (in what was then Austria-Hungary), Kantor graduated from the Cracow Academy in 1939. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, he founded the Independent Theatre, … - Urmuz
Urmuz, pen name of Demetru Dem. Demetrescu-Buzău, was a Romanian writer of absurdist and avant-garde prose. - Bill Wallis
Bill Wallis is a British actor and comedian who has appeared in numerous radio and television roles, as well as the theatre. Some of his most frequent appearances have been on BBC Radio 4 for "The Afternoon Play" and the "Classic Serial", but he was also in the cast of the long-running sketch show "Week Ending", and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". He has appeared in a number of television programmes including Chelmsford 123, … - Glen Baxter
Glen Baxter, nicknamed "Colonel Baxter," is an English cartoonist, noted for his surrealist, absurdist drawings. Born in Leeds in 1944, Baxter was trained at the Leeds College of Art. His images, and their corresponding captions, fuse art and language inspired by pulp fiction and adventure comics with intellectual jokes and references. Baxter's art has been collected in numerous books, and his work has appeared in "The New Yorker", "Vanity Fair", … - Karl Edward Wagner
Karl Edward Wagner (4 December 1945 - 13 October 1994) was an American writer, editor and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist. His disillusionment with the medical profession can be seen in the stories "The Fourth Seal" and "Into Whose Hands". He described his world view as nihilistic, anarchistic and absurdist, and claimed, not entirely seriously, … - Pascal Pia
Pascal Pia, born Pierre Durand, was a French writer, journalist, illustrator and scholar. One of his earliest works was "La Muse en rut", a collection of erotic poems published in 1928. He also illustrated erotic works, such as the Songs of Bilitis. In 1938 he founded the leftist journal "Alger républicain" in Algiers (part of the French colony of Algeria at the time). The journal was forbidden in 1939. - Glenn Shadix
William Glenn Shadix is an American actor, best known for his role as “Otho” in Tim Burton’s horror/comedy film "Beetlejuice", his southern baritone voice, and his eccentric, deliberately exaggerated acting style. He attended Birmingham-Southern College for two years, studying with absurdist playwright-director Arnold Powell. He lived in New York City prior to moving to Hollywood in the late 1970s. - Junior Samples
Junior Samples, born Alvin Samples, Jr. was an American comedian best known for his 14-year run as a cast member of the TV show "Hee Haw". Samples (notorious for pre-fishing) was a stock car racing driver who went on the radio at the age of 40, and told a story about catching the largest fish ever seen in his hometown. The story was a humorous tall tale, and the recording of this radio story became a best-selling novelty record. - Jon Moritsugu
Jon Moritsugu (b. 1965) is an American underground filmmaker. Moritsugu's films are defined by their "lo-fi" aesthetic, and are often shot on very poor, 16mm film stock to give them a homemade, muddled quality. Moritsugu's films are absurdist comedies, and often features actress Amy Davis (the co-writer of his 2004 film "Scumrock", which also features TV on the Radio member Kyp Malone) and actor Victor of Aquitaine. - Abner Dean
Abner Dean (1910-1982), born Abner Epstein, was an American cartoonist who was the nephew of sculptor Jacob Epstein. In allegorical or surrealist situations, Dean often depicted extremes of human behavior amid grim, decaying urban settings or barren landscapes. - Tony Walters
Antony Walters is an Australian actor, film director, and cocreator of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation television series "Double the Fist". Walters met his collaborator Craig Anderson when they were performing absurdist theatre at the University of Western Sydney in the mid-1990s. Bryan Moses, the third member of their team was there at the same time making films. They teamed up on the short film "Life in a Datsun", … - Nathan Winneke
Nathan Winneke (born January 15, 1977) is the lead vocalist, former bassist, and former drummer of Lake Forest, California based experimental band HORSE the band. Nathan claims to be a Taoist, and translates his philosophical religious views into his music accordingly, as evidenced by a rather about-face and almost bipolar vocal and lyrical style. His writing style consists of highly metaphorical and absurdist lyrics, … - Hans Leybold
Hans Leybold (2 April 1892 - 8 September 1914) was a German poet and nihilist, whose small body of work was a major inspiration behind much of the Dada movement, in particular the works of his close friend Hugo Ball. Although Leybold died two years before the emergence of Dada, his absurdist writings and poems represent an important stage in the development of expressionist movement in Germany. Born into a middle-class family in Frankfurt am Main, … - Fred Tuttle
Fred H. Tuttle (July 18, 1919-October 4, 2003) was an American dairy farmer, film actor and one-time candidate for the U.S. Senate from the state of Vermont. He was born in Tunbridge, Vermont. Tuttle left high school in his sophomore year to work on his family's farm. He served in the United States Army during World War II. Fred married his wife Dorothy in 1961, and later retired from farming in 1984. - The Absurdist
Hello All! Perhaps you all are wondering what this whole absurdist thing is about: it is a platform for a dozen or so semi-talented writers to write whatever they feel like, and then show it off and impose it upon you, the public. We hope to have The Absurdist evolve and climb the ladder of the quality lit game, though none of us are willing to work hard enough to see that dream become a reality. - Terry Pratchett
Terence David John Pratchett OBE (28 April 1948) is an English fantasy and science fiction author, best known for his "Discworld" series. Other works include the "Johnny Maxwell Trilogy" and the "Bromeliad Trilogy". He also closely collaborates on adaptations of his books, for example, computer games and plays. Pratchett started to write by the age of 13 and his first work was published commercially at the age of 15. - Douglas Adams
Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. He is best known as author of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series. "Hitchhiker's" began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime) as well as a television series, a towel, a comic book series, a computer game and a feature film that was completed after Adams' death. - Kristin Bradshaw
sometime fornicator. language artist. - Joni
I am a genuinely sweet girl who surfs gigantic waves of intensity. I like to have a good time all the time, and spend long hours in a shrowd of hilarity, laughing (when i should be crying) at observations of naturally occurring absurdity and other things. - Anonymous Spocker
over-confident, self absorbed, narcissistic, repetative, redundant, etc. - Annie Chester
i am currently making audio recordings of my life here in jinja...a la this american life...of course, i have limited resources, but who needs that when you have electricity only 30% of the time anyway? - Chastity
Some of my main hobbies are sexual harassment, bruising, lurking, undercooking poultry, slander, poor personal hygiene, throwing fits, sitting in corners, aging and sobriety. - Tom
It's not so much an alter-ego as it is borderline psychotic schizophrenia. I, Snafu, am a truly lovely gent who'll wave to an ice cream man. RigDaddy, however, is an itchy fingered absurdist clown with a love for turntables and tables upon tables of urns; not to be trusted or viewed as sane, but leave him alone in public, in front of a mirror or with a clothes peg, acts of depravity too disturbing for even the devil would surely come to pass. - Dina
I am a fiction of individual existence.
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