"raises the craft of clowning to new levels." - NYTheatre.com
"Shapiro is a master of physical comedy. She speaks volumes in the raising of an eyebrow or with the flick of her wrist." - NYTheatre.com
"a masterful, sweetly-scathing performer." - Chloe Veltman, lies like truth
"a kinetic poem" - Cultural Capitol, NY
"an overwhelmingly beautiful piece of art" -That Sounds Cool, NY
"masterful" - LA Entertainment Today
"utterly mesmerizing" - Show Business Weekly, NY
"It's impossible not to be delighted by Summer." - John Gilkey, Cirque Du Soliel

Hauschka - The Key from Jeff Desom on Vimeo. Music by Hauschka > "Children" from the album "Foreign Landscapes". FatCat 2010. Featuring Summer Shapiro. Film by Jeff Desom, Cinematographer Jean-Louis Schuller, Steadycam Olivier Koos and Raoul Henri, Editor Chris Coupland, Costume Carole Pochard. Shot in Luxembourg.

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Pants! The Best Show Ever

This is a short description of Summer’s show, the title of which is right above me, much like a ceiling, but more like floating letters on a screen that’s making my neck and eyes hurt more than they should.

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In the Boudoir

This high energy, high stakes physical comedy show unleashes the audience into a world of romance, spaghetti eating, and pillow fights by one of San Francisco’s most dynamic, risk taking, funny girls.

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Legs and All

A physical exploration of limits, perspective and chocolate cake. Rooted in physical comedy and set to music, it takes a magical look at the mundane where two people stumble into the extraordinary.

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Variete

Yes, this is the fancy, French spelling of what people call, a show of many things. Like a bag of jelly beans that Annie’s uncle loves to death, even as much as popsicles, which he eats by the dozen.

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San Francisco Bay Guardian says…

Legs and All – After last year’s SF Fringe run and fresh from a roundly lauded New York appearance, San Francisco–based physical comedienne Summer Shapiro brings her cheeky-fresh show back to the Climate Theater. Since last appearing in workshop form at the Climate, a solo piece has bloomed into a pas de deux between Shapiro [...]

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Show Business Weekly says …

Summer Shapiro and Peter Musante are two talented clowns. In Legs and All, they ditch words in favor of a breathtaking physical vocabulary and weave a story that’s poetic, sweet and utterly mesmerizing. The action revolves around a blue wooden box that’s seemingly bottomless, like Mary Poppins’s carpet bag. The limber performers lurk inside, invisible, [...]

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Re: Releasing Cancer

hi, for the last four weeks i have been responding to astounding emails from you in response to my letter “releasing cancer” – announcing that i went through cancer in 2011 and how i am coming out of it anew.  it has gotten to the point where i simply must share some of these responses [...]

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The Wild Ride

last night i sat in the audience of a theater production that used three women to play one role, had the devil as the narrator, drove the story with constant dancing and live music echoing from banjo, guitar, ukulele, violin and crystalline vocals.  yes,  the story’s presentation was something amazing to behold, the lights, the [...]

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Releasing Cancer

hi, it’s me, summer.  long time no share.  i’ve been through something pretty major and i haven’t shared it with you.  not sharing this thing with people has felt strange for a very long time and so, here i go – this past february 2011 i was diagnosed with cancer and i stopped all creative [...]

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Do or die, win or lose…

At the time I was crammed into a bathroom stall in the San Francisco airport trying to make sure none of my belongings fell on the floor and that I still had room to… shall I say, descend.  I instantly thought to myself, either this is really good or really bad.  I was my way [...]

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