Dirk Shafer

Dirk Shafer
Born	Dirk Alan Shafer November 7, 1962 (1962-11-07) (age 48) Carbondale, Illinois
Nationality	American
Occupation	Model Actor Screenwriter Director
Known for	Playgirl 1992 Man of the Year
Height	5' 10½" (1.79 m)

Dirk Alan Shafer (born November 7, 1962 in Carbondale, Illinois) is an American model, actor, screenwriter and director. He is most noted in the modeling world for being Playgirl magazine's "Man of the Year" for 1992. He did Playgirl for "validation" as a model because he never believed himself to be attractive.^[1] Shafer would go on to write, direct and star in Man of the Year, a mockumentary about his time as a semi-closeted gay man in the role of a heterosexual sex symbol. Shafer's next directorial project was Circuit, a fictional look at the world of gay male circuit parties.^[2] Starring Jonathan Wade-Drahos, the film was poorly received by critics and currently has a 20% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. V.A. Mussetto's review in the New York Post writes that, "Shafer's feature doesn't offer much in terms of plot or acting." Loren King of the Chicago Tribune furthers in writing that the film is "too soap opera-ish to carry the heavy weight of the morality play Shafer has fashioned." ^[3]

As of 2008 Shafer was working as a fitness trainer and certified Pilates instructor.^[4]

Filmography

As actor

• Will & Grace episode "Cheaters" - Blaze (2001)
• Man of the Year - Himself (1995)

As director

• Circuit (2001)
• Man of the Year (1995)

As writer

• Circuit (2001) (with Gregory Hinton)
• Man of the Year (1995)
• Inside Out II (segment "Double Vision") (1992)

Notes

1. ^ Kramer, p. 30
2. ^ Hensley, Dennis (2002-04-30), "Circuit king", The Advocate, http://books.google.com/?id=mGQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA50&dq=%22dirk+shafer%22#v=onepage&q=%22dirk%20shafer%22&f=false, retrieved 2007-09-06 
3. ^ "Rotten Tomatoes". http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1114691-circuit/. 
4. ^ "25 Great Things About Gay L.A", Frontiers volume 26 issue 4, archived from the original on 2008-03-31, http://web.archive.org/web/20080331131054/http://www.frontierspublishing.com/2624/features/feat.html, retrieved 2008-05-12 

References

• Kramer, Gary M. (2006). Independent Queer Cinema: Reviews and Interviews. Haworth Press. ISBN 1560233435.

External links

• Dirk Shafer at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Shafer, Dirk
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Date of birth	1962-11-07
Place of birth	Carbondale, Illinois
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