Playwright. Author.
Radio Personality. Critic.
Mat Schaffer, a longtime Boston radio personality on WBCN and KISS 108, has interviewed psychics, channelers, clairvoyants, magicians, fortune tellers, spiritualists, experts in past life regression, UFOlogists, alternative historians, the skeptical, and the curious.
Mat was Restaurant Critic at the Boston Herald for many years and has reviewed restaurants for the Boston Globe, Boston magazine, Boston Common, Food & Wine, Wine Spectator, and Epicurious, among others.
His second play “The Kidnapped Critic: A Chef’s Revenge” was a semifinalist in the annual New Comedies Festival at the B Street Theatre, Sacramento, CA.
UPCOMING EVENTS
SIMON SAYS
A PLAY BY MAT SCHAFFER
October 16-27, 2024
Larcom Theatre, 13 Wallis Street, Beverly, MA
Simon Says tells the story of a young psychic who has been the subject of a retired professor, set out to scientifically prove the existence of the soul. In this thriller, the young man whose rare gift allows him to channel a mysterious entity named Simon, is ready to abandon the work until a young widow convinces him to do one last reading. Through their unexpected connection, will a 2,000-year- old murder be solved?
"Thrilling"
—New York Times
"Thrilling" —New York Times
“Simon Says proves consistently engaging. ”
“Mat Schaffer’s play peers across the veil that separate the everyday world from the shadowy realm of strange and supernatural.”
“...amazing concept.”