She sang a telegram to President Ronald Reagan on national TV, a performance which included playing "Hail to the Chief" on the kazoo.
Schaeffer wrote a Christmas song, Mrs. Santa, that spoofed being a wife and mother in the late 1970s.
Schaeffer played a lesbian partner in Nothing to Declare, an independent film by Julie Glass,[3] and appeared in Chicago Story and the 2013 Superman, Man of Steel.
Their games have won awards, have been played on radio and TV (by such personalities as Johnny Carson) and have been on the cover of magazines and newspapers such as The London Times June 20, 1992...front page and "The Washington Post" October 15, 1992 in "Home FronT" with the "Harassment Game."
In 2000, Schaeffer won first prize in the Blue Mountain Arts Poetry Contest for a poem dedicated to her late mother.