Odd Duck Studio
Seattle, WA

The Unbookables is a narrative documentary about Stand-up Comics who have spent their careers pushing limits on stage and off. Relegated to small venues and touring in a crappy van through the Midwest, they careen between the desire to succeed and the reality that there may be nothing left to lose. Road life is far from glamorous: Comics come and go and cruel pranks and hard drinking punctuate their obsidian-dark comedy on stage. They succeed and fail spectacularly. When they face being fired for going too far on stage, the conflict culminates in a showdown: compromise or double down?

Director Jeff Pearson, Producer Mary Jones, and Comic James Inman will be in attendance.

7 & 9pm.
$10. This is a special event. No passes or discounts.

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/218163

Presented by Eclectic Theater Company at Odd Duck Studio.

Snow Miser

The next performance is scheduled for Saturday, January 21 at 11:30pm. Deadline to submit fully cast sketches is 10pm that night. Submit to info@eclectictheatercompany.org.

Eclectic Theater Company presents our Planet’s only lunchtime performance!

30 minutes of Stand-up Comedy 2-2:30pm! Enough time for you to get from class or work, grab your brown bag or to-go lunch and enjoy some midday comedy and then get back to work or school!

Every Friday through Feb 3. Doors open at 1:30pm.

$5. Tickets available at 206-679-3271 and at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/142945

Featured Comedians:
January 13: Yola Lu & Jim Stewart Allen!

Yola Lu is a new comic in the Seattle scene. She has been described as easy to listen to, and weird, but in a tolerable way. @yolajlu

Jim Stewart Allen is a fixture in the Bellingham comedy scene. He placed 2nd in the 2009 Western Washington University Last Comic Standing and was a finalist in the 1st annual 2011 Jai Thai Comedy Competition.

10:30pm. $5. Tickets available at 206-679-3271 and at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/162169

A weekly open mic opportunity for professional and amateur comedians, sketch comedians, and improvisational actors/improvisers to test new material and to develop their acts.

Inspired by The Comedy Workshop and Comics Annex of Houston’s Comedy scene in the 1980s to 1990s, Alum Rik Deskin, Actor and Artistic Director of Eclectic Theater Company wants to help cultivate and enhance Seattle’s Comedy Scene by creating a venue where comedians can perform between 3 to 10 minutes of material each.

Thursday nights @ 10:30pm.

Hosted by Rik Deskin.

Guest Comedians on January 12 include Landon Whitbread, Scott Wilson, Tanner Hodgeson, Sean Murphy, Alex Meyer, Albert Kirchner, Jake Bales, Spencer Latham, Phillip Fox, and James Milton!

Sign-up for Performers up to 30 minutes before performance via Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/rik.deskin and at the theater with Rik Deskin at 10pm if slots are still available.

Please refer to Carl Warmenhoven’s guide to The Comedy Underground’s Open Mic at http://comedyunderground.com/seattle/open_mic.php

Same applies here except you can have up to 10 minutes of time for a set.

$5. FREE for SAG/AEA/AFTRA Members and Comedians!

Alum Heather Pitre will run the creative gauntlet as her script DODGERS will be read live by Union Actors, with realtime feedback from screenwriting and directing pro’s.

LOGLINE: A story about love, war, and baseball.

Directed by Amy Sedgwick.

Featuring John Patrick Lowrie*, Brian Sutherland, Susan Carr*, Christine Marie Brown*, Eric Newman*, Rik Deskin*, Jeff Allen Pierce*, Rachel Pate*, Gary Schwartz, John Dewar* and more TBA!

Presented by TheFilmSchool in collaboration with the Screen Actors Guild, Eclectic Theater Company, the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists.

Monday, January 9 at 7pm at Odd Duck Studio. FREE!

http://thefilmschool.com/

http://www.sag.org/

http://www.aftra.org/

*Member of Actors Equity Association, the Union for Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Sketches will be picked on a first come first served basis. The show will run as long as sketches are presented but not longer than 1 hour.

10:30pm! Rik Deskin is your Host!

ANTI-ALLERGY NOSE SPRAY! “RULES”

-It’s open to all performers. Sign-up begins now until 1 hour before the show on Facebook with Rik Deskin or via email at info@eclectictheatercompany.org.

-Make sure your sketch is between 3 to 5 minutes long (meaning approx. 3 to 5 pages long). It will NOT be accepted if it’s more than the allotted time limit.

-You can submit multiple sketches. Let’s just be considerate so everyone gets to go on stage. We want to play fair so anyone who wants to put up a sketch will get the chance to do so with at least one sketch.

-Don’t forget to cast your sketch before you come to The AANS. You supply your own performers.

-And yes, to participate, it will cost you NOTHING!!! It’s FREE!!!!

Advance TIX available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/197826

Where is your Vitamin D?! It’s Seattle, and it’s January, so you’re not getting it from the sun. Let us spoon-feed you rich, buttery Vitamin D goodness in the form of improv.

And we know that you just spent a ton of money on the holidays. We know. We did, too. So, for you, these two shows are pay-what-you-can. And because our host, Rik Deskin, has asked for donations to Odd Duck Studio to retire its debt, all of the proceeds will go directly to Odd Duck Studio. If you’re broke, pay a teeny weeny. If you haven’t spent the big check from Grandma yet, consider paying maybe a little more than you normally would to help out a beloved improv institution. Either way, you feel good, you laugh, the endorphin flows. Just like Vitamin D.

So who’s providing this jolt of Vitamin D? Interrobang Improv and Worst Case Scenario, that’s who. If you haven’t seen Interrobang recently, you haven’t seen Interrobang. And Worst Case Scenario is almost brand spanking new to Seattle (previously being part of Milwaukee ComedySportz), so you probably haven’t seen them at all. And you should. Oh, yes, you should.

You’ll feel so sunny, you’ll practically have a tan.

Advance TIX available at 206-679-3271 and at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/218136

http://interrobangimprov.com/

30 minutes of Stand-up Comedy 2-2:30pm! Enough time for you to get from class or work, grab your brown bag or to-go lunch and enjoy some midday comedy and then get back to work or school!

Every Friday. Doors open at 1:30pm.

$5. Advance TIX available at 206-679-3271 and at  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/142945

Featured Comedians:
January 6: Melissa Shoshahi & Simon Kaufman!
January 13: Yola Lu & Jim Stewart Allen!

About Melissa Shoshahi:

Comedian, TV host, Actress and a female that showers-sometimes.

http://melshoshahi.wordpress.com/

About Simon Kaufman:

Simon Kaufman circuits the comedy scene from local clubs to national gigs. Simon’s improvisational style mirrors the accidental genius of that one kid we all knew back in the 5th grade who suffered from severe Attention Deficit Disorder/Hyper Activity and made us all end up in detention for laughing uncontrollably during classroom lectures. Simon’s own AD/HD impels him to engage in random audience conversations and hilariously sporadic freestyle raps. Yes He raps!

http://simonkaufman.com/

Melissa Shoshahi does stand up at The Centennial Theatre in Vancouver BC.