Join Host Rik Deskin and Comedians Brett Baker, Barbara Sehr, Spencer Latham and more tonight at 10:30pm for Eclectic Theater Company’s open mic for Stand-Up, Sketch and Improv Comedy: The Comedy Workshop! 10:30pm at Odd Duck Studio. $5.
Sign-up for Comedians is now until 10pm on Facebook with Rik Deskin and by email at info@eclectictheatercompany.org. 3-10 minute slots available. 
CASTING NOTICE. PLEASE SHARE: UNION (SAG, AEA, AFTRA) submissions only please. Rik Deskin is casting DODGERS, a screenplay reading about love, war, and baseball. Heather Pitre, writer; Amy Sedgewick, director. Reading rehearses Monday, January 9, 3-6pm, followed by a public reading at 7pm. At Odd Duck Studio, Seattle. Presented by TheFilmSchool, Screen Actors Guild, Eclectic Theater Company and Aftra Seattle.
Seeking–MICHAEL O’MALLEY: handsome, magnetic, completely in
his element, age 21. (21-31). MARY, 18: Seeking 1 female, age 18-28. CEDAR: 20 Male: Off the wall (Dude): age 20-30. JORDAN: 25 Male: Seeking 1 male, age 25-35. AGENT ROGER HILL & TED: 38: Seeking 1 male age 38-48.
For consideration, Facebook Message Rik Deskin your iActor profile or Theatre Puget Sound profile. This is the preferred method of submission. If this is not possible, email iActor profile, or TPS profile or Headshot/Resume to info@eclectictheatercompany.org. PLEASE NOTE: You must be a Member of at least one of the above Unions to be considered for this as it is a Union Perk.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 17,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
This week we wrap up 2011 with two days of Comedy!
Thursday at 10:30pm is Seattle’s only late night open mic dedicated to Stand-Up, Improv & Sketch Comedy: The Comedy Workshop!
Hosted by Actor/Comedian Rik Deskin!
Every week some of the area’s best and brightest, emerging and veteran Comedians perform 3-10 minutes of new material or rework existing material. Sometimes an Improv team will do a set. Some day a sketch comedy group will perform a new sketch. Some…day.
Sign-up is with Rik at http://www.facebook.com/rik.deskin until 10pm.
$5. FREE for SAG, AEA, AFTRA and Comedians.
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/162169
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On Friday beginning at 2pm is Brown Bag Comedy!
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. Doors open at 1:30pm.
$5. FREE for SAG, AEA, AFTRA and Comedians.
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/142945
Featured Comedians:
December 30: Ed Hill & Kristina McMillen!
About Ed Hill:
Originally from Taiwan, Ed is an emerging young comic who moved to Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada 18 years ago, thinking he was on vacation at his father’s discretion.
Ed has performed all over Western Canada and is a regular guest at his home club, Lafflines Comedy Club. He has appeared at The Louie Anderson Theater in Las Vegas, The Comedy Store and Laugh Factory in LA, and Bite TV’s “Stand Up & Bite Me” program. He was also featured on Sirius XM Radio’s Canada’s Next Top Comic, the NC Arts Comedy Festival, Dallas Comedy Festival, Boston Comedy Festival, World Series of Comedy, Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, the Vancouver Global Comedy Festival and many more.
Ed has worked with comics such as Louie Anderson, Kyle Cease, Bret Ernst, Ruben Paul, Azhar Usman, Joe Wong and musical acts such as Jurassic 5, Jin, Dan the Automator, and many other talented individuals.
In addition to his comedy, Ed has a M.Ed in Counselling Psychology. He is also a professional DJ, a music producer, the founder of Open Mic for Autism, a concert pianist, a prolific writer, and an avid graphic artist.
Ed is still currently on vacation with his potato-like dog.
www.kingedhill.com
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At 8pm is Seattle’s only Sketch Comedy open mic: Anti-Allergy Nose Spray!
Hosted by Actor/Comedian Rik Deskin!
Anti-Allergy Nose Spray is a Sketch Comedy Open Mic. Anyone can submit a sketch and perform it at this show.
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. 8PM-9PM on Friday Evening (through December 30, 2011 and then weekly on various nights).
Hosts include Rik Deskin and other Guest Hosts from Seattle’s Comedy scene! Plus Palmolive is the House Band!
ANTI-ALLERGY NOSE SPRAY! “RULES”
-It’s open to all performers. Sign-up begins now until 30 minutes before the show on Facebook with Rik Deskin: http://www.facebook.com/rik.deskin
-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!!!!
FREE to watch also!
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/197826
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Finally at 9:30pm is Comedy from
Jerry Percio is a comedian, actor, writer and award winning novelty song writer who has been featured on Comedy Central, TNT, NBC, The Lifetime Network and in ad campaigns for Diet Coke and Pepsi, as well as numerous local commercials. Some of his work can be heard regularly on the All-Comedy Radio Channel and Dr. Demento’s syndicated program. He has written for Jay Leno, Rick Dees and others. He is an incredible mimic whose voices are referred to as re-creations rather than impressions. When asked if he is funny and talented his reply is, “I haven’t had a job since March of ’84….I must be doing something right.”
Featuring Comedian Ed Hill!
Hosted by Rik Deskin!
Produced by Eclectic Theater Company.
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 9:30pm
Odd Duck Studio
$15 Advance Tickets. $20 at the door.
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/217926
About Jerry Percio:
Jerry Percio, a versatile comedian, easily moves
his stage show from stand-up monology to musical
parodies without missing a beat. Jerry was the first
published white rap artist in the U.S. With a
voracious appetite for information, Jerry is the first
one to say that he will never run out of material for
his act. For all he needs to do is read the paper a
watch the news and the material just falls into place
from the crazy things people do every day. Jerry just doesn’t do impressions of some of his favorite actors and cartoon characters, he does ”recreations”.
Native of Cleveland, Ohio, Uncle Jer is one of the top parody, novelty, singer and songwriters in the country. His creations have been played on Dr. Demento’s syndicated radio program and Rick Dees’ Weekly Top 40.
Impressions and harp are among many of his talents. Jerry has produced 8 CD’s of live performances and music. He holds a BS degree in Accounting and a Masters degree in Sociology, which comes in handy in this trade since it’s the study of group behavior.
About Ed Hill:
Originally from Taiwan, Ed is an emerging young comic who moved to Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada 18 years ago, thinking he was on vacation at his father’s discretion.
Ed has performed all over Western Canada and is a regular guest at his home club, Lafflines Comedy Club. He has appeared at The Louie Anderson Theater in Las Vegas, The Comedy Store and Laugh Factory in LA, and Bite TV’s “Stand Up & Bite Me” program. He was also featured on Sirius XM Radio’s Canada’s Next Top Comic, the NC Arts Comedy Festival, Dallas Comedy Festival, Boston Comedy Festival, World Series of Comedy, Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, the Vancouver Global Comedy Festival and many more.
Ed has worked with comics such as Louie Anderson, Kyle Cease, Bret Ernst, Ruben Paul, Azhar Usman, Joe Wong and musical acts such as Jurassic 5, Jin, Dan the Automator, and many other talented individuals.
In addition to his comedy, Ed has a M.Ed in Counselling Psychology. He is also a professional DJ, a music producer, the founder of Open Mic for Autism, a concert pianist, a prolific writer, and an avid graphic artist.
Ed is still currently on vacation with his potato-like dog.
www.kingedhill.com
About Rik Deskin:
Rik just finished working on a new play called SEPTEMBER SKIES and Season 1 of the new web-series, LOOK UP IN THE SKY. He also appears regularly as the Host of THE COMEDY WORKSHOP and ANTI-ALLERGY NOSE SPRAY at the Odd Duck Studio. Rik has also He was recently heard throughout WA State in a HEALTH & SAFETY SPOT for Labor Neighbor Radio. Recent films include QUEEN OF WANDS, SAUSAGE FEST, and recent plays include MACBETH, THE LITTLE DEATH, AS YOU LIKE IT, GLORY, GLORY, VANISH. He produced and acted in OBSESSION, a short film being that was featured in this year’s Garden State Film Festival. Rik can also be seen in SNOW DAY, BLOODY SNOW DAY now available on DVD at www.gadzookfilms.com. He attended Cornish College of the Arts from 1997-2001 and graduated with a BFA in Acting.
Rik has worked nationally with The National Theatre For Children and Open Door Theatre; regionally in the Seattle area with Centerstage, Renton Civic Theatre, LIVE GIRLS!, ArtsWest, Stepping Stone Productions, Theater Schmeater. Rik is the Artistic Director of Eclectic Theater Company. Some Film appearances include THE STANDARD (which won Best Director at the Phoenix Film Festival), SNOW DAY, BLOODY SNOW DAY; and more. Member of SAG, AEA & AFTRA.
http://www.sag.org/iactor/RikDeskin
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 December 22: Danny Littlejohn & 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!
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/162169
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Eclectic Theater Company presents our Planet’s only lunchtime comedy 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. Doors open at 1:30pm.
$5
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/142945
Featured Comedians:
December 23: Leah Mansfield & Daniel Isherwood.
Leah Mansfield is a hard working comedian living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She just returned from the San Luis Obispo Comedy Festival, where she was one of six comedians voted into the “Best of the Fest” show. She was also accepted into the World Series of Comedy last year. Her jokes have been featured on Rooftopcomedy.com and Jokes.com. In 2010, she traveled over 46,000 miles to bring laughs to people locked away in small farm towns. In this time she has opened and featured for national headliners such as Tig Notaro, Issac Witty and Troy Baxley. She’s a regular performer at the Joke Joint Comedy Club, where she once worked the door and ran the weekly open mic. Expect big things from this little comedian.
Daniel Isherwood began performing stand up comedy in 2008 when a chance reunion with an old high school friend allowed him to realize his secret fantasy of performing on stage. Since first taking the stage his style and manner have evolved to match his changing life, always with a mind to find a bit, a quip, a line that’s funnier than the last one he wrote. An avid experimenter Daniel strives to provide comedy with depth and meaning that explores his mundane physical life as well as his rich internal world. In the course of his career thus far he’s worked as a feature for such headliners as Duane Goud and Nate Jackson. He’s also very involved in local open mics around Olympia and the western Washington area.
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Anti-Allergy Nose Spray is a Sketch Comedy Open Mic. Anyone can submit a sketch and perform it at this show.
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. 8PM-9PM on Friday Evening (through December 30, 2011 and then weekly on various nights).
Hosts include Rik Deskin and other Guest Hosts from Seattle’s Comedy scene!
ANTI-ALLERGY NOSE SPRAY! “RULES”
-It’s open to all performers. Sign-up begins now until 30 minutes before the show on Facebook.
-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!!!!
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/197826
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Blood Squad Presents
“Silent Fright”
Twas the Night Before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirringexcept the slightly disoriented-looking guy in overalls with a giant knife crawling out of the fireplace.Tis the season for slaughter! For the holidays, BS presents a show in the style of Christmas horror, inspired by such classics as the original “Black Christmas”, “Silent Night, Deadly Night” and “Gremlins”. Join us for a night of yule-tide improvised slasher.
(Viewer discretion is strongly advised!)
Blood Squad is Molly Arkin, Brandon Felker & Elicia Wickstead
with special guest Graham Downing
Location: Odd Duck Studio
1214 10th Ave Seattle, WA 98122
Performance: Friday, December 23, 2011
Time: 10:30pm
Tickets $10
Tickets available at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/215021.
THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT!
Co-produced by Eclectic Theater Company.
This weekend marks the second weekend of our main stage show, The Man In The Newspaper Hat.
Friday & Saturday at 8pm. Then Thursday-Saturday Through December 17 starting next weekend.
$15. $10 for Students, Seniors, Military, Veterans, TPS Members, and Union Members. FREE for SAG, AEA and AFTRA Members. (Must bring Member cards or Student IDs). Advance Tickets available at 206-679-3271 and at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/209503
Poets are not nice people. No artist is, really. They use the world and the people in it as fodder for their work. The Man in the Newspaper Hat, inspired by Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “Visits to St. Elizabeths”, is a fictional dramatization of the meetings between two polar opposite artistic temperaments, grandiose and infamous Ezra Pound and poets’-poet Elizabeth Bishop.
Elizabeth Bishop (Lisa Keeton), Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress 1949-50, visits Ezra Pound (David S. Klein), father of modern American poetry, in the asylum of St. Elizabeths where he is remanded, declared unfit to stand trial for high treason for his pro-Fascist/anti-Semitic rants over Rome Radio during WWII.
Over the course of one year, Bishop challenges Pound artist to artist in an effort to unearth the poet under the rubble of his political delusions. They become poetic sparring partners, and while Bishop doesn’t succeed in reclaiming him for her poetic lineage, she senses that the ground underneath his longheld convictions is shifting. The result is deeply disquieting and eerily moving.
The production is dedicated to honoring the centennial of Elizabeth Bishop, who was born February 8, 1911. The play also has Northwest ties in that Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho, and Bishop lectured at the UW in 1966, mentoring many NW poets.
Hayley Heaton (Playwright) is a poet and playwright living in Salt Lake City, Utah. Heaton was educated at The University of Utah, Cambridge University, and The New School in New York City. Since 2004, she has published The French 75, and Nineteen Days of Blaise. Heaton’s work can also be found in several online and print journals.
Katrin Hilbe (Director) directs Opera, Operetta, Contemporary Music Theatre, Plays, in Europe and the US. Her latest projects were the multi-media event Fraktale Sommernacht with the International Lab for Opera and Media Werdenberg in Switzerland and Allen Davis III’ play Oasis with The Dramatic Question in NYC. She was the primary Assistant Director for Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany. Katrin is Artistic Director of International Relations for The Midtown International Theatre Festival, member of the Dramatists Guild of America, LPTW, The WorkShop Theater Company, a mentee of Theatre Resources Unlimited and an alumni of Directors Lab West. More information at www.katrinhilbe.com.
ManyTracks (Producer)
Since its inception in 2009, ManyTracks has been interested in projects that defy easy alignment. ManyTracks has developed Hayley Heaton’s play The Man in the Newspaper Hat, and Katrin Hilbe’s Danton’s Death Take 1, a new translation of Georg Büchner’s Dantons Tod. This production marks ManyTracks’ Seattle debut.
Theatre Lexicon (Producer)
is an independent theatre company in Seattle dedicated to developing and performing collaborative, ensemble-based work. Theater Lexicon debuted in 2008 with The Complex, and has since produced Brilliant Traces, and John Patrick Shanley’s Savage in Limbo.
On Friday at 10:30pm, Eclectic Theater Company presents a special Friday night edition of The Comedy Workshop.
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.
Hosted by Rik Deskin.
Guest Comedians on November 25 include Bryan Cook, Andy Palmer, Chris Emery and more TBA!
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.
Advance Tickets available at 206-679-3271 and at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/162169
$5. FREE for SAG/AEA/AFTRA Members and Comedians!
On Saturday at 10:30pm is Ben Dunn’s Comedy Invasion!
You’ve asked for it, so as a late Thanksgiving/early Christmas present I am pleased to bring you:
Ben Dunn’s Stand Up Comedy Invasion *asion asion asian* (That last echo got kind of racist.)
That’s right folks. I am coming to the Seattle area and performing for one night thanks to the co-operation of Eclectic Theater Company at Odd Duck Studio and I am bringing some of the funniest people I know with me!
For the low low price of $10 (No Drink Min!) you get:
Ben Dunn (1000 Ways to Die, MANswers, Comedy Store)
Celeste Reno (Flapper’s, Comedy Store LA, The Ice House)
Rik Deskin (Comedy Workshop, “Look Up in the Sky”)
Danielle Radford (Comedy Underground, Odd Duck Studio)
and special guest
Fahim Anwar (Comedy Central, “Lie To Me”, “Chuck”)
Come fill your eye and earholes with warm, nurturing comedy won’t you?
Advance Tickets available at 206-679-3271 and at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/211070
On Sunday at 7pm is the November Mash-Up!
The thirteenth mash-up will again be at Odd Duck Studio, coordinated by Interrobang?!. We ask that improvisers participating have either advanced improv class experience (i.e., Wing-It’s 301-level classes, UP’s 400-level classes) or improv performance experience (feel free to shoot Dave Clapper a message if you’re unsure about this).
This time, at the beginning, we’ll be trying something new. In a further effort to build community, we’ll be having a group warm-up at the beginning led by Interrobang. In the future, we’d like to have other improv groups lead opening warm-ups. So we’re trying it this time to see how it goes, and if it goes well, we’ll get the word out to find an interested group to lead warm-ups at the next mash-up.
We’ll do our best to mix people up to perform with as many people from outside their usual groups as possible. Groups for the night will be announced as the night progresses, and each mash-up will go approximately 15 minutes.
Thus far, everyone who’s attended has been able to mash up at least twice.
You know there are a ton of amazing improvisers in town you’ve wanted to work with. Now’s your chance!
Suggested donation (which we’ll pass on directly to Odd Duck) is $5.00. Cheap! Fun! Awesome!
On Monday at 8:30pm is Rodger Lizaola!
Comedian Rodger Lizaola headlines an evening of Comedy featuring Cris Rodriguez, Danielle Radford, Jonas Barnes, Silas Lindenstein, Yogi Paliwal, Rik Deskin and special guests!
$8 Advance at 206-679-3271 and at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/213960 . $10 at the door.
Produced by Eclectic Theater Company.
It is true. The extremely popular Comedian has sold out both the 7pm and 9pm performances at Odd Duck Studio tonight.
Comedy = Funny²
Tonight at 10:30pm is the only Comedy Open Mic in the Seattle/Tacoma area that allows you to do up to ten minutes of Stand-Up, Sketch and Improv Comedy: The Comedy Workshop!
Hosted by your friendly neighborhood Comedian in training, Rik Deskin!
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.
Please note that we will not have a performance on Thanksgiving Thursday, November 24 but will move that week’s performance to Friday at 10:30pm.
Hosted by Rik Deskin.
Special Guest Host James Milton on October 20!
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!
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/162169
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Tomorrow (Friday) at 12:10pm is the only Lunchtime Comedy Show on Earth (that we know of): Brown Bag Comedy!
Brown Bag Comedy is a weekly lunchtime show featuring two top Comedians and goes from 12:10-12:40pm at the Odd Duck Studio.
Produced by Eclectic Theater Company.
The next show, on September 30th with Scott Wilson and Jeff Black.
$5 (Free for comics and SAG/AEA/AFTRA Members)
Advance tickets at:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/163583
Future Brown Bag Comedy Shows:
October 7th Anthony Calderon and Devin Badoo
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At 10:30pm is Official Selection of Sketchfest Seattle, Drop The Root Beer And Run!
“Life Ampersand Death” is a brand new, full length sketch comedy show from Seattle’s stickiest and thirstiest troupe, Drop the Root Beer and Run. Featuring the talents of Baylie Freeman, Matt Hatfield, Zak Nelson, Caitlin Obom, and Matt Olson.Two nights only (Fridays September 23rd and 30th) so clear your schedules and invite all the friends you know you have. We won’t be going into syndication so don’t miss it or else you might feel sad or disappointed or something, and no one wants that!
Advanced tickets are available at this link:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/191748
9/30 – Featuring Special guest: Ubiquitous They
https://www.facebook.com/UbiquitousThey
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At 12:30am (Midnight:30) of Friday going into Saturday is our FREE Sketch Comedy Open Mic, the only one in the Seattle area:
Anti-Allergy Nose Spray is a Sketch Comedy Open Mic. Anyone can submit a sketch and perform it at this show.
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. 12:30AM-1:30AM on Saturday Morning (or late late Friday depending on your perspective).
Hosts include Rik Deskin and other Guest Hosts from Seattle’s Comedy scene!
ANTI-ALLERGY NOSE SPRAY! “RULES”
-It’s open to all performers. Sign-up begins now until Midnight on Friday. It will end promptly @ Midnight so we can have a confirmed show, and running order up decently before showtime.
-Submit your sketch to Rik Deskin on Facebook by 1:30pm, Thursday or in person by Midnight Friday.
-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!!!!
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/197826
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On Saturday at 10:30pm is Carskee Improv with The Royal Friend Society!
Hello friends!!!! The Royal Friend Society and us are starting our 5 week run this Saturday and every Saturday in October! The show is at 10:30. We will have special guests Jay Hitt, Jen Rizor and a couple of others. Who else you ask? Well you’ll have to come find out! (Or it will probably be on our page the week of the show.) Plus, the last show or two will include a super scary halloween show – IN THE DARK!! I’m scared!!!!!
$10. Advance TIX available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/197678
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On Sunday at 8pm,
is back! In a new regular time-slot!
Comedian Travis Simmons!
With Special Guest Sarah Skilling!
Highly regarded, widely applauded; Pacific Northwest comedian Travis Simmons is known for his brilliant observations, amazing impressions,and astute political commentary. Simmons is a local favorite but travels the world over to bring his funny to people just like you. Come on down, check him out, and you will quickly discover, this is one different kind of brother.
In addition to his live comedy shows, Simmons Funny 4 Food charity shows have raised over $50,000 for food banks in Western Washington and the shows have now expanded to Oregon. His Christmas events “Jokes for Little Folks” have generated 7,000 toys for kids in Seattle
and Tacoma.
Travis has over 3 million video plays on You Tube and he is in the Regular rotation on Raw Dog Comedy and JamieFoxx’s Foxxhole on Sirus XM Satellite Radio.
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/196688
This week starts early with Midnight Mystery Theater… Return of The WAMBA!!! at 7pm tonight (Wednesday).
Our latest show will feature MMT alum Gail Wamba Flynn!!! Theme this time out is superheroes goin’ back to school! Case of The Missing Kisser finds wiseacre reporter Lois Lockwood opening up a strange kettle of superfish at her high school reunion and Case of The Missing Masterpiece finds Chick Cavalier: swinging commercial artist solving his FIRST case back in art school!!! Cast: Charles Crowley, Erin Day, Tony Driscoll, Chris Mathews, Jeff Nelson, John Ruoff & Gail Wamba Flynn. With Kristina Thalen & Jasen Britcher. Tickets are $7 at the door.
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September Skies has it’s closing week with final performances Thu-Sat at 8pm and a Saturday, 2pm matinee.
Seattle Weekly Pick of The Week!
September Skies is a providential drama about two acquaintances who re-schedule their flights aboard one of the hijacked 9/11 planes.
$10-$25 PWYC
This production is being presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Association Members’ Project Code.
World Premiere Written and Directed by Jim Moran
Starring David Foubert*, Cheryl Platz and Rik Deskin*.
Stage Managed by Melissa Y. Hamasaki*.
Sound Design by Rob Witmer.
Lighting Design by Sean Begley.
Costume Design by Holly Forbis.
Graphic Design by Alex Thomas.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union for professional Actors & Stage Managers in the United States.
Sponsored by Eclectic Theater Company.
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TO BE CONTINUED Later tonight and definitely by Noon tomorrow…
This week at Odd Duck Studio, Eclectic Theater Company presents another great week of Drama & Comedy!
An Actor’s Equity Member’s Project Code presentation of the World Premiere of Seattle Playwright Jim Moran’s September Skies begins it’s penultimate week running Thursday-Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm.
Seattle Weekly Pick of the Week!
“…the writing is taut, witty, and true, and the performances sterling…”
Kevin Phinney, Seattle Weekly.
http://www.seattleweekly.com/2011-09-14/arts/opening-nights-september-skies/
$10-$25 PWYC. Advance TIX available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/191921.
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Every Thursday at 10:30pm is The Comedy Workshop.
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.
Hosted by Rik Deskin.
Sign-up for Performers up to 30 minutes before performance via Facebook and at the theater with Rik Deskin. 3-10 minute slots available.
$5. Advance TIX available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/162169
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Every Friday at 12:10-12:40pm is our Lunchtime Comedy show, Brown Bag Comedy!
The next show, on September 23rd, we will feature Tk Kasnick and Quincy Jones
$5 (Free for comics and SAG/AEA/AFTRA Members)
Advance tickets at:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/163583
Future Brown Bag Comedy Shows:
September 30th Scott Wilson and Jeff Black
October 7th Anthony Calderon and Devin Badoo
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On Friday at 10:30pm, Drop The Root Beer And Run are back with ”Life Ampersand Death”, a brand new, full length sketch comedy show from Seattle’s stickiest and thirstiest troupe. Featuring the talents of Baylie Freeman, Matt Hatfield, Zak Nelson, Caitlin Obom, and Matt Olson.Two nights only (Fridays September 23rd and 30th) so clear your schedules and invite all the friends you know you have. We won’t be going into syndication so don’t miss it or else you might feel sad or disappointed or something, and no one wants that!
Advanced tickets are available at this link:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/191748
9/23-Featuring Special guest: Charles
http://www.facebook.com/charlescomedy
9/30 – Featuring Special guest: Ubiquitous They
https://www.facebook.com/UbiquitousThey
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At a half hour past Midnight on Friday is our FREE Sketch Comedy Open Mic,
Anti-Allergy Nose Spray is a Sketch Comedy Open Mic. Anyone can submit a sketch and perform it at this show.
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. 12:30AM-1:30AM on Saturday Morning (or late late Friday depending on your perspective).
Hosts include Rik Deskin and other Guest Hosts from Seattle’s Comedy scene!
ANTI-ALLERGY NOSE SPRAY! “RULES”
-It’s open to all performers. Sign-up begins now until Midnight on Friday. It will end promptly @ Midnight so we can have a confirmed show, and running order up decently before showtime.
-Submit your sketch to Rik Deskin on Facebook by 1:30pm, Thursday or in person by Midnight Friday.
-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 https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/197826
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On Saturday at 10:30pm,
Comedian Travis Simmons!
With Special Guest Sarah Skilling!
Highly regarded, widely applauded; Pacific Northwest comedian Travis Simmons is known for his brilliant observations, amazing impressions,and astute political commentary. Simmons is a local favorite but travels the world over to bring his funny to people just like you. Come on down, check him out, and you will quickly discover, this is one different kind of brother.
In addition to his live comedy shows, Simmons Funny 4 Food charity shows have raised over $50,000 for food banks in Western Washington and the shows have now expanded to Oregon. His Christmas events “Jokes for Little Folks” have generated 7,000 toys for kids in Seattle
and Tacoma.
Travis has over 3 million video plays on You Tube and he is in the Regular rotation on Raw Dog Comedy and JamieFoxx’s Foxxhole on Sirus XM Satellite Radio.
$10. Advance TIX available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/196688
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On Sunday at 7pm is the September Mash-Up!
The eleventh mash-up will again be at Odd Duck Studio, coordinated by Interrobang?!. We ask that improvisers participating have either advanced improv class experience (i.e., Wing-It’s 301-level classes, UP’s 400-level classes) or improv performance experience.
We’ll do our best to mix people up to perform with as many people from outside their usual groups as possible. Groups for the night will be announced as the night progresses, and each mash-up will go approximately 15 minutes.
Thus far, everyone who’s attended has been able to mash up at least twice.
You know there are a ton of amazing improvisers in town you’ve wanted to work with. Now’s your chance!
$5 to watch! Cheap! Fun! Awesome!
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On Monday at 7:30pm is a Play Reading of ”When the Horizon Fails” by Ed Boyd.
A reading of the play open to the public. Q&A and feedback session. Come on down. it should be FUN!
FREE!
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