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July - November
I'll be in Europe for four months touring with Second City. Sketch, Improv, Clown and Mime.
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April 10th - May 17
2008
We assembled a team of writers and wrote six sitcom pilots. The sitcoms were then performed live. A new sitcom every week, competeing to be Picked Up. We made trailers for each show. I put my sitcom, The Mime, online. Watch The Mime... |
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Fall 2007
The Fool (Returns to His Chair) was
created by John Pierson and the ensemble as you read this. "A cast
of Neo-Futurists and actors from various other theater companies present
a history of fools through the ages with physical performance, comedy,
rhythm and music... and without text or spoken word. THE FOOL covers
everything from idiot savants to the ancient tarot traveling fool to
the Muppets." This show was fun because I pretty much made up everything I did on the spot. It was satisfying in the end and probably... ok, not probably, definately the wierdest piece I've ever been in. Check out the blog... |
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July 25-29 2007!
I love Too Much Light Tours! July 2007 The Neo-Futurists
are headlined the Washington DC Fringe Festival. We sold out every show. IIt was an all star cast. The whole city was buzzing. www.woollymammoth.net |
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GO DOG! GO!
April 13 -May 20 2007!
Chicago Children's Theatre put up a huge circus tent in downtown Chicago
and filled it with clowns. I play Yellow Dog and I get to sing and dance
and clown. Directed by Andrew White and starring Me, Alison Halstead,
Adrian Danzig, Narciso Lobo, Molly Brennan, Johana Mckenzie Miller and
including my friends Jonathan Mastro and John Pierson. |
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April 2007!
This was produced by a young upstart company called One
Continuous Mistake. The ensemble attempted to use properties of Clown
and Butoh performance and apply them to Samuel Beckets Endgame. Besides
being crammed in a can for two hours it was fun and I was quite pleased
with the performance. I know I look awefully sad in the picture but I
was just acting. |
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Nov.-Dec.2006!
I created and co-directed Drag. It was a Drag show but
it was also a confession and exploration of gender. I love the people
in this show very much. The critics didn't get this one but the queers
and trannies loved it. I wrote some of my best work in it. I have a huge
makeup kit now. I got all of my eye make up from my favorite boutique
Medusa's Circle. |
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April-June 2006!
This was my first show with
Redmoon. It was a giant spectical in which the audience was served
various gourmet truffles. Truffle was super fun and I made many friends
for life. It was my first musical and I got to sing a touching love balad
with the lovely Erin Flynn. I also got to go to Palm Springs with the
whole cast. I really enjoy working with Frank and Vanessa. |
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The Santa Abductions
Winter 2005!
The Santa Abductions was a huge hit. It was the Neo-Fururists
first holiday show and the first time I worked with director Sean Daniels
in a play by Sean Benjamin. I ended up winning an After Dark Award for
my performance as Santa #3. But Jay, Luke and the the two Sean's did all
the work really. |
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Summer 2006 & Fall 2005!
Daredevils was a smash hit. We got to do an extended run
at the Neo-Futurarium and also at Theater on the Lake. I might still have
scars from this show. I learned how to tight rope walk and walk on broken
glass. We might even be doing this show again. I got to work with Halena
Kays, Anthony Courser, Ryan Walters, Andy Byates, Jay Torrence, John Pierson
and Dan Broberg. Daredevils was super physical. There were acrobatics
and stunts and I even had a short mime piece in it. And I got tight rope
walking lessons from Arielle Ebacher, the hottest girl ever. We also had a blog... |
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Summer 2005!
This was a short 10 minute play for a festival called 7-10-50.
Seven 10 minute plays in 50 minutes. It was produced by The 2nd City Training
Center and Chicago Dramatists. The director was Andy Miara. It was a pretty
miniscule thing to put on here. But I liked it. And I got to act with
a kid. He wore a Sigmund Frued outfit and I basically freaked out and
destryed a chair. The Chair was also one of several occasions that I got
to work with my good friend Adam Yencho. I amaized I even took the effort
to make a graphic for this. |
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Summer 2005!
For a short while in the summer of 2005 I had a talk show.
I had a bunch of guests ie. The Windy City Rollers, Yuri Lane, Mucca Pazza,
Found Magazine, and some dudes from the Late Night Late Show. Then I was
a guest on the Late Night Late Show. I have a couple shows on video. I
also had this real life intern, Chip Dickerson. Bilal Dardai was my awkward
sidekick. We did the show as a test to see if it would work. It worked
great. But I decided not to continue because I had too much on my plate
at the time. I would like to do the show again someday. |
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I'm a company member of The
Neo-Futurists and I write and perform in Too Much Light Makes
The Baby Go Blind, the longest running show in Chicago. I'm in
this show at least 24 weeks a year. It's a choatic and wild show and it
changes constantly. |
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The two theater companies that I was an ensemble member of had agreed, before I was a member of either, to collaborate for the Neo-Futurists walking tour show based on Alice in Wonderland. Every chapter of the play was interpreted and performed by different theater companies throught the Andersonville neighborhood in Chicago. It was a super smash hit. Our chapter, the tea party, was performed behind a boutique. We made some new material and swapped out roles. It was fun. It was also interesting to get to do the same clown piece five time in a row for small groups rather than do one long piece once for the whole audience. It was the only time a non-Kapoot character was used in the material. |
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| MEB pics and info coming soon... |
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| Kapoot pics and info coming soon... |
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| College pics and info coming soon... |
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