THE GRADUATION
Opening Night: September 27, 2011
Where: Studio BE, Chicago IL
Written and Directed By: Shawn Bowers
Starring: Jack Bourgeois, Justin Drogos, Amanda Jane Dunne, John Gallagher, Trevor Martin, Peter Ritt, Tabitha Parker
The Graduation is a show about a time in our lives that seemed very important at the time, only for us to find out years later that it was actually all just a bunch of bullshit. That’s fair, right? This play/sketch show hybrid was a quick labor of love, written and assembled over the span of three months. The entire show takes place over the course of the commencement ceremony for Garfield High School, with each of the seven talented cast members playing a variety of roles with the kind of blind arrogance that only teenagers have.
A full video of the show will be online soon. In the meantime, enjoy NOT WATCHING THE VIDEO YET.
SCUBA MISSION: GAINFULLY EMPLOYED
Opening Night: August 19, 2011
Where: ComedySportz, Indianapolis IN
Created By: Shawn Bowers and Colin Hogan
Scuba Mission: Gainfully Employed is Scuba’s second full length sketch show created for and premiered at the Indianapolis Fringe Festival. We developed this show using material we had been workshopping in smaller sets over the last year, all loosely based around the theme of business-y things and the workforce. We say loosely because that was as tenuous a connection as we could find between the pieces. In fact, our show was listed in the IndyFringe programs as being a fast-paced murder mystery centered around a small town, in which each of us would play more than 30 characters over the course of one madcap hour. Not quite what people got.
We were met with an incredibly warm reception by IndyFringe audiences and press and sold out many of our shows there. It was good.
Some nice things that people said about the show online:
“ A masterclass in what sketch comedy can be when done well. Absolutely put this one on your list.” – Metromix
“4 stars. Add this show to your must- see list.” – NUVO
TIME TRAVELING MOM-DAD
Opening Night: December 6, 2009
Where: The Gorilla Tango Theatre in Chicago, IL
Written by: Shawn Bowers
Directed by: Amanda Engborg
Starring: Adam Schreck, Jon Matteson, Briana Hansen, Neil Huff, Chris Kordys and Todd Gebhart
The titular Time Traveling Mom-Dad is Shawn, a young man whose best friend Rodney Hogan has just died of a vicious heart attack. When a version of himself from 30 years in the future offers him the chance to save Rodney, he must race through time to seduce his friend’s parents and make sure that Mrs. Hogan gets impregnated with the corrected genetic material that will change everything. As they’re wont to do, things go awry, forcing temporary gender reassignments, jaunts to the prehistoric and some literal self-reflection along the way.
SCUBA MISSION: TIMELESS IS MORE
Opening Night: September 4, 2009
Where: The Gorilla Tango Theatre in Chicago, IL
Created By: Scuba Mission (Shawn Bowers and Colin Hogan)
Scuba Mission’s first full length sketch show, Timeless Is More was an early version of what Scuba has evolved into. It featured our usual schtick of playing-ourselves-and-going-on-adventures mixed with traditional scenes and sketches. This show in particular saw us learning how to fly, educating others on how to protect gay snow owls, performing in a child’s beauty pageant and temporarily disbanding after one of us wins an undeserved NAACP Image award. Spoiler alert: it was me. I won the NAACP Image award. And I deserved every bit of it.
To find out more about Scuba Mission, check out our official website.
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CRAIGSHOW: TALES FROM CRAIGSLIST
Opening Night: June 2, 2009
Where: The Gorilla Tango Theatre, Chicago IL
Created By: Shawn Bowers and Megan Green
Craigslist is a fascinating place. We can all agree on this, right? It’s full of creepers, dreamers, buyers, sellers, men for women, women for men…all sorts of weirdos who converge on the Internet’s favorite classified page. Well we thought those people deserved their own show, and thus CRAIGSHOW was born. We spent a couple of months culling our favorite posts, communicating with people we found online and even going on a few real world adventures to put together a hodge podge of stories, scenes and other things all based on real posts. Sometimes that meant using verbatim dialogue, sometimes that meant utilizing objects we got from people on the site, sometimes that meant eating disgusting amounts of spam.
