February 1, 2010
Posted by Shawn Bowers
Shows
Current Shows
No shows booked at the moment.
Past Shows
I believe in self-producing. Sure, it can instill some bad habits, but I’d rather create my own opportunities than wait for people to offer them to me. And thus, these shows. There are links below to full archive pages where you can see cast photos, scripts, reviews and more. Or just rush through it all, if you’re one of those people.
Show Title: Time Traveling Mom-Dad
Opening Night: December 6, 2009
Theatre: 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
Synopsis: 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.
THE FULL SCOOP (including the full script and information on how to stage your own production)
Show Title: Seeking Your Approval
Opening Night: October 31, 2008
Theatre: Donny’s Skybox at Second City
Directed and co-written by: Shawn Bowers
Musical Director: Ben McFadden
Written by and starring: Amanda Engborg, Megan Green, Colin Hogan, Andy Dierker, Meghan Hillmeyer, Ilana Plen, Tim de la Motte, Marcus Reidy, JR Strzelec, Ben Cook, Robert Tamillow
Synopsis: Every week, I do a little improv jam session called Improv PE with a bunch of folks, and late last fall we decided to take the loving group environment and turn it into a sketch show. The concept was simple: every week, the audience got to “approve” sketches that they liked. If a sketch didn’t get a high enough approval rating, it would be replaced the following week by an all new sketch. This, as it turns out, is a more difficult process than it might seem, but we all had a good time and got some pretty decent sketches out of the challenge.
THE FULL SCOOP (including unused sketches and a glimpse of what made it into the final show) (link coming soon)
Show Title: Scuba Mission Presents Timeless Is More
Opening Night: September 4, 2009
Theatre: The Gorilla Tango Theatre in Chicago, IL
Written by, directed by and starring: Shawn Bowers and Colin Hogan
Synopsis: 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.
To find out more about Scuba Mission, check out this page.
THE FULL SCOOP (including unused sketches, promo photos and videos) (link coming soon)
Show Title: CRAIGSHOW: Tales From Craigslist
Opening Night: June 2, 2009
Theatre: The Gorilla Tango Theatre in Chicago, IL
Written by, directed by and starring: Shawn Bowers and Megan Green
Synopsis: 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.
THE FULL SCOOP (including our favorite posts, unused scenes, promo photos and more) (link coming soon)
