Chicago Comedian to Bring Interactive Solo Show SPELL to Annoyance NYC

Take your seat for SPELL, an interactive solo show, where the audience is engaged, volunteered, and messed with in every scene. Zach Zimmerman (The Second City Theatricals, Baby Wants Candy) brings his critically-acclaimed third solo show to the Annoyance NYC for this one-night theatrical experiment.

Spell is part of Zach's trilogy of solo shows: "Straight Man" (iO, PIT, Princeton) explored sexuality, "Sunday School" (PIT) explored religion, and "Spell" (iO, Annoyance NYC) will explore audience interaction and engagement. Each spell-binding or spell-casting character, from a Christian magician to a rhyming witch to a The StEve Harvey Show hype man, involves the audience in varied and escalating ways. What will happen? No one can be sure in this unique, theatrical experiment that examines the role of interaction in our lives.

SPELL premiered at the world-famous iO Theatre in Chicago, Illinois in May - June 2016, and will premier in NYC at the Annoyance for a one-night engagement on August 4 at 9pm, immediately before their flagship Holy Fuck Comedy Hour. Spell is currently booking at improv theatres across the country in Fall 2016 and beyond.

NYC PREMIERE DETAILS:

Spell: an interactive solo show

Written/Performed by Zach Zimmerman

Directed by William Panek

Poster Design by Madelyn Freed

Annoyance Theatre (367 Bedford Ave, New York, NY, 11211)

Thursday, August 4, 9pm

Tickets: $10

Website: theannoyancenewyork.com/events/event/spell

Zach Zimmerman is a funny person in Chicago. Some recent performance credits include The Second City Theatricals aboard the Norwegian Dawn and Norwegian Breakaway, and regular appearances at iO Theatre, Under the Gun Theatre, and Baby Wants Candy: The Fully Improvised Musical. As a writer, his sketches, scenes, one-acts, and full-length plays have been read, sometimes re-read, and often produced around the country: Bean (American Theatre Company's Big Shoulders Festival), Target (The New Colony's Writer's Room).

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