Geek Show Mounts a Horrific Act of Sociopolitical Satire

Geek Show, a Chicago-based sketch comedy troupe, has announced its run as host of the Graffiti Sketch Comedy Showcase from January 28 to March 4 at the Playground Theater.

In the old days, a geek show was a carnival act where a single oaf (the geek) stood in the center ring to commit a bizarre, horrific act that was found disdainful but ultimately entertaining by the masses, such as chasing live chickens, and then biting their heads off. This Geek Show simply chases and bites the heads off of the various idiocies in our modern lives.

Today's America is overstimulating, complicated, and constantly changing in ways that cannot be controlled. We are an exceptional nation, proud of it's porn and overeating. Each of us is special, just like everyone else. Geek Show is here to show us how ridiculous it all truly is, and how the ways we cope with it are even stranger. Leave the 2.5 kids at home for this show. Besides, they're only dragging you down.

A new guest comedy group opens for Geek Show each week!

A co-production of Graffiti Sketch Comedy Showcase and the Playground Theater, Geek Show stars Justin Howard, Jeff Murdock, Tim Reardon and Jo Scott, and is directed by Dunbar Dicks.

Fridays @ 10:00pm, January 28 - March 4.

The Playground Theater, 3209 N Halsted St (Belmont & Halsted), Chicago, IL 60657.

$10 tickets are available at the door. Reservations may be made at The-Playground.com.

Performances are BYOB.

About Justin Howard
Justin Howard moved to Chicago from Wyoming in 2003 and has since performed in a few shows around the city, primarily at The Annoyance Theatre. Recent credits include Splatter Theatre, The Edge and Back, and most recently he directed his first show, Fa La La La...Fuck It. In addition to Geek Show, Justin can also be seen performing with the sketch comedy group Lady Parts and with the improv team Lumberjack Tsunami. A self-proclaimed "huge dork," he has over 400 original Nintendo games, and is Chicago's three-time Air Guitar Champion!

About Jeffery Murdock
Jeffrey Murdock was born and raised in the state of Michigan where he attended college at the University of Michigan and began to perform comedy. After playing in the Ann Arbor improv theater Improv Inferno, he decided to move to Chicago where he started to study and perform at iO, The Annoyance, and the Playground Theater. Over the last three years Jeffrey has worked on improvised and scripted comedy with many talented groups, as well as starred in the independent feature film Master of Inventions, where he played the lead character, Jeff Murdoch.

About Tim Reardon
Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Tim Reardon studied Theater Performance at Missouri State University in Springfield. Tim moved to Chicago in 2002 where he started taking classes at Second City, iO, and the Annoyance Theater. Tim has taught improvisation workshops and coached different teams across Chicago and can be seen playing weekly shows at iO with his team ButchMAX or at the Playground Theater with his team Schnauzer. He has performed at the Kalamazoo Improv Festival, the Del Close marathon in New York, Second City's Letters to
Santa 24 hours of improv and the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, where he can be seen again this year with performing with the Geek Show.

About Jo Scott
Since moving to Chicago in October 2007, Jo Scott has trained at Annoyance, iO, and Second City. Jo is a member of the iO Harold team, Love & Basketball and the Chemically Imbalanced Comedy house team Oranges, as well as the independent teams, Bonér Petíte and Seriously Unprepared.

About Director Dunbar Dicks
Dunbar Dicks graduated from the Catholic University of America with a Bachelors of Music in 1999 and moved to Chicago in 2000 to attended the School at Steppenwolf. In 2001 he started performing at ImprovOlympic (now iO Theater) and has continued to perform, direct, and teach at various theaters around Chicago. He has been a member of several critically acclaimed sketch comedy and improvisational ensemble such as Skechcore (called "the future of sketch comedy in Chicago" by the Chicago Tribune), Fatty Four Eyes, The Good Time Hour, and Autorock. He has performed with Second City in Chicago Live, Rod Blagojevich Superstar, and also toured with the Second City on Norwegian Cruise Lines. He also performs and directs regularly at the famed Annoyance Theater. Directing Credits include original Annoyance productions such as Stop That Show, Space Future, Freak Land, Are We Really Doing This, Flames and Blazes, and Skiing Is Believing. Sketch comedy directing credits include Kink, Wizzgiggers, and Best Sketch of San Francisco Fringe 2004 winner Old Man McGinty Presents: the Harsh, Gritty world of Bubbles.

About The Playground Theater
The Playground Theater is the nation's first and only not-for-profit co-op theater dedicated to the performance and instruction of improvised comedy - an art form for which Chicago is internationally renown. Founded in 1997, the Playground is home to a variety of member ensembles and also welcomes guest ensembles from across Chicago and around the world. For more information, visit The-Playground.com.

 

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