Photo Flash: Shorties! Evening of Short Solo Performances

SPF:3 -"Apply liberally" is Seattle's third annual solo performance theatre festival, and is dedicated to presenting fearless, cutting-edge, diverse performances by solo artists. To kick off this year's festival SPF presents an evening of short solo performances by ten Seattle based performers on March 4th and 5th, 2009 at 8:00 PM.

Performers:

"Astronaughty" by Keira McDonald. A female astronaut drives 900 miles wearing diapers to mace her love rival in the face with pepper spray. She gets arrested. Besides finding diapers in her car they also find a disk with photos of women in various states of undress and in bondage. Keira McDonald (Creator/Performer) is a self-producing theatre artist who lives in Seattle.

"Jokes from Planet Nightmare" by Emmett Montgomery. Stand-up comic Emmett Montgomery touches base with the fun and terrible place his jokes and loneliness come from. One of the founding members of Seattle's People's Republic of Komedy and headwriter for the monthly variety show/drinking game/prize give-away/life experience, Get Loweded, Emmett tells jokes from his heart.

"I believe I can fly" by Jenna Bean Veatch. Wistful Clown longs to fly. Gravity has a different idea. Jenna Bean Veatch has been accused of creating "pure, unadulterated, heart-stopping whimsy." In addition to performing her own solo work, she also currently dances with Alysa Haas as The Tumbleweed Bandits, for Ricki Mason as one of the Launchettes, and works with Lucia Neare as a performer and choreographer.

"Multiple Awkward Moments" by Mara Siciliano. Boys, bras, creating, crying, dumped, disaster, pop culture and all the cringe-worthy moments that define our modern lives. In 1997, Mara became the youngest solo show contributor in the history of the Seattle Fringe Festival. Her show "Appetites of the Enamored" was well received and launched her on-going exploration of autobiography as entertainment. Mara earned a B.A. in Drama with a minor in Dance from the University of Washington in 1999. Her choreography has been seen at Annex Theater, Re-bar, the Ethnic Cultural Theater, the Intiman Theater, and in association with the Seattle Fringe Festival. When not improvising as a company member with Unexpected Productions she can be found performing as a Freedom Dancer for the Soft Rock Series, zine-writing, making jewelry, or teaching creative movement to 3-5 year olds as an early childhood dance educator.

"Comedy/Magic/Mayhem" by Chris Bange. Comedy and magic and mayhem. Christopher Bange is an actor, magician, and clown. He studied theater at Centralia College and Western Washington University. He then went on to study Clowning and other types of Physical Theater at Dell'arte: International School of Physical Theater. Chris has been a magician since he was 9 years old when his aunt taught him to break a wooden match and restore it, by the secret art of magic. He studied magic at Chavez Studio of Magic and The Mystery School with Jeff Mcbride. Chris is a three time award winning magician most notably The Peter Rolston Comedy award.

"Tension and relief" by Dartanion London. Dartanion London performs an entire comedy routine without words. Dartanion London is a uniquely versatile (weird) comedian. His smart and silly performances bend genres through standup, improv and sketch comedy. He created the Week of Fun festival, the standup/improv blend Dartmondo, the pretentiously ridiculous Super Mega Art Show, and is a cast member of Jet City Improv.His comedy has been described as "clever and original" by Punchline Magazine, and "spot-on hilarity" by KEXP. The Stranger has called him both "consistently funny" and a "bespectacled honkey".

"Id: Pretty Forbidden" by Johanna Buccola. A glimpse of what is to become the third and final installment of Buccola's "Id" trilogy. As a forbidden dream unlocked a lyrical nightmare, the key remains hidden. Johanna Buccola has written, choreographed, and starred in the solo shows God Is Cool; the ECNY-nominated Id: The Omen and its sequel, Id: The Reckoning. She has performed frequently in NYC at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater; The People's Improv Theater; Gotham Comedy Club; and The Bowery Poetry Club. A founding member of the improv troupe Teen Movie High, Johanna was trained at The UCB Theater and is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy.

"The Instructions" by Jonah VonSpreeken. A stranger in a city that could be Amsterdam or Copenhagen, (depending on who you ask) ruminates on his encounters. Jonah Von Spreecken is an actor/writer and co-founder of SPF. Over the past 7 years, he has appeared in productions for various local theatre companies including, Annex Theatre, ACT, Consolidated Works, C.H.A.C., WET, and Book-It Repertory. He has collaborated with Scot Augustson several times for his productions of, WHY? WHY? WHY? Gilgamesh, IA, Plants & Animals, and A Terrible Price For Whimsy. Jonah has also written and performed in shows on the Canadian Fringe Circuit including Gloomology (also part of SPF: 1) and The Excursionists, a collaboration with Christopher Bange.

"You Can Take This One With You" by Carlee McManus. Name calling, poetry and the smells of a woman.

"Your Own Personal Alcatraz" by Suzanne Morrison. An excerpt from a work in progress, a monologue about the perils of island living. Suzanne Morrison is a writer and performer based in Seattle. Her one-woman show, Yoga Bitch, has taken the stage in New York City at Theater Under St. Marks and Ars Nova, in Maui at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center, in Seattle at Bumbershoot, Re-bar and SPF2, and internationally at London's Theatre 503 and Oxford's Burton-Taylor Studio. An autobiographical show the Seattle Weekly called "ambitious, ballsy, and hilarious," Yoga Bitch was developed with her fearless director and collaborator, Jean-Michele Gregory. Since the first production of Yoga Bitch, Suzanne has been in the throes of adapting the stage production to the page, and the resulting memoir takes a new spin around her autobiographical premise. Suzanne is currently at work on a new monologue about the perils of island living, Your Own Personal Alcatraz. You can find Suzanne at her blog, suzannemorrison.blogspot.com, where she writes about absolutely everything she's reading, writing, and rehearsing.