Here is what you missed at last night’s lab performance series “Textual Overture: Thanksgiving Hangover!” hosted and curated by our very own Julio Martinez. This time, TO was presented at The Flower Box, a brand new venue for us. Photos will be posted soon!

Set List:

Poem (Julio Martinez)

Dramatica Round 1 (Alexis Lopez & Amelia Kearby) 

Poem (Kylie McIntosh)

OPEN MIC

Poem (Kylie McIntosh)

Premature Punchline – Starbucks Secret Menu (Michael Verderber, Dawn Robertson, Josue “Zeta” Villarreal, Robert “Poodle” Trujillo, Gabriella Herrera (winner!))

Poem (Josue “Zeta” Villarreal)

Regrets of Idiocy (by Stephanie Wright; starring Amelia Kearby, Benjamin Ortiz, and Gabriela Herrera)

OPEN MIC

Stace “Christmas Bit” by Andrea Lorin

Josue “Zeta” Villarreal“Awkward Thanksgiving”

Josue “Zeta” Villarreal“The Idiot”

Zero Practice “Casting Director” (by Josue “Zeta” Villarreal; starring Josue “Zeta” Villarreal and Benjamin Ortiz)

Dramatica Round 2 (Justin Minter, Dawn Robertson, Stephanie Wright, and Amelia Kearby)

Poem (Kylie McIntosh)

OPEN MIC

Katherine Orozco-Verderber “My Boy”

Gabriela Herrera “Early Love Stories”

New Play Reading: The Caitiff Song (by Micah Blain; starring Dawn Robertson, Justin Minter, Josue “Zeta” Villarreal, Michael Verderber, and Amelia Kearby)

Reading of “93% Stardust” (read by Julio Martinez)

Premature Punchline – Starbucks Secret Menu, Round 2 (Robert “Poodle” Trujillo, Michael Verderber, Andrea Lorin, Dawn Robertson, and Benjamin Ortiz)

House Band – DJ Oringe 

Set Songs

“Somebody’s Watching Me” (cover)(preshow), “Ostrich Beat” (by Robert Trujillo), Originals: “Fat With Euros”, “Mouse Parts”, “I Know When You Sleep”, “Saccharine”, “Batter Reese”, “Found My Face”, “Doused of Stylo”, “They Descend”, “Pamplemousse”

 If you are tired of turkey, potatoes, and stuffing leftovers, come and join us at our next event – Textual Overture: Thanksgiving Hangover! Even if you DO still enjoy those foods (we do!), you can still come watch an open mic evening of comedians, poets, musicians, and plays.

We will be at a brand new venue for us, The Flower Box in Kingsville! Zero Untitled’s O’Ryan White has opened the shop’s doors to ZU to let us do our thing for the first time in a flower shop.

Featured acts will be comedy by Premature Punchline, dramatic improvisation by the Dramatica team, music by DJ Oringe, poetry by Julio Martinez, and tons more! Bring your own acts for the open mic portion.

Performance is Tuesday, November 27th at 7:00 pm.
The Flower Box
513 S. 6th Street

Michael Verderber’s play “Epitaph by Moonlight” will have its New York City premiere this Saturday, November 10 in Astoria. The play is under the direction of Kate Remelius. Cast information is below:

 At about 2 months development time for filming, writing, and music composing, the experimental dystopian film, “Zellen: A Soundscape” has been officially completed. The film has already been submitted to one local festival, one US festival, and two international festivals.

Should the film not make it into any of these festivals, we will be having our very own screening of the film. More information on that as it comes.

Cast and crew information is below.

Writer/Director/Score: Michael Verderber

Cast:

RIGGS – Kylie McIntosh

EMMA – Liz Gribbon McCoullough

PATROL LEADER – Mike McCoullough,

PATROL GUARD – Katherine Orozco-Verderber

SVENJA – Ryann Haese

CHILD –  Addison Akin

LEOPOLD – O’Ryan White

Director of Photography: Katherine Orozco-Verderber

Senior Editor: Josue Villarreal

Crew: Amber Badger, Liz Gribbon McCoullough, Josue Villarreal, Gabriel Ruiz, Julio Martinez, Zulema Villarreal, Robert Trujillo, Andrea Lorin