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Our 2025 International Drone Day piece is coming!

Click on these AFTER May 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Down Chamber – Drone Day 2025

https://youtu.be/82A7zhn3_sk

The 2025 edition of our annual collaboration with dungeon synth / experimental / dark classical music project Down Chamber has been filmed and is set for premiere! The video has been uploaded to YouTube but will premiere on Saturday, May 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM in United States, Central time. Drone Day is an international event featuring artists all over the world embracing the drone music genre and its subgenres.

Happy 22nd Birthday to US!

Here’s to TWENTY TWO YEARS of doing theatre, film, fire-breathing, puppetry, and music projects all over the world! Here’s to another 22 years! A huge thank you to EVERYONE who has EVER participated or attended a show! Without YOU, we could not exist.

Find upcoming ZU puppet productions now!

You can now find Zero Untitled’s live puppet performances listed on the PuppetHappenings.org website (part of The Jim Henson Foundation)! You will find us alongside other fantastic puppet performances nationwide! Click the link to find the show listings for “Shower Sharon”, “Baby Dormouse Vs Quizzical Crocodile”, and “Ba Pot-Bellied Pigs”! The listing for “The Prince’s Charming Sssnake Sssamuel” should be posted soon as well, but is currently not.

EDIT: All four shows have been posted/updated.
National – The Jim Henson Foundation

Five shows over two days!

Arguably one of ZU’s busiest weekends EVER is upon us! On March 14th, we will premiere Gabriel Ruiz’s new four-person drama “Performance Evaluation” as a works-in-progress. Performance location will be announced soon. Email Zero_untitled_films@yahoo.com for free tickets to this special event.


On March 15th at the Texas State Museum of Asian Cultures and Education Center, starting at noon, ZU will have 4 other productions happening starting at noon: the world premiere of the puppet performance “The Prince’s Charming Snake”, two kamishibai (“Ba Pot Bellied Pigs” & “Baby Dormouse Vs Quizzical Crocodile”), and the Brazilian style of adults-only puppetry called “Lambe-Lambe” in a show called “Shower Sharon”. The latter is PG-13 for language and will be performed for adults only.

“Will Seniority Be Enough To Save You?”

A brand new work-in-progress play “Performance Evaluation” by ZU co-founder Gabriel Ruiz will have a performance coming up on March 14, 2023. Free tickets are available for this event (as it is a work-in-progress), so please email us at zero_untitled_films@yahoo.com for ticket information.

Getting Showered On…

In Zero Untitled’s continuing effort to explore new genres (as we did with Japanese kamishibai), we recently mounted our first Lambe-Lambe! This production was a pre-show for the recent Premature Punchline comedy show.

Thus, Michael Verderber created “Shower Sharon”, a rated PG-13 show (for language) about a college girl learning the ropes of life in the dorms. Pre-recorded vocal performances were by Julio Martinez and Katherine Orozco-Verderber.

**NEXT Performance: March 15, 2025 / Texas State Museum of Asian Cultures / noon and ongoing **

Extra Credit Comedy

Here are some pics from the latest Premature Punchline improv comedy show! We put together a college-themed show as part of an extra credit assignment at the university. Performing in the shenanigans were: Diego, Daniel, Cricket, Michael, Ray, Aubrey, Steph, Julio, and of course, the professor herself – Mrs. Katherine Orozco-Verderber.

Another PrePunch Secret Show?!

Looks like we have another secret show coming up! Not so secretive if the info is on the flyer… BUT WAIT, you need to say the password to get into the event! A bonus Lambe-Lambe performance called “Shower Sharon” will be part of the pre-show activities! Message our us or our social media to get the password. And tell your friends!

Prepare for Ruination

Rehearsal puppet “Tara”

Our puppetry works will be taking a different direction with our new “Ruination Puppetry” series; contrasting the sillier puppet endeavors recently released. Based on the concepts of poetic words and direct storytelling, the Ruination series is about puppets that will be forever destroyed for the sake of profound story conveyance. Two have premiered on Tik Tok so far, with several more planned.

“Winston” – https://www.tiktok.com/@zerountitledproductions/video/7467618599868419358

“Tearaway Tara” – https://www.tiktok.com/@zerountitledproductions/video/7468395434877226271

“Holepunched” – https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YysAaY/

“Love Sheds” – #ZeroUntitled #puppet #puppets #puppetsoftiktok #ruinationpuppetry #br… | TikTok

World Premiere Kamishibai Today!

Today is the World Premiere of our brand new kamishibai show “Baby Dormouse Vs Quizzical Crocodile”, loosely based on the work of our Baby Dormouse puppet series on Tik Tok. The play will be performed multiple times at the Texas State Museum of Asian Cultures’s “2025 Lunar New Year – Year of the Snake” festivities in Corpus Christi, alongside performances of “Ba Pot-Bellied Pigs”.

Written and performed by Michael Verderber, the kamishibai explores a dormouse on a journey who must get the audience’s help to stump the Quizzical Crocodile, who is armed with lots of questions in math, English, and social studies. The show will heavily utilize both puppetry and the traditional kamishibai style. Narrating “Ba Pot-Bellied Pigs” will be Aubrey Gracia, who was last seen in “Hellmouth”.

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About Zero Untitled

Zero Untitled Films/Productions is a theatrical group based in Kingsville, Texas, that produces unique experiences on stage, in film, and in other media. Zero Untitled’s goal is to let artists and audiences alike think outside the box.