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What you missed on “The Day After”

Julio doing a song and dance.

Julio doing a song and dance.

For those who missed on on the recent “The Day After” themed Textual Overture, here was the set list and Open Mic acts that performed. It was a great night of plays, music, improv comedy, poetry, improv drama, weirdness, and even dance!

 

Textual Overture – THE DAY AFTER – February 16th, 2018

Kylie McIntosh – “Elevator” (poem)

Premature Punchline – Penalty Hat, Round 1

Ava Garza “Dream a Little Dream of Me” (song)

Dramatica – Josue “Zeta” Villarreal vs. David Earley

JulioMartinez “The Faces of Love” (poem)

TO Poo OPEN MIC: Robert “Poodle” Trujillo “Shakespeare Song”

Josue “Zeta” Villarreal “The Next Day” (poem)

Premature Punchline – Penalty Hat, Round 2

Julio Martinez “The Bigger the Figure” (song and dance)

Kylie McIntosh – “Balloons on the Ceiling” (poem)

OPEN MIC: Michael Verderber “Re—” (poem)

OPEN MIC: Katherine Orozco-Verderber “Burn” (song)

Dramatica – Andrea Lorin versus Kylie McIntosh

Josue “Zeta” Villarreal “Open Up” (poem)

Kylie McIntosh – “Horse Race” (poem)

to ava OPEN MIC: Robert “Poodle” Trujillo “Serious Love Poem”

OPEN MIC: Andrea Lorin “I Don’t Like You Either” (song)

Michael Verderber “Lonely, One and Only” (song)

Premature Punchline – Penalty Hat, Round 3

“A Dave with Destiny” (play) by Ken Preuss (dir. Josue Villarreal)

Dave w Destiny

February and March Happenings!

Looks like we have another busy month! Here is a list and dates of things occurring with Zero Untitled and our many branches!

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  • February 8th @ Comics Live Downtown 8:00 – 9:00 Premature Punchline
  • February 15th @ Cafe 5 – 7:00 – 9:00 Textual Overture’s “The Day After”
  • Ongoing – Rehearsals for “Three Cells” in Texas are underway
  • Ongoing – Rehearsals for “Dream or Nightmare” in NYC are underway / Zero Untitled – NYC

M-A-R-C-H

  • March 4th – JUST ADDED! CRITERIA performed and starring Tim Mooney (preview performance) @Blue Room – 9:00 (in collaboration with the Tim Mooney Repertory Theatre)
  • March 15th – 16 @ TBA Art Gallery – 7:00 “Dream or Nightmare” / Zero Untitled – NYC
  • March Music Month – Various music and musical related projects in development

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ALSO:

Voting is STILL happening for the Josephine Foundation awards, so please vote for Rose Gutierrez OR Katherine Orozco-Verderber! Scroll down this page for more info.

And check out our latest poetry video, Sonnet 50, featuring Gabriel Ruiz and Robert Trujillo! See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CauP4D0M78Y

 

Dream or Nightmare teaser

Dream or Nightmare teaser

Two flyers for “Three Cells”

Three Unwittingly Three Wired Wrong Here are the two variant flyers promoting the forthcoming dystopian drama “Three Cells”!

Sonnet 50 – Now available for viewing

Behind the scenes filming Sonnet 50 Our latest entry (and our 117th work), part 1 of our Shakespearean Fortune Cycle, is up and available for viewing! The video cycle is an out-of-chronological-order series that connects several of the Bard’s sonnets form one modern, albeit dark tale. See it here on Youtube!
Other parts of the cycle have already been posted (they have been posted out of chronological order). Featuring ZU zo-founder Gabriel Ruiz and an original score by Robert Trujillo. Look for more of the Fortune Cycle in upcoming months!

Rose and Katherine are up for Awards!

Hey, guys help out Zero Untitled AND our friends at The Gingerbread Players for some awards!
Josephine

The Josephine Foundation (Queens Theater) is now accepting nominations for their Annual Josie Performance Awards. Every vote counts and we need yours! Please follow the simple instructions below – it only takes a minute.

PLEASE NOTE: YOU ARE NOW PERMITTED TO VOTE ONLY ONCE PER EMAIL ADDRESS.
We encourage you to invite others to vote for their favorite performances by using your contact lists. Thank you.

THE JOSEPHINE FOUNDATION 2018 JOSIE AWARDS FOR BEST PERFORMANCES OF 2017

VOTING REGISTRATION AND INSTRUCTIONS
Fill out the registration form below. Then nominate one candidate for each category, typing/printing neatly the name of your choice in the allotted space below. You may vote only once in each category, on this form. NOTE: ONLY ONE VOTE PER EMAIL ADDRESS WILL BE COUNTED. Return this section of the form with your choices, (CUT AND PASTE IT), via email, to akphantom@aol.com by the deadline of March 16, 2018. All votes not received by the deadline will not count. The top three finalists will be announced March 31, 2018. Nominees will be recognized and the winner in each of the categories will be announced at The Josephine Foundation’s FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS GALA weekend June 15, 2018 at The Crest Hollow Country Club.

YOUR NAME:
ADDRESS:
PHONE:
EMAIL:

#1 THE JOSEPHINE FOUNDATION EXCELLENCE IN THE ARTS AWARD FOR BEST PERFORMANCE OF 2017 BY AN ADULT FEMALE:
ACTOR – Katherine Orozco-Verderber    Rose Gutierrez
SHOW- Unending Repetition (lead)         Treason (Lead)
ROLE – Orion                                                 Jane Doe
COMPANY – Zero Untitled – NYC

#6 THE JOSEPHINE FOUNDATION EXCELLENCE IN THE ARTS AWARD FOR THE DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR 2017:
DIRECTOR: Johnny Culver
SHOW: The Lady of the Hall, based upon Keeping Up Appearances by Roy Clarke
COMPANY: The Gingerbread Players

#9 THE JOSEPHINE FOUNDATION EXCELLENCE IN THE ARTS AWARD FOR THE BEST PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR 2017:
SHOW: The Lady of the Hall, based upon Keeping Up Appearances by Roy Clarke
COMPANY: The Gingerbread Players

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It is already filled out for you just to send out HOWEVER, you decide who wins BEST ADULT FEMALE between Rose Gutierrez (Treason) and Katherine Lynn Verderber (Unending Repetition). You’ll note that I have the info for BOTH on the form, eliminate the OTHER so your vote doesn’t get lost. To be clear:
Rose Gutierrez – Jane Doe – Treason
Katherine Verderber – Orion – Unending Repetition.

So, if you vote for Rose, erase ALL of the Katy stuff and vice versa. Leave all of the remaining show info intact, as that is casting a vote for our friends in Queens! Let’s help each other out!

Auditions for dystopian drama coming up

Auditions will be held THIS WEEK at Texas A&M Univ – Kingsville campus for our forthcoming “Three Cells” production!

The dystopian drama is set in a prison where inmates tell their tales of imprisonment and abuse at the hands of the powers that be.

See you on Thursday, Jan 18 at 6 pm in Sam Fore Hall, room 202.

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Behind the scenes of Sonnet 50

Sonnet 27 music 01 While other projects are in their development stage, an older project is getting wrapped up. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 50, “How Heavy Do I Journey On The Way” is in post-production with music and score being finalized by Robert Trujillo.

Sonnet 27 music 02

Sonnet 50 music 02

This production is a prologue for the larger work, “Fortune Cycle”, a video adaptation of several of Shakespeare’s sonnets that tie together to create one out-of-order story. The last two cycles, have already been released.

“The Hunt of the Scarecrows” beta run.

O'Ryan and Kate in "Scarecrows" trest. Late last night, members of ZU were running and driving about town in an attempt at a beta test for the next immersive theatre piece, called “The Hunt of the Scarecrows”. The skeletal script, which is more like stage directions at the moment, is being developed by Michael Verderber and will have additional scenes written by Katherine Orozco-Verderber.

Zeta and Katy testing "Scarecrows".

The theme this year is an immersive spy game set in Emerald City, the gritty world established in “Nightmare of Oz.” More to come soon!

Here is a post-run discussion picture where we outlined the timing issues and segments that need further development. It ran quite late into the night.

Post run meeting.

2018 Premature Punchline schedule at Comics Live Downtown

The 2018 schedule for Premature Punchline’s performances at Comics Live Downtown, the comedy club inside Bella Luna restaurant in Corpus Christi, can be seen here.

At press, tickets are $5 for men and free for ladies (we are part of the Ladies Night lineup), but this could be subject to change.

Additional performances not at Comics Live will be posted soon, too.  PP 2018

December Zero Untitled shenanigans!

Here are just a handful of pics from this week in ZU! Two performances down this week and two more coming!

Preview performance of "Xtreme Xmas Boot Camp"

Preview performance of “Xtreme Xmas Boot Camp”

Prepunch performance in Alice, TX.

Prepunch performance in Alice, TX.

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