Our 167th production has premiered on YouTube today! “Rey of the Discarded” is a video short on pollution and the animal’s role in the ecosystem using rod puppetry from the point of view of a blue crab. It was filmed in June in several locations throughout the Caribbean: St. Thomas, St. Criox, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Cast and Crew:
Words Written and Performed by Julio Martinez, Direction and Puppeteering by Michael Verderber,
Camera and Scenography by Katherine Orozco-Verderber, Music by Down Chamber, and a huge technical thanks to Amber Badger!

UPDATE! Here is the newly released singular outtake we put out. A woman and her family interrupted the shoot by asking is questions; it was adorable. Watch it here:
https://youtu.be/BxfBZZlj63w?si=-5IGXTeh7vDSGWr7

Quick update! Our upcoming crab-puppet short film, code named “Short Crab”, has temporarily wrapped filming for now! We shot at four different Caribbean/Bahamas locations; St. Thomas, St. Criox, Puerto Rico, and Coco Cay. At present, the short utilizes all four locations and explores the beach life of a crab. Any additional beach footage will be shot in Corpus Christi, TX.

Zero Untitled are gearing up for a busy summer in 2024. In addition to rehearsals of our new dramatic puppet film, “The Absence of Everything” by Katherine Orozco-Verderber (see other post below), we have three other works around the bend!

Continued performances of “Kame’s Golden Tune” and “Ba Pot-Bellied Pigs” will occur on July 6 and 7 as part of the Texas State Museum of Asian Culture’s Tanabata Star Festival and their birthday party, respectively. Like before, expect performances to happen on a cycle throughout the museum. See the above flyer for more information. UPDATE: July 7th has been POSTPONED due to HURRICANE.

And speaking of puppetry, the new Julio Martinez poetic work, featuring a crab puppet, will be shot on location in the Caribbean! Locations being considered are Puerto Rico, St. Criox, or St. Thomas, depending on location availability. This project should reach completion in early July.

Designed with help from Daniel Rodriguez, the teaser flyer for “The Absence of Everything” is up! UPDATE: The production is on hiatus until after the Dark Tour concludes in October.

Apologies for the delay in updating the main site here; we are considering closing this page down as it is more efficient to update our stuff via our social media.

Nevertheless, here are the slew if things that HAVE occurred lately!

1. “Church of Winter” audio play featuring a cast split between Italy and the US. Not the same as the live cast, so do watch it here:

2. Another music video for Down Chamber for his track “Eyes In The Trees”. It follows the Dark Tour horror formula we have mastered in our stage productions. Enter if you dare…

3. DIGITAL TEXTUAL OVERTURE! As promised, our coffee shop variety show was published today, September 18, amd features a slew of familiar faces! Watch it now:

Sorry for the delay in content here on the main page. We have had a TON of shows in June and more coming in July. Let’s review some of the happenings thus far:

– Back on June 10th, we had our first ever “Backroom Karaoke” show featuring the voices of Andrea Lorin and Katherine Orozco-Verderber. They sang 90s and 2000s pop hits live on Facebook Live (a medium we hadn’t tried yet).
– Yesterday, June 16th, we celebrated Premature Punchline’s 10 year BIRTHDAY by doing a mini-show for a small crowd on Zoom. We performed a brand new game called “Art Show” in which PPers must quickly draw fantastic art pieces while the audience votes on the winners.

– Episodes of “Sonic Sway” will be released on YouTube. These five episodes will break up the show into the five different improvised techno songs. The first is viewable here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ2vk68gRmI&t=167s

– “Groucho Max” is going on a seasonal hiatus until more episodes become developed. All previous episodes are still viewable on Youtube.

– Also, this site has been fickle so we are strongly considering being rid of zerountitled(dot)com and jump onto another website. So this may be one of the final posts until we push for the new website (where ever that may be at)

So, perhaps you will see more posts here or we may just stick with our social media outlets to get the word out about our shows.

Verderber as The Grouch in the latest episode of GROUCHO MAX.

Enjoy the latest episode of GROUCHO MAX, that discusses why the world hates rock band Nickelback so much. Content is available on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/AHoTGwjVa2w

This episode stars Andrea Lorin, Julio Martinez, Merideth Harvey, and Michael Verderber (as The Grouch). Editing and post-production by Amber Badger.

McKinna Allen in “Groucho Max”

Check out our latest episode of “Groucho Max” called “…Hates Mansplaining” which tackles that and the “Well Actually” guys. See on YouTube here:

We have a new sketch vlog show called GROUCHO MAX that just premiered on YouTube! The show features The Grouch (played by Michael Verderber) who complains and then interviews different colorful characters. The cast for the pilot episode is Robert James Trujillo, Amber Badger, Mike McCullough, and Katherine Orozco-Verderber.

Watch it here:

More episodes featuring different topics and different characters are already being produced.

Merry Christmas Eve, everyone! Is that a thing? Enjoy the release of “Wait Wait, You Did What?!” on YouTube! The digital play was written and directed by James Trujillo (aka Robert) and stars Merideth Harvey, Joshua “Beta” McCaulley”, Peter Pao, and Deborah Gerd.

Or watch it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97CFsdGXM40