Bandicoot!

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
A non-sequiter, non-serious, celebration of nonsense. Grown from one of The Annoyance's Triple Features (Wednesdays at 8:00), Bandicoot! pairs Annoyance ensemble performer Josh Walker with Annoyance founder Mick Napier.

This foul, filthy, fantasy follows two completely insane adventurers with an unexplainable fear of "The Fire Police," on a goalless quest.

UFC - Under Forced Closure

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
For 30 years Jon Broadway and the LeSabre sisters have been hosting a gaggle of quality variety acts... and some that they just can't get rid of. The Las Vegas lounge is being demolished to make way for the Ultimate Fighting Championship's new mixed marital arts-themed casino. The theatre is set to go under the wrecking ball after the show, so please be prompt - we don't want to run long!

Salem - The Musical

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
New to the neighborhood, bumbling businessman Reverend Parris and his daughter get wrapped up in the most musical witch-hunt in history.

Salem! The Musical is a bewitching musical set in the Puritan town of Salem in 1692 - just when things were getting interesting.

Hardcore Dad

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
Twenty-five years ago, Dan had the worst night of his life when he was kicked out of his hardcore band as they are on the brink of success. Now, after spending his life as a horrible failure, he works to gain the trust of the adult son that he ignored.

Daredevilry

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
Follow the spectacular adventures of Maria Spellatirini as she arrives in America to pursue her daredevil dreams. Attempting to out-dare the world-famous daredevil extraordinaire, The Great Blondin, she will perform incredible feats in the general Niagara Falls region.

Scientology! - The Musical

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
When aliens descend on Clearwater, Florida, the government turns things over to those alien experts at the Church of Scientology in this (unauthorized) ensemble-created spoof.

Laughing in the Face of Death

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
No one deserves to die before their time… unless they are an idiot.

The Annoyance presents Laughing in the Face of Death, a series of unfortunate and unconscionable deaths, celebrating the stupidity of bad choices.

SPOILER ALERT: pretty much everyone dies.

Susan Messing who is a founding member of The Annoyance Theatre directs Laughing in the Face of Death. Directing credits for Susan at The Annoyance include Ladies on the Couch and the critically acclaimed What Every Girl Should Know... an Ode to Judy Blume.

Tommy's Place

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
A neighborhood advocate, a pizza delivery boy and an ex-dock worker...each of them lonely and starving for connection, unexpectedly find themselves together at Tommy's Place...through no choice of their own.

Tommy's Place (Poster #2)

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
A neighborhood advocate, a pizza delivery boy and an ex-dock worker...each of them lonely and starving for connection, unexpectedly find themselves together at Tommy's Place...through no choice of their own.

Charlie Brown / The Grinch Who Stole Christmas

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Double feature of 2 Christmas classics.

Marry Me You Idiot

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Small Print: "A musical about relationships and the relationships that happen in relation to relationships."

Press Release:
Tracy and Andy meet on the set of the Ellen DeGeneres show, having both lost their partners to strange and sudden deaths. They quickly fall in love and decided to wed. Along the way we meet the colorful characters that cross the couple’s path on the way to their wedding. There’s Andy’s pal who loves technology more than actual people, his odd parents, and the overly helpful ring shop girl. Then there’s Tracy’s bitter best friend, her possibly gay co-worker and her hard driving sister, who just happens to look exactly like Andy’s deceased fiancée. Will Andy fall for the girl who acts like his dead soul mate or the one who looks just like his dead soul mate?

Titbits 2009

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Client: Annoyance Productions
Photo: Scott Williams

Press Release:
Annoyance Productions is very proud to once again extend the very popular and very racy Burlesque/Improv show Late Night Tit-Bits (featuring acts by seven stimulating ladies). Based on a suggestion from the audience, the Ladies of a Burlesque club deal with a problem - assisted by their ever-helpful Club Owner on a pogo-stick, Nick Divencenzo.

The only thing more sparse than the clothing in this show is the paper-thin plots... just the way it oughta' be. Perfect for a guys or girls-night out...if you're not shy.

Titbits 2008

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
Annoyance Productions is very proud to once again extend the very popular and very racy Burlesque/Improv show Late Night Tit-Bits (featuring acts by seven stimulating ladies). Based on a suggestion from the audience, the Ladies of a Burlesque club deal with a problem - assisted by their ever-helpful Club Owner on a pogo-stick, Nick Divencenzo.

The only thing more sparse than the clothing in this show is the paper-thin plots... just the way it oughta' be. Perfect for a guys or girls-night out...if you're not shy.

Bodyslam - The Rise and Fall of C.A.W.C

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
“Bodyslam! The Rise and Fall of CAWC,” follows the journey of Rufus and Preston Dreamwater through the flamboyant world of Professional Wrestling. After gaining the attention of the Continental-American Wrestling Confederation (CAWC), the innocent Dreamwater boys are flung into the gaudy and glamorous lifestyle of America’s fifth largest wrestling promotion. In a world filled with sex, ‘roid rage and steel chairs, the boys find themselves torn apart by Preston’s emerging ego, drug use and the sinister machinations of CAWC owner Mr. Bobwhite. In the midst of a wrestling war, Rufus finds himself facing his brother in a Battle Royale, with their lives hanging in the balance.

Arm Soup - The Story of How Five People Went West and Ate Each Other

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
Loosely based on actual events that occurred in 1846, “Arm Soup” tells the story of nice guy George Donner’s road trip with his ex-girlfriend, his Goth brother, a guy named James Reed, and an alcoholic divorcee. George’s party starts out in the boring, crappy town of Loami, IL. They head West from there in a small covered wagon to avoid the high price of gas. They opt to take small roads and navigation advice from Boston Red Sox great, Wade Boggs. Along the way they encounter all sorts of fun, obstacles, merriment, hunger, anger, murder, Madlibs, sexual tension, Taco Bell, sex, and cannibalism. As if that weren’t enough, it’s a goddamn musical!

President Bush is a Great Man

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
The Annoyance Theatre, creators of such legendary shows as “Coed Prison Sluts” and “Manson The Musical” kicks off their new theatre in Uptown with an original, provocative show that takes a dip into the political realm. “President Bush Is A Great Man” pays tribute through sketch and song to whatever great qualities could be found about the president, his staff, his followers, and conservative values. The show is directed by Mick Napier (director of such Annoyance shows as “Coed Prison Sluts” and “That Darned Antichrist” as well as Second City Main Stage reviews including Jeff award winner “Paradigm Lost”). It is performed and written by Lilly Allison, Kyle Dolan, Jennifer Estlin, Tony Mendoza, Ellen Stoneking, and Josh Walker. The music is written and performed by Lisa McQueen.

58 - A Comedy About Bike Messengessengering

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Client: Tony Mendoza

The client took this hilarious show on the road so the poster needed an area to write in the billing information (yellow portion at bottom; the "Delivery Schedule").

Press Release:
Based on the experiences of real-life Chicago Bike Messenger, Tony Mendoza , we follow the rollercoaster life of Telly Mimosa as he dodges abusive security guards, bullying buses, Segway cops and street weirdos with dumb fetishes. In this dangerous vocation, Telly is forced to face his own humanity as the rest of the world stands defiantly in his bike’s path. He gets a second wind from a strangely hopeful receptionist who helps him see people instead of pedestrians. This new path is even more treacherous because now he must choose between a fixed life as a name or the break-neck life as a number. Performed at the pace of a hot, direct delivery, Tony Mendoza and Thea Lux play out the grounded relationship of Telly and Constance while Daniel Jessup, Alex Fox and Andrew Hobgood juggle sixty characters between the three of them to fill in the ever-looming insanity that surrounds Telly’s everyday life.

Thunderpussy - A Tommy Bartlett Story

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
What happens when two Icelandic cops, a Mexican drug lord and his handicapped wife, and a failed English gymnast and her psychic sister win an all-expenses-paid trip to the Wisconsin Dells? Well, murder of course. When these six people travel from their native countries to the Wisconsin Dells, they meet the arrogant showman Tommy Bartlett who is close to completing Thunderpussy, the most amazing rollercoaster in the history of the universe. In the midst of the lazy rivers, water shows, waterslides, jet skis, cocaine and Michael McDonald, they come face to face with evil at a children’s arcade. And to round out their experience, there is of course a drag queen toy claw machine and a six-foot tall knife wielding egg.

Sweet Ride

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Client: Paula Killen

Press Release:
"Sweet Ride", an innovative hybrid of theater, improv and audience involvement is a dark comedy about the serious nature of nothing in particular, but will include discourse on drugs, music, feminism, sex, loneliness and the nature of long-term friendships--where one person is driving and the other naturally becomes the passenger. Bumpy roads, bitter fights, smooth sailing, wrong turn, sweet ride. Get in and buckle up.

Bernard Feinstein & You Are Not Alone

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Client: IO Theatre

Improv double feature.

Texas Sheen

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Client: Chemically Imbalanced Comedy Theatre

Press Release:
Texas Sheen is a new comedy by Anthony Ellison based on Harlequin Romance novels. As WWII is ending, the discharged Elroy McSheen returns to his hometown, Pecos, TX, to pay off his brothers debts. Lacking the money to repay Jud Lawson, Elroy agrees to work off the debt on Juds farm. Juds beautiful daughter, Lilly, falls in love and lust with Elroy causing trouble for the whole family.

Messing With A Friend

Show Poster (Main Poster)
Client: Susan Messing/Annoyance Productions

Messing With A Friend

Show Poster (Monthly Edition)
Client: Susan Messing/Annoyance Productions

Messing With A Friend

Show Poster
Client: Susan Messing/I.O. (Improv Olympic)

Messing With A Dick

Silk Screen Poster (Limited Edition of 50)
Client: Susan Messing/I.O. (Improv Olympic)

Special show as part of Improv Olympic's 25th Anniversary Celebration.

Messing With A Friend

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Client: Susan Messing/I.O. (Improv Olympic)

Small Print: "Pfft... needs more dick jokes."

Messing With A Friend

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Client: Susan Messing/I.O. (Improv Olympic)

Small Print: "THAT is NOT okay."

Pimprov

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Client: Chemically Imbalanced Comedy Theatre

Press Release:
Hailed by critics and audiences a like Pimprov is one of the most original and hilarious unscripted shows in town. Yes its Pimps that improvise its that simple.

"Politically Correct, No, Funny Yes!"- Chicago Tribune

"More Than Traditional Improv"- Los Angles Times

"Ho'larious"- Now Toronto Magazine

Pimprov

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Client: Chemically Imbalanced Comedy Theatre

Small Print: "After him, there is no one else."

Press Release:
Hailed by critics and audiences a like Pimprov is one of the most original and hilarious unscripted shows in town. Yes its Pimps that improvise its that simple.

"Politically Correct, No, Funny Yes!"- Chicago Tribune

"More Than Traditional Improv"- Los Angles Times

"Ho'larious"- Now Toronto Magazine

Pimprov

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Client: Chemically Imbalanced Comedy Theatre

Small Print: "Master of Pimpology."

Press Release:
Hailed by critics and audiences a like Pimprov is one of the most original and hilarious unscripted shows in town. Yes its Pimps that improvise its that simple.

"Politically Correct, No, Funny Yes!"- Chicago Tribune

"More Than Traditional Improv"- Los Angles Times

"Ho'larious"- Now Toronto Magazine

Pimprov

Show Poster (Individual Pimp Poster)
Client: Chemically Imbalanced Comedy Theatre

Small Print: "Wear tap shoes, but is never caught slippin."

Press Release:
Hailed by critics and audiences a like Pimprov is one of the most original and hilarious unscripted shows in town. Yes its Pimps that improvise its that simple.

"Politically Correct, No, Funny Yes!"- Chicago Tribune

"More Than Traditional Improv"- Los Angles Times

"Ho'larious"- Now Toronto Magazine

Pimprov

Show Poster (Individual Pimp Poster)
Client: Chemically Imbalanced Comedy Theatre

Small Print: "If you look him in the eye... you're his."

Press Release:
Hailed by critics and audiences a like Pimprov is one of the most original and hilarious unscripted shows in town. Yes its Pimps that improvise its that simple.

"Politically Correct, No, Funny Yes!"- Chicago Tribune

"More Than Traditional Improv"- Los Angles Times

"Ho'larious"- Now Toronto Magazine

Let's Get Out of This Terrible Sandwich Shop

Silk Screen Poster (Limited Edition of 50)
Client: Let's Get Out of This Terrible Sandwich Shop

Going out of business show at the Abbey Pub with The Bitter Tears.

Let's Get Out of This Terrible Sandwich Shop

Tour Silk Screen Poster (Limited Edition of 50)
Client: Let's Get Out of This Terrible Sandwich Shop

Tour poster with area to write in the billing information (blank "board" to left of standing woman).

C'est Si Bon

Event Poster
Client: Union League Civic and Arts Foundation
Co-designer: John Solimine

Dusty Groove America

Logo Design
Client: Dusty Groove America (dustygroove.com)

The Dials

Logo Design
Client: The Dials

DJ Supreme Court

Logo Design
Client: DJ Supreme Court

Lists of Fury

Logo Design
Client: Streams Online Media Development

Messlor Trash Game

Character/Logo Design
Client: Solid Waste Agency of Lake County

Chicago My Kind of Town

Invite/Envelope Design
Client: Union League Civic and Arts Foundation