7DS The Absolute Worst Holiday Show
The Absolute Worst is an interactive, open-mic
comedy/storytelling show where audience members face off against three curated
comedians and storytellers to find out who can lay claim to having had the
worst holiday ever, with both absolutely fabulous and absolutely terrible
prizes at stake.
And
if you have a great story about an absolutely terrible holiday you had to
endure, you might walk away with the evening's grand prize!
Maybe
your worst-holiday story is about that one year you had too much to drink at
your company Christmas Party and tried to make out with the copy machine. Or
maybe it's about that New Years Eve you agreed to get fixed up on a blind date
with your roommate's cousin's neighbor's just-paroled old college frat buddy
because, really, how bad could the guy be? Or maybe it's about that time you
got dumped on Valentines Day, or that Birthday Party your mom threw where no
one showed up, or that Fourth Of July you accidentally set off what everyone in
your family now just refers to as "the toilet fire."
Don't
want to tell a story? No problem! You can still win a prize by winning our Absolute
Worst Pictionary Cage Match, or giving the best answer to our Absolute
Worst Question Of The Night, or being crowned the Absolute Best Audience
Member, or some other prize that we'll probably just make up as we
go.
Also,
we may ask everyone to howl at the moon. Or we may not. (We'll see.)
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Deadly Sins produces several regular storytelling shows including 7DS: Pants
On Fire! at McMenamins White Eagle, and 7
Deadly Sins: MainStage and 7 Deadly Sins: Saturnalia! at
the Mission Theater. Our upcoming limited-series show 7 Deadly
Sins Church, produced in conjunction with Portland Art Museum's
Center For An Untold Tomorrow (PAM-CUT), launches December 11th at the Tomorrow
Theater. Check us out at 7DeadlySinsShows.org.
Meg Ferris is a
Portland, OR based storyteller, comedian, teacher, and writer.
Meg was selected to perform/compete
at The Chicago Women's Funny Festival, Ladies of Laughter, The New Guns of
Comedy Competition, She-Devil Comedy Festival, Upright Citizen's Brigade
Stand-Up Smackdown, Mortified and Amateur Night at the Apollo. Meg is a Moth
Mainstage performer and has been featured on The Moth Radio Hour twice.
When she's not running her mouth on
stage, Meg teaches story as a storytelling instructor for The Moth's corporate
program. She also dabbles in the dark art of writing. Meg has worked with the
renowned San Francisco sketch comedy crew Killing My Lobster and is a
contributor to websites like Selfish Mother and Pick The Brain.
Travis Abels is a writer, actor,
storyteller, filmmaker, and producer.
His touring one-man show Things I Hide
From My Dad drew praise from audiences and critics alike. The Orlando Weekly
called it a "masterclass in capturing an audience's attention... An engrossing
and entertaining journey that buzzes with cathartic moments of
self-discovery."
The Tiniest Party, his monthly
experimental storytelling show held in his basement or backyard depending on
weather, was recently praised by Willamette Week as being "an exclusive
highbrow performance space masquerading as a lowbrow house party."