7DS’s The Absolute Worst Show: Worst. Job. Ever.
An Interactive Open-Mic Comedy/Storytelling 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 lived through the worst job story ever,
with both absolutely fabulous and absolutely terrible prizes at stake.
And if you have
a great story about an absolutely terrible job you had to endure, you might
walk away with the evening's grand prize!
Maybe your worst
job was that one where you had to babysit the two most obnoxious kids in the
history of the universe. Or when that judge gave you community service and it
was picking up dog poop in the park. Or maybe it was that one time when you
agreed to help your friend move to a new apartment twelve blocks away only to
be told when you arrived that "it's so close I decide we don't really need a
truck." Or maybe it's when you had that one boss that took credit for all of
your ideas, or the one that would not keep their hands to themselves, or the
one that kept insisting on going out with you and your fiends even though you
hated their guts.
Don't want to
tell a story? No problem! You can still win a prize by winning our It Could
Be Worse Game, 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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7 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.
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."