7DS The Absolute Worst Holiday Show
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 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.)
______________
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. 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."