BEN: Before we start the show there are just a few things I need to tell you. In the event of a fire, you can exit out the way you came in, or you can go around the bleachers to the fire exit behind you, down to the relative safety... of t ...
Introducing gude/laurance
BEN: Hello, I'm Ben Laurance. After much prodding and pleading, I've finally agreed to join Paul Gude here for his monthly slots at Spin the Bottle, as I've got many talents I'm thrilled to showcase. So, to begin our collaboration, Paul is going to r ...
This Is Me, This Is My House
The debut of Glitcher at Spin the Bottle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEKA95EHhVs Glitcher is the electronic music arm of gude/laurance. A reviewer for Seattle's The Stranger wrote about this particular edition of Spin the Bottle, providing u ...
I Love Oatmeal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIo0uDsNqP8 From Paul's LiveJournal: I Spun The Bottle Everyone did very well. We had no rehearsal and no real script. The only main problem was that the audience was so loud some of the best lines were inaud ...
Borrowing Time
Borrowing Time is a part animated feature film complete with atomic insects, planes on string and the very theft of history itself. Borrowing Time toured the country and won best Director, visual effects, design, and best editor at the Syracuse B mov ...
Tank Plays
Five brand-spanking new short works of theatrical genius that employ the latest and greatest in stage trickery to most fantastically represent previously unseen worlds of the unbelievably minute! "The seven original works feature some popular and ...
1,001 Nights of Cruisin’
The creators of Why? Why? Why? and the cult hit Stephen's Late Nite Porn Show bring their talents together for tales of sex and debauchery. Scot Augustson's Sgt. Rigsby & His Amazing Silhouettes place some of the more salacious tales of 1,001 Ara ...
Christmas In Babylon
A holiday variety show created with language translation software. Break the language barrier to better understand how our friends in faraway lands might experience our holiday traditions. How might the dour people of Russia relate to the optimistic ...
Nice Guys and Fast Women
Bruce Hall: Paul Gude moved to Seattle in May of 1999 with a simple dream: To write the definitive American one-act stage play, and perform it at Annex Theatre's Spin the Bottle. Only one thing stood in his way. The self-proclaimed gatekeeper of S ...
The Sizemore Interviews
In 1989, NBC News orchestrated a series of interviews with Roger Sizemore, an "eyewitness" of the US invasion of Panama. But according to a guy named Brian Seifert, Roger Sizemore was actually him, pretending for three early-morning live broadcasts t ...
The Ebenezer Cycle
"...high on high points and low on narrative through-lines, A Christmas Carol is a perfect piece to chop to bits, which is essentially what Annex Theatre does with The Ebenezer Cycle. Five directors get five big, fat chunks of A Christmas Carol to ad ...
ATF – a burlesque
ATF: A Burlesque is the vaudevillian story of a bunch of sick clowns who, armed with badges and clipboards, serve as vice agents for the omnipotent Oscar Amazing in his continuing efforts to master the market economy through taxation and mis-represen ...
for Lorne
An idiosyncratic labor of love, for Lorne is an homage to veteran character actress Marion Lorne, best known as the flighty and flummoxed Aunt Clara on TV's Bewitched. Written and directed by Ed Hawkins, it follows the long and surprisingly distingui ...
10 Things I Hate About You
My first professional acting gig right out of college. I got the audition because one of my acting professors knew the casting director, and pulled me aside one day before class and told me to call her immediately, and to be sure to mention his name. ...
Almost Live!
I had a college internship at the local sketch comedy TV show "Almost Live!" Responsibilities included audience wrangling, assisting the assistant producer with set builds, and assisting the director of photography with location shoots. Other resp ...
All Powers Necessary and Convenient
My penultimate University of Washington School of Drama show. Written by Mark Jenkins and directed by Victor Pappas. I was an undergrad in a show focused primarily on graduate and local professional actors. Meaning: I had very little stage time. I ...