When I Come To My Senses, I’m Alive
Promo trailer for Scotto Moore’s “When I Come To My Senses, I’m Alive,” playing at Annex Theatre April 23rd – May 22nd, 2010.
March
Video Resume
Paul and Ben need a job. Can you help them? Thanks to Michael White Hayes and Gavin Cummins.
Teensploitation
Over the past few years, Sgt Rigsby has brought you sweeping historical epics, tender and tearful romances, puzzling philosophical questions, hard hitting political/social drama; but never before has he tackled such an important theme: adolescence in America. With a nod to Judy Blume and R. Crumb, Teensploitation is a show for anyone who ever died […]
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Paul and Ben cover Cyndi Lauper. This video was a good answer to the question: “Will you dance for me in slow motion?” Special thanks to Val Brunetto, Stacey Bush, Kendra Hayes, Beth Ann Hinkle, Pamala Mijatov, Meaghan Darling, Sonya Walker, Maureen O’Donnell, Alicia Barta, Bret Fetzer, Michael White Hayes & Cyndi Lauper.
Small Town Rumors and Chicken Tales
Three-piece Seattle alt-bluegrass band and tall-tale artisans The Half Brothers take the stage at Theatre Off Jackson for two nights in March to ply their storytelling trade, accompanied by some of the city’s finest writers and musicians. SMALL TOWN RUMORS AND CHICKEN TALES shines a spotlight on Seattle’s renowned Half Brothers love for songs that […]
The Werehouse
Late-night television viewing uncovers and odd commercial. Pressed for time to finish “The Ransom,” we decide to switch gears and film a smaller, more simple video instead.
A Terrible Price For Whimsy
“Roscoe is a boy inventor straight out of an Encyclopedia Brown book. His dog Scampers can talk. The two of them upset history by drunkenly driving a Timecycle through the past, accidentally killing Abe Lincoln, and causing a randy zebra to bugger the baby Jesus to death. It’s horrible; it’s wonderful.” – Brendan Kiley, The […]
Woman Smoking a Cigarette in Slow Motion
Bret Fetzer read a story at the Northwest Film Forum for an evening of shorts dedicated to the seven deadly sins. His story was on sloth. He decided to augment his storytelling with this projected behind him. It’s age restricted because YouTube viewers are prudes and flagged it as inappropriate.
Turn-ons
An entry in the Northwest Film Forums 48 hour film challenge With Ben Laurance and Pamala Mijatov, directed and anmiated by Webster Crowell.
Death Perception
A maniac with a vendetta goes up against a detective with a secret. Featuring: Paul Gude Ben Laurance Daniel Christensen Stan Shields Jaime Roberts Scotto Moore Thanks to: Annex Theatre Jem Lewis Michael Hayes Meaghan Darling Mr. House
An Amazing Breakthrough in Kitchen Technology
An infomercial for the latest in kitchen gadgetry. Be afraid… be very afraid. Selected to the first annual SketchFest Seattle Video Contest. Starring: Pamala Mijatov Becky Poole Sonya Walker Bret Fetzer Jennifer Pratt Betty George Gude Pratt Paul Gude Ben Laurance Chris Comte
Parasol
PARASOL: a short swift silent film about dancing bicycles. Parasol features Sarah Harlett and Jonah Von Spreecken rotoscoped across the surface of a few thousand paper parasols. The film is not available anywhere as it’s still being shopped around to various festivals.
So, You Want To Be A Paparazzo?
Absurd Reality Theater’s submission for the 2008 48 Hour Film Challenge.
Full Contact Reverse Tug-of-War
Paul and Ben present the latest in extreme sports. The was the video component of a mixed media stage presentation. However, the live part just consisted of Paul and I walking out on stage, taking our shoes off, putting our socks on our hands, and walking behind the screen. The size of our projected images […]
Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Fundraiser
Cellist Joshua Roman sits down with Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras Music Director Stephen Rogers Radcliffe and Executive Director Dan Peterson to discuss the upcoming performance of Sir William Walton’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra at Benaroya Hall. Caution Zero Network was hired by the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra to produce a short film for their […]
What The Funny
A web series about a Seattle comedy theater, directed by Lynn Shelton. The show is no longer available online, but hit up cautionzero.net for all details and a link to buy the DVD.
Replica
Two guys disrupt space and time. There’s a bit of a story behind this one. We were approached by Mike Min of the Seattle School to participate in a performance art endurance project. As part of the Motel performance triptych series, the premise was to spend at least 8 hours in the room of a […]
The Electrocutioner’s Daughter
Annex Theatre took part in Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays for 2007.
Kaleidoscope Eyes – Songs for Busby Berkeley
Chris Jeffries, writer/composer/lyricist of acclaimed Seattle musicals Vera Wilde, The Fatty Arbuckle Spook House Revue, and I see London, I See France brings the work of Busby Berkeley to life with a 75-minute live music performance featuring sixteen film sequences from the legendary Hollywood choreographer. Berkeley almost single-handedly defined a cinematic language of the big […]
Ninja Exterminators
A young couple make a startling discovery. Starring Paul Gude, Jennifer Pratt, Rick Miller and a very young Betty George Gude-Pratt.
The Cowgirl Play
“Macha Monkey’s latest show, a musical oater directed by Kristina Sutherland, is an anti-Peckinpah burst of galloping good will that tips the dusty conventions of the Western on their head.” – Seattle Weekly “And a train-robbing outlaw named Gunn (Ben Laurance), who is a major bumbler, could be a crackup.” –Misha Berson, The Seattle Times […]
Cherub, the Vampire with Bunny Slippers – Season Two
The hit web series is back for a second season! Again, check out the Cherub page at the Caution Zero Network site for all the episodes, and then some.
Cherub, the Vampire with Bunny Slippers – Season One
A slapstick parody of Joss Whedon’s “Angel.” This, and more, can be found at the Caution Zero Network page.
The Front Page
“The play is wickedly funny, and moves and breathes here with undeniable, whiz-bang esprit. It’s a pip.” Richard Morin, Seattle Weekly “The sum total of all this may be hot and cold and sometimes offensive, but it is sneakily satisfying and very funny in spite of itself.” Leah B. Green, The Seattle Times “But the […]
The Rocketmen Are Born
At the height of the WPA jobs programs, able men were employed building bridges, painting murals, performing Shakespeare; so many programs it’s easy to forget the Department of Municipal Rocketry. Men with rocket packs on rooftops in every city, alert and waiting to save their neighborhood from menaces guaranteed in the coming century. Forgotten in […]
Zombie Night
A couple discusses their relationship in terms of a zombie attack. Written by Wayne Rawley Directed by Bret Fezter Starring Wayne Rawley & Shannon Kipp Production Design by Lori Little Edited by Ben Laurance
Jumpstart The Funk
Paul and Ben teach you how to jumpstart your funk. This is the only performance Paul and Ben repeated during their 14 years at Spin the Bottle. The original performance was the above song, with Paul and Ben lip-syncing a dance to it on stage on January 2, 2004 Seven years later, gude/laurance produced a […]
Brent or Brenda
Glen or Glenda, beloved crap filmmaker Ed Wood’s 1953 plea for cross-dressing emancipation, is inherently funny. Scot Augustson, the profanely Python-esque mind behind randy shadow puppet shows like Gone Are The Days, is Seattle’s funniest playwright. That Augustson uses Wood’s deranged transvestite treatise as inspiration for a tale of one man at war with his […]
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 movie festival. The IMDb page.
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 interminably watchable talent (Josh List, the wonderful Heidi Darchuck, and, of course, Sarah Rudinoff) and run the gamut from […]
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 Arabian Nights in a modern-day apartment complex where a wily delivery boy must […]
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 awakening of Ebenezer Scrooge? How would communist China come to terms with the individualism expressed by Rudolph […]
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 that he was reporting from a Panama hotel when he was really at home, talking to […]
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 adapt and direct, drawing from the same ensemble cast of eight. The […]
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-representation. As Oscar and his crew hungrily amass power and money, they are hampered by […]
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 distinguished career of the “Queen of Quirk.” This was my first show at Annex Theatre, […]
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. Sure enough, when I called they tried to give […]
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 responsibilities included occasionally appearing on camera. This is the record store bit. I had the funniest line in the entire […]
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. It was a four hour production, and at one point I had the fortunate luxury […]