Pork Filled Players adds dash of burlesque to Spam*O*Rama
The Pork Filled Players (PFP), Asian American sketch comedians supreme, adds a dash of burlesque to a special prime time edition of Late Nite Spam-O-Rama, the monthly comedy/music cabaret, set for April 11, Saturday, at 8 pm at the Theatre Off Jackson (409 7th Ave S. in Seattle’s International District).
A trio of top notch acts from Seattle’s flourishing burlesque scene, headlined by EmpeROAR Fabulous!!!, join the Players, who are Seattle’s oldest sketch comedy group. Also appearing will be the sketch comedy favorite, Ubiquitous They.
Tickets are still $6 and are available at Brown Paper Tickets (1-800-838-3006). For more information, email oink (AT) porkfilled.com.
The Pork Filled Players are Yvette Zaepfel, Owen Yen, Laura West, Christian Ver, May Nguyen, Maggie Lee and Brian Beckley, masterminded by Head Hawg, Roger Tang!
Scientists, programmers and nerds by day…By night, they are the Pork Filled Players! Since 1997, the Pork Filled Players have waged a never-ending battle to unleash their funny bone for audiences of every race, creed and gender across the Northwest. Beneath their guises as mild-mannered engineers, journalists and office workers, the Players have honed their humor like a scalpel (or is it dull meat cleaver?) to whack away at notions of race, class and norms in 21st Century America. Adept at sketch comedy and traditional theatre, the Players are the Northwest’s longest running Asian American theatre, with humor to achieve maximum tongue-in-cheekiness, biting cultural/political satire and hilarious racial disharmony with Amazing Kung-Fu Griptm zaniness.
Ubiquitous They is a nascent Sketch Comedy group that has garnered the same type of attention that a toddler might if it could run as fast as a cheetah. This April marks the groups one year anniversary in the Emerald City, and in that year the group has caught the attentions of SketchFest Seattle and San Francisco SketchFest. Ubiquitous They has performed with Charles, PROK, and Shoshinz (a Sketch Duo from Tokyo). Their past has been favorable, but the future still lies ahead for these intrepid, young comedians.
Born on a hot June night in her namesake city, Atlanta Summer brings the pride of the Southland to Seattle burlesque. She's a sweet Southern belle with a genteel style, but she's not afraid to kick up her heels to America's hottest country music. She's also happy to exercise the cultural diversity of "The City Too Busy To Hate," dipping into music and imagery from around the country and around the world to add depth and flair to her performance.
EmpeROAR Fabulous was born in a glittering castle in the Gay Homeland of San Francisco. While he enjoyed his *dungeon* there, he longed for a lusher environment, so his royal caravan relocated him to Seattle, where his court grew to have many sparkling Queens, Princes, Kings, and Unicorns. He decided to use his hotness and sass for good and not for evil (depending on what your moral outlook is), and take his unique blend of skanky electronic music and burlesque to be viewed by the public. What good is Royalty if you don't use it?
