Out of Bounds West is a comedy festival happening May 22-25, 2008

Here's where you'll find all the information you could ever want to know about this year's performers.
And maybe a little more than you wanted to know.

~ THURSDAY ~

In our Thursday 8pm block:

		Shiner [Los Angeles, CA] Shiner is Jen Cain, Mark Gagliardi, Jennifer Marie Kelley and Hal Lublin, four graduates of the Second City Conservatory in Los Angeles who improvised together for over two years as a part of SC's Wednesday Night 4Cast. In addition to SC, members of this cast have trained at Upright Citizens Brigade, Improv Olympic West, and The Groundlings; currently, they call The Westside Eclectic in Santa Monica their home. In past years they were selected performers in the Phoenix, San Francisco, and Austin Improv festivals. They also just finished their improvised pilot “Team Doctors” which was shot on location in Austin, Texas. Shiner's style is transformational and they draw from a diverse palette. They avoid the sweep and splinter off into an array of worlds that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Shiner is coached by Craig Cackowski. Shiner is performing an improv show Thursday at 8pm ====> BUY TICKETS NOW <==== - Reviews and Accolades - Read their review in the Santa Monica Mirror Artist's MySpace page

CAST: Jennifer Marie Kelley, Jen Cain, Hal Lublin, Mark Gagliardi


			7-10 Split [Los Angeles, CA] In a high school journalism class, in a decade known as the 1990s, two skinny pale kids named Jeffrey Amos and Jordan T. Maxwell first met and unknowingly started a personal and creative relationship that has spanned two states, four troupes and over ten years of theatre, improv and sketch comedy. From the experimental longform improv of the Well Hung Jury and Great Mundane to the warped sketch comedy of the Sicks, the two have a deep love of strong storytelling, esoteric characters and physical comedy that has filtered into all of their work. Now the two long time friends have joined forces, unfettered by others, to explore and experiment realms of improv yet untold. They're not as skinny anymore, but they're still just as pale. Neither considers this a fair trade off. 7-10 Split is performing an improv show Thursday at 8pm ====> BUY TICKETS NOW <====
CAST: Jeffrey Amos, Jordan T. Maxwell


			Headbone [Los Angeles, CA] The Westside Eclectic's Developmental House Team, Headbone, performs their own style of longform improv comedy. Headbone is performing an improv show Thursday at 8pm ====> BUY TICKETS NOW <====
CAST: Ben Sandofsky, Michelle Miracle, Jestin Lentz, Laura Bagett, Thom Zelenka, Sean Copeland, Joe Kavanagh

And in our Thursday 10pm block:

			Al Gore Memorial High School [Hailing from Portland, OR] An interactive one-man sketch experience unlike any other is what you get when you enroll in *Al Gore Memorial High School.* Created and performed by veteran performer Aaron Ross of Portland, OR, AGMHS is inhabited by a slew of Ross’ dedicated characters that directly interact with audience members, creating a unique, risky, high-wire act of sketch and improv where YOU become the costars of the show. “Ross transforms himself into quirky teachers, crusty janitors, dweebs, jocks, and parents as he takes on everyone’s most awkward high school moments like parent-teacher conferences, sex-ed, first love, and absurd assemblies” (Village Voice). Make sure you’re not tardy and in attendance when your name is called. Or your ass is grass. Al Gore Memorial High School is performing a sketch show Thursday at 10pm ====> BUY TICKETS NOW <==== - Reviews and Accolades - Recommended in the Village Voice The "#1 Live Event" of the week in the Oregonian's A&E Five Live Editor’s Choice on Oregonlive.com Recommended in Atlanta's "Creative Loafing" Artist's web site, Artist's MySpace page

	CAST: Aaron Ross

			Size Eight [Chicago, IL] Size Eight is sketch comedy, music, and video written and performed by Kerri Van Auken and Megan Powell, who combine the cynicism of Thomas Hobbes, the flair of Kimora Lee Simmons, and the wit (and wit's end) of two women who are mad as hell and just aren't going to take it any more. Oh, and the sass of Willona, the neighbor lady from Good Times. Except from white girls. Who wonder why some people have every little thing handed to them on a silver platter, while the rest are still working at a desk all these years later, just with better computers. Fat vs. thin, rich vs. poor, Botoxed vs. cracked, desperate losers and determined gold diggers—none are spared in Size Eight's multi-layered, multi-media, multi-celled comedy, which sits defiantly at the intersection of identity and popular culture and riotously examines how everyone and, well, everything—from women to neighborhoods—are supposed to look, behave, buy, and believe. Size Eight is performing an improv show Thursday at 8pm ====> BUY TICKETS NOW <==== Artist's web site, Artist's MySpace page
CAST: Kerri Van Auken, Megan Powell, Katie Hawkey (Director)

		Three Thirds [Hailing from Los Angeles, CA] Three Thirds apologizes. We thought you weren't going to be home for another hour. You've been working a lot lately... we were lonely and have needs. She means nothing to us. Let us make it up to you by taking that trip to Hawaii we've always talked about... or we could just make some long, passionate improv to you right now. You may have seen these cheating bastards performing at IO West, Upright Citizens Brigade LA and ComedySportz." Three Thirds is performing an improv show Thursday at 10pm ====> BUY TICKETS NOW <====
		CAST: Chris Paschall, Drew Coolidge, Luis Cortes

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