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Press Conferencin’ PrePunchers Perform

R. Trujillo as The Press and M. Allen as The Guilty

R. Trujillo as The Press and M. Allen as The Guilty

The trouble makers at Premature Punchline have CLEARLY gotten themselves into some trouble and will be forced to perform in an upcoming Zoom production of PRESS CONFERENCE to try to clear their name! Their crime…? Well, that is up to YOU (the audience) to tell US what they did! The Zoom room will open at 7:30 on Friday, February the 26th. This will be a FREE performance and accessed here:

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Premature Punchline’s FREE Show!
Time: Feb 26, 2021 07:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
 
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/73620952800?pwd=VVVzSldSdnZmWEUzYWhGQnJZRENmdz09
 
Meeting ID: 736 2095 2800
Passcode: 7YAPDb

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The encore will be a couple of rounds of the new game CHOP SHOP. Two games for the price of NONE.

New “Groucho Max” explores Mansplaining

McKinna Allen in “Groucho Max”

McKinna Allen in “Groucho Max”

Check out our latest episode of “Groucho Max” called “…Hates Mansplaining” which tackles that and the “Well Actually” guys. See on YouTube here:

New GROUCHY Content!

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We have a new sketch vlog show called GROUCHO MAX that just premiered on YouTube! The show features The Grouch (played by Michael Verderber) who complains and then interviews different colorful characters. The cast for the pilot episode is Robert James Trujillo, Amber Badger, Mike McCullough, and Katherine Orozco-Verderber.

Watch it here:

More episodes featuring different topics and different characters are already being produced.

Official Art for “For Those Soft and Lonesome Times”

The new Julio Martinez monologue and entry into the ZUUM-IN Play Festival is aptly titled “For Those Soft and Lonesome Times”. The melancholic piece will be performed by Emilia Gomez in February (dates are pending).

Cattalina just moved into her first apartment, but she’s having problems adjusting to the change. To help, she makes a video where she talks about how it feels to be alone in her new place, her relationship with her parents, and the friends she misses.

FTSALT pic

FTSALT pic

 

 

Ho Ho Ho! Surprise release of “Wait Wait, You Did What?!”

Merry Christmas Eve, everyone! Is that a thing? Enjoy the release of “Wait Wait, You Did What?!” on YouTube! The digital play was written and directed by James Trujillo (aka Robert) and stars Merideth Harvey, Joshua “Beta” McCaulley”, Peter Pao, and Deborah Gerd.

Or watch it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97CFsdGXM40

 

The INNOCUOUS promo image

Innocuous promo

The immersive/interactive drama, INNOCUOUS, officially has its promotional image up! The Zoom world premiere will likely happen on Tuesday, November 17, 2020!  The live show will have back-to-back performances (7:30 and 8:30 PM) each performance night. Link details will be posted shortly before the digital curtain opens!

NEXT performance:
December 8th, 2020 – 7:30

December 8th, 2020 – 8:30

(US Central Time Zone)

WAIT WAIT You Did What? Promo

WAIT WAIT promo

Keeping in line with the game show style of the upcoming comedy, “Wait Wait – You Did What?”, heeeeeeere is the official promo image! The play is written and directed by Robert Trujillo and will receive a YouTube premiere soon.

 

The ZUUM-IN Festival has begun!

October 25 – the date we have all been waiting for! The premiere of the first project of the Zero Untitled Uncharted Media In-House Festival, or ZUUM-In Fest for short! Below you will find the digital play “The (Almost) Kindergarten Fire” written and directed by Katherine Orozco-Verderber and starring Kolby Hagel, Michael Verderber, and Ms. Orozco-Verderber as well.

“The (Almost) Kindergarten Fire” is a situational comedy about a hapless father and an overworked kindergarten teacher’s ongoing battle with bratty Annabelle and her love of lighters. The character of “Annabelle” has made appearances in several ZU works throughout the years (dating all the way to 2012), so what better mascot to kick off the festival with then our very own trouble-making child character?

The next ZUUM-In productions are as follows:
– “Wait, Wait – You Did What?!”

– “Innocuous”

– “For Those Soft and Lonesome Times”

– “Church of the Winter”

Enjoy the first production below:

 

 

A NEW enemy for Terry in “The Job Interviews”!!

The latest and seventh episode of “The Job Interviews” is officially up and viewable! In this last episode (for AWHILE, anyway), Terry faces off against Winston Richman, the OWNER of Banking International. There are lots of references to previous episodes, so do catch up on the episodes to you can fully enjoy this one!

Future episodes will be produced after the ZUUM-In Festival wraps up!

The (Aesthetic) Kindergarten Fire

The (Almost) Kindergarten FirePromotional aesthetics for the performances in the ZUUM-In Fest are being made and promoted. For the first production, “The (Almost) Kindergarten Fire” by Katherine Orozco-Verderber, the following aesthetic has been created from famous internet images that promote the play and the actors performing in the piece.

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