Alan Linic (he/him)

This show puts the equation "tragedy + time = comedy" to the ultimate test. I think Dr. Graves is the only self-help capitalist/psychiatric snake oilsman I wish I could be friends with in real life? This show is set up like a TED talk and somehow managed to sneak in some of the funniest physical comedy bits I've seen this year.... full review

As an audience member, I laughed, I gasped, and I participated. I found myself a part of the show in a way that felt fun and playful instead of panicked (my usual feeling with audience interaction). But as a fellow performer... I was simply blown away. OUT THERE is heartfelt and inventive, and, most of all, it's funny as hell. If all that wasn't enough, the technical achievement this show represents is nothing short of a miracle. GO AND SEE THIS SHOW. GO GO GO. GO TWICE.... full review

It feels strange, and almost reductive, to call a performance "brave," and it's a word I don't often use when talking about a show. But there's really no other word for NO. It's a show that lays a single performer completely bare to a maximal emotional degree. Recreating not just personal experience but a whole system of abuses, expectations, and microaggressions through an amalgamation of slam poetry, soundscaping, and kinetic movement unlike anything I've really seen before. I am not exagger... full review

I genuinely started and deleted and restarted this review four times. So when I say I was dumbfounded by this performance you can trust that I mean it literally. I could have done a full hour of ridiculous fight scene choreography alone, but Woody Fu went ahead and loaded this show down with the tightest writing I've seen in a comedy show, incredible improvised moments, imaginative audience interaction that gave strangers actual star power, and a love and appreciation for Keanu Reeves so genui... full review

Sure, it's fucked up and gross and irreverent and shocking, but what if it was also funny? This play manages to pack more emotions (for the players and the audience) than I've experienced in the real world over 35 years. Big ups to the writing, performances, and pacing of the show for managing to couch some BIG payoffs into a show that manages to stay one dirty little step ahead of the crowd for 75 straight minutes. Move over, Chekov's Gun, because this show has Chekov's Everything. Including a g... full review

The idea of doing a redemption arc to correct something you did poorly as a kid is so stupidly obvious that every comedian born past the invention of the handicam should be screaming into a pillow. Alan Giles, on the other hand, should seriously consider a patent. This show is a madcap blend of home movies, solo sketch, magic, and a spoof of the kind of blustery self-important personalities that are (for some reason) dominating our media spaces. It's sweet, it's genuinely surprising, and most ... full review

The 50 Shades runner alone is worth the price of admission! Aiden's charisma is the glue that holds together a wide variety of super physical character work, heart, and impressively fun and supportive audience interaction bits. ... full review