What is Killing My Lobster?

Killing My Lobster (KML) is a San Francisco sketch comedy group and film production company. Voted Best Comedy Group in San Francisco (2007) by the SF Weekly, Best Laugh Factory by the San Francisco Bay Guardian and two-time winner of the Best of the Fringe Award at the San Francisco Fringe Festivals, KML has produced over two –dozen theme-based comedy shows. In 2006, KML produced the world premiere of its first produced full-length play, Hunter Gatherers, by KML alumnus Peter Sinn Nachtrieb. Extended five times in its 4 month run at SF's Thick House, the play went on to win Theatre Bay Area's Will Glickman Award for best new Bay Area play of 2006, and the Steinberg Award for best play produced outside of New York in 2006.

The group has produced almost 20 short films that have screened at over 40 film festivals including Sundance, and the San Francisco International Film Festival where the Lobsters took home a Golden Spire Award. The San Francisco Chronicle calls Killing My Lobster “the closest thing the Bay Area has to its own Second City.”

Since the Lobster’s first show in a 25-seat converted office in the Mission on Valentine’s Day, 1997, Killing My Lobster has worked with over 300 Bay Area actors, writers, directors, designers, filmmakers and musicians to create exciting original work for local and national audiences. Killing My Lobster shows regularly include live bands, thematically coherent through lines, and an emphasis on high-production values. The material is created collaboratively which results in a range of comedic styles that fuse raucous slapstick with sharp satire, wacky monologues with indulgent musical numbers and once in a while gives rise to a slide show about cats and nuclear physics.