WHERE & WHEN:       Thursdays through Sundays, February 23-March 4, 2006

                                 Brava Theater  -  2789 24th St @ York - San Francisco

PERFORMANCES:    Thursdays and Fridays @ 8 pm
                                 Saturdays @ 7:30 and 10 pm
                                 Sunday @ 7 pm  - note: no show on Sunday March 5th!

TICKETS:      $15 general; $12 students
                        Group rates available! Call 415.558.7721.
                        Pay what you can shows Opening Night & 10pm Sat shows

INFO:            killingmylobster.com * 415.558.7721

SAN FRANCISCO, January 1 2006 ––All aboard the floating comedy cruise! In the grand tradition of such hilarious cruise ship comedies as A Night at the Opera, The Love Boat, and Titanic, the sketch comedy group “Killing My Lobster” sets sail for comedic misadventures with a brand new theme-based show for the nautically naughty: Killing My Lobster Takes a Cruise! Centering on a fleet of odd-couples, stowaways, buffet lovers, and shuffleboard heroes, KML Takes A Cruise aims to capsize the crowd with a boatload of belly laughs.  This production is funded in part by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation.

This time out the show is directed by acclaimed San Francisco theater director and acting coach John Dixon (Nicky Silver’s Beautiful Child at Theater Rhino  - see bio below), and the steel-drum cruise ship rhythms are put together by SF jazz band leader Erik Jekabson (trumpet player for John Mayer). The cast features Lobster regulars and new company members and the writing is helmed by KML founders Paul Charney and Marc Vogl. The writing process is currently in full swing and the gang will be rehearsing throughout the winter.

Killing My Lobster Takes a Cruise is sketch comedy  proving that it ain’t just Carnival whose got the fun, and “cruising” has a different meaning outside of the Castro.

FOR PHOTOS, PRESS TICKETS, OR OTHER REQUESTS:

CONTACT: MARC VOGL -  415.558.7721 or press @ killingmylobster.com

KILLING MY LOBSTER is a Bay Area non-profit theater and film production  company creating new work in San Francisco since 1997.

Praised by the Contra Costa Times as “the freshest and funniest comedy going,” and hailed by the SF Chronicle as “the closest thing we have to Second City,” KML has created original work for HBO, is a two-time winner of the Best of the Fringe Award at the SF Fringe Festival and was voted "Best Comedy Group" by the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

The group also produces the annual Hi/Lo Film Festival and has created numerous award-winning short films taking home the Golden Spire Prize at the SF International Film Festival. For more info: www.killingmylobster.com.

Click here for more about  the director - John Dixon