FOR RELEASE: September  2004

MEDIA CONTACT:    Marc Vogl
marc@killingmylobster.com
415.558.7721

ODC THEATER PRESENTS  SAN FRANCISCO’S ACCLAIMED COMEDY OUTFIT  KILLING MY LOBSTER  in:
 
KILLING MY LOBSTER GOES TO THE POLLS!

WHAT:     Killing My Lobster Goes to the Polls!
WHERE:     ODC Theater, San Francisco, 3153 17th St, San Francisco
WHEN:     October 14-30, 2004
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:  14 performances only!
Thursdays-Fridays 8pm
Saturdays 7:30 & 10pm*
Sundays 7pm
TICKETS:     $17 general/ $12 students (with valid i.d.); Available September 15: www.killlingmylobster.com or 415.863-9834
Pay-What-You-Can Performances :
Saturdays at 10pm & opening Thursday (10/14) and Friday (10/15)
INFO: www.killingmylobster.com * 415 558 -7721

Killing My Lobster, the gang the press is calling “the hottest sketch group working in the Bay Area,” presents a new comedy show just in time for election season. Sex scandals rock the sixth-grade as class President Tyler Munson denies getting to “second base”; Matt Gonzalez runs SF from the Horseshoe Cafe in the Lower Haight; The Whig Party returns to challenge the Democratic/ Republican choke-hold on government and an improv coach visits the White House to teach “team-building” exercises to the top brass.  There will also be jokes about Bush, Kerry, swing voters, the Secret Service and journalists with terribly big hair.

The show features veteran Killing My Lobster performers: Tonya Glanz, John Kovacevich, Daniel Lee, Sarah Mitchell, Shaye Troha and Jon Wolanske. and is directed by Lobster co-founder Marc Vogl. The free-wheeling jazz band is led by Andrew Epstein costumes are designed by SF Opera costumers Christo Verdosci and Sally Thomas, and just to round out the night the show also includes short films about how everyone in SF basically just votes the way the Bay-Guardian tells them to. As the election approaches this show is intended to take politics so seriously you have to laugh.

Killing My Lobster Goes to the Polls is funded in part by the San Francisco Arts Commission and Theater Bay Area’s CA$H Grant program.

KILLING MY LOBSTER is a Bay Area non-profit theater and film production company. Hailed by the SF Chronicle as “the closest thing we have to Second City” and heralded as “an orgy of comic genius” by Comedy Central, 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, monthly Kabarets at the Make-Out Room 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