FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

KILLING MY LOBSTER PRESENTS ITS FIRST EVER ALL-FEMALE SKETCH COMEDY SHOW,  KML FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME,  NOVEMBER 8 THROUGH DECEMBER 8 AT ODC THEATER

Proclaimed "Best Comedy Group of 2007" by SF Weekly, KML Rounds Out its 10th Anniversary Year with Lady Laugh-athon


WHAT:        KML For the Very First Time
WHERE:     ODC Theater, 3153 17th Street, San Francisco
WHEN:       Thursdays through Sundays, 11/8 through 12/8

SCHEDULE:
Thursdays and Fridays at 8 pm
Saturdays at 7 and 10 pm
Sundays at 7 pm
*No performances 11/22 (Thanksgiving) or 11/23

TIX:           
$20 regular admission; $15 students (with valid ID)
Available via killingmylobster.com and at the door on the night of the performance

*Thursday, 11/8, and all Saturday 10pm shows are pay-what-you-can!

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, September 17, 2007--Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, critically acclaimed sketch comedy group Killing My Lobster in conjunction with ODC Theater present the world premiere sketch comedy KML For the Very First Time, Thursdays through Sundays, November 8 through December 8. There will be no shows Thursday, November 22 (Thanksgiving day) or Friday, November 23.

KML's first-ever all female sketch comedy show, the production presents scenes and shenanigans all about first time experiences: from first kisses to first alien abductions and more. The production is made possible by support from Grants for the Arts.

Tickets [$20 regular and $15 students, with valid ID] will be available beginning September 15 via killingmylobster.com and at the door on the night of the performance. Performances on opening night, Thursday, November 8, and all Saturday, 10 pm performances are pay-what-you-wish shows. ODC Theater is located at 3153 17th Street at Shotwell in San Francisco.

Directed by longtime KML member Shaye Troha, KML For the Very First Time features a cast of some of the Bay Area's best young comedic actresses: Fontana Butterfield (Shotgun Players, KML's world premiere Hunter Gatherers), Erin Carter (Exit Theater's Chemical Imbalance and KML Saves the Day), Melanie Case (Hunter Gatherers and many KML shows), Emily Jordan (SF Shakespeare Festival's A Midsummer Night's Dream), Sarah Mitchell (KML Faces the Music and many more), and Leslie Waggoner (Ray Of Light's Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical).

"All first time experiences are fraught with the kind of tension and nerves that make our kind of sketch comedy work so well," says Troha. "Whether the subject is a first date or a first job interview, we can all relate to and laugh at these 'virginal' situations. And the fact that this is KML's first all-female comedy show makes the production its own 'first time' experience worth savoring all the more. I can't wait to work with these hilarious ladies."

The design team for KML For the Very First Time includes Ryan Junell (set), Cy Eaton (lights), and Jessica Hinel (costumes). The production is produced by Kristin Graham and Doug Proulx. Emilio Racinez is the stage manager.

Killing My Lobster is a Bay Area non-profit theater and film production company proclaimed "Best Comedy Group" by the editors of SF Weekly. This past season, KML presented the world premiere sketch comedies KML Faces the Music and KML Saves the Day. Last summer, their critically acclaimed world premiere production of Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's Hunter Gatherers received an extended three-month run at San Francisco's Thick House Theater and was proclaimed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "a major achievement for Killing My Lobster." The play went on to win both the Will Glickman Award for the best new play of the Bay Area (2006) and the Steinberg Award for the best new play produced outside of New York City that year. Hailed by the 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 (www.hilofilmfestival.com) and has created numerous award-winning short films taking home the Golden Spire Prize at the SF International Film Festival.

CONTACT:
press@killingmylobster.com or 415-558-7721.