New sketch comedy show begins in South Philadelphia POP!-Sketch Comedy for the Gifted!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Keith Conallen, Creative Director
TAP/ Traverse Arts Project
Cell: 215-514-9934
traversetheater.org – kjc@traversetheater.org
January 30, 2010
New sketch comedy show begins in South Philadelphia
POP!-Sketch Comedy for the Gifted!
With a cornucopia of South Philadelphia actors, Traverse Arts Project(TAP) is looking at a blemish on the theatrical face of Philadelphia and desperately wants to POP it.
POP!-Sketch Comedy for the Gifted is intent on skewering pop culture in all of its many facets. POP! wants to find the absurdist reality in all of our lives. It takes a look at what makes us laugh, what makes us gasp, makes us cringe, and turns it around to view the funny underbelly.
After the first show on January 18th, sketches and tech elements have been worked out for the upcoming episode for February 15th. With repeat characters and a whole new batch of funny, POP! is hoping to double their audience this time around. In addition, POP! will be giving 30% percent of each ticket sold to Haiti Relief. (mention something about the charity here)
Artistic Director for Traverse Arts Project, Mark A. Dahl conceived of a sketch show a year ago that would lampoon pop culture. The plan was to use TAP’s point of view – a slightly skewed vision of reality that lays bare the true elements of our ridiculous nature and our human forgiveness. One year later, POP! has opened their season to great applause and much confidence for the future with many laughs on tap.
While producing other TAP productions – last springs successful LGBT arts festival, Festivus, and for the 2008 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, TechLogic, a multidisciplinary journey through our lives and what effect technology has over us – Creative Director, Keith J. Conallen and Project Coordinator Sarah E. Leonard, both took the reigns to bring POP! to life.
POP! uses cast generated material in cooperation with a team of writers, lots of artistic collaboration and news culture to create the hour long sketchfest.
Traverse Arts Project is a non-profit arts organization. We seek to reveal a mirror of societal reflection that explores the diversity of thoughts and preferences within our society. We seek for the actors and audience to connect and reflect. Within this platform we work to spark thought that promotes comparison of one another. We seek to start conversations.
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Keith J. Conallen
Creative Director
Traverse Arts Project
215-514-9934