No Shame Theatre Archives (2007-2008)


No Shame Theatre Executive Board - Fall 2007
Matt Benyo
Alyssa Bowman
Adam Hahn (through October 12)
Evan Schenck
Eli Wilkinson


TWENTY-SECOND SEASON - FALL SEMESTER 2007
Admission: $1
Friday, September 7, 2007 - [Theatre A]
First No Shame of the season
1) Where I Want to Be by Kate Kane
1.5) Home by Li'l Red
2) My Dearest Beatrice by One You Know But Will Never Recognize
3) The Parade: An Episodic Critique of Post-Contemporary Gender Roles by Alyssa Rosentool
3.5) When Life Gives You Babies, Make Baby-Ade by Brian Lenth
4) I'm Gonna by Jumbal Rinnerb
5) The Diner by Greg Machlin
5.5) Work by Li'l Red
6) Hanging Out With Senator Larry Craig by Tim Russert
7) When Life Gives You Babies, Make Baby-Ade by Brian Lenth
8) Whistling Dixie by The Black Warheads
9) untitled scene by Joe Cedillo
10) Oedipus Revisited by Eli Wilkinson
11) I Just Love Children by Adam Hahn
12) Esoterrorism: Volume 2: Timmy's New Dad, a Song by Mutual Leonard
13) Wet Grass by Alyssa Bowman
13.5) Void by Li'l Red
14) This is Based on True Events by Luke Christensen, AKA: No Longer "The Freshman" at No Shame
15) AIDS PSA by Evan Schenck
16) American Black Box Presents: The Great American Movie-Novel by American Black Box

Friday, September 14, 2007 - [Theatre A]
1) Fires Involve Pitmasters And Television Sets by Patrick Ashcraft
2) The Swede by Two Guys
3) Part One of a Two Part Jewish High Holy Day Jewstravaganza: Today I Am A Man by Alisa Jewenthal
4) Worst Birthday Ever by King Sophie
5) Real Dreams I Have Really Had Recently by Katy Baggs
6) Bladerunner by Greg Machlin
7) Clamp Your Bottom And Whack by The New Rafiki
8) A Typical Middle Class Housewarming Party by Eric Jesteadt, Katie Lawson, John Froehlig
9) The Trucker and The Apocalypse by Arlen Lawson
10) Skinny Bitches by Eric Landuyt
11) Teeth by Adam Hahn
12) Untitled by John Kaufmann
13) Doctor Adventure And The Big Mistake by Evan Schenck
14) We're Fucked by Eli Wilx Booth
15) American Black Box Presents: The Great American Movie-Novel Bye, American Black Box

photos Friday, September 21, 2007 - [Theatre A]
1) Watch as I ruin French Fries for Everyone by Nick Beatty
2) Fist Battalion! A man Adventure Tale by Chris Stangl
3) Part Two of a two part high hold day jewstravaganza (All I can do is write about how jewish I am): Yom Kippur Fast-a-Polooza by Ajewsa Jewsenjew
4) You know you like it you dirty girl. Don't deny it. Just do it. by Eli Wilkes Booth
5) The Stove Top Boys by Neil Campbell and Paul Rust
6) Belief by Arlen Lawson
7) Dr. Adventure and the Consequences of his actions by Evan Schenck
8) How to Write a Spec Script for Lost by Insert Clever Pseudonym Here!
9) Neil Armstrong's Monologue by Neil Armstrong by Brian Lenth
10) Duluth International Airport by Anthony Nelson and Cara Clonch
11) Ice Cream by Silver Dollar Tabor
12) Leave this Thermostat at Seventy-Two degrees by Adam Hahn
13) Vaselex by Jamal Chris Michael Arlen River Stangl Tabor Lawson
14) Esoterrorism: Part 3 The First Week or The Dinosaur in the next room by Cool Jesse be Rape Slaves with Special guest McRallavvy
15) Fart 1 Guy by Jake Gonterro and another guy by Jamal River
16) My Life as a Patron of the Arts by Mrs. Farzqua Amarantt
17) American Black Box Presents the Great American Love Letter by Patrick Ashcraft
18) The Break Up by Christina Gulick

Friday, September 28, 2007 - [Theatre B]
1) The Grave Robber Arlen Lawson
2) Pills Eric Landuyt
2.5) A Friendly Reminder Greg Machlin
3) Andrew Jackson Will Roberts
4) Democracy at Its Best: The Selfless Barfight of the Century Mirri
5) Violence and Me, We Both Start with a V by Michael Vick (Dick Roberts)
5.5) Another Friendly Reminder Greg Machlin
6) Outgoing Mail by Evan Schenck
7) I Can Do It In My Dreams by Katy Baggs
8) In Need of a Sidekick, 340 a Month, Heating Not Included Eli "One Man Team" Wilkinson
9) Waffles and the Korean War Brian Lenth and Jake Gontero
9.5) A Third Friendly Reminder Greg Machlin
10) Three Verses Ogden Nash in the Twenty-First Century (Lydia Crowe)
11) A Broad Named Jesus by Alyssa Russell
12) Poptarts by Ryan Mother Fuckin Sage
13) The Hunting Trip by Adam Hahn
13.5) The Last Piece in The Order by John Froehlig Jr. and Greg Machlin

Friday, October 5, 2007 - [Theatre B]
1) The Coyote Arlen Lawson
2) Eli Needs a Shelton Part Two Evan Schenck
3) The Cautionary Tale of Sir Gregiwald Gergadorff: A Medievalesque Balladette for the Banjo and Freinds Alisa Rosenscruggs
4) We're Forcing Dave in No-Shame So He Can Be Part of Our Little Circle Dave Sutton and the Dave Sutton Hazing Committee
5) The Spanish Flowers by Mirri
5.5) A New Character by Greg Machlin
6) I Learn About Ancient Rome and You All Have to Suffer Luke Christensen
7) Rivers Flabbergasted Jakers
8) Beethoven's 2nd Unfinished Symphone Beethoven
9) The Three Puppy Bears Have a Mustache Waxing Consortium Two Puppy Bears and One Human Man
10) And Now! Here's Something We Hope You'll Really Like! Cool Jesse, Moose, and Squirrel
11) Do You Like Adventure? Katy Baggs
12) IAMKILLJOY Adam Hahn
13) 1997 Janani
14) Eli and the No Shame Audience Make a Personal Ad for an Adult Dating Website Eli and You!

Friday, October 12, 2007 - [Theatre B]
1) I'm Adam Hahn Eric Landuyt
2) Damn you Adam Hahn. Damn YOU! Greg Machlin
3) Alex's first attempt at No Shame Alex
4) Adam Hahn is STILL my babies daddy Eli "is infertile" Wilkinson
5) The most important man in the industry By Evan Schenck feat. Two guys
6) My last Monologue Ever Jake Gontero (As Adam Hahn)
7) I Didn't write this because I'm a dirty pervert. I Wrote this because I wanted to see Adam Hahn be a dirty pervert Luke Christiansen
8) My Last Monologue Ever Jamal River (As Adam Hahn)
9) My Vicarious Relationship with Adam Creepy Roommate
10) The Ten Bhumis Paul Behrendtsen
11) An experiment in subtext Chekov Rosenthal
12) Shit-for-Brains The REAL Adam Hahn
13) My last monologue ever by Alyssa Bowman (As Adam Hahn)
14) Ode to Hahn Dirty Dixie
15) Manwhich Flabbergasted Jakers
16) Hahn is Gone Cornelius Ashcraft
(unofficial extra piece) Adam Hahn performs his first No Shame monologue ever from 1999

Friday, October 19, 2007 - [Theatre B]
0) Bitch Tore my Heart Out GREG MACHLIN
1) Two Jews in a Boat A GUY WHO HATES JEWS
2) Done by Hand ARLEN LAWSON
3) The Current State of Politics ERIC LANDUYT & ADAM BEECHER
4) Moist KAT UDARRO
5) Born to Be Wild ALEX SCOTT & AMY BERNHARD
6) Canyon Chapter 1 ARLEN LAWSON
7) Matrimoniphobia KATHRYN "I-would-sell-my-real-brother-on-the-black-market-if- I-could-be-related-to-Arlen" LAWSON
8) The Clockwork Man EVAN SCHENCK
9) Nightmare 2 ELI WILKINSON
10) Sally/Not Sally KAT UDARRO
11) Two Potatoes Explain Their Feelings for Each Other TWO POTATOES WILKINSON
12) e.e. cummings didn't do it and neither will I LUKE "lowercase" CHRISTENSEN
13) Uncle Allen Drunkenly Reveals Painful Secrets During a Family Gathering THE NEPHEW OF UNCLE ALVIN
14) Shutterbug's Confusion COOL JESSE

Friday, October 26, 2007 - [Theatre B]
1) Jumbo 9000 BRIAN LENTH (as Evan Schenck)
2) Shapey Cakes FLABBERGASTED JAKERS
3) Eric Jesteadt is Now Animated in Technicolor ERIC JESTEADT
4) Student Health is Where Hawkeyes Go to Die ERIC JESTEADT & DAVE SUTTON
5) Going Crazy ARLEN LAWSON
6) Einstein and Me PROFESSOR P.L. ASHCRAFT, ESQ.
7) Performance Review EVAN SCHENCK
8) Mt. Spookula IMMY SPATES
9) My Dog Monologue: My Dogologue KATY BAGGS
10) Litterbox Greg JAKE GONTERO
11) Dear Dr. Phil JIMMY GREEN
12) Hug JANANI

Friday, November 2, 2007 - [Theatre B]
1) This Contraband Is Not Tolerated in Daum ERIC JESTEADT
1.5) This Is My First Time Performing, Guys, So Be Merciful, Okay? BRIAN LENTH
2) A Jake Monologue: A Monojake GRAMBLA
3) Welcome to New Mexico ERIC LANDUYT kind of
4) A Folk Tale EVAN SCHENCK
5) Cantilevered Carry On Luggage JOHNNY LEE
6) Brookers from Zombie Zombie Gamma KATARAH UDARRO
7) When Life Gives You Babies, Give Babies AIDS BRIAN LENTH
8) Dumb Luck ARLEN LAWSON
9) Crack in the Box JAKE GONTERO
10) Rabbit ANNE SULLIVAN
11) I'm Bilbo Pees and Steve McQueen BOBO PEES & BULBOUS RILEY MCQUEENABY
12) Reginald Cassidy, ACTOR LUKE CHRISTENSEN
13) Wiggle, Squinch, Dangle, Repeat MICHAEL TABOR

Friday, November 9, 2007 - [Theatre A]
1) Remember Remember the Sixth of November Eric Jesteadt
2) Fuck You and That Skinny Whore You Came Out Of! Eli Wilkinson
3) The Desert Nick Beatty
4) The Men on Stage Shaking Hands Cool Jesse
5) Jake's Stigmata Evan Schenck
5.5) A Joke Eric Landuyt
6) The No Shame History Series Presents: Ludwig van Beethoven's Final Concert A Tone Deaf Musician, arranged by John Froehlig Jr.
7) Bedroom Fever (Riddle's Lost Monologue) Patrick Ashcraft
8) Greg Reads the Daily Iowan with Audience Participation Greg Machlin
9) Interview with a Poopula (A brief history of the Poopula Subculture in America, but not Bruce Springsteen's America) Sam Fuller and Clay Howard
9.5) Eli Does His Best Impression of the No Shame Audience Eli Wilkinson
10) Alfredo and Daughers: Part of a Telanovella Mose Hayward / Translation by Google
11) Umm, Yeah Eric Landuyt
12) Greasy Bob at the Debutante Ball Greasy Bob

Friday, November 16, 2007 - [Theatre B]
Lip Sync-ish Night!
1) Mountain Dew THE CLANCY BROTHERS AS LIPSYNCED BY KATY BAGGS
2) O Del Mio Dolche Ardor JOHAN GLUDE AND MIRRI-JAKE
2.5) Joke #1 BRIAN LENTH
3) Lights Up When I Yell "Lights Up" ?
4) The Boys JOHNNY LEE AND THE JOHNNY LEES
5) Road to the West ELI WILKINSON
5.5) Joke #2 BRIAN LENTH
6) A Love Story for a Love Ballad LUKE
7) This is my first time here at No Shame, so, be gentle. Actually fuck it, be whatever you want. Stories from my life, part 1: Honors Comp and Rhet JOEL LAHEY
8) Bah bah dah bah bah dah bah bah BAMBO BAMBO
9) Ride On SAD GREEN MONSTER
9.5) Joke #3 BRIAN LENTH
10) The Slavemaker MATTHEW BENYO

Friday, November 30, 2007 - [Theatre B]
1) A Technological Love Song King Sophie
2) Black Lace Jana Nicolina
3) Trekaphor Adam Burton
4) Halloween: An Exchange Paul Machlin, Greg Machlin, and Erica Machlin
5) A Persian Story Evan Schenck
6) Pajamas & Turds by Some UI Student
7) 2girls1Noshame Eli Wilkinson
8) Distance over Time Nick Beatty
9) How to Detect a Werewolf Eric Landuyt
10) How to Break A rule at No Shame without even trying the John Hammond Players
11) Two Gregs is way too many, and one Greg is not enough Jake Gontero
12) Clay is Average Samuel C. Fuller and Clayton Wade Howard have no shame

Friday, December 7, 2007 - [Theatre B]
Dead Week
1) Faith in Everything Arlen Lawson (pop song)
2) Interview with a veteran John Bates (Black Friday monologue)
3) The Dinner Party Part II the John Hammond Player et al. (More Jurassic Park unoriginality goodness)
3.2) Failed Sketches Part 1: The Hole Chicken'n'Dumplings (His hole itches)
4) My Favorite Zings Anya Nimfadora (Talking with Santa head)
5) Gremlins 3: Gizmo's Choice Katy Baggs (Gizmo makes a choice! Food after midnight)
5.2) Failed Sketches Part 2: My Head Chicken'n'Dumplings (His head wont fit in his mom's vagina)
6) Wall Climbing Evan Schenck (Endorsement deal in trouble due to not being able to climb a wall)
7) Dr. Batman and the Pee-V Scene Jamaker the Quaker who Drives a Studebaker (Eric Landuyt) (Arlen has a pee-v. Hilarity ensues.)
7.2) Failed Sketches Part 3: A Good Question Chicken'n'Dumplings (Can a virgin get pregnant and give birth to Jesus 2: The Sequel)
8) The Dinner Party: Part IV Benyo Brothers (Benyo's character is the dumbest kid in school)
9) The Inevitable Downfall of the Honor System Clay Howard and Sam Sucks (Clay thinks he's a sexual predator because he saw a kiddy porn pic)
9.2) Failed Sketches Part 4: The Audition Chicken'n'Dumplings (Man acts like Karen Carpenter)
10) This is a sexy poem Anne Sullivan (It's a sexy poem)
11) American Black Box Meets Director Scott Greg Machlin (ABB meets Dir. Scott who wants to have sex with him in tear holes in ABB's flesh)
11.2) Failed Sketches Part 5: The Worst Joke I know Chicken'n'Dumplings (Jesse tells long terrible Joke. Evan shoots him. Yells at Eli)
12) A Fart in the Wind is Worth a Shit in the Pants Nick Beatty (Can you see a fart in the cold? Evan poops himself)
13) And Now for Something So Stupid, Even you Love it! Story time with Ol' Grandpappy Cough Syrup Presents: Beastiality Amidst the White Creamy Fields of the Part as recalled by Ol' Grandpappy Cough Syrup Ol' Grandpappy Cough Syrup (Adam Hahn and Gorilla have beat off contest. Gorilla wins. Covers America in Jizz)

Best of No Shame
Friday, December 14, 2007
- [Mabie Theatre]
1) Clamp your bottom and whack The New Rafiki
2) Interview with a poopula Sam Fuller and Clay Howard
3) The Clockwork Man Evan Schenck
4) It's true They really don't Katy Baggs
4.5) When Life Gives you Babies, Make Baby-Ade Brian Lenth
5) Two Men Shaking Hands Cool Jesse
6) Eric Jesteadt is now Animated in Technicolor! Eric Jesteadt
7) When Life Give you Babies, Make Baby-Ade Brian Lenth
8) Hug Janani
9) *Spits* Mike Hayden Sent Me Luke Christiansen
9.5) A New Character Greg Machlin
10) Wiggle, Squinch, Dangle, Repeat Michael Tabor
11) How to detect a werewolf Eric Landuyt
12) Canyon Chapter 1 Arlen Lawson
13) Oedipus Revisited Eli Wilkinson
14) Litterbox Greg Jake Gontero
15) American Black Box Presents the Great American Novel American Black Box

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