No Shame Theatre Archives (1994-95)

Archivist's note: Dates in [brackets] are possible Friday performances of No Shame, however, we have no other information about these dates at this time, which in some cases may mean that there was not a performance. (This is especially true at the beginning and end of semesters, since the starting / ending dates of No Shame changes from year to year).

KEY:
Author(s) - Title (Performers, if known)

1. Numbered entries indicate the piece's position in the order.
   

• Bulleted entries - the exact order is unknown.
  

Stephanie Frey
Larry Pontius

[This is the semester JC does the Sean Smickcormick pieces]

1. Jay Linnell - The Chicken Suit Blues (Jay who will be Clucking), GA#327, CHECK YEAR. MAYBE 93
   
2. J. Tarin Towers - New York Poems, GA# 373
   
3. Larry Pontius and Steph Frey - Subtext
   
4. Scott Smith - Boxing (Mahammad Ali)
   
5. Orion Meyer - Call it Untitled/Wanton Drum, GA# 374
   
6. Kris Millering - September Thru May in Exile, GA# 375
   
7. R. Sky Palkowitz - A Peace of Sky (AKA Barbie's Got the Car), GA# 422
   
8. Real Life 101
   
9. Ole Mrs. Rezner, GA# 381
   
10. Black Coffee
    

Scott Smith and Stephanie Frei - One Summer in Iowa during the Cholera epidemic of 1879
9) J.C. Luxton - Sean Smickcormick--And Introducing . . . (also called And Up High, The And To Follow)

Chris Mortika - Ring and String Advert. (Barrett, with Entsminger)

• Steve Hise - Guitar Solo
  (It was a sort of Fluxus-inspired piece. I took the stage with a guitar case and tape player. set down tape player and pressed play. Open guitar case as music starts. The music is a bunch of samples of famous guitar riffs from Hendrix, Beatles, Wings, Sonic Youth. As music goes on, I take out guitar, hammer, nails, and a piece of sheet music. Procede to attach sheet music to guitar by hammering a nail thru each corner. When finished, turned off tape player. Bowed, lights down.)
  
• Shannon McCormick - [some poem]
  

[ORDER MISSING]

• Carolyn Space Jacobson - Second Monologue for a Man (performed by Shannon McCormick)
  
• Megan Gogerty - Adventureland
  [The script for this piece is dated September 29, 1994. Probably performed that Friday.]
  

[ORDER MISSING]

• J.C. Luxton - Sean Smickcormick, Foreshadowing of Holy Saturday on the Two-Week March to Halloween
  

1. Mark Swaner - Junkie (Hooked on Phonics) (COMPARE GA#411 and #331. HOPEFULLY IT'S 2 COPIES of SAME THING)
   
2. J. Tarin Towers - Book (poem)
   
3. Carl Scheit - Vote (a voter registration piece)
   
4. Seth Fisher - Nobody Knows
   
5. JC Luxton - The Pilate Light (Shawn SmickCormick)
   
6. Carolyn Space Jacobson - Nothing a Good Hard Fuck Wouldn't Cure
   
7. unidentified piece (1930 book on Christian marriage)
   
8. Brian Forest - So What If I'm Related to Eugene McCarthy
   
9. Jay Loete - Heart, Mind, Body
   
10. unidentified monologue about Fate/I will become my father
    
11. Shannon McCormick and Brooks Peck - Karagoz and Hacivad
    
12. Sky Palkowitz - Perhaps (poetry)
    
13. Lesley L. McKinley - You Knew (a song)
    
14. Chris Mortika - The Last 9 lines
    
15. Megan Gogerty - [coffee filter/fruit loops]
    

1. Mark Swaner - Anything
   
2. Adam Cain - Three Letter Theater
   
3. Blood, Love, and Rhetoric
   
4. Angela Smith - The Woman in White
   
5. R. Sky Palkowitz - Sky Toy
   
6. Chris Mortika - The Last 12 Lines
   
7. Adam Cain - Rick's Fairy Tale
   
8. JC Luxton - The Man with Two Left Feet Says--Happy Halloween
   
9. Pat McCarron - To Whom it May Concern
   
10. Aaron Cain - For Joe
    
11. Megan Gogerty - Some Light Pleasure Reading on a Sunday Afternoon
    
12. Bliss
    

An alternate 10-28-94 based on scripts. Should combine two (ASK ADAM TO SEE IF SCRIPTS ARE REALLY DATED)

1) Mark Swaner - Anything, GA#311
3) Adam Cain - Three Letter Theater
6) Angela Smith - The Woman in White
8) R. Sky Palkowitz - Sky Toy
9) Chris Mortika - The Last 12 Lines
10) Adam Cain - Rick's Fairy Tale
12) Pat McCarron - To Whom It May Concern
13) Aaron Cain - For Joe, GA#333
14) Megan Gogerty - Some Light Pleasure Reading on a Sunday Afternoon, GA# 332

1) R. Sky Palkowitz - Sky's Heart
2) J. Tarin Towers - Two-Point Conversion
3) Eric Johnson and Sean Judge - Meow, Chicka, Meow, Meow, Meow
4) JC Luxton - Interim: A Hope
5) Brian Forrest - Memories of Ginger
9) Chris Mortika - The Last Eighteen Lines
10) Chad Larabee, Brandon Eels, Chad Jacobson - Quaker Sex

[ORDER MISSING]

[This is an order from Nov/Dec. (Dec. 2?) 1994 (maybe Dead week?) Maybe 11/18/94 (see 416)]:

1) Brian Forrest, Jay Miller, James Drebenstadt - Nostalgia for the Ramones
2) Eric Daniels - Misty
3) Beth Kamerman - Quest
4) Angie Clari - Queer
5) Eric Daniels and Jay Linnell - Something Spilled that Happened to Have Alcohol in it
6) J. C. Luxton--Sean Smickcormick, Benji in the Heart of Manhattan
7) 33, 46, 60, 48
8) R. Sky Palkowitz - Pagan Love Poem #3 and Other Fine Such
9) Chris Mortika - Effect and Cause
10) Jay Loete - Phlaming
11) Sarah Manuel - Sucker

Megan Gogerty - Serious Disk Error
[The script for this piece is dated December 1, 1994. Probably performed that Friday.]

1. Shannon McCormick and Brooks Peck - Karagoz and Hacivad: Mastering Play
   
2. R. Sky Palkowitz - A Peace of Sky, aka Barbie's Got the Car
   
3. Carolyn Space Jacobson - Second Monologue for a Man
   
4. Tasha Robinson - People You Don't Want to Hug# 1
   
5. Eric C. Johnson - Loud in Head
   
6. Brooks Peck - Aliens Invaded the Earth. It Was OK.
   
7. Megan Gogerty - Adventureland
   
8. Lesley L. McKinley - Blue Door Night
   
9. Jay Loete - Heart, Mind, Body
   
10. J. Tarin Towers - Smack
    
11. Shannon McCormick - The Lungfish
    
12. Eric Daniels - Blood, Love and Rhetoric
    
13. Sean Williams - The Purple Flower [Corn]
    
14. Eric C. Johnson - Listen Up
    
15. JC Luxton - The Last Journey of the Wilderness Bus
    

"We called it the Better Of No Shame, so that Fall pieces could be eligible for the Spring BONS. I think it was a money issue; we do BONS in Mabie Theatre to make a lot of cash, but that Fall we had to stay in Theatre B. So we had a Better Of, instead of a Best Of. ---Megan"

Smick - Idea for a Film
[The script for this piece is dated Fall 1994 (not necessarily the date it was performed)]

H. Fields Grenee - AB-Blood
[The script for this piece is dated September 1994 (not necessarily the date it was performed). It was 15th in the order the night it was performed]

Liz Biermann - The Meeting
[The script for this piece is dated November 15, 1994 (not necessarily the date it was performed). It was 9th in the order the night it was performed]

Shannon McCormick - The Sad Ogre in the Tower

J.C. Luxton - Sean Smick-cormick series, the Aaron Lubbard perversion of MLK's I Have a Dream Speech (1994) [This piece is listed on Shannon McCormick's "Favorite No Shame Pieces of All Time" (11/26/02). He gives the date of 1994.]

2) Megan Gogerty - A Thoughtful Apology

11) Megan Gogerty - The Saxaphone

• Matt Hinerfeld - For the First Time
  
• Matt Hinerfeld - Mocha Java
  

• Roy Crisman - Rant#1
  
• Roy Crisman - Surgeon General's Warning (performed by Jay n Spike)
  

[ORDER MISSING]

12 or 3) Megan Gogerty - Phoenix

[ORDER MISSING]

[ORDER MISSING]

James Erwin and Pete Lawrence - The Roommates (James Erwin, Pete Lawrence, Pat McCarron)

2) Megan Gogerty - Problem
[The script for this piece is dated March 21, 1995. Probably performed that Friday. It was 2nd in the order on the night it was performed.]

Megan Gogerty - He and She
[The script for this piece is dated March 27, 1995. Probably performed that Friday.]

[ORDER MISSING]

1. J. Tarin Towers - Disclaimer
   
2. Megan Gogerty - Ribbit
   
3. Dan Cahoy - Spawn of Funny
   
4. Steve Katzen - The Interrogation
   
5. Sandra DeLuca - Fish Man
   
6. J. Tarin Towers - The Real World: Iowa City
   
7. Jay Miller - Visions of Sylvia Martens (performed by Disco Paul Blues Band)
   
8. Stave Katzen - Mr. Manners
   
9. Jason Jenn - Proclamation of a Prairie Dawn Lover
   
10. JC Luxton - The Metamorphosis
    
11. Steve Katzen - The Lobotomy Brothers
    
12. J. Tarin Towers - 14 Opening Stanzes from Poems Which Have Never Been Written
    
13. Matt Hinerfeld - Simple Seder
    
14. Ahmed Abdel-Hameed - Seasons of Change
    
15. Channing Work - Dedication
    
16. Jay Loete - Victoria's Secret (apparently canceled)
    
17. Channing Work - Museum and the Manic
    

1. Jay Loete - Phlaming
   
2. Anonymous - By the Light of Voyeur Vision
   
3. Jason Jenn - My Piled Life and Other Shit
   
4. Larry Pontius - Hanna-Michi-Melo-Sturmin-Drama
   
5. Eric Daniels - Last Words
   
6. Matt Hinerfeld - For the First Time
   
7. Megan Gogerty - Can You Hear Me Now?
   
8. John Smick / Brooks Peck / Josh Peskay - The Harrowing Adventures and Narrow Escapes of Nick Price, Photobooth Detective
   
9. Anne Rothfusz - Bartender
   
10. J. Tarin Towers - I Hate Poetry
    
11. Jay Loete - The Nun Wearing Mom's Jeans
    
12. Megan Gogerty - Serious Disk Error
    
13. Channing Work - Taco Man
    
14. Matt Hinerfeld - Mocha Java
    

Followed by The Conclusion of the Sean Smickcormick Episodes by J.C. Luxton (Three pieces: Two Left Feet Don't Make a Right, A Grace Given in Sorrow, Silence to Say Goodbye)

[NOTE: Rebecca Brodson's Inanimate Object was scheduled 4th on the original list, but she never showed.]
[NOTE: Possibly, an ISCAnic weekend?]

Megan Gogerty - One More Depiction of Society's Ills
[The script for this piece is dated January 1995 (not necessarily the date it was performed).]
12) Rob Merritt - Hell's Angels
[The script for this piece is dated March 6, 1995 (not necessarily the date it was performed). It was 12th in the order the night it was performed]
6) Megan Gogerty - People Magazine
[The script for this piece is dated May 11, 1995. (not necessarily the date it was performed.) It was 6th in the order on the night it was performed]

Rebecca Brodson - Inanimate Object
[This piece was scheduled to be performed at the April BoNS. Presumeably it was originally performed sometime in the spring of '95.]

John Smick / Brooks Peck / Josh Peskay - The Harrowing Adventures and Narrow Escapes of Nick Price, Photobooth Detective
[This piece was performed at the April BoNS. And at the 20th Anniversary BOBONS in 2006. It would have been performed sometime in the spring of '95.]