Picture it: pole-dancing comedy with "a dagger in the laughter," both in a pack and flying solo.
Piqued? Provoked? Puzzled? Good. That's the hole-y trinity. But...solo shows? Like with wooden chairs and blue spotlights and a cappella singing about your mother reclaiming her virginity in Florida Panhandle? Not in these parts. In addition to gogo dancing and saucy stand-up, Woody Shticks unleashes the potential of long-form theatrical solo extravaganzas with rich writing, transportive sound design, and hours of crying yourself into laughter. Plus, The Libertinis - three thriving solo artists who form one comedy brain - party together on the regular to deal a low blow to high art.
Piqued? Provoked? Puzzled? Good. That's the hole-y trinity. But...solo shows? Like with wooden chairs and blue spotlights and a cappella singing about your mother reclaiming her virginity in Florida Panhandle? Not in these parts. In addition to gogo dancing and saucy stand-up, Woody Shticks unleashes the potential of long-form theatrical solo extravaganzas with rich writing, transportive sound design, and hours of crying yourself into laughter. Plus, The Libertinis - three thriving solo artists who form one comedy brain - party together on the regular to deal a low blow to high art.
With an unbeatable brew of stand-up storytelling, sociosexual politics, and a whole lot of eye contact, Woody Shticks is not funny business as usual. All kinds of crowds - even straighties! - gobble up this cheddar-sharp wit and cold turkey approach to the finer things in life: community empowerment, butt stuff, and existential crisis. Come hungry for hilarity that's full of taste and sometimes hard to swallow.
Featured in Bawdy Storytelling, the Comedy Womb, Come Inside 2018, and house parties across the country, Woody Shticks has got the goods. "I'm pretty sure I always get laid after your shows...so thank you!"
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Stand-up storytelling, hip-hop heroics, and emotional nudity collide in this smash-hit smackdown of sexual misadventure. Woody’s days inside a Puritan cult gave way to nights inside consenting adults on a quest to answer the timeless query: “What is gay shit, and where do I find it?” Hop on the scenic route to the bone zone - through good sex, bad luck, and the warmest corners of your own sticky mind - in this honest onslaught of hanky-panky hijinks!
Shticks has been celebrated as "a valuable contribution to queer arts" by Seattle Gay Scene and said to possess "the combined genius of just about every comedian" by Drama In The Hood. After two rave runs at 18th & Union (Seattle, 2017), the Come Inside Festival (Portland, 2018), and the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (Dublin, 2019), Schlong Song is ready for your comedy festival, theatre season, or bar mitzvah. "Shticks is endearing, entertaining, and genuinely engages the audiences, creating an energy of improvisation, an energy of magic-making. He performs a diversity of arts; there’s a little something for everyone to enjoy."
JP SHARP, SEATTLE GAY SCENE |
This sparkling solo explosion is an experiment in engaged theatre packed with kicky comedy and devastating discoveries. Carry a tomato in your throwing hand on this bewildering trip through space and time - from the waterbeds of yore to the wastelands of tomorrow - because you’re about to take back your taste while you laugh your way through your favorite lies.
In a show that "manages to make everything interesting," everyone's handed a tomato and the chance to skip ahead into the existential vacuum with glitz, gusto, and great grilled cheese. With two hit runs at 18th & Union (Seattle, 2019) stage managed by Maren Comendant, Woody and his favorite imaginary friends question who we are, where we're going, and Who Cares! "Clever, coordinated, crazy, contemporary, and so, so cool."
BRYAN BURCH, THEATRE WHORE |
It’s 1989 and Butch Woods is a Maniac with one dream: sweat through every home in America with his very own VHS empire. He’s got the passion to make it happen...as long as he can hold it together long enough to audition his back-ups. Will tight buns and a loose grip take him all the way, or will fitness fame - like sanity - prove too much of a stretch?
Directed by interarts gang and Seattle darlings The Libertinis, stage managed by the formidable Maren Comendant and created by Shticks, Maniac sold out completely in it's premier run at 18th & Union in February 2018. Deemed "high-impact gay gloriosity" by Seattle Gay Scene and a "brilliant storyteller" by BroadwayWorld, Woody Shticks is ready to #loseit in your theatre season, fringe festival, or country club kitchen. "The theater has always been the proper residence for real satire.
As an intelligent comedian and razor-sharp performer, Woody Shticks is well aware of the tradition." OMAR WILLEY, SEATTLE STAR |
The Libertinis are an interdisciplinary performance ensemble (interarts gang, if you're fancy) comprised of Tootsie Spangles, Hattie HellKat, and Woody Shticks that delivers genre-blending storytelling guaranteed to electrify heads, hearts, guts, and groins. Shaking together theatre, comedy, and clown into one deliciously weird cocktail since 2012, The Libertinis have created mainstage productions at Annex Theatre, the Ballard Underground, Seattle Fringe Fest, and more. Whether an intimate storytelling show about deep, dark secrets or a bombastic, glitter-fueled blowout about time-traveling gogo dancers, they’ve collaborated with some of Seattle’s coolest playwrights and rising stars. As resident producers at The Pocket and special friends of 18th & Union, The Libertinis also produce a regular series of one-night P(ART)Ys (art parties, for the uninitiated) featuring wacky and wonderful new work that brings the Flabongo to the masses!
"When Nite Skool's ensemble turned the phrase 'gender is a weapon of the patriarchy' into a hilarious grade-school sing-along that also made a convincing case for using the word 'they' as a singular pronoun, I thought: 'Wow. They've done it...The Libertinis found some humor in the often humorless world of self-described SJW killjoys.'"
RICH SMITH, THE STRANGER |