Tix here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-birthday-experience-tickets-550591753757
Thursday March 16th, Lyric Hyperion, Los Angeles
Doors: 9pm // Show: 9:30pm
$10 Presale // $12 Day of Show
Cast:
Your host- Robert Dayton (@therobertdayton)
Musical Director- Jon Steinmeier (@jonsteinmeier)
Puppeteer- Molly Fite (@mollyfiteclub)
Classic clowning by Inessa Frantowski (@inessacomedy)
Production and pizzazz by Sarah Cisco (@disco_cisco)
This month's special guests: juggler Michael Rayner! The comedic stylings of Bebe McPhereson!
The Birthday Experience is a monthly live comedy variety show celebrating whomever has a birthday that month! But anyone can attend -birthday or no birthday- it will be fun for everyone! Is it your birthday in January? Or a friend's birthday? Come on along! Even if it isn't, come on along! It's your birthday whether it's your birthday or not!
The Birthday Experience has Robert Dayton as your excitable host, along with bandleader and accomplished keyboardist Jon Steinmeier, classic clowning by Inessa Frantowski, puppeteer Molly Fite, and pizzazz and production by Sarah Cisco! A gaggle of new friends for the audience to visit each and every show! And March's very special guest performers juggle Michael Rayner and the comedic stylings of Bebe McPhereson!
There will be cake, balloons, prizes, and surprises! And loads more birthday style entertainment! This will be the go-to show for anyone celebrating a birthday or just anyone who wants a night out to see some wild entertainment! An all-inclusive real crowd pleaser!
Bios:
About Robert Dayton:
Hailing from Canada and now based in L.A., Robert has a long history of hosting and putting on live comedy variety shows. He’s toured all over North America and Australia and released a few albums with the comedic song-and-dance duo Canned Hamm, the unpredictable and lucid ‘no two shows the same’ act July Fourth Toilet, and the glittery larger-than-life character The Canadian Romantic which has a lenticular winking photo, videos, a doll, and art book. He hosts the Uh Oh Canadia screening series at Whammy. Robert has written a forthcoming history of Canadian Glam; his previous book was a pen-and-ink humour break-up book entitled The Empty Bed. Robert’s writing has appeared in Cinema Sewer, Maggot Brain, a piece on forgotten comedy duo La Troupe Grotesque for Nicolas Winding Refn’s website, as well as The Onion, and more. Credits include Male Fantasy, Scare Tactics, Jackboys video, etc. He won a National Magazine Award for his work as host/co-creator of the Pagelicker video series (Hazlitt/Random House) and holds an M.F.A. More here: www.robertdayton.com
About Jon Steinmeier:
As a thoughtful and versatile composer, Jon has written music for theater, ballet, television, short and feature film, and other live performance contexts. As a pro multi-instrumentalist and charismatic performer, he has spent over 15 years touring the US and Europe, performing and recording with artists including Mavis Staples, Andrew Bird, Tim Booth, Bobby Conn, Mucca Pazza, and Baby Dee.
Jon now lives in Los Angeles, where he composes and produces music for picture, performs music and comedy in studios and on stages, teaches music, and collaborates with other artists. He is also the bandleader for the popular comedy variety show Scot Nery’s Boobie Trap, as part of Fire Leopard.
About Sarah Cisco:
Sarah Cisco is a visual and performance artist living in Los Angeles who has been involved in the independent music and art community for over ten years. She previously created, produced, and starred in the on-stage variety show Charm School; as well as hosted the live-streamed, absurdist crafting program Filth Flip which was broadcast by Super Deluxe. Sarah currently lives with her cat and her shoe collection and celebrates her birthday about once annually during the Spring months.
About Inessa Frantowski:
Inessa Frantowski is a Los Angeles based comedian/actor/writer and friend to all. She is a Gemini (Canadian Emmy) award winner and a two-time Canadian Comedy award winner. An alumni of the world famous Second City mainstage in Toronto, she wrote and starred in 4 record breaking revues. Credits include: This Hour has 22 Minutes, Match Game, Scare Tactics, the Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town, Cosmopolis and the Avicii music video, I could be the one, which has over 330 million views! Inessa wrote for the Facebook daily trivia show, Confetti. She is also a performer/writer on the International Emmy nominated series, The Amazing Gayl Pile on Amazon Prime, for which she won an Indie Series award. You can catch Inessa on the new Jamie Denbo/Jenji Kohan series American Princess on Lifetime or in the film Greener Grass on Hulu! Her comedy albums Help me Help ME and Inessa and Sarah get you through the Day are available wherever you get albums! Or if you just need a bit of advice from Inessa, you can check out #abitofadvicewithinessa @inessacomedy on the gram.
About Molly Fite:
Molly Fite is a native of Vancouver, Washington. She trained at The Jim Henson Company as a puppeteer, and you can see her puppeting every week at the historic Bob Baker Marionette Theater in Highland Park. There she created and hosted an evening puppet/variety show for adults called When Puppets Are Your Only Friends. She has puppeteered for Pink Martini at The Hollywood Bowl, has appeared on Nick Junior's Ryan's Mystery Playdate, and in music videos for Allison Ponthier, and Twin Temple. Most recently she spent the summer in residency with Bob Baker at Knott's Berry Farm performing four puppet shows a day. She performs stand-up, sketch, and improv comedy, all over Los Angeles and has trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, I.O. West, The Groundlings, and The Second City. She has an MFA in Acting from UCSD, and she loves you very much.