Irene Marquette

Martin Short Opening for “Let Freedom Hum”

2009 Just for Laughs

Endust 2013

Endust commercial series

http://www.endust.com/dustersons

Single Long (2012)
HBOgo series (episodes 1 & 3)
created and directed by Jack Lawrence Mayer and Sarra Jahedi

http://www.hbo.com/comedy/single-long/index.html
http://www.wbez.org/blogs/bez/2012-08/single-young-and-chicago-make-tv-show-101864

Searching for Venice (2013)
feature
directed by Jason Knade
http://searchingforvenice.com/

Jessie Rose Trip music video where you can be the director! See the complete video and read more about it here: http://nokiaconnects.com/2012/02/29/direct-your-own-music-video-with-the-nokia-asha-302/

Promo for Stuff Theater from Norton.

Enter for the chance to see our improv actors, opera singers, and artists bring your Facebook page to life in a LIVE, 24-hour, completely unrehearsed and unscripted performance, Nov. 30, 2011 from 9AM EST - 9AM EST. Enter for the chance to have your Facebook wall performed here: http://on.fb.me/tn679v
facebook.com/stufftheatre

Super Traders episode 2

Tasty Trade’s Super Traders episode 1 

Hornitos “Choose Your Night’s Adventure”

I turn into a puzzle!

Commercial for Hasboro’s Jigazo done by Radar

Who’s that skank hanging on Timmy Mayse at 0:51? It’s me!

Norton Anti-Virus CyberCrime Commercial

Goose Island spec ad from The Odd Machine

2011 Bronze Telly Winner!

I’m not even human being written/directed by Andrew Ayer

Crosswords by very clever media

An entry in this year’s Chicago 48 Hour Film Project.

Maybehip.com came to our first preview and filmed a video about 40 Whacks. There are clips of the show and some interviews with me and Aggie.

Panasonic Industrial for McDonald’s

Capt. Baxter (Matt Young) reveals his past to me during a jam session.

Scenes from Matt Young’s show Impotent

15 Minutes To Obscurity

developed by Kate Duffy, Katie Rich and Irene Marquette

written by Kate Duffy

directed by Irene Marquette

Mary Kay Letourneau Players
Kate Duffy and Katie Rich
2011 Chicago Sketchfest
2011 Second City deMaat Theater
2012 iO Theater
2012 15 Minutes to Obscurity, pilot: special screening July 16th 8pm at the Annoyance

Mary Kay teams them up with director Irene Marquette (40 Whacks), who manages to weave the duo’s love of icky news stories and complex characters into a show that swivels neatly back and forth between scenes involving the strange (an architect can’t understand how his rendering resembles the Twin Towers) and the familiar (a woman uninvites her best friend to her wedding).
- Jason Heidemann, Time Out Chicago

The pair playfully skews the audience’s expectations in a series of unpredictable scenes, and director Marquette weaves them together seamlessly.
- Dyan Flores, Gapers Block

Flavor Pill Editor’s pick

Chicago Sun Times interview

photo by Billy Bungeroth

Lights Out Alma
Cast: Lynnae Duley, Kimber Hall, Aggie Hewitt
2009 Annoyance Theater

Created collaboratively with the cast, Lights Out Alma takes place in te 1930s and 1960s and is about three friends driven to betrayal and murder and the consequences of their actions.

Originally developed as a one act for the Annoyance’s Triple Feature program, the show was extended into a full length play and given a six week run. Lights Out Alma was selected by The League of Chicago Theaters for a Theater Thursday event.

Poster by Griffen Eckstein

CURRENTLY RUNNING

Brunch Punkx
2012 Annoyance Theater
Kellen Alexander, Christina Boucher, Neal Dandade, Chelsea Devantez, Steve Hnilicka, Scott Nelson
Music by Lisa McQueen
Music direction by Tara Trudell

This cast had a very long run last year at the Annoyance in Skiing is Believing and wanted to work together again so they brought me on board and we created Brunch Punkx.

Lisa McQueen wrote incredible music to compliment the musical theater sensibilities of the cast. Best described as Rent plus Blues Brothers.

The songs are catchy and the lyrics sharp, and musical theater aficionados will enjoy playing “Guess the Pastiche” with the musical numbers that lovingly pay tribute to other musicals. The cast is fantastic, and each actor embraces their damaged yet lovable character with enthusiasm and likability.
- Gaper’s Block

poster by Griffen Eckstein
photo by Tina Smothers Photography

Jimmy of Nazareth
2011 Annoyance Theater
written by and starring: Jimmy Pennington 
cast: Michael Brunlieb, Rachel Farmer, Mark Logsdon, Jo Scott, Matt Ulrich

Jimmy of Nazareth follows Pennington from his humble beginnings as an unemployed college graduate living with his fiance in Nazareth, Pennsylvania on an epic journey of depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and emergency psych wards - a darkly funny tale of resurrection after the death of innocence.

Was originally approached to develop a one man show and ended up creating a one act play where his fiance, parents, brother, therapist and Howard Hughes make sense of what happened to Jimmy post-college.

Jimmy talks about the process on Mark Colomb’s Poor Choices Podcast.

Poster by Mike Marunowski

40 Whacks
Cast: Ellen Stoneking, Noah Gregoropoulos, Jennifer Estlin, Sherman Edwards, Chelsea Farmer, Mike Maltz, Cristin McAlister
Music: Lisa McQueen
Written: Aggie Hewitt
2010 Annoyance Theater

A musical based on the Borden murders and trial, I directed the show and developed it with writer Aggie Hewitt. Originally scheduled to run for 8 weeks, 40 Whacks opened as part of the 2010 Just for Laughs Festival and ran until the end of October that year.

Reader Recommended
New City Recommended
2010 Orgie Award Winner for “Production Joie de Vivre”

What amazes most about this production is its restraint. Marquette has adhered to a little more class and period consciousness than one usually sees in Annoyance productions. Higher production values in scenic design and costuming, coupled with hints of ragtime in McQueen’s musical score, give the audience a stronger sense of old-timey mass murder–all the better with which to sail into the production’s more off-the-wall, anachronistic moments.

- Paige Listerud
Chicago Theater Beat

Poster by Griffen Eckstein

This has really, really irked me.

The top illustration is one of Snorg Tee’s recent shirts.

The bottom is a design that my friend Sarah has had up for at least a year. See more of her work here: https://www.facebook.com/BeeandBumbleDesigns

theawkwardphase:

We are keeping the good times rolling. More story telling, more balloons and way more Mariah Carey music.The Awkward Phase: Round 2 — Monday, June 17 at The Annoyance, 7:30PM

This Rounds Lineup:

Irene Marquette Eckstein — Joey Romaine — Caroline Thrasher — Carol Bontekoe — Wes Perry

TOMORROW NIGHT!!

I love Salonathon and am really happy I got to do this show in particular.

This ended with me giving birth to a banner that read ‘support reproductive freedom’ and saying ‘NUFF SAID’.

salonathon:

Salonathon: Bad Art

Hosted & Curated by Jane Beachy

May 6, 2013

Irene Marquette

Sasha “Just Say Yes” Hodges

Raul Alvarez

Jessica Marks

Dav Yendler

Core of the Pudel

Zoe Schwartz & Tien Tran

Sierra Dufault

Ann R. Key

Philip Markle

The Haines Sisters

Ike Holter

Erika Grammel & Morgan McNaught

I’m having a Har Mar appreciation day today. Watch him perform Tall Boy on Jimmy Fallon in 2009 wearing a Dashiki and gold sleeves.

The story is that he wrote this song for Britney Spears’ album Blackout in 2007 but I found this article from 2005 referencing it as something he wrote for Paris Hilton. Whether it was a publicity stunt, something he actually earnestly wrote for them or he’s myth making it’s great.

So is this video of him singing Girls Only, which is from the perspective a young woman out on the town with her friends and feeling good about herself, on Lopez Tonight sporting knitwear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8_gC759flk

What sent me down this Har Mar hole was watching his video for Lady, You Shot Me, which seems to be the most polished (palatable?) and complete version of himself that has been presented to the general public. Here he’s not a pop starlet trapped in the body of a balding over weight man, he’s James Brown. And it’s really, really fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouuqJ0pkWvU

Finally, here he is doing Tall Boy again but this time it’s in front of an audience at Johnny Brenda’s Philadelphia, PA on 4-3-13. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9SAFQxNwEI

likeafieldmouse:

Aron Demetz - The Tainted (2012) - Distressed wood

Until i saw the title I thought these were pieces that were polished out of this crazy wood not the other way around. Like a more complicated glass half empty/full scenario but with a correct answer.

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Rocket County High School Cheerleading Auditions - 

Written by Devin Bockrath

Filmed and Edited by Tim Lyons and Devin Bockrath

Featuring Brian McGovern & Christina Boucher

Wild woman Devin Bockrath, ladies and gents.

Steel Magnolias Double Shotgun
Sunday 10:30 at iO

2 for 1 tix w code OUISER

Ferdinand Holder - The Chosen One 1893/94

Henrique Oliveira’s massive tumor-like installations.

Harvey Darger

Improvised Star Trek has two shows this weekend! We’ve got a special show at iO for the 5th Friday of the month AND in honor of the Next Gen reunion happening in Chicago that day. We’re also proud to be doing a show at Nerdfest, the Chicago Nerd Comedy Festival at Stage 773, 9pm on Saturday. WHEEEEE!

https://www.facebook.com/ImprovisedStarTrek

I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT

She wrote an article in NYT Magazine about one of the scenes. It took 42 takes and she went back to watch all of them and write notes on each one. Very interesting.

amandalynferri:

rachelfershleiser:

Tumblr accepts Webby Award for Website: Community (by TheWebbyAwards)

In which Patton Oswalt calls Amanda Ferri “hot and foul-mouthed.”

Sorry ladies, I am now straight. 

NEVER BEEN MORE PROUD TO BE YR FRIEND

ffound:

this isn’t happiness™ (Fishnets is Fridays), Peteski http://ffffound.com/image/56b2ee1e0dede63bce10729fca31648be4f57db1

This Sunday Super Human is inspired by the Illuminati. If anyone knows Tila Tequila tell her there’s a comp in the box office with her name on it.

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Friday- May 17th - 8pm - Free (Donations Accepted) BYOB

Two aspiring teen sketch enthusiasts are taking a crack at writing/producing/performing their own show of entirely original content! Local artistic enabler Irene Marquette directs.

This is the big DEBUT in front of everyone!

Come check it out! 

Really proud of these guys!

upstairsgallery:

Wednesday May 15th- 6pm, Free (Donations Accepted), BYOB

Two aspiring teen sketch enthusiasts are taking a crack at writing/producing/performing their own show of entirely original content! Local artistic enabler Irene Marquette directs. This show will be for their friends and promises a “loose” fun flavor!

Come check it out! 

LOCAL ARTISTIC ENABLER!!!! <3 <3 <3

This show is the senior project of two very smart and funny people from New Trier high school. I’m their mentor/community adviser and have been directing them and teaching them how to produce their own show. They’ve done a tremendous amount of work on this.

If you don’t come to this secret ‘dress rehearsal’ then stop by at 8pm on Friday for the ‘real’ show! Teachers and the senior project review board will be there to witness the madness.

Stellar photos of me after being a guest on Rye Bread Radio.

Listen to me make outrageous claims (Super Human is the Wu Tang of improv) here: http://ryebreadradio.com/ryebread-ep-209-multiverses-and-supreme-particles/