stage fright & telltale presents:
screaming at the void
A CURATED STORYTELLING NIGHT
BY: Jasmine Pettet
What happens when queer voices gather in the dark? They laugh, scream, confess, and create something unforgettable. Screaming at the Void is a one-night-only showcase of comedians and storytellers turning fear into punchlines, pain into performance, and silence into community.
Curated by Stage Fright and Telltale, this evening brings together Portland’s boldest queer performers to share their twisted tales tales.
Showtimes | 90 min | RATED PG
Saturday, Oct 18
7:30 PM
CAST & CREW
Jasmine Pettet (they/them): Host
Performers / Storytellers:
Andie Main (she her)
Amica Hunter (they/them)
Michael Garcia
Ally Ward
Ryan Danley
Mack Lee
ARTIST BIOs
TELLTALE PRESENTS
Portland, OR
Welcome to Telltale!
We are a monthly curated storytelling night for folks that want to get vulnerable and take no shit.
We are community focused, always looking to hear a story from someone else’s life, and excited to make new connections. The show started in 2017 around election time because we were feeling so angry and didn’t know where to put it.
We hold firm to our values, act from our ethics even when it’s inconvenient, sit through difficult conversations when necessary, and try to be curious before we assume. Yes, Telltale is a show, but it’s also sort of the way we look at the world — this isn’t the world we want to live in yet, but how can we drag it a little bit closer every day, inch by inch?
The show is a lovely shifting cast of about 8-10 performers, curated by the hosts who all come and tell a story loosely based on that month’s theme, using whatever medium they want — so you might see essays, poetry, dance, comedy, improv, stories… who knows.
SCREAMING AT THE VOID
MEET THE STORYTELLERS:
Andie Main
Andie Main is a stand up comedian now based in Portland OR, after living in Denver and New York City. She has two albums available for streaming, produced by the darlings at Blonde Medicine Records; Magpie and Rocky Mountain Bi.
She has opened for some of the best comics ever like Kyle Kinane, Dave Hill, Natasha Leggero, Moshe Kasher, Russell Peters, and Janeane Garafalo. She’s also performed in many esteemed festivals across the country like the High Plains Comedy Fest, Bumbershoot, Sketchfest and Red Clay Comedy Festival.
When she’s not on stage, she can be found hiking around the woods with her dog Sadie, teaching a yoga class, or going on terrible first dates which she ruthlessly mines for material.
Amica Hunter
Also known as the "Stinky Lil’ Ratman,” this performer is a basically just a creaking calcium scaffolding wrapped in wet pulsing blood tubes and layers of raw meat, all dipped in skin coating and rolled in hair, like some sort of effed up, sentient, caramel apple. Give it up for the Squirmin' Vermin: Amica Hunter!
Elizabeth Mitchell
Elizabeth Mitchell is a disabled author, multidisciplinary artist, and publisher who's lived many lives and goes by many names. Her work challenges, blends genres, explores haunted bodies, and delves into the human psyche.
She's an activist, a gamer with potato aim, and an avid reader. As a woman with several invisible illnesses, she enjoys living a semi-horizontal life with her husband and spoiled furbutts in the PNW.
Her writing is also under Elle and Buffy. https://justanotherelizabeth.com.
RYAN DANLEY
Ryan Danley is a Portland, Oregon-based stand-up comedian, co-host of Another Goddamn Horror Podcast, and an extreme horror/splatterpunk author.
He’s the lead actor in the upcoming horror short Mr. TV Man, and probably right now is eating tacos while cursing the names of those who wronged him in elementary school.
MACK LEE
Mack is nonbinary comic & Portland native. Their gender identity is a mix between Mac Demarco & Shadow the Hedgehog: trashy, edgy, and a little furry in some places. Mack's comedy aims to eliminate feelings of shame through exploration of kink, mental health and queerness.
They are the co-host & co-producer of Queer AF, Hear You Loud & Queer, & Heart Throb, the comedy dating show.
ALLY J WARD
Ally J Ward is a self described dumb baby and good girl. She is a queer and trans comedian out of Portland named an undisputed genius of comedy by the Portland Mercury, One of the hottest queer comedians of today by Out Magazine, and Portland’s Funniest Person by the Willamette week.
MICHAEL GARCIA
Michael Garcia is a stroke survivor, sleep paralysis dream-warrior & champion of all “so bad they’re good” films.
He founded ‘the Dark Arts Comedy & Art Fest’, hosts Portland’s annual ‘ANTI-CHRISTmas Holiday Special’, as well as Portland’s long running found footage and movie roast comedy shows ‘Forgotten Fantasies’ and ‘VHS Vengeance’.
When he’s not performing his story based comedy on stage or riffing the best worst movies, he spends most of his time archiving lost media and yearning for yesteryear.