This will be the third year in a row that something wonderful will happen to Portland this spring. There will be a festival that will take over the Hawthorne street and over a hundred talented people will mingle and perform. It is something special. Some of the comics are nationally known, others nobody has heard of, but all of them are awesome. This festival has a special place in my heart, not only because it is where I was able to work up the courage to ask my wife to marry me last year but because it is an awkward circus of dreams that celebrates the thing that I feel I was made to do. I am looking forward to the great performances and the fellowshipping with people I don’t get to see enough of. I am glad to be part of this. If you have the ability to make it to Portland this is something you should do. If you happen to attend, find me, high fives and hugs will be on me.

I will be hosting 4 shows as part of the Holiday Triple Header at Annex. The Comedy Fist Fight will be an evening of phrase-off’s involving Seattle’s amazing performance community along with prize give-aways and other nonsense. It will be wedged between a puppetshow and a play about a gang war between nuns and priests. Good times will be had.

Seattle’s Annex Theatre is one of my favorite places to perform. When they asked me to take part in Not Pants!, a story telling showcase with a story of its’ own, I was delighted.

I will be telling true stories of my youthful misadventures on the Friday the 13th and Friday the 20th that may or may not involve witchcraft, my deflowering and the KGB. Each show will have a handful of some of Seattle’s finest performers. Please consider attending and supporting live performance.

The month of November has brought me some unique performance opportunities and I would like to share them with you, because you are special to me.

Thursday the  5th – I will be opening for celebrated christian musicians/feel gooders, God’s Pottery at Chop Suey

Friday the 6th- I will be performing in the best variety show/drinking game/prize give-away set in the golden age of tv this city has to offer, Get Loweded at the Rebar.

Friday the 13th- I will be telling Mormon ghost stories as part of the storytelling extravaganza, Not Pants at the Annex theatre

Monday the 16th- I will be hosting the much loved showcase of human tragedy/triumph that is the open mic at the Seattle Comedy Underground

Friday the 20th- I will be back at the Annex Theatre for the final show of Not Pants!

Please check out my calendar for more details and updates.

Please consider supporting live performance and attending one of these shows, attend all five and I will make you a present.

xoxo,

Emmett Montgomery