January 23 at 7:30pm
A production of the Fat Theater Project, Fat Jokes is a new variety show featuring fat comedians of many artistic disciplines. We’re inviting stand-up comedians, sketch comics, clowns, improv performers, storytellers, and more, to showcase their talents and unique perspectives. The show seeks to elevate fat people as the tellers of jokes, not the punchlines.
Annie A. is a writer and performer from Chicago. They’ve written and performed at The Second City, The Annoyance Theater, Otherworld Theater, The Neo-Futurists, and more. Their recent work includes writing, producing, and performing in Hairy Tales, a sketch show featuring queer feminist retellings of fairy tales, doing props and projections for The Curator Presents, a one-woman show about loss and self-discovery during COVID lockdown, and two student showcases at The Neo-Futurists. She was also on the steering committee for The Shrews, an improv team of women and nonbinary folks performing in the style of Shakespeare.
Eileen Tull is a Chicago-based storyteller, theatremaker, poet, educator, and one-woman-show person. She has performed throughout the country, from San Francisco to New York City, including in the SF Fringe, New Seeds Festival, United Solo, the Cincy Fringe, the Minnesota Fringe Festival, and the Dallas Solo Festival. Her work has been seen all over Chicago in theatres, bookstores, art galleries, bars and other non-traditional spaces like Theater Wit, Stage Left, Broken Nose Theatre, Loose Chicks, Chicago Danztheatre, and Fat Theatre Project, a newly formed creative collective. Eileen is a one time marathon runner, a movie fanatic, and a fat liberationist.
