Comedians and Writers team up to form The Modern Problems

For immediate release:
San Francisco, CA – December 22, 2005 – Six Bay Area writers and comedians have formed a performance group called The Modern Problems.

The group evolved from a regular workshop the six held to work on their new material.

“None of us fit in to the current state of the open mike scenes, either for comedy or poetry, so we formed our own workshop,” says writer Bucky Sinister. “That’s where we all met, in the 90’s heyday of open mikes in the Mission.”

The next evolutionary step for the workshop was to form into a group to showcase each performer’s new work.

“Each of us commandeers twenty minutes of stage time,” Sinister continued. “You might see sketch comedy, stand-up comedy, or six short one man shows. It depends on the night and the performers. It’s where tragedy, comedy, and drama meet on one stage.”

The Modern Problems consists of Joe Donohoe (author of To Be Santa You Have to Be Tested), Colin Mahan (former member of sketch groups Sequel 4000 and Fresh Robots), Harmon Leon (author of Republican Like Me and The Harmon Chronicles), Lester Milton (author of The Accidental Adventures of Dogget Mann, and former member of White Noise Radio Theater), Mike Spiegelman (founder of the variety show Speigelmania! and former Fresh Robots member), and Bucky Sinister (author of Whiskey and Robots).

The Modern Problems debut at the Hemlock Tavern on January 17th at 9pm. After that, they will have a weekly show every Friday at the Off Market Theater starting January 20th at 9:30pm.