STAGE A (front stage)
Friday, August 18
7:00 PM	Pigasus Players Opening Ceremony	Theatre 15mins	The Inaugural YippieFest Opening Ceremony
7:15 PM	Huck Poe The Palette Of A Bayou Witch And Other Things People Have Said About Me	Comedy 45mins	Huck Poe, outrageous solo sketch comedian, performs a number of his greatest hits! There will be screaming, fake blood, nudity, stories, song, and - oh no! - politics! He's a one-man variety show. web link
8:00 PM	Rush Pearson Diary of a Madman	Theatre 60mins	A wonder of compassionate pathology, Nikolai Gogol's 1835 short story "Diary of a Madman" Rush Pearson's fascinating tour de force traces the slide into insanity of Aksenty Ivanov Poprischchin, an obscure government scribe who enlarges himself with elaborate delusions of grandeur.
9:00 PM	DB Comedy The best of DB Comedy	Comedy 30mins	DB Comedy is Chicago's only theatre company dedicated solely to political satire and sketch comedy - as far as we know. Featuring highlights from our last three shows, FEAR V. LOATHING 2016 and THE ELECTABLES - SKETCH COMEDY FOR PEOPLE WHO CANNOT AFFORD HAMILTON.
9:30 PM	Eileen Tull Bitchy Political Rant	Monolog 30mins
10:00 PM	Underpants Puppet Theatre The Curse of the Dirty Drawers	Short Film 22mins	Violence erupts in the world of underpants. Will Detective Monday be able to save the city? Will he get the lovely Lacey? This is an underpants puppets film-noir, or as we call it, puppet-noir.
10:25 PM	Geek-o-Riffic Productions Mad Scientist's Consortium	Short Film 22mins	Written/Directed by Harry Bauer
10:45 PM	Lizzy & the Wizards Excuse Me While I Riff My Pants	Comedy 45mins	Lizzy & the Wizards is a Chicago based sketch comedy group specializing in absurd short plays.  web link
11:30 PM	Trained Monkey Productions Bro. Luther Powell vs Cancer	monologue 15mins
11:45 PM	Screamin' Cow Productions Co-Star Presents! Tallulah Bankhead, Vincent Price, and Mr. Jitters	comedy 15mins	Three lucky audience members will have a chance to act alongside legends of the stage and screen with the aid of Co-Star acting records from the 1950's.
12:00 AM	El Bear Mr. Morals Stories for Your Morals, and Also Your Adult Life	Theatre 60mins	Watch as your hosts Mr. Moral and the blood hungry La Muñequita, attempt, and fail, to present stories to teach the best morals for you and your adult life! Marriage proposals, family quarrels, cannibals and the second coming of christ (allegedly)! Are all here! web link
1:00 AM	AgitPop Theatre A Tale of Two Thieves	Theatre 45mins	When Paco and Tassos steal boxes off porches in their gentrifying Humboldt Park neighborhood, they discover in one parcel a cellphone and a loaded pistol with its serial number fully erased.
1:45 AM	Dramageddon Doing It All: The Micro-Vaudeville	Vaudeville 60mins	Come with Mr. J and a special guest as he takes you on tour through a series of acts designed to entertain and amuse! For one hour, he and his characters will take you back to the old days of vaudeville with the bones of what will become a one-man variety revue! web link
Saturday, August 19
4:00 PM	Huck Poe The Palette Of A Bayou Witch And Other Things People Have Said About Me	Comedy 45mins	Huck Poe, outrageous solo sketch comedian, performs a number of his greatest hits! There will be screaming, fake blood, nudity, stories, song, and - oh no! - politics! He's a one-man variety show. web link
4:45 PM	Matt Kneifel Ride or Die music video	MusicVideo 5mins
4:50 PM	Crash of Rhinos Rockabye	Short Film 12mins	web link
5:05 PM	Rob Steinberg Apophenic Shorts	Short Film/music 6mins	A website to view my experimental and sometimes humorous work web link
5:11 PM	Patman Communications Detroit Mike	Short Film 5mins	Detroit Mike looses a bet to packer Rhonda
5:16 PM	White Belt Films Blood Brothers	Short Film 8mins	web link
5:25 PM	Dave Drazin My Father's House	Short Film 12mins	"Trust is an opinion" Lost home movies, piano, narration.
5:36 PM	The Dark Hunger N/A	Short Film 15mins	web link
6:30 PM	S h l i p S h l o p s S h l i p S h l o p s	Perfm Art 15mins	This is our instagram. We use it as a sketchbook, and way to record ideas and things that we want to share with each other, our friends, and followers.  web link
6:45 PM	Rebecca Duxler Maron Glorbits to...	Dance 5mins	Facebook page where I showcase my flow arts web link
6:50 PM	Howie and Dina Goodsell Butterfly	Comedy 10mins
7:00 PM	Dan and Kate's Book Club Dan and Kate's Book Club	Improv 30mins	Dan and Kate have read every book known. They love reading, they love improv, and they live each other. Join them in their study as they discuss your favorite literary classics while totally avoiding any underlying problems they might have with each other.
7:30 PM	Black Forest The Dogstar Rages Redux, Redux, Again	theater 25mins	Black Forest Presents The Dogstar Rages Redux, Redux, Again. Another Black Forest show.
8:00 PM	Famous In The Future Malignant Narcissists	Sketch 60mins	A series of comedy sketches and songs based on the important topics of the day like fascism, babies, inappropriate dress, elephants, sex (but not elephant sex), and of course death. web link
9:00 PM	Paul Barile Paul Barile	Storytelli 15mins	Writer/Storyteller Paul Barile shares true stories from his past. The blue collar poet steps out from behind the pen and onto the stage to share stories about his life.  web link
9:15 PM	James Gordon Adventures of Bobo	Storytelli 15mins	James Gordon is an international award winning author and poet and has won the Moth Storytelling Grand Slam as well as 13 storytelling slams. He can be seen on several tv shows(Chicago Fire, Med, PD, and Empire, as well as movies and commercials.
9:30 PM	Widdershins Widdershins	Improv 30mins	Widdershins is a 2-man improv team featuring Chris Bragg and Kannan Arumugam. Their performances are a blend of grounded and silly, fast and unhurried, and physical and emotional. They've been performing as a duo for over 6 years, God help them.
10:00 PM	Hippohorsey Donkeymonkey Performance Review: An improvised office comedy	Comedy 45mins	web link
11:45 PM	Michael Bratta & Tina Teske The Funeral	comedy 15mins	Homage to the comedy of Nichols & May
12:30 AM	Heather and Lace's Awesome Buds No Power in the Verse: A Joss Whedon Cabaret	Variety 60mins
1:30 AM	Chicago Iowa Theatre Collective The Death Worker	Theatre 30mins	Lenigarius approaches an assisted suicide agency to end her stifled existence, but when she learns that they are hiring, she instead joins their team of professional killers. Her first client is her therapist, who knows enough about Lenigarius's dark secret to realize she'll do more than kill him. web link
Sunday, August 20
4:45 PM	Geek-o-Riffic Productions Mad Scientist's Consortium	Short Film 7mins	Written/Directed by Harry Bauer
5:05 PM	Eliaz Rodriguez Think Twice	Short Film 6mins	web link
5:11 PM	Clark Street Media Beast	Short Film 1mins
5:13 PM	Monsters Anonymous Monsters Anonymous	short film 9mins	A group of failing monsters gather at a community center, revealing the real demons that torment them. Sharing is scary.  web link
5:25 PM	Forever Summer Productions Tenants and/or True Stories: Capri Sun Addiction	Shorts 5mins	web link
5:30 PM	Ariel Ariel	short film 15mins	web link
6:30 PM	Chicago Iowa Theatre Collective The Death Worker	Theatre 30mins	Lenigarius approaches an assisted suicide agency to end her stifled existence, but when she learns that they are hiring, she instead joins their team of professional killers. Her first client is her therapist, who knows enough about Lenigarius's dark secret to realize she'll do more than kill him. web link
7:00 PM	College Productions Sins of The Father	Theatre 45mins	Sins of The Father presents a powerful and intriguing dialogue between two life-long friends of greater and lesser success. Both are married and share common memories, but it is clear that it has been in their maturity that they have gone in different directions yet cannot escape the past.
7:45 PM	Raven Roulette State Of Disgrace	Short Film 15mins	Christmas special from the web series STATE OF DISGRACE, it's about the 3 main characters from the show in the past as they try to survive a xmas eve night with a group of home invading satanic serial killers. web link
8:00 PM	Michael Bratta & Tina Teske The Funeral	comedy 15mins	Homage to the comedy of Nichols & May
8:15 PM	Tuyeni Akanke Truth Inspires You	Poetry 15mins	Truth is the only thread in life that's strong enough to withstand any conditions the garment of you may experience; Truth is what keeps us connected- it's what helps us quiet the noise, because we know better than to listen. The Truth will inspire you. Come learn.
8:30 PM	Jim & Melissa Jim & Melissa	sketch Com 30mins	Reilly Willson & Shelby Quinn are Jim & Melissa. Be prepared to navigate the swamps of Louisiana, translate British-English, and break up with your oral-fixated Beanbag Chair in this sketch show.  web link
9:00 PM	Lea Ciastko Lea Ciastko	stand-up 15mins	Lea Ciastko's stand-up focuses on her life experiences and how being adopted has shaped her worldview.
9:15 PM	Ray Hui & Kannan Arumugam Ray Hui & Kannan Arumugam	Comedy 30mins	Ray Hui and Kannan Arumugam are two veteran sketch comedy performers. They have performed with The Second City (Bob Curry), The Playground Theater (House Team), Stir-Friday Night, and elsewhere. In their set, they will each be performing sketch material...by themselves...about companionship. web link
9:45 PM	Mr J. Mr J Plays Ukulele	Music 15mins
10:00 PM	The Courtesan & The Cabin Boy The Courtesan & The Cabin Boy: Because She Loves the D	MusiComedy 45mins	Musical duo, focused on fun through music. web link
10:45 PM	Trained Monkey Productions Bro. Luther Powell vs Cancer	monologue 15mins
11:00 PM	Pigasus Players Closing Ceremony	Theatre 15mins	The Inaugural YippieFest Closing Ceremony
STAGE B (back stage)
Friday, August 18
8:00 PM	Tommy Karner Tommy Karner: The Reasons I'm Mature.	Stand Up 30mins	Love, Drugs, Juggling, Sex and Die Hard... Your early twenties can be a confusing time so why not scream into the abyss until your voice is hoarse in order to try and figure it out?
9:00 PM	Charles Minard You're Not Depressed	Theater 60mins
10:30 PM	Colby Carlson Colby Carlson	Stand-up 15mins	20-something insomniac with an annoyingly positive disposition. Muggings, moving, and moments he can hardly remember-- turns out 27 houses make for a whole lot of stories. web link
10:45 PM	Amy Leuenberger Amy Leuenberger	Stand up 20mins	web link
11:05 PM	Sean Corcoran Sean Corcoran performs some stand up and talks at you a little	Comedy 15mins
11:20 PM	Jim Kennedy Jim Kennedy Stand Up	Stand Up 30mins
11:50 PM	Trevor Gertonson Trevor Gertonson Stand-Up	Stand-Up 10mins	Trevor Gertonson's Stand Up covers topics from wearing make-up and being a musician to odd children's stories and observations on social manners. He has performed for such legendary creatures as Bigfoot, The Loch Ness Montser and the Ghost of Christmas future web link
1:00 AM	Danger Circus The Danger Circus	Variety 45mins	The Danger Circus presents a show that features fire eating, glass walking, knife juggling, dangerous escapes, and their unique blend of insanity and comedy. web link
Saturday, August 19
11:30 AM	Dave & Lynn Gow Dave & Lynn Gow	music 30mins	web link
12:00 PM	Julia Brownfield Girl Limitless	Stories 15mins	Julia Brownfield is a story-teller with a comedic background. She tells brave, funny and inspiring stories about her life with hilarity and sincerity. Her YippieFest show will be a mash-up of heartwarming tales about being a teen mom, turning 40, and a ridiculous happening at Planned Parenthood.  web link
12:15 PM	Annabella Mindo Acoustic Music Set	Music 15mins	Annabella Mindo is a young dynamic vocalist. She has performed at clubs and Festivals all over Chicagoland. She brings her sense of style and her interpretations of songs to make them her own. Recently she began playing guitar and has been working very hard to debut as a solo artist for this show.
12:30 PM	Mike Felten Mike Felten	Music 30mins	Long time Chicago performer and participant in the 1968 event. web link
1:00 PM	The Myths of Suburbia	Music 30mins	The Myths of Suburbia reunites several former members of Thunder Road along with a few new friends to play a mix of covers and originals. Some of these guys have been playing together for over twenty years.
1:30 PM	Parallelicopter Parallelicopter	Music 30mins	Parallelicopter is a two-piece, husband-and-wife duo consisting mainly of hats, glasses, and shaking asses. web link
2:00 PM	Kristin Lytie Stand Up Comedy/Storytelling	Standup 15mins	Originally from Northeastern Wisconsin, Kristin's comedy is fueled by a love of all things Midwestern. An eternal optimist, she has worked in progressive politics for the past ten years as a community and labor organizer. She is about working class populist politics and has a strong DIY punk ethic. web link
2:15 PM	Ben Marshall Band	Music 30mins	Ben Marshall: Guitarist-Songwriter, Vocalist, Performer and Producer It has BEN a journey!!! His earliest memories of music were dancing around the house singing along to Elton John and Beatles records with his family when he was just a child. By age 11, he was drawn to the guitar and remembers... web link
2:45 PM	The Rut The Rut-ern	Music 30mins	Trio plays original rock music and maybe a cover
3:15 PM	voodoo asylum tapastries	music 40mins	Voodoo Asylum is an electronic based concept designed to bring the natural human element to the music. The goal is to reverse engineer computerized music and drive it by people in the Voodoo Asylum Collective. Nature brings randomness to infinity. Ultimately it nature that controls us.  web link
4:00 PM	Northside/Southside Players Ravelli, The Jailbird	Live Radio 40mins	Live radio theater recreation using script from 1933 plus songs, and a modicum of original writing.
4:45 PM	King Reza King Reza & The Backpack 5quad	Music 30mins	King Reza is a Chicago based Soul Pop/Hip Hop Recording Artist. His music is often compared to Frank Ocean, Drake, Chance The Rapper among other fancy people in the music industry. After Releasing his album "ways" he began to gain momentum in the Chicago Music Scene. #WDHGN web link
5:15 PM	Flapunco Flapunco	Music 40mins	Flapunco is a rock band formed by actress singer songwriter Lisa Zane and Peruvian classical guitarist Rafael. web link
6:00 PM	Trouble Ahead Trouble Ahead	Music 50mins	Trouble Ahead is a Grateful Dead inspired group of Chicago-area musicians who blend harmonies, chord voicings and improvisation to offer faithful renditions of classic Dead tunes - bringing the Dead to life. web link
7:00 PM	Jonathan Euseppi Grief is Horny	Theatre 60mins	Take a trip into the subconscious with Jonathan Euseppi in this darkly humorous inspection of family dysfunction, death, and teen angst. "Grief is Horny" is a hilarious, sincere, and moving theatrical experience.
8:00 PM	Ray Hui & Kannan Arumugam Ray Hui & Kannan Arumugam	Comedy 30mins	Ray Hui and Kannan Arumugam are two veteran sketch comedy performers. They have performed with The Second City (Bob Curry), The Playground Theater (House Team), Stir-Friday Night, and elsewhere. In their set, they will each be performing sketch material...by themselves...about companionship. web link
8:30 PM	Sandy Lee Sandy Lee	Comedy 10mins
8:40 PM	Spencer Sileo Spencer Sileo	Comedy 20mins	None
9:00 PM	Andrew Ruiz Andrew Ruiz	Comedy 10mins
9:10 PM	Ron Ervin Ron Ervin	Stand Up 15mins	Ron Ervin is a Chicago based Stand Up comic who originates from Cincinnati. He can be seen performing all over the midwest as well as on the TV show Empire and upcoming films "Captive State" and Widows" web link
9:30 PM	Danger Circus The Danger Circus	Variety 90mins	The Danger Circus presents a show that features fire eating, glass walking, knife juggling, dangerous escapes, and their unique blend of insanity and comedy. web link
11:00 PM	Laugh You Bastards Vol. 4.5	Comedy 60mins	Laugh You Bastards is a DVD Showcases series featuring the finest comedians from the scene who bring their unique vision to the stage for this special event. This is an hour of comedy you do not want to miss. Featuring Trevor Gertonson, Julia Brown, Sonal Aggarwal and Zach Zajak.
12:00 AM	Kevlar B Lightning Blue Lightning	Burlesque 15mins
12:15 AM	S h l i p S h l o p s S h l i p S h l o p s	Perfm Art 15mins	This is our instagram. We use it as a sketchbook, and way to record ideas and things that we want to share with each other, our friends, and followers.  web link
12:30 AM	College Productions Sins of The Father	Theatre 45mins	Sins of The Father presents a powerful and intriguing dialogue between two life-long friends of greater and lesser success. Both are married and share common memories, but it is clear that it has been in their maturity that they have gone in different directions yet cannot escape the past.
Sunday, August 20
12:00 PM	Carly Ballerini Carly Ballerini	Standup 15mins
12:15 PM	Zay Swagg Zay Swagg DJ	Music 15mins
12:30 PM	Morning Pocket Forensics	Music 40mins
1:15 PM	Dark Room Men Simonizing and Garfunkeling	Music 30mins
1:45 PM	Amy Leuenberger Amy Leuenberger	Stand up 15mins	web link
2:00 PM	The Remember Knots	music 40mins
2:45 PM	katherine chronis my experiences walking naked amongst the clothed	story 10mins	Walking naked amongst the clothed - with Special Guest Tim Paul
3:00 PM	whitewolfsonicprincess Get Right with God!	Music 50mins	whitewolfsonicprincess Presents "Get Right With God" - "neo-psychedelic folk-rock." Visit our website: https://whitewolfsonicprincess.com/ web link
4:00 PM	Audiobon Music performance	Music 50mins
5:00 PM	Eric Peter Schwartz	Music 30mins	I do strummy guitar noises & songy mouthhole sounds, that I made up, in front of people. I do it as much as I can around the Chicago area. web link
5:40 PM	Colby Carlson Colby Carlson	Stand-up 15mins	20-something insomniac with an annoyingly positive disposition. Muggings, moving, and moments he can hardly remember-- turns out 27 houses make for a whole lot of stories. web link
6:00 PM	The Telepaths Social Economic Rock and Roll	Music 40mins
7:00 PM	Masters Of Sketch The Safeword is Lasagna	Comedy 45mins	Craft Brewed Comedy from the bullet riddled shores of Waukegan Illinois. Masters of Sketch takes you on a whirlwind tour through United States History, The Renaissance, and The Moon Landing (HOAX!) before slipping you a mickey, and making off with your wallet, kidneys, and self respect. web link
8:00 PM	Ron Ervin Ron Ervin	Stand Up 15mins	Ron Ervin is a Chicago based Stand Up comic who originates from Cincinnati. He can be seen performing all over the midwest as well as on the TV show Empire and upcoming films "Captive State" and Widows" web link
8:15 PM	Kristin Lytie Stand Up Comedy/Storytelling	Standup 15mins	Originally from Northeastern Wisconsin, Kristin's comedy is fueled by a love of all things Midwestern. An eternal optimist, she has worked in progressive politics for the past ten years as a community and labor organizer. She is about working class populist politics and has a strong DIY punk ethic. web link
8:30 PM	KJ Whitehead Your One Black Friend with KJ Whitehead	Stand Up 30mins	KJ (They/Them) is a 5'9'' crowd pleaser full of unapologetic fabulousness, unapologetic blackness and dry humor. In this zany adventure, they offer their insight on things that annoy them, Black Lives Matter vs. All Lives Matter and what it means to be black and pansexual in the community! web link
9:00 PM	Kevlar B Lightning Blue Lightning	Burlesque 15mins
9:15 PM	Screamin' Cow Productions Co-Star Presents! Tallulah Bankhead, Vincent Price, and Mr. Jitters	comedy 15mins	Three lucky audience members will have a chance to act alongside legends of the stage and screen with the aid of Co-Star acting records from the 1950's.