Mortified + This American Life TV = Now Playing

It finally aired and we hope you liked it. The people at This American Life (on both radio and tv) have been supportive of Mortified for many many years now, and I'm thrilled that their foray into tv has proven to be such a success for them.

In the meantime, here's a mini clip of Sascha Rothchild... who was nice enough to feed a small gathering of people crackers, cheese and Shrek-colored m&ms last night as we watched the airing after work. I wondered what the teenage Sascha would have thought of that.


Mortified as seen on This American Life TV.

Some fans may notice that the full tv clip is a bit shorter than our original radio or stage versions (including the version that appears on TAL's greatest hits CD). But I am happy to say, it still captures the same astonishing portrait of reckless youth at its best/worst. Sascha's piece has long been one of my favorite little excavations to present because it celebrates the range of emotion I love to explore in Mortified-- material that is funny, provocative, disturbing, sincere and sad all at once. For those who express concern about what happened to her, I'm proud to say she not only grew up to be healthy and adjusted, but also a great friend who serves delicious m&ms.

I hope you'll tune in.

- Dave

Now Casting! Whip It Out, Sucka!

Did you know Mortified is always looking for new faces to help share the shame on stage? Well, we are. So tell your most fearless friends!

Mortified is revving up for a big ol' casting blitz. While we're looking for new faces to join the fun anywhere... we're sending out an extra special APB to our friends in BOSTON + CHICAGO. We have tons of fans attending our events in these cities but we're in need of a new infusion (especially dudes) of performers.

- Did you write crappy rap/rock lyrics?
- Did you wretched poems?
- How about meldoramatic scripts or short stories?

Whip out your worst childhood words (journals, poems, lyrics, stories, scripts, letters) and submit a request at the URL below. Open casting-- any race, gender, profession, age, shoe size, balding status, etc.

You are guaranteed to play to an always a supportive and always soldout crowd. And yes, if you live in LA or NYC too, we need you too.

MORTIFIED CASTING INFO EXPLAINED HERE:
http://www.getmortified.com/live/casting/casting_faq.php

In fact, we recently overhauled our whole site and just re-launched the casting page today with MUCH more helpful info about our strange little process. Check it out. See you soon.

Your friends at,

MORTIFIED
http://www.getmortified.com/casting/

Mortified NYC Moves to Makor

New year. New digs. Same strange show. Come see Mortified NYC christen its spankin new locale JAN 10 or else, well, we'll be sad and forced to write melodramatic poems about how much we miss you.

WHAT: Mortified NY
WHEN: Wednesday, January 10, 2007
TIME: 8:00 PM
VENUE: Makor Theater
ADDRESS: 35 West 67th Street (Steinhardt Center), 10023

TICKETS: getmortified.com/live

Featuring ultra pathetic crap by!!!!
Shawn Hollenbach (poem, essay)
Poppi Kramer (wild sex teen diary)
Margot Leitman (diary)
Laurie Sandell (college app essay)
Toni Leonard (self rigteous diaries)
Boni Joi (love poems)
Hayley Downs (religious journals)
Liz Black (travel journal)

See you there!

And Then Somehow... THIS Happened

Jason Smith is the grinning bald guy seen here in the middle at a recent Mortified show. The other people are awesome, too. But more on them in a sec.

Once upon a time, Jason was a starry-eyed Minnesotan teenager who wrote a short script inspired by the cinematic gem that is Days of Thunder with the hopes of it someday attracting Hollywood names. Years later, the adult Jason realized his script actually sucked-- pretty hard in fact-- and decided to do a reading of it in Mortified. Not ones to let him down, we decided to fulfill his younger self's dreams.

So we secretly invited a few of our very favorite actors to join Jason (not an actor) in a live reading of his teenage racetrack masterpiece 500 Miles to Indy.

And amazingly, they agreed. Behold, the Mortified Community Players featuring (from left to right) James Denton, Curtis Armstrong, Kevin McDonald, Elijah Wood and Busy Philipps. And yes, we are just as confused as you.

Adding to the fun, we decided not to promote this (or any of the night's many surprises) ahead of time. Our way of giving our fans a treat, thanking them for 4 years of fantastic support.

The result was a surreal experience for Jason, for us, and presumably anyone else who is a total spaz for Kids in the Hall, Freaks & Geeks, Better Off Dead, Desp. Housewives or things involving Hobbits.

More info on the rest of this event, its other fun surprises, and why Neil Katcher is such an awesome producing partner who I totally forgot thank on stage because I am a schmuck, coming soon.

Mortified Does a Hit of E

Greetings. Mortified's how-to-be-an-amateur-press-whore tour continues. E!
included Mortified on tonight's Daily 10 in their 411 section.

It will air:

-Tuesday Dec 19 @ 730pm and 1130pm
-Wednesday Dec 20 @ 830am and 1230pm

No interviews or clips as far as I know... but it's a good plug & repeats
several times. Thought I'd share the fun.

If you live in St. Louis, listen to KMOX next week too. Onion AV Club also ran a very nice piece on Mortified too that is online. We hope to have our press clip page finally updated in Jan 2007. But for now, enjoy these makeshift updates.