Celebrate Mortified's 4th Birthday!

Help celebrate four years of unbridled angst with the grassroots phenomenon that is Mortified!

Yes, this September, the longest running stage show of its kind turns four years old! Crazy, eh? Just think, in just a few more years, it will start sprouting hair in funny places and be able to attend its very own events. So what are you waiting for? Buy your tickets. Tell your friends!

PLUS! As a special birthday bonus treat to our devoted fans... all Mortified shows nationwide in September will giving away cool b-day gifts. How's it work? Simple! If you happen to hear your actual birthday mentioned as a date in one of the journal entries being read during our show, flash us your ID afterwards and we’ll hook you up with some cool Mortified merch or other retro prizes.

It's our way of thanking you for four amazing years of unprecedented success and totally bitchin' support.

In angst we trust.

This Plug Is Not Yet Rated

Congrats to documentary filmmaker (and Mortified superfan) Eddie Schmidt who has produced an awesome new movie opening this weekend. How awesome? So much so that we're using this space to tell you about it.

It's called "This Film Is Not Yet Rated"is produced by IFC and was a big hit at Sundance. If you are looking for a movie to see this weekend, we highly encourage you to see this. There are no snakes. Or planes for that matter. But there are tons of great interviews with people like John Waters, Darren Aronofsky, Mario Bello, and Matt Stone. It's a smart, surreal and very funny peek into the strangely secret world of America's movie rating board.

If we were still brooding teenagers, this is the kind of 'adult supervision suggested' film we'd have totally snuck into.

- Mr. Mortified

The United States of Angst

Since launching Mortified many years ago, we've expanded to tons of cities playing to nonstop sold-out rooms. Suddenly, we're everywhere. Here's an update on our latest news from our ever-growing empire of angst.

Mortified Boston moves to its new home -- The Paradise -- on September 27. It's a great venue, great location and we are psyched to be coming there.

Mortified Chicago hits Oct 18 at the infamous Green Mill. We've been in Chicago for a several months digging up truly amazing pieces. We're so excited to finally share them with everyone. The venue is famous for being a favorite hang for Al Capone (wonder if kept a journal?) as well being the official home of poetry slams. Thus, with the addition of Mortified, they're now the home of good poetry... and really bad poetry.

Mortified LA returns from summer vacation Monday September 25 @ King King in Hollywood. We've been stockpiling lots of amazing new stuff to unleash for this event. Excited for the triumphant return.

Mortified NYC is taking a rare month off but tickets are alreayd selling for our Sept 20 show. Our event with This American Life filming us was a huge hit and we can't wait for it to air.

Mortified SF is roaring as usual. October shows are already on sale. If you want to attend, we always suggest people buy tickets ahead of time to our MakeOut Room events, as they are always packed and the venue is often forced to turn away people. Luckily, we do two shows there.

All specific details/times/tickets are coming super soon. Stay tuned -- read this blog, join our list or visit our ticketing page.

This American Life TV Show Taping

So This American Life has a TV show coming to Showtime in 2007. And they will be taping part of our July 26 Mortified NYC show. The segment will feature Mortified's favorite former debaucherer Sascha Rothchild reading the same super-slutty journals that appeared on their NPR radio show a few years ago. In fact, this same exact journal (plus lots more) will be featured in our upcoming book, Mortified: Real Words Real People Real Pathetic. True tales. Ripped from the pages of real life.

As usual, the event already sold out however there will likely be space for those who want to take their chances @ the door. As addeded incentive, we will have 3 performers from our LA show performing in NYC this month. Beyond Sascha, there's David Nadelberg reading a poem that recently won the coveted title during Mortified's popular Bad Teen Poetry Slam segment in San Fan, where the audience votes for the very worst. But much much better is the holy-shit-hilarious camping journals of Masha Tivyan. Her piece is among our all time favorites. A truly fascinating piece.

Speaking of the west coast, THIS SUNDAY we will doing a FREE (and somewhat more family friendly) mini version of Mortifed at the San Fran Theater Festival. Our first ever outdoor show.

On the Chicago front, we're quietly venue shopping. Any takers? We've found some amazingly strong cast members with some wonderfully lame material for our midwest debut. Very excited to finally share their stuff.

Newsweek gets Mortified

A while back, we got a call from the nice people at Newsweek saying they wantred to do a piece on Mortified. We replied with something totally mature like "Um, really? Awesome!" The cool thing is that the germ for the story came from one of our die hard fans in LA telling a friend who told friend etc. who happened to be a reporter.

Flash forward: Newsweek just ran the story. We've posted a copy to our website's media section if you want to see. However, if you own a print copy, we can be identified as the story that is not about dead people, starving people or exploding buildings.

And as a clarification, the story also refers to a few other similar-minded shows in a manner that made them sound like they are produced by Mortified. Since a few people have asked, nope, we're not connected. We are the largest and longest running show of its kind. Hope that helps.

Anyway, the fact that this story came about as a direct result of our fans (and not our team's hustling) shows us just how awesome grassroots projects can truly be.

We are forever grateful to our amazing supporters and this is a great example. We hope to continue 'sharing the shame'. You guys rock.