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8:00 PM

8:00 PM

8:00 PM

8:00 PM

Friday

3/22 - 4/5

Sketch

8:00 PM

Mainstage

Put on your business casual polos and branded company pullovers and join us for This Isn't Working, a full-length sketch show about day jobs, corporate culture, labor, and the personas we put on to function at work. Directed by Second City performer Laura Maynard, it covers rare and weird employment situations, quiet quitting, the office holiday party, hazing during job interviews, and breaking up with your work spouse, exploring the way our work shapes (and erodes) our identities, relationships, habits, and values. Also, it contains no unprofessional behavior or language at all. We swear.

This Isn't Working

Show Program - Cast & Creative Team

Program
Alexander Habiby

Alexander Habiby

Alexander Habiby is comedic actor and musical improvisor producing and performing in shows around Chicago including Second City, the iO Theater, and of course the great Annoyance. He co-produces and stars in Annoyance's This Isn't Working sketch show where he satirizes professional culture.

Burell Kingery

Burell Kingery

Burell has been in Creature Feature since the beginning. Of time. He is very grateful for the opportunity to keep performing with this group Because when the show ends he'll instantly age to ash like the Portrait of Dorian Gray. A special and annoying repeated thanks to Kevin Dolan and Judson Russel, they created a wonderful show and are just pretty cool people in general. You can also find Burell at Otherworld on Saturdays directing Vaultprov, and if things shake out you can also see his show Poeprov somewhere right now. @vaultprov, @poeprov, @creaturefeature, @ you right now in real life reading this.

Christopher Ward

Christopher Ward

Chris Ward is an actor/improviser that hails from the land of Tennessee. He graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with a B.A. in Theatre. Since then he's studied at The Second City and graduated from both the Improv and Musical Improv Conservatory programs. Now he performs with many groups around the city, a few of these include: Wet Pizza, Hooked Up, and Summer Scaries. When he's not performing, you'll find him in the gym trying to obtain the physique of Season 3 Uncle Iroh, drinking too much caffeine, or simply trying to live the pirates' life. He would not be where he is today without the insane support from his family and friends.

Dan Hickey

Dan Hickey

DAN HICKEY (he/they) is psyched to make his mainstage debut at The Annoyance in This Isn’t Working. He performs standup comedy and improv all over Chicago with Backpack Full of Rats and is the co-host and producer of Gay for Pay, an all-LGBTQ+ variety show at Bughouse Theater. You can find him on all social media platforms @thedthickey.

Fae Lily

Fae Lily

Fae Lily (she/her) is from Oak Park, IL and graduated the University of Iowa with a Masters in Higher Education. She has completed both Second City’s Grad Revue and iO’s level 5. You can see her preform as herself and with Supermoon. She also moonlights as a TTRPG Game Master for Rough Magic Co. Since she spends most of her time pretending to be other people in different worlds, she has begun to see reality with a little more whimsy. She knows that a hard world must be met with the joy you can find inside it, and strives to laugh alongside others every day.

Thea L. Anderson

Thea L. Anderson

Thea L. Anderson (she/they) is a Chicago-based writer, performer, musician, and producer. Previous Annoyance credits include Summer Scaries; Let's Play a Game; This Isn't Working; Clockblockers; and Trigger Happy Lab Cast. Other credits include: Lake Effect (Gold Comedy); PortalProv (Otherworld Theatre); Hooked Up: The Improvised Musical About YOUR Love Life (various venues); and Miss Rhonda's Halloween Special (Second City).

Life goals include becoming a pop star in middle age, rescuing seven senior dogs, fully renovating their own house, and being sponsored by Celsius energy drinks. (Seriously, Celsius, call them.)

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