I'm doing a show at Fringe!
TWINK
OR SWIM
that's me!
that's me!
All three shows are in the Black Box at the Alliance Theatre, inside Trolley Square. Run time is about 50 minutes.
Tickets on sale nowHere's the official word that Twink or Swim is headed to the Great Salt Lake Fringe this July. Three performances, one wooden warship's worth of stories.
I grew up in Salt Lake and came out in 2000 (as Mitt Romney was saving the Winter Olympics), and graduated West High in 2003. After a brief stint with the Howard Dean and John Kerry campaigns, I did what any sensible gay teen would: I enlisted in the U.S. Navy.
I spent four years in the Western Pacific aboard USS Patriot, an Avenger-class minesweeper, visiting more than 30 countries on a mission to clear mines and, you know, meet people. Twink or Swim is about how the Navy is hilarious if you survive it.
These days I'm based in Seattle, where I host and feature at Tacoma Comedy Club and Emerald City Comedy Club, and perform from San Francisco to Vancouver. I was selected twice for The Hollywood Comedy Store's Potluck Show, and have studied under Alice Fraser (The Bugle), Tiff Stevenson (HBO's Avenue 5), and Andrew Frank (Great Salt Lake Fringe, 2022).
I performed my first-ever stand-up set in 2012 at Wiseguys Comedy Club in Trolley Square — the same Trolley Square where I'm doing this run.
Coming back to do an hour of comedy in the city that raised me feels enormous. Fringe shows are original, uncensored, and unadjudicated — exactly the right room for this story.