Welcome to Sacred Fools Theater Company, est. 1997
CLOSE SEASON ONE, July 2005 - July 2006       = Photos  = Videos  = Audio
 7/23/05: Pony Show (12 eps)
 7/23/05: Land of Sleep (1 ep)
 7/23/05: The Brothers Goldfarb (1 ep)
 7/23/05: Improbable Love (2 eps)
 7/23/05: Shitting Devil (2 eps)
 7/30/05: Rock Dicks (2 eps)
 7/30/05: Dr. Mobius & The Spiders From Space (5 eps)
 8/06/05: Zombibi! (6 eps)
 8/06/05: Max (1 ep)
 8/13/05: Posers (1 ep)
 8/13/05: Francesco Vitale (1 ep)
 8/20/05: Lonely Flies the Cormorant (1 ep)
 8/20/05: Punishment (1 ep)
 9/24/05: In Too Deep (9 eps)
 9/24/05: Legendary (1 ep)
10/01/05: Forever Mine (1 ep)
10/01/05: Richard Gere: Vicious Circle (1 ep)
10/08/05: Ghost Chix (1 ep)
10/08/05: Unconception of Ryan Templeton (4 eps)
10/15/05: Cheat (1 ep)
10/15/05: The Lab (1 ep)
10/22/05: The Mechanicals (1 ep)
10/22/05: Something Man (1 ep)
11/05/05: Fast Food Dynasty (1 ep)
11/05/05: The Magic Teenager (3 eps)
11/12/05: The Adventures of Jimmy & Jeb (5 eps)
11/12/05: Break (1 ep)
12/10/05: Liberty City (1 ep)
12/10/05: La Vendetta Cerca (3 eps)
12/17/05: Magnum Opus Theatre (36 eps)
12/17/05: Patti, P.I. (1 ep)
 1/21/06: Bobo the Magic Squirrel (3 eps)
 1/21/06: Freemont Experience (1 ep)
 1/28/06: Merry Christmas, Maggie Bennett (1 ep)
 1/28/06: Gomo Yi-Jo: Ultimate Action Fight (4 eps)
 2/04/06: Virgin Bounty Hunter (2 eps)
 2/04/06: Plan 15 (1 ep)
 2/25/06: Kat Profiler (1 ep)
 2/25/06: Dance! Dance! Dance! (6 eps)
 3/04/06: Inspector Gardens (1 ep)
 3/04/06: An American Education (9 eps)
 3/11/06: Dangerous Children (1 ep)
 3/11/06: What Could Happen? (1 ep)
 3/18/06: Cat Snatch Fever (1 ep)
 3/18/06: Emergency Action Code (1 ep)
 3/25/06: Boy Crazy (1 ep)
 3/25/06: Man-Eating Lasagna (1 ep)
 4/15/06: Easter Bunny/Santa Face-Off 2006 (1 ep)
 4/15/06: Super-Sad She-Beast (2 eps)
 4/22/06: The Okie Chronicles (2 eps)
 4/22/06: Jenna: Jungle Warrior... (1 ep)
 4/29/06: A Night Just Like Tonight (1 ep)
 4/29/06: Neanderthal Love (2 eps)
 5/13/06: Things (1 ep)
 5/13/06: Office Fu (5 eps)
 5/20/06: The Most Beautiful Man In The World (2 eps)
 5/20/06: Norris Hellcat & the Scientology Ray (1 ep)
 5/27/06: How It Ends (1 ep)
 5/27/06: Bedtime Stories (2 eps)
 5/17/06: The Bugadoodles! (3 eps)
 5/17/06: Colonel Sands (1 ep)
 6/24/06: Jimmy Hoffa & the Magic Pie (4 eps)
 6/24/06: Hate Stories (1 ep)
 7/01/06: Morrissey's Time Machine (1 ep)
 7/01/06: Wyoming (4 eps)
 7/08/06: Kick 'Em In the Balls (1 ep)
 7/08/06: Dick & Jane: A Love Story (5 eps)
 7/15/06: Nightlife of the Gods (1 ep)
 7/22/06: Safety Patrol (2 eps)
 7/22/06: Fucked (1 ep)
 7/29/06: THE FIRST ANNUAL THURSTY AWARDS
CLOSE SEASON TWO, Oct. 2006 - July 2007       = Photos  = Videos  = Audio
10/14/06: Roxy in the Foxy Den (3 eps)
10/14/06: Next Week on Barphee's World (3 eps)
10/21/06: lolly!!POP!!superjoyfuntime!! (1 ep)
10/28/06: Glammer (5 eps)
10/28/06: Inside Pieanoxity (3 eps)
11/04/06: Drunk Girl Detectives (1 ep)
11/04/06: The Dadas (1 ep)
11/11/06: Macho Guise (1 ep)
11/11/06: Yonder Realm (2 eps)
11/18/06: Beaverquest! (20 eps)
11/18/06: Dick Cheney Goes to College (3 eps)
12/02/06: Farsonia Forest (1 ep)
12/09/06: AC/DC's Back in Black (2 eps)
12/09/06: The Adventures of Dr. Booth (1 ep)
12/16/06: Once Upon a Time at the End of the World (2 eps)
12/16/06: The Curious Transformation of jak_brown555 (1 ep)
 1/20/07: Wake Up, Wilkes-Barre (1 ep)
 1/20/07: Darque Magick (31 eps)
 1/27/07: Black (2 eps)
 1/27/07: Outside (1 ep)
 2/03/07: Anne Frankenstein: The Musical (1 ep)
 2/10/07: Blackman: The Musical (1 ep)
 2/10/07: League of Heroes (1 ep)
 2/17/07: Blaming Aphrodite (1 ep)
 2/17/07: Tits! Tits! Tits! (1 ep)
 2/24/07: Temp Cop (3 eps)
 2/24/07: Psyche or No Psyche (1 ep)
 3/24/07: The Big House (1 ep)
 3/24/07: Hot Dog City (1 ep)
 4/07/07: Plain English Theatre (1 ep)
 4/07/07: Three Penny Soap Opera (4 eps)
 4/14/07: The Clown Chronicles (1 ep)
 4/14/07: Nature's Odyssey (1 ep)
 4/21/07: The Uncle Buddy LaSalle Show (1 ep)
 4/21/07: Naughty Schoolgirls in Peril (1 ep)
 4/28/07: The Grover Cleveland Story (1 ep)
 4/28/07: Barbara! (9 eps)
 5/26/07: Little Miss Apocalypse (1 ep)
 5/26/07: Rockabilly Billy and the Case of the Stolen Magritte (1 ep)
 6/02/07: The Hitch (1 ep)
 6/02/07: The Breakfast Chronicles (1 ep)
 6/09/07: Backstreet's Back, Alright! (1 ep)
 6/09/07: The Doom (1 ep)
 6/16/07: Giant Monologue (1 ep)
 6/16/07: Little Big Kids (1 ep)
 6/23/07: A Bikini Full Of Trouble (2 eps)
 6/23/07: Down To Earth (1 ep)
 6/30/07: My Night Gets Worse From Here (1 ep)
 6/30/07: Cankles: A Perverted Love Story (2 eps)
 7/14/07: THE SECOND ANNUAL THURSTY AWARDS
CLOSE SEASON THREE, Sept. 2007 - July 2008       = Photos  = Videos  = Audio
 9/29/07: Downtown Vice (1 ep)
 9/29/07: Kabuki No Noroi! (9 eps)
10/06/07: The Vajna Monologues (1 ep)
10/06/07: My Black Heart (2 eps)
10/13/07: Crime Fighting Cheerleaders (1 ep)
10/13/07: Packages (3 eps)
10/20/07: The Joe & Josh Show (1 ep)
10/20/07: Giant Cold Reading (1 ep)
10/27/07: Face the Face of Evil: Noche Negro 5 (1 ep)
10/27/07: Emergence (2 eps)
11/03/07: M-I-S-S-I-S-S-T-E-R-Y (1 ep)
11/03/07: Dearest Herschel (3 eps)
12/01/07: Helter (1 ep)
12/01/07: Dimitri (1 ep)
12/08/07: Bitches (1 ep)
12/08/07: The Machiavellian's Guide to Womanizing (3 eps)
12/15/07: Cutie-Luvums & Snugglebean (1 ep)
12/15/07: Truckstop (11 eps)
 1/26/08: Lola & Olga (1 ep)
 1/26/08: The Cratchit Syndrome (2 eps)
 2/02/08: What Color Is Your Underwear? (1 ep)
 2/02/08: Cannibal Planet (2 eps)
 2/09/08: Buzzy Grovenor's Ding Dong (14 eps)
 2/09/08: Horror Show (1 ep)
 2/16/08: Silhouettes (1 ep)
 2/16/08: Sink & Bookcase: A Love Story (1 ep)
2/23/08: Grandma X (1 ep)
2/23/08: Theatre Mob (2 eps)
3/01/08: The Chair (1 ep)
3/01/08: Bikini Shakespeare (2 eps)
3/29/08: Teatro Estupido (1 ep)
3/29/08: Giant Acting Class (2 eps)
4/05/08: The Afterschool Specialists (12 eps)
4/05/08: Shoob! (1 ep)
4/12/08: Cathy's Clown (2 eps)
4/12/08: Outhouse of Horror (1 ep)
4/19/08: Songs From the Heart (2 eps)
4/26/08: Adventure (1 ep)
4/26/08: The Captive (3 eps)
5/03/08: The Twizone Light (1 ep)
5/03/08: Mike and the Dead Girl (1 ep)
5/31/08: The Further Adventures of Francis Bigelow (1 ep)
5/31/08: The Magnificent Bastards (2 eps)
6/07/08: Glasscock: The Dancical (1 ep)
6/07/08: Paris Is Pissed! (2 eps)
6/14/08: Ruby Lake (12 eps)
6/14/08: Simmons & Woozy, Ninja Detectives (1 ep)
6/21/08: Demon Baby's Dirty Diaper (1 ep)
6/21/08: As the World Churns (2 eps)
6/28/08: Metal Knights (2 eps)
6/28/08: BattleSchool (1 ep)
7/12/08: THE THIRD ANNUAL THURSTY AWARDS
CLOSE SEASON FOUR, Sept. 2008 - July 2009       = Photos  = Videos  = Audio   Yellow = Playoffs Finalists
 9/20/08: Vigilance (1 ep)
 9/20/08: These, The Damned Ones (5 eps)
 9/27/08: The President (1 ep)
 9/27/08: Vatos in Space (16 eps)
10/04/08: The Story of My First Baby (1 ep)
10/04/08: Rose (2 eps)
10/11/08: Calvin and Hobos (1 ep)
10/11/08: Fresshhh (15 eps)
10/18/08: The Bored Identity (1 ep)
10/18/08: C.S.H.I.T. (1 ep)
10/25/08: Mr. Bendernagle's Luau (2 eps)
10/25/08: Emprise (1 ep)
11/22/08: myfacedotcom (1 ep)
11/22/08: Good Cops Don't Cry (7 eps)
11/29/08: Dry Hump the Unlucky Camel (1 ep)
11/29/08: Pretencia! (10 Eps)
12/06/08: Superclutch (2 eps)
12/13/08: The Three Elitists (1 ep)
12/13/08: Chronicles of Dick (1 ep)
 1/31/09: Chick Flick (1 ep)
 1/31/09: A Cat Wrote This Play! (17 eps)
2/07/09: Seamen! The Musical! (8 eps)
2/07/09: Extreme Masturbation (1 ep)
2/14/09: We'll Always Have Nantucket (1 ep)
2/14/09: Hi Hun, I'm Home! (3 eps)
2/21/09: The Chronicles of Mercury (1 ep)
2/21/09: Baboon (1 ep)
2/28/09: The Pembridge Place Panic (2 eps)
2/28/09: The Nitro Hour (1 ep)
3/28/09: Steve!  (10 eps)
3/28/09: The Ballad of Francisco: The Rose of Salsa Dulce (1 ep)
4/04/09: 13th Street  (4 eps)
4/04/09: Mort of the Undead (1 ep)
4/11/09: The Evolution Will Not Be Televised (1 ep)
4/11/09: The Larusso Chronicles (1 ep)
4/18/09: Adventures in White Trash Babysitting (1 ep)
4/18/09: The Sitcom Pilots of Harold Pinter (3 eps)
4/25/09: Cirque du Lune (1 ep)
4/25/09: Carnevil (5 eps)
5/02/09: Last Douche Standing (1 ep)
5/02/09: Skies of Lead and Smoke (1 ep)
5/30/09 - 7/11/09: THE FIRST ANNUAL PLAYOFFS plus THE FOURTH ANNUAL THURSTY AWARDS
CLOSE SEASON FIVE, Sept. 2009 - June 2010       = Photos  = Videos  = Audio   Yellow = Playoffs Finalists
 9/19/09: Negotiate This, Mother Fucker! (1 ep)
 9/19/09: Mysterious Tales of the Traveler (1 ep)
 9/19/09: The Cassette Chronicles (9 eps)  
 9/19/09: Mr. Dickens Goes to Washginton (2 eps)
 9/19/09: Night Waves (7 eps)
 9/26/09: In Abba, We're All Vikings (2 eps)
 9/26/09: The Adventures of Ultra Guy (2 eps)
10/03/09: Pescado y Pecado (2 eps)
10/03/09: Tomorrow Unltd. (1 ep)
10/10/09: Meme (7 eps)
10/10/09: Dunesical: The Musical! (1 ep)
10/17/09: Shecky the Sheen (1 ep)
10/17/09: Obscuro! (4 eps)
10/24/09: Yobots! (1 ep)
10/24/09: Watson (21 eps)
12/05/09: Michael Myers Explores His Feelings (1 ep)
12/05/09: The Poe Show (5 eps)
12/12/09: The Incredible Scooter Cops (17 eps)
12/12/09: Stuck (1 ep)
12/19/09: Spy Temps (1 ep)
12/19/09: The Posthumous Perils of Penny McPoo (1 ep)
 1/16/10: Futtbuckerz! (3 eps)
 1/16/10: Egon Rasmussen: Pagan Cleric (1 ep)
1/23/10: Sunnyville (3 eps)
1/23/10: Fran! (1 ep)
1/30/20: Secret Word (2 eps)
1/30/20: Headshot (1 ep)
2/06/10: Abogados (1 ep)
2/06/10: Bloody Knuckles (7 eps)
2/13/10: Klagdor in "Giant Improv Class" (1 ep)
2/13/10: CSI: Mayberry (1 ep)
2/20/10: Tick Tock (1 ep)
2/20/10: Bootblacks (1 ep)
3/20/10: Sportsballers! (1 ep)
3/20/10: Dogstar (2 eps)
3/27/10: High School Musikal! (3 eps)
3/27/10: Bedfellows (1 ep)
4/03/10: Road to Next Week (1 ep)
4/03/10: Grave Expectations (8 eps)
4/10/10: Horrible: The Mayfly's Life (1 ep)
4/10/10: The Manly Adventures of Manly Men! (8 eps)
4/17/10: The Secret Life of a Joke (1 ep)
4/17/10: Because, or, The Many and Various Uses of the Unbrella (1 ep)
4/24/10: They Should Have Been Counting Sheep (1 ep)
4/24/10: Grip of Violence II (2 eps)
5/22/10 - 6/26/10: THE SECOND ANNUAL PLAYOFFS plus THE FIFTH ANNUAL THURSTY AWARDS
CLOSE SEASON SIX, Sept. 2010 - June 2011       = Photos  = Videos  = Audio   Yellow = Playoffs Finalists
 9/25/10: The Weaver (7 eps)
 9/25/10: Trash-Heap & Seagull (1 ep)
 9/25/10: Dumb Dick (1 ep)
 9/25/10: Supertoast! (5 eps)
 9/25/10: Up, Up & Away (2 eps)
10/02/10: Hipster Holocaust (1 ep)
10/02/10: Lunar Tunes (11 eps)
10/09/10: The Hunchbacks Of Ghastly Hollows (1 ep)
10/09/10: The Ladies (2 eps)
10/16/10: Cell Phoning (1 ep)
10/16/10: Siege Mentality (3 eps)
11/06/10: I, Lipitor (3 eps)
11/06/10: The Untitled Love Project (1 ep)
11/13/10: Lucy Halfpence (1 ep)
11/13/10: Ask Elizabeth (9 eps)
11/20/10: Void World (3 eps)
11/20/10: The Magic Bullet Theory (2 eps)
12/04/10: Memoirs of a Scheissefrau (3 eps)
12/11/10: The Sisters and the Lion (2 eps)
12/11/10: Whaler (8 eps)
 1/22/11: Captain Battle and the Thief of Tomorrow (5 eps)
1/29/11: Bob Dylan's Boner (1 ep)
1/29/11: Max (2 eps)
2/05/11: Tom Thuggery (5 eps)
2/05/11: Jerry & the Storm Trooper (1 ep)
2/12/11: Cool Side of the Pillow (13 eps)
2/12/11: Lonely Intragalactic Overlord Seeks Single Earth Female (1 ep)
2/19/11: In-Digo (1 ep)
2/19/11: The Franco Files (1 ep)
3/19/11: Three Small Words (6 eps)
3/19/11: Palimpsest (6 eps)
3/26/11: A Kind of Love Story (10 eps)
3/26/11: Art of Crime (1 ep)
4/02/11: The Majestic Aspirations of the Domestic Chinchilla by Padraic Duffy (2 eps)
4/02/11: K-BANG! (1 ep)
4/09/11: Wallis in the Morning (1 ep)
4/09/11: The Brutalist (2 eps)
4/16/11: They Call Her... THE SHOCKER (3 eps)
4/16/11: Ulitsa Toskavitz (1 ep)
4/24/11: Pageant Masters! (5 eps)
4/24/11: What Was That? (1 ep)
5/14-6/25: THE THIRD ANNUAL PLAYOFFS plus THE SIXTH ANNUAL THURSTY AWARDS
CLOSE SEASON SEVEN, Sept. 2011 - July 2012       = Photos  = Videos  = Audio   Yellow= Playoffs Serial
 9/17/11: Order In the Court (3 eps)
 9/17/11: ...Depressive Detective's Collective (1 ep)
 9/17/11: Murder She Did! (2 eps)
 9/17/11: Super Zeroes (1 ep)
 9/17/11: Prequels (PLAYOFFS!)
 9/24/11: Hooverville Serenade (PLAYOFFS!)
 9/24/11: Wholesome (1 ep)
10/01/11: The Brown Note (1 ep)
10/01/11: Long Way Back From Hell (PLAYOFFS!)
10/08/11: The Ladies of the Lord (PLAYOFFS!)
10/08/11: Skip, the Lesbian Carnie (1 ep)
10/15/11: McMurray and Son (PLAYOFFS!)
10/15/11: Obamageddon (1 ep)
10/22/11: Henrietta (1 ep)
10/22/11: Dr. Heckle & Mr. Jive (1 ep)
11/12/11: Bollywood & Vine (3 eps)
11/12/11: Sandbox (PLAYOFFS!)
11/19/11: PP@30 (PLAYOFFS!)
11/19/11: Cosmo's Guide for Girls (1 ep)
12/03/11: Control (1 ep)
12/10/11: The Stuff (PLAYOFFS!)
12/10/11: Gruu-Gru (1 ep)
12/17/11: Morte Uccide Un Assassino (Yellow) (1 ep)
12/17/11: Rhyme & Punishment: S.U.V. (2 eps)
 1/21/12: Retribution (PLAYOFFS!)
 1/21/12: Teenage Super-Sleuth (1 ep)
 1/28/12: Space Winter (1 ep)
 1/28/12: Ricky and the Mob (2 eps)
 2/04/12: Social Obligation Theatre (1 ep)
 2/04/12: The New Car (PLAYOFFS!)
 2/11/12: David X Machina: Private Eye (1 ep)
 2/11/12: Dreams May Come (PLAYOFFS!)
 2/18/12: The Long Way Home (PLAYOFFS!)
 2/18/12: Summerville (2 eps)
 2/25/12: I Am the Walrus (1 ep)
 2/25/12: ...Pasquale & Pimm (PLAYOFFS!)
 3/24/12: Stay (1 ep)
 3/24/12: Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, Turn Around (1 ep)
 3/31/12: Whimsy, Inc (1 ep)
 3/31/12: Persona Space (PLAYOFFS!)
 4/07/12: The Greatest Actor, Ever (1 ep)
 4/07/12: Mr. Satan Goes to Wall Street (2 eps)
 4/14/12: Murdercat! (2 eps)
 4/14/12: Jane & Anton (1 ep)
 4/21/12: Posterity (1 ep)
 4/21/12: Cooperation (PLAYOFFS!)
 4/28/12: The Bootleg Agent (1 ep)
 4/28/12: Dracula Bit My Ex-Wife (PLAYOFFS!)
CLOSE MISCELLANEOUS      
10/27/07: A Halloween Song - a song by Richard Levinson
 4/05/08: An Easter Song - a song by Richard Levinson
07/12/08: Patrick Duffy Pays Tribute - Patrick Duffy pays tribute to fallen serials at the 3rd Annual Thurstys
07/12/08: The Proposal Song - a song at the 3rd Annual Thurstys becomes a real marriage proposal!
10/18/08: Biting Political Satire - a song by Richard Levinson
 2/21/09: High Five City - celebrations at our 100th episode
 4/04/09: All The Leaves Are Brown - Terry helps us pass time at vote count
 4/11/09: Dear Back Pain - Joe Hernandez-Kolski wites a breakup letter
 5/02/09: Klagdor & Keely - Klagdor the aspiring-actor robot auditions for "Louis & Keely"
 4/02/11: Send in the Carnies - a song by Richard Levinson
 5/28/11: The Serial Killers Dancers: Bad Karma
 6/25/11: The Serial Killers Dancers: Cannibal
10/08/11: The Serial Killers Dancers: Hell on Heels
 2/11/12: Elvis Prestello: Tramp the Dirt Down
 4/21/12: The Serial Killers Dancers: Backstabber Lady

ZOMBIBI!
written by Bob DeRosa
directed by Ben Rock

6 Episodes
8/6/05 - 10/8/05

This morning, Bibi was a blushing bride. Tonight,
she's dead.  But it'll take more than death to stop
her when she comes back as...ZomBibi!

Episodes 4-6 were entitled "Zombibi! Redemption"

- Photos -

CAST

Dawn Stahlak

 Bibi (Eps. 1-5)

Josh Flaum

 Roger (Eps. 1-3)

Chris Chauncey

 Mark (Eps. 1-4 & 6)

Corey Klemow

 Mark (Ep. 5)

Frank Stasio

 Doctor (Ep. 1)

Tom Kiesche

 Mr. Dark (Eps. 1-2)

Bob DeRosa

 Mr. Dark (Ep. 3)

Audrey Kearns

 Mrs. Dark (Eps. 1-3)

Jason Meyer

 Nurse (Ep. 2)

Andy Corren

 Mr. Case (Ep. 2)

Trey Stafford

 Gibber (Eps. 4-6)

Peggy O'Neal

 Maggie (Eps. 4-6)

Ian Covell

 Sheriff Dixon (Ep. 4)

Matthew Iseman

 Sheriff Dixon (Ep. 5)

Matt Young

 Sheriff Dixon (Ep. 6)

Jay Bogdanowitsch

 Deputy Champ (Eps. 4-5)

Marissa Renee Odom

 Angela (Ep. 6)

PHOTOS

Below photos are from the
First Annual Thursty Awards
re-presentation of Episode 6!


Jaime Andrews as Bibi
- Photo by Amber Rey -


Bibi visits her dad, Mr. Case (Bob DeRosa)
- Photo by Victor Isaac -


Mr. Case & his Nurse (Jason Meyer)
- Photo by Victor Isaac -


Husband Roger (Michael Lanahan) tries to kiss his beloved bride, but
it's not easy when the one you love is decaying at an alarming rate.
- Photo by Victor Isaac -


Mark (Chris Chauncey) reveals that the only way
to slow the decay... is for Bibi to eat human flesh.
- Photo by Victor Isaac -


Roger is captured and tortured by Mr. & Mrs. Dark
(Tom Kiesche & Anna Boroughs)
- Photo by Victor Isaac -


- Photo by Victor Isaac -
 

 

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Banner photo by Haven Hartman, from Act a Lady (2007)
Banner photo by Blake Gardner, from Ivona, Princess of Burgundia (2005)
Banner photos by Brian Taylor, from Watson (2010)
Banner photos by Peter McCabe, from Gorey Stories (2005)
Banner photo by Maia Rosenfeld, from BeaverQuest! The Musical (2008)
Banner photo by Haven Hartman, from Tell the bees. (2004)
Banner photo by Jose A. Fernandez, from The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2007)
Banner photo by Haven Hartman, from Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara (2008)
Banner photo by Jon Beauregard, from Land of the Tigers (2009)