Appearances
AUSTIN FILM FEST
http://www.austinfilmfestival.com/new/
Movies, parties, panels… an excellent celebration of films and film makers. Here’s the panels in which I’ll be participating. They’re open to the public.
10/23 Write What You Know: Comedy, Stephen F. Austin Hotel, Ballroom (1:45pm-3:00pm) I’m moderating Adam Beechen, Jay Edwards, Mike Fry, Terry Rossio
10/25 Breaking into (and Writing for) Animation, Stephen F. Austin Hotel, Ballroom (1:00pm-2:15pm) I’m moderating. Paul Feig, Mike White
10/25 Turning Your Shorts/ Webisodes Into a Film Career, Driskill Hotel, Maximilian Room (2:30pm-3:45pm) Owen Egerton, Ya’ke Smith, Ben Steinbauer
10/25 Write What You Know: Comedy, Driskill Hotel, Maximilian Room (4:00pm-5:00pm) Robert Byington, Owen Egerton, Berndt Mader, Ben Steinbauer
OWEN AND ZACK’S 5th ANNUAL HALLOWEEN BASH!!
http://www.originalalamo.com/Show.aspx?id=6777
On Friday the 30th Zack Carlson and I will host a very cool Alamo Drafthouse Haloween party with prizes (including Rob Zombie tickets), a live stalker, blood and a showing of the overwhelming cool Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Meyers!!! If you don’t come to this, you are so lame! And I’ll tell you that to your face!
TEXAS BOOK FEST
http://www.texasbookfestival.org/2009_Festival_Details.php
A book lovers dream! And all free for the public!
DadLabs’ Guide to Fatherhood: Pregnancy and Year One
11 am Lifestyle Tent (10th & Congress)
We’ll be showing videos, reading and giving all the irreverent advice a parent needs! It might be the strangest thing happening in that tent!
Literary Death Match
2:30-3:30 The Sanctuary (1201 Lavaca, enter from Lavaca St.)
Literary Death Match
It’s like American Idol for writers, without the meanness; judged by Owen Egerton, Richard Russo, and Jane Smiley… I’m feeling a tad out my league.
Great readers too! Jason Sheehan, Jeff Martin, Amelia Gray, Kyle Beachy
8-28-2009
This Saturday (Aug 28th) at 9pm I’ll be performing a monologue as part of a very cool series created by Mystery Science Theater wiz Mary Jo Phel!
We’ll be at the hip little south Austin gem we call Cafe Caffeine
Come on out!
Girls Girls Girls is one of my favorite improv troupes in Austin. These fabulous ladies of craft and comedy make up full length musicals on the spot! Every summer they invite a boys to join them for a show. This week I’m that boy and I feel wonderfully intimidated, excited and thrilled.
Here’s their write up:
Girls Girls Girls presents The Boys of Summer
Men are funny. Really funny. And to celebrate that fact, GGG will be welcoming a different male guest star onstage each week for the eagerly-awaited return of The Boys of Summer. For seven Saturdays in July and August, Girls Girls Girls will perform its signature format — a musical comedy created on the spot from an audience suggestion, complete with storyline, songs, and multiple characters — joined by some of the city’s best male improvisers.
Saturdays at 8:00pm
July 12 through August 23
General Admission $10
Tickets available online or at the Hideout box office 30 minutes before the show
6-26-2009
http://www.americanshortfiction.org/blog/?p=374
Where: Cafe Caffeine, 909 West Mary, Austin
When: 7 pm, Friday, June 26
Who: American Short Fiction
What: Celebrates its Summer 2009 issue with a reading
Come for an evening of music, fiction, and drinks! Christie Hodgen is flying in from Kansas City to read from her brilliant story featured in the current issue; actress Kelli Bland will be performing from Patrick Somerville’s “The Universe in Miniature in Miniature”; and poet Laurie Capps will also read. Emceed by ASF favorite Owen Egerton! Refreshments provided by Live Oak Brewing Company.
September 2008
Friday September 12th 7pm Hideout
http://www.dollarstoreshow.com/faq.html
Owen Egerton and others will be reading new pieces written for the night each based on a different product from a local dollar store. Should be a great night!
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Thursday September 18 7pm - Funniest Fiction (and Non-Fiction) in Austin! - Hosted by Owen
Egerton
Join BookPeople tonight for the Funniest Fiction (and Non-Fiction)
in Austin! Hosted by one of our favorite funnymen, Owen Egerton, get ready
for a night full of laughter. We’ll have authors Les McGeHee, Mary Jo Pehl,
Tony Vigorito and Spike Gillespie here to read from their writing, or maybe
they’ll spice up someone else’s writing with a little bit of humor. We’ll
also have some beer and snacks here to aid in our merriment. Anything goes, so be prepared for some fun!
September Sunday 28 2:30-5PM - Special Banned Books Reading
Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read, and BookPeople is
proud to have an entire day devoted to these wonderful (and sometimes
misunderstood) books. This afternoon we will be hosting some of Austin’s
favorite people as they read passages from banned books. We’ll have Texas
Monthly editor Evan Smith, authors Owen Egerton and Amanda Ward, the soup
peddler David Ansel, and many more Austin celebrities and authors here to
share their love for banned books. Stop by or stay for the entire day’s
festivities!
Twig Bookstore
Thursday August 16th at 5pm
I’ll be reading and signing at The Twig in San Antonio.
Please let all your SA friends know. There’ll be wine, conversation, and I promise to not to grope inappropriately.
The Great 2007 Summer Book Tour
Sat., July 7, 1-3 pm
New Orleans, LA
Garden District Book Shop
Wed., July 11, 7:30 pm
Atlanta, GA
Indie Coffee and Books
Thurs., July 12, 7pm
Charlotte, NC
Park Road Books
Sat., July 14, 7pm
Asheville, NC
Malaprops Bookstore and Café
Wed., July 18, 8pm
Huntington, NY
Book Revue (on Long Island)
313 New York Ave.
Huntington, NY 11743
Thurs., July 19, 6pm
Philadelphia, PA
Robin’s Bookstore
108 South 13th Street
Philadelphia PA, 19104
Plus any Waffle House that will let me read.
May 17th, 7pm, BookPeople. The release of How Best to Avoid Dying. Beer and wine from the Whip In! Music by Southpaw Jones! Readings by me! Hot damnity damn!
Still more Prince Sing Alongs. And the Jiggy Crunk Pop Rap Along starts soon! Plus more.
We’ll be doing one last weekend at Zach: April 20th and 21st. The shows have been seeing out, so get your tickets early.
March 23, 24, 30, 31 and April 1, 6 and 7 I’ll be appearing at Zach Scott Theatre with Les MeGehee, Jodi Egerton and a slew of my favorite people in Plays Well with Others. The show is based on Les’ memoir/how-to-book on improv. I’m also directing. The show is a blast!
Plenty of great Alamo Sing Alongs… Weird Al, Jesus Christ Superstar and the Prince Sing Along!
April 6th is Southpaw Jones’ 30th Birthday. I’ll be there with Cedar Fever and also teaching the world the truth behind the man.
