Aran Plays a Game With You + Shlupo Corporation Employee Orientation

These shows are presented as a part of Projectorfest 2024, a four-night showcase of ambitious multimedia-driven comedy projects. More at projectorfest.com. This performance includes two 30-minute shows.

ARAN PLAYS A GAME WITH YOU - Aran Abilock Clemmons

Comedian Aran Abilock Clemmons has appeared! He invites you to join him on a special side quest: a series of three original video games brought to life with live voice acting. Solve mysteries, navigate nightmares, or enjoy a romantic evening with Bowser. Anything is possible in his branching storylines. Well, anything that he’s already programmed. Do you accept his request?

SHLUPO CORPORATION EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION - Rachel Javorsky

You’re hired! Corporate life is the best life, otherwise why would you be living it? In Shlupo Corporation Employee Orientation, a company orientation devolves into shambles and sheds a light on corporate dread in this one-person variety comedy show.

ABOUT THE CREATORS

Aran Abilock Clemmons (Performer/Writer, Aran Plays a Game with You) is a comedian, writer, and sometimes actor. He has produced a multitude of comedy shows across New York, performed in the New York Comedy Festival and written for Reductress. He is also a member of the sketch group Queer Window. @aran_ac

Rachel Javorsky (Performer/Writer, Shlupo Corporation Employee Orientation) is a writer and standup, sketch, and improv comedian who has opened for acts like Colin Jost and Michael Che of Saturday Night Live. Rachel was an Executive Producer/Head Writer for variety comedy show, Tempe Late Night, where she produced and performed an original sketch comedy, improv, and standup show every week. Tempe Late Night was one of the most popular shows in Phoenix, bringing in hundreds of people every week. She has studied at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. She has her BA in Filmmaking Practices with an emphasis in screenwriting from Arizona State University.

Esther Fallick (Various Roles, Aran Plays a Game with You) is a comedian, singer, and musical theater writer based out of Brooklyn, NY. She has been written about in The New York Times, Vulture, Autostraddle, Broadway World, and more. Her one woman show, “Esther Updates Her Book” has played NYC venues including 54 Below and Asylum, and was part of the 2022 New York Comedy Festival. She performs regularly around Brooklyn & Manhattan and you’re just gonna love her :)

Edson Montenegro (Various Roles, Aran Plays a Game with You) is a comedian, actor, and writer based in Brooklyn. They are a performer on Maude sketch night at Upright Citizens Brigade NY, have essays published in Insider, and perform sketch/characters all around NYC, including Union Hall, Asylum NYC, and Brooklyn Comedy Collective.

Marc Jablonski (Additional Music, Aran Plays a Game with You) is a composer and anthropologist who writes for the stage (musicals, plays with music, dance) and the screen (videos & video games). He's currently developing a musical called ROOT VEGETABLES about a trio of queer New Yorkers trying to start a farm utopia in the Catskills. As a researcher and anthropologist, Marc is the head of Business Intelligence at the theater/museum/arts agency AKA NYC. marc.jablonski.us