p_whamMelwood Screening Room

April 16
8 p.m.
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Fresh on the heels of their debut on Adult Swim, the arts collective Wham City is making a stop in the Burgh. Based in Baltimore, Wham City rolls into town as part of a month-long multi-media comedy tour of the US and Canada.

The group’s latest show consists of a 75-minute multi-media performance featuring four contemporary comedians presenting original videos, skits, stand-up and monologues. Performing as part of the current Wham City tour are alt-comedians Alan Resnick, Ben O’Brien, Robby Rackleff and Mickey Freeland. Recently, the troupe unveiled a mock infomercial directed by O’Brien and Resnick, originally created for its Live Forever As You Are Now tour, which debuted on Adult Swim.

Opening the 2014 Wham City Comedy Tour is local emerging stand-up comedian Molly Sharrow. Rounding out the bill at Melwood will be artist Rem Lezar of Everything Is Terrible!, the planet’s only psychedelic found footage comedy website which also tours with live shows including puppets and multi-media work.


Jennifer has worked at the Mattress Factory, Brooklyn Museum of Art and Dahesh Museum of Art and is co-author of Pittsburgh Signs Project: 250 Signs of Western Pennsylvania. She also is co-coordinator of Handmade Arcade. Musically, she is in a band called The Garment District and is a founding member of Brooklyn's The Ladybug Transistor.