Past Shows

Tomboys in Fishnets signature style goes beyond their unique cross-dressing-character mark.  It offers a finely-tuned balance of gutter-level low-brow, and Rhodes scholar high-brow, “take-no-prisoners”, humor with a lightning pace (nearly 20 sketches in under an hour), all wrapped up in theme-based productions that close with a sexy strip number.  Since 2001 Tomboys in Fishnets have captured the hollers and hoots of  Hollywood hipsters, the bellows of their seasoned elders, and the reluctant chortles of their more jaded “make me laugh” neighbors.

“Caught in Red Tape” 2005 — Tomboys in Fishnets fifth all-original production explored the ridiculous world of bureaucracy.  These lightening fast sketches (18 in under an hour) skewered some of life’s frustrating  moments.  Think waiting in line at the post office… “Can I please just have some *&&**%!!! stamps?,”  an ambulance chaser who parks his butt in the ER, or imagine Paris Hilton at the DMV.    “Caught in Red Tape” featured more than 50 unforgettable characters in a smorgasbord of intellectual, political, social, locker room, and even from-the-gutter comedy.  No doubt our audience identified with the troupe’s slanted take on “battling the system.”

“Caught in Red Tape” ran for 5 months including a stint at “The New York Underground Comedy Festival.”   They also were recommended by the L.A. Weekly,  were “featured” on Flavor pill L.A. and garnered a cover story in the “Rave” section of  “The Daily Breeze.”

“Voyage d’Amour” 2004 — Tomboys in Fishnets’ fourth all-original production was an intense, hour-long set of 17 high octane sketches.  It followed a crew of intergalactic optimists on their search for “the-ever-elusive-thing-called-love.” Throughout their journey they met those who would do anything to please in exchange for love, those who settled for the four-legged love, those who only faintly remembered love, and those who would go under the knife to improve their chances at love.

“Voyage d’Amour” ran for 5 months,  took the Tomboys all the way to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as well as landing them several cover stories and a LA.COM “Pick for the week”

“The Shoe Show” 2003 — Tomboys in Fishnets’ third original production — hooks right into every person’s unique, never neutral, and sometimes bizarre relationship to shoes.  This batch of sketches highlighted Tomboys’ style of layered writing, intense pacing and varying, but ultimately related vignettes.  “The Shoe Show” showed a bit more of the ridiculous side of Tomboys eclectic sense of humor.  It also got them several featured stories as well as landing them on an episode of “Celebrity Justice” after one reporter outed NBC for “ripping off” their add campaign.

“The Shoe Show” ran for 6 months with an encore performance at Comedy Central Stage.

“Hollywood” 2002  the land of milk and honey… fame and glory!   Or is it the sun-saturated dusty land of starry-eyed Sooners, weary immigrants, surly movie extras, ballsy bag ladies and fame-craving waiters?  “Hollywood” – Tomboy’s second all-original production — uncovered the “real deal” of this town!   Tomboys also begin to see brighter days with a recommendation from the LA Weekly and Garry Marshall attending a performance… Yo!

“excels at skewering male stereotypes without leaving a bitter feminist aftertaste…  take-no-prisoners comedy that’s so funny it hurts”                                                                                 -L.A. Weekly 2002

“I loved your show!  Happy Days to you!”                – Garry Marshall 2002

“Who’s Holding the Remote?” 2001,  was Tomboys in Fishnets’ groundbreaking inaugural show. Their lowest brow show to date, “Remote” spoofed  the world of Television.  It received so much anger from the press that it drove Tomboys creator into a drunken tailspin that left her sobbing on her bathroom floor at 4 am  “Why do they hate me so much?”

In spite of the reviewers disdain for the production. “Remote” ran for 5 months to numerous sold audiences.

“They’re getting away with the kind of humor for which an all-male troupe could be picketed, if not sued.” 

-Backstage West, 2001

“the material tends to be crude and sexually obsessed …this is a show strictly for the undiscriminating.”         

-L.A. Weekly 2001