KC FRINGE FESTIVAL 2025
Performances July 17-27
Visual Art July 06-26
Film July 18-20
KC FRINGE FESTIVAL 2025
Performances July 17-27
Visual Art July 06-26
Film July 18-20
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Show Description
If you were offered one last, harrowing job, would you take it?
The choice is yours in this hilarious, high-stakes heist! Pick a crew, brave missions, and laugh through the criminal hijinks that compose this interactive sketch comedy story. Which ending will you find?
Featuring Kansas City’s Best Improv and Sketch Troupe (The Pitch 2023-24), and the writers behind Sketches From the Fourth Dimension (Best Original Script, KC Fringe 2024), The Bird Comedy Theater presents “An Anarchy Heist Show.”
The Bird Comedy Theater is Kansas City’s Best Comedy Club (The Pitch KC). Featuring Improv, Sketch, Stand-Up & More every week in the Crossroads Arts District. Give Your Week The Bird.
www.TheBirdKC.com
Cast and Crew
Forest Kinsey (director)
Cody Lindenberger (director)
Tiffany Michelle
Sydney Ragsdale
Sadie Teel
Michael Stoufer
Nathan Thomas
Lily Gojcevic
Hannah Unruh
Tay Castillo
Seth Gordon
Kristin Muelleman
Gabi Sa Teles
Bobby Miller Jr.
Artist & Show Details:
The Bird has been a part of Fringe for about 3 years as a venue and participating theater company. Cody Lindenberger premiered in 2023 with the stand-up show Uber Lawyer. Forest Kinsey first participated in 2021’s virtual Fringe with the film DramaUrge; he since collaborated with filmmakers Sadie Teel and Marcus Leacox to produce 2023’s Nervous Energy: Two Weirdos Films, and 2024’s The Weirdos Comedy Hour film showcases. Forest produced the video interstitials for Danielle Anderson’s The Greatest Garage Sale Ever, and featured in Jamie Campbell’s 2124 character revue, both in 2024. Together, they wrote and directed 2024’s Sketches from the Fourth Dimension.
Kelsey Coon –
This show made me laugh so much! Making choices, a vending machine, an international trip, a theme song … I had a great time!
LMM –
Fabulous show – I expected nothing less from this great group of actors. Thanks so much for the laughs!!
Dawn Payn (verified owner) –
I laughed so much I almost did a spit-take with my drink! Twice!
Lesa Patterson-Kinsey –
Sure, I’m a bit biased but loved the show’s concept of choose you own adventure where we, the audience, got to vote for the next move! Going to have to come back again and see if we can get the vending machine on stage. Come on, folks if one of the choices is snacks, it’s always snacks!. Thanks for a fun night, really needed it!
Ken Kinsey –
I really enjoyed this creatively written and performed comedy from the Anarchy Fun Time Show performers. While I always look forward to the monthly Anarchy show at The Bird, I’m even more so looking forward to seeing offering again. To experience how my vote can twist the sketches in a new, perhaps even more riotous direction.
CRL –
Fantastic show with a game cast, very fun to be a part of!
Aaron Mayer –
The amount of preparation that must have been involved for a choose your own adventure show is amazing! I laughed very hard especially at the explosive ending. Awesome job!
Michael –
What an ambitious show! You, the audience, gets to choose what happens in the show. I know I have a bit of regret not choosing certain paths, in part because the narrator of the show brought out characters that we weren’t going to see as a result of our choices. For shame!
From the very pleasurable opening sequence all the way to the credits, this show is a blast. I was laughing the entire time. I want to go again to see what I missed the first time!
Russell Galloway –
The show was so fun and funny. They left no crumbs on the plate. The concept was incredibly ambitious and detailed. Completely blown away by how much work they must have put in to pull it off. Truly outstanding!
JT –
What an absolutely hilarious show. I had tears a couple of times I was laughing so hard. Amazingly talented cast. The whole concept of a “choose your own adventure” show and all that goes in with it is insane and they pull it off so well. Do not miss this show.
Garrett S –
Truly a feat of sketch-writing. I am so happy I got to watch this, definitely a unique show.
Jackson Miranda –
A joy to watch! The hilarious performances from the cast and format of the show keep you engaged throughout! Definitely worth seeing
Jamie –
As someone who went to two shows so far, it has been so fun to see the differences that your picks lead to. I highly recommend seeing it more than once! I hope to see a few more to see the additional characters.
Aleyoiss –
I was laughing non-stop. I enjoyed the show throughout, before seeing it I was very curious about how the “choose your own adventure” format would work and I was delighted to be part of the people choosing the curse of the show. The basic premise just killed me, plus the way everything got interwoven; the premise, the performances, including video elements and the unique characters left me in awe. I specially loved Mr. Orbison. What a joy to watch!!!
David –
Despite “Anarchy” being in this show’s title, there’s a decent amount of democracy present due to the “Choose Your Own Adventure” gimmick this show relies on. The voting system gets you so invested into the plot and characters that you really end up genuinely caring about how your choices affect the story. The real anarchy comes into play in each scene with it’s wacky characters and ridiculous circumstances that go far beyond your wildest expectations in so many delightful and hilarious ways. Major props to the cast that has to put on this show each time not fully knowing what role they will play. That kind of talent makes this show worth your time to see!
Dawn Payn (verified owner) –
Can’t say enough good things about this show! I’ve seen it twice now and they were nearly completely different shows and both were hilarious!
Bobby McCosky –
I’m familiar with Cody and Forest’s work, so I knew this would be crazy, and it was. I mean, a choose your own adventure sketch show with hundreds of possible combinations of shows you could see? You could easily be distracted during the show just thinking about, “how many lines of dialogue did everyone have to remember? How many paths could we really go through?” But don’t get distracted by that! Enjoy the superb cast, the fun elements of voting to decide the shows fate, and all the prerecorded sketches mixed with even live improv elements for certain parts.
Brian Z (verified owner) –
Just glorious! I have no idea how they pulled this off. Absolutely brilliant!
LMM –
Went back for a second time with a friend who had yet to see it. It was a completely different show. I laughed just as hard as the first time. So much fun!
Danielle Anderson –
A well conceived sketch show that feels high brow, but still packs fun jokes and random delights! The audience gets to choose the adventure, so the show can be seen several times! Kudos to the writers and actors for learning so many variations, and the tech for supporting whichever way the story goes!
Jessy B Goode –
Credit to the writing and the incredible actors who memorized all 2000+ possibilities that this show could be. A choose your own adventure sketch show where you, the audience, can choose. The laughter kept coming, and coming. If you’ve seen it, you’d get this joke.
Amanda Matteucci –
What an incredibly impressive show! While I do have a bias towards loving the Anarchy Fun Time Show cast, this show BLEW ME AWAY. The transitions were seamless, the characters were hilarious, believable, and charming. The voting for each option felt like a hilarious bit in itself rather than just a process to move the story forward.
Cody as the narrator brought a lot in his short moments running the votes. Lily, Tiffany, Forest, and Nathan all did amazing work as the main cast members. Their acting and writing was so compelling that I really forgot they were being played by my friends. Huge shout out to Ryan as well who was in one show only, but completely knocked it out of the park in every role he played. Although we sadly missed out on a performance from Seth as the vending machine due to audience choices, I appreciated the on stage goodbye to his character.
And I have to shout out Tay whose Farty Marty character had us all saying “awwww” as he took off on a date with Sweaty Betty. Also, Kacy’s performance as the bank worker across from a very Sweaty Betty absolutely cracked me up. Huge shout out to Sadie and Bobby as well for their hilarious henchmen characters who had no business bringing those weapons on a plane, but as Tiffany said, “Suspend your belief a bit!”
Fantastic work everyone! This show left me feeling all warm and fuzzy (and I swear I didn’t even touch the orb). Don’t miss your chance to see Anarchy Heist!!
Trish Berrong –
This kind of show is EXACTLY why audiences flock to The Bird (this show demands puns): 100000000% commitment to delivering an irreverent, ridiculous, tongue-shoved-firmly-in-cheek take on the subject matter. You’ll laugh. You’ll groan. You’ll get a little pissed off at the rest of the audience because they didn’t vote for the vending machine.
Trish –
This kind of show is EXACTLY why audiences flock to The Bird (this show demands puns): 100000000% commitment to delivering an irreverent, ridiculous, tongue-shoved-firmly-in-cheek take on the subject matter. You’ll laugh. You’ll groan. You’ll get a little pissed off at the rest of the audience because they didn’t vote for the vending machine.
kevin schilling (verified owner) –
loved the audience interaction.