The Double Barrel Trio
are a Brooklyn-based performance group who combine improvisation, masks, clowning, puppetry, and video to create a uniquely incendiary, ridiculous, and strangely satisfying blend of performance mania.
First Double Barrel
Steven Ryan on Steven Ryan: I work for a government agency. At any time I can drop off the face of the Earth for a week or so and reappear in society as if nothing ever happened. I own my own bowling shoes. I can build a satellite dish out of a garbage can lid and rubber tubing. On my day off I like to continue my quest for the Holy Grail. I was at the Grassy Knoll. I know the names of Donald's nephews, Snow White's dwarves, and all one hundred Smurfs. Yellow is my favorite color. I have written novels, screenplays, Hallmark cards, and my own version of the Bible. I have translated the Dead Sea scrolls into the ancient language of the Aztecs, because it only rhymes in ancient Aztecaneze.I know the rules to Macedonian pinochle and even own my own deck of cards. I am expertly knowledgeable in the use of all weaponry, but no one still living can attest to my ever using any. For a week and a half I tried smoking sausage, but I couldn't keep it lit. I once travelled to Brentwood, California and lost my favorite pair of Bruno Mali shoes.All of my children and a star system are named for me. I have heard the missing 16 minutes of the Nixon tapes. Although I have never met God, people say I look like him. Not a day goes by when I am not mentioned in the news. My good looks are responsible for my modeling career, my low mortgage rate, and global warming. My gas tank is full, but my diary is empty. At night I perform back-alley circumcisions. I have sex at least twice a day, but not necessarily with a partner. I have a cure for the common cold but you can't afford it. I am a vigilante, complete with tights an cape. I taught Michael Flatly how to dance and Johnny Bravo the squirt-slide stance. I change my oil every 3000 miles. I abduct aliens. I started smoking to quit chewing gum. I have spent at least ten minutes on each of the seven continents. My DNA holds the key to world peace. I like PB and J. I am the voice of Elmo. I tend my own wounds, cut my own hair, and make my own ear muffs. I have above top-secret clearance. I am independently broke. Aunt Jebedisa loves me. I once walked away from a pool table with $80,000 but was stopped by a security guard. I have been photgraphed naked. Translated into any language my name means "chestnut". Satan fears me. I surf the net. I have sung on Broadway. I am the sixth Beatle. I know both spellings of Chanukah. I can program a VCR. I don't care what day it is. I never get lost. I have designed a space station out of Legos. I will be performing in "Spencer Pratt Must Die".
Second Double Barrel
Alan Barnes Netherton loves to eat fried chicken and mash potatoes, skip rocks with his homeboy Chuck Norris, and tame wild unicorns. Alan likes to take a serious picture and howl at the moon. This gentleman has encountered alien tecknowledgy on more than a few occasions and possibly outsmarted it with a hand puppet and throwing his voice(... we're still waiting on that one.) He was recruited by the CIA at eighteen years of age but turned it down becuase that kind of stricture cramps his style...and if you want a killer-diller recipe for taco soup; he's got some gangster sh*t for you.
Third Double Barrel
Josh Adler is the camera guy.
