What are the Pork Filled Players? The Pork Filed Players is Seattle second oldest sketch comedy group. Since 1997, PFP has been the Northwest's premiere Asian American sketch comedy group, touring from Eugene, Oregon to Vancouver, BC, racking up appearances at the very first two Seattle Sketchfests, Bumbershoot 2004 and SketchOff@%#?!, the first international Asian sketch comedy competition. Over the years, the Players have employed an ever changing cast of characters in their never-ending battle for truth, pursuit of justice and finding out whatever the hell they mean by the American way of life in the 21st Century. Didn’t you used to be a multicultural comedy group? Well, yeah...And we were an Asian Americn group before that. Now we're that again. Wanna make something about that, bub? Oh...so where did you get your name? From the local Japanese supermarket lunch menu. No, seriously, where did you get your name? Like we said. Now, come on... Hey, we wanted something funny. We wanted something non-mainstream...but not OBVIOUS like Chop Suey Theatre or the Rainbow Grotto Warriors. The Pork Filled Players is perfect: Asian food reference, funny, refers to acting (ham)...and nobody else would ever think of the name. Of course, most groups have the self respect to call themselves something else... So what makes you think you can pull this off? Hey, we may be relatively new, but we ain’t no spring chickens. Wait a minute. Let’s rephrase this... The Players are a blend of the old and new, a potent combo of veteran hands and fresh, new faces to the world of theatre. On the one hand, the group can tap the talent of folks who’ve worked in theatre for over two decades, working on shows with folks like David Hwang and Phil Gotanda (before they had pretentious middle names). On the other, we have folks who are making their first professional appearances on stage anywhere, and bring fresh perspectives to the PFP mix. The Players have roots that stretch back to earlier groups. The founders of PFP have also worked on NWAAT’s 11:07 Late Night and OPM. These folks have taken their experience with those groups and applied it to a new formula to make it bigger and better than ever.