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Okay folks, I need your help.  By midnight tonight, I need to submit my bio to the assistant director of the show that I am in.  This is what is going to go into the program next to my name and picture.  What should it say?

I’ve decided not to use my actual biography.  Instead, I’d rather set the mood for our comedy with a mostly inaccurate tale of who I am.  Below you will find the four bio’s I have composed for this purpose.  I will submit whichever one you  think is the funniest.  So vote A, B, C or D.  Note also that each of the four contains one little bit of accurate information.  Can you spot that too?

I know which one Denneigh is going to vote for.

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A) Joko was born in the log cabin that he helped his father build on the wide, open prairies of Switzerland.  After years of working the organ grinder circuit, Joko came back to school when the bottom fell out of the ground liver market in 2013.  On the stage, Joko has recently appeared in Gaddafi: The Musical, where he played one of Muammar’s bodyguards, and Come On Down, where he played Johnny Olson in a theatrical representation of life behind the scenes at a game show.  Joko is studying in EDCC’s alcohol chemical dependency department and hopes to become an addictions counselor.

B) As an infant, Joko was the sole survivor of a plane crash which took his parents. They were flying over the wilds of Madagascar on their way to an international convention of  horticulturalists.  Discovered by a band of ring-tailed lemurs, Joko was taken in and adopted by the furry jungle dwellers.  Found as an adolescent by multi-level marketers spreading the good news about Amway, Joko was taken to the Tarzan School of Raised by Animals, and has come to EDCC as an exchange student.  Joko likes climbing trees, eating insects and playing the ukulele.  Trying to reconnect with his origins, Joko is studying horticulture, and is currently completing a special project studying the horculture on Seattle’s Aurora Avenue.

C) Joko is on loan to the Theatre Arts Student Organization from the Royal Genghis Khanian Company of Ulaanbaator, Mongolia.  He has become a bit of a fixture on the EDCC campus, noted for hitching his sturdy, steppe horse, Muffinpoof to the bicycle racks in front of Lynnwood Hall.  Although this is his first appearance on stage in Washington, Joko has received excellent reviews in the Mongolian production of  Michael Stipe’s musical Everybody Yurts as well as playing the lead in Kublai Khan – Superstar.  Joko loves his cat which is named for the Devil, playing lacrosse and bingo.

D) Joko’s passion is politics and is proud to playing the role of Frosine, an alcoholic transgendered human person whose manipulative, conniving ways are but a lifestyle choice and deserving of respect.  Joko was inspired to participate in TASO’s production of The Miser as he feels it represents how capitalism is personified in the title role.  The adopted son of devoted parents who happen to be disabled, lesbian persons of color, Joko is donating his share to your ticket to the Obama 2012 campaign.  Joko has previously appeared on stage in Nader: The Musical, The Assisted Suicide of a Salesman and Annie Get Your Registered, Screened and Useful Just For Hunting Gun.

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Okay, folks, I promise you, you get to decide which Bio appears in our program!  Given that I’ll probably only get 4 or 5 votes this evening, your vote becomes very important!

Heck, for extra credit, try your hand at making a bio for me!  If I like it enough, I’ll just veto the vote and pick your entry!