Nominated for the 2004 American Theatre Critics/Steinberg New Play Award and the Osborn Award!

"Hilarious ... Jason Neulander's production arrives whip-smart, allowing enough air between the funny bits for Dietz's gorgeously poetic language. Designer Chase Staggs suggests an office with rolling towers of filing cabinets. The cast is first-rate. ... TempOdyssey stands shoulder to shoulder with the best plays written in Austin." -- Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, June 9, 2003

Only two years after the smash hit Tilt Angel, Salvage Vanguard Theater presents another world premiere production from the award-winning team of playwright Dan Dietz and director Jason Neulander. tempOdyssey fuses the epic drudgery of temp work with the epic mythology of The Odyssey. It's a comedy. It's a love story. It's a horror story. And much, much more.

Genny is a temp. It's her first day working as a receptionist for a bomb manufacturer. When her past and present lives collide, the results are explosive.

Starring Joey Hood, Lowell Bartholomee, Shannon Grounds, Douglas Taylor, and Jenny Larson as Genny.

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"It wasn't me. It was the black hole."		"So, this is the front desk."

"I am balanced, like a buddha..."		"I told Carl Sagan he was a doofus."

"What'd you break, you little bitch!"

"AHA!"		"Thank you, Jim." "NOOOO!"

"You can quit."

Photos above by Chris Rake

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Douglas Taylor, Jenny Larson, and Shannon Grounds		Jenny Larson and Joey Hood

Photos by Sarah Bork Hamilton