All Cracked Up: Sketch comedy show, 'Eggselscior!,' takes center stage at The Box

Collaboration is key when it comes to the cast of “Eggselscior!”

The sketch comedy show is the brainchild of Nan Kosar and Wes Swedenberg, who had the idea of creating the show along with many of their “egg friends.”

One of said friends is Sam Quinn.

“Wes and I were in a sketch show before I moved to Los Angeles,” Quinn says. “Nan and I lived in Chicago at the same time and she did a lot of work with Second City. We’re all back in Albuquerque and wanted to do something different.”

The sketch show serves to expand the mind of the audience by tackling modern issues such as dinosaurs, haunted cabins, the 1800s — and, of course, office bathroom politics.

Kosar and Swedenberg are supported in writing and acting by the cast, which includes Elena Warden, Filipe Jeantete, Kevin Bransford, Kelly Shafer, Leslie Nesbit, Quinn, Babaak Parcham, and Danielle Robertson.

“Eggselscior!” will be staged three more times in November. The first is 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, then at 10:15 p.m. Nov. 18, and will finish up at 7 p.m. Nov. 25.

Quinn says the program opens with a traditional sounding Gregorian chant, which is in Latin.

“It’s all about worshipping eggs,” he says with a laugh. “Then this bird hatches. It’s a healthy escape for me to just laugh and use my creative brain.”

Quinn says there are a few egg-themed sketches in the show.

“We all collaborated in the writing of it,” Quinn says. “We all wrote more sketches than we needed and pared it down to an hour’s worth of material. It’s a really bizarre show and features many voices. Some pieces are more straightforward, while others are wildly absurd. Then there are a few that find the middle ground.”

Quinn says one sketch that he participates in surrounds a millennial support group.

“Then it goes off this absurd tangent about space bugs,” he says.

Quinn says there are a couple of musical sketches and they tried to keep it family friendly.

“There are a few cuss words,” he explains. “But we’ve tried really hard to keep it for all audiences.”