Customer Service

Vera’s balancing a near-perfect career in customer service with a budding romance that you, her customers, never asked to witness. While she's more than happy to double-check your authorization forms and provide the proper signatures required for your unprecedented request, she’s kind of busy right now.

Mind if she places you on a brief hold?

Customer Service is a fully immersive, mostly-clown, and partly existential unraveling of the roles we inhabit, the beliefs we unconsciously cling to, and what remains beneath them.

Audiences describe Customer Service as:

"Wonderfully baffling and hilarious with surprising pathos at the end."
"An incredibly real depiction of someone who encourages classroom participation for the sole purpose of proving her power over them"
"A liminal space that feels genuinely eerie"
"The audience was present and leaning in the entire time, which is a testament to the world she’s built"

General/All Ages
50
Clown, Immersive, Comedy, Devised, Solo Performance
The Hideaway at Rise‎ Comedy
1260 22nd St, Denver, CO 80205

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Meg Cantwell - Creator & Performer: Meg is a Boulder-based performance artist. Her comedic journey started in Boston with ImprovBoston & a long-form narrative indie improv team "Bearskin Rug" until moving to Colorado in Fall 2024 with her cat pals. She began exploring clown via Chaos Bloom Theater in the summer of 2025 and has been hooked ever since. Her surrealist, absurdist work often begins as a personal thought experiment and later, unfolds into a journal entry, a spoken-word poem, or, in this case, a solo show. She's grateful for the supportive, oh-so-talented and welcoming Denver clown community & the various stages around Greater Denver that share their spaces for experimental comedy.

Alice Gillette - Director: Alice Gillette is a Denver-based director, producer, and teaching artist. She’s the founder of Denver’s Freaky Weeky Clown & Alt-Comedy Festival. Her solo show, Meat Show in Space, debuted at the 2025 Denver Fringe Festival and went on to run at iconic venues across the US including The Elysian (LA) and Pig Iron Theatre (Philly). Alice’s outside eye methodology is consent-forward and informed by her training with The Idiot Workshop, Cassie Ahiers, and Anne Zander. She specializes in helping performers find visceral, grounded inspiration to build layered, handcrafted worlds. Her work as a creator and educator has been featured by Colorado Public Radio and Denver Westword.

This show really feels like the definition of clown. Meg can make you laugh without even talking! I’ve seen this show multiple times and I would see it multiple more! The more I think about this show the more I realize how much deeper it is. There is a moment towards the end where you feel the air in the room change from Meg’s acting. I really cannot wait to see what she will do next!!!
This was something I caught a glimpse of at Freaky Weeky Fest and seeing its longer form is such a treat. Meg Cantwell is impossible to look away from. She’s such a sincere performer.

I could see Alice Gillette’s fingerprints on this thing, too because it’s one just so deeply absurd and the character knows who they are at every turn (even before the audience does).

I teared up a bit at the end because of how immersed and honest Meg’s performance was.
Absurdity in its finest. Give me more!
Customer Service was delightfully unhinged!! Meg’s facial expressions alone are worth seeing! Equal parts, impressive, entertaining, and slightly terrifying.
So playful and sweet. We love Vera!
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The Hideaway at RISE Comedy

1260 22nd Street, Denver, CO 80205

Entrance: The entrance is on 22nd Street between Larimer & Lawrence.

Parking: Street parking and nearby lots (https://www.bestparking.com/denver-co-parking/)

Accessibility: RISE is wheelchair accessible

Admission: You must show your ticket confirmation or purchase a ticket at the venue; all seating is general admission, audiences will wait in a queue before entry to the show