I just found out that two of Portland’s most theatrical personalities (and most newly minted playwrights), Storm Large and Marc Acito will be going head to head in the bidding wars at Friday’s Commission! Commission! event.

Attendees will have the pleasure of bidding on a package that includes watching Storm sing a newly minted song on the subject of your choice (with lyrics by the lyrical Sam Gregory and music by the legendary Rick Lewis) or bidding on a playlet by the man who was “too jazz hands for Juliard.”

Sounds like fun to me. There’s a bunch of other very interesting playwrights up for bid, including the always astonishing Constance Congdon and the man who who re-envisioned “It’s a Wonderful Life” as a one man stage journey, Steve Murray. Check out the list of playwrights and decide who you’d like to bid on here.

Marc and Storm are my favorites in the speculation as to who will score the most money for JAW at this hilarious instant playwriting event. What do you think? Will Storm give it the one-two punch TKO or will jazzier hands prevail?

Of course, the two are more comfortable being collaborators than competitors.

According to Marc Acito’s blog, he and Storm have been spending some time being writing buddies at her house. Marc’s working on a follow up to his two hilarious books (How I Paid for College: a Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater and Attack of the Theater People) while Storm is working on the first draft of her autobiographical musical, Crazy Enough, which will premiere on our Studio stage in the spring (and be workshopped at JAW this weekend).

When they’re not writing together, they’ve been known to burn barbies and lie around naked.

Should make for an entertaining duel. Check out the aftermath at the free public performance of the Commission! Commission! plays this Friday at 9:00 pm.

Or claim them for your very own by joining in the auction. I’m thinking of selling my car to underwrite my bid…