Pop-Up Performance:

ChipandGus

By John Ahlin & Christopher Patrick Mullen

Saturday, May 23 at 2p
Saturday, May 23 at 7p
Sunday, May 24 at 2p

Adult Tix $20 (+$5 fee)
Youth Tix $15 (+$5 fee)

Chip and Gus, oddball acquaintances, meet once a month in the grungy back room of an upstate New York sports bar, to do the one thing they love...play ping pong. But this night is different...this night there is something else in the room. Gus (John Ahlin), a flamboyantly stoic professor of Philosophy and socially inept genius, spouts jokes and pedantry. Chip (Chistopher Patrick Mullen), is a goofy struggling music teacher and composer, whose life hangs by a thread. On this particular evening, Chip and Gus are on a collision course...only they don’t know it.

This spectacular, gripping, rapid-fire human symphony took FringeNYC by storm - celebrated as Winner Overall Excellence Award for Ensemble. Born in a Philadelphia-area garage, ChipandGus comes home for a not-to-be-missed weekend of Pop-Up performances at Hedgerow Theatre, in Media, PA. Catch the production before it volleys across the Atlantic for the world-renowned Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer

‘★★★★ Bright, funny and cathartic. An emotionally resonant buddy comedy for thinking audiences’ -TimeOut New York
‘One of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen’ -BroadwayRadio

Check out the trailer for ChipandGus and get your tickets today!

About Christopher Patrick Mullen and John Ahlin

Christopher Patrick Mullen (Co-writer/Performer) —Previously at Hedgerow: It’s A Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol Comedy. Other recent credits include: The Pirates of Penzance, Antony & Cleopatra, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Macbeth (Quintessence Theatre); The U.S. Premiere of Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and ChipandGus (Bridge Street Theatre); West Side Story (1st National Tour); The Runner Stumbles (Off-Broadway); Birds of North America (Chester Theatre); Hapgood (Lantern Theatre); Assassins, Cabaret, Metamorphoses, Macbeth, A Little Night Music, Candide (Arden Theatre); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Noises Off, Rumors, Leading Ladies, ChipandGus (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina); A founding artist of Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, productions there have included The Tempest, Sense and Sensibility, Henry IV Parts One & Two, Irma Vep, Shakespeare In Love, Dracula -the Journal of Jonathan Harker, Richard II, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Pericles, Henry VIII, Charley’s Aunt, Hamlet, The Glass Menagerie, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, and Macbeth; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, and Dracula... (Orlando Shakespeare Theatre). TV: Law & Order, FBI; Training: DeSales University. His play ChipandGus (co-written with John Ahlin) has been produced at Baltimore Center Stage, Proctors Theatre, Centenary Stage, The New York Fringe Festival (Best of Fringe Award), SoHo Playhouse, and will be featured at The Edinburgh Festival (summer 2026)! CPM is a People’s Light veteran of numerous productions over 30 years (from 1989 to 2020). He is an avid acting teacher and audition coach—www.christopherpatrickmullen.com

John Ahlin (Co-writer/Performer) acting credits on Broadway include; Waiting for Godot, Journey’s End (2007 Tony Award Best Revival), The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Voices in the Dark, One Mo’ Time, Whoopee! and Macbeth. Off-Broadway John portrayed Orson Welles in Orson’s Shadow at The Barrow Street Theatre. Regional credits: The Shakespeare Theatre in DC, The Guthrie, The Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Center Stage, St. Louis Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Old Globe Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Studio Arena, McCarter Theatre, Syracuse Stage, George Street Playhouse, and Goodspeed. TV credits include Law and Order: SVU, Late Night with David Letterman, Third Watch, The Education of Max Bickford, and the Coen Brothers’ movie Inside Llewyn Davis. As a playwright, John has had his award-winning play Gray Area receive highly acclaimed productions in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Off-Broadway. His My Witch: The Margaret Hamilton Stories has had several highly acclaimed performances throughout the Northeast. And 2 new plays are in the docket: Charlotte Charke and Mama Sapiens, about the mother of us all. www.johnahlin.com