The Actors Alliance of San Diego is back with style, sass and fun in the 16th year of its Actor’s Festival.

Peppered in between the plays are riotous skits written by and starring Travis Sentell and Phil Johnson. The two play off each other well in oddball sideshow performances -- as a nervous magician and his uncooperative volunteer; and a shy loser who just got dumped and a lusty, ambisexual mentoring Frenchman, among others. The various characters play into to the younger Sentell’s sweet, boy-next-door looks and Johnson’s robust voice and expressive face. The duo even manages to make the God-Jesus act fresh and appealing. Johnson and Sentell are crowd-pleasers in an altogether strong evening of performances.

Jennifer Chung

July 20, 2006

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Travis (Sentell) and Phil (Johnson) offered three non-courting routines, being “manly in French”, “God tries to find quality time with Jesus” and “audience volunteer ruins magic act”. Good chemistry between these two, Phil as the average dude and Travis as the weird one. (As God, he does a saucy toss of his Beethoven-wig curls.) And interesting mix of deft physical with sturdy writing.

Altogether a superior evening of theatre…

Welton Jones

July 25, 2006

Actor's Festival Program One, July 20, 2006

The festival opened with two very, very funny comedians: Travis Sentell and Phil Johnson. They entered stage center, seated themselves and began a dialogue as two reviewers of the Festival. They gave all of us reviewers a bad name, panning show titles, actors, and the festival in general. The audience loved it, as did the reviewers and critics I recognized. Travis and Phil: In Shorts (opening night only) by and starring Travis Sentell and Phil Johnson under Rawle Lewis’s direction- They are God, in white hair and flowing robe, and Jesus, in long dark hair and baseball cap. Jesus is ready to return for a second coming, while God discourages him. A very funny bit.

Robert T. Hitchcox

July 20, 2006

7/19/6

The hits of the night for me were Phil Johnson and Travis Sentell who came on between the other productions with short, hilarious standup routines.  These two work brilliantly together and had the audience in hysterics.  Bring em on a whole lot more.

“Phil Johnson… hysterically funny, when is he not!…

Jenni Prisk, Behind The Scenes

Phil Johnson Entertainment 2006