With the Halloween season now upon us, the Siren Theater is putting on another one of their parody shows that is as spooky as it is silly. A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Play! is the brainchild of creator-director Shelley McLendon and is part of the theater’s growing number of satirical plays from Road House: The Play to the pandemic-made parody of the original Blair Witch Project. McLendon opened the Siren Theater back in 2015, and in a 2018 Mercury profile was hailed as “a driving force in Portland’s comedy scene.” The theater had previously done a run of this Elm Street show, though that was in the before-times (2019) when no one foresaw the pandemic that was about to hit us. How young we were. Freddy himself even seems like not so scary of a guy in comparison. Now, approaching the theater’s sixth anniversary and new in-person run of shows, McLendon is sharing what to expect of the show’s triumphant return, how the process of creating comedy from horror works, and what her favorite Elm Street movie is. Sadly, it wasn’t Dream Warriors. Read more from Chase Hutchinson here.