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She has preformed comedy jokes all over the country and has participated in many events such as the Bridgetown Comedy Festival and Limestone Comedy Festival. Katie currently lives in Portland Oregon, that is where all her stuff is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442983630943-1FAVHNYS0AYRVJVMNOPR/katie.jpg 2015 Line Up With a sensibility that falls somewhere between the locker room and the library, Katie-Ellen is making a name for herself as an emerging comedic talent throughout Canada and the U.S. A featured performer at The Bridgetown Comedy Festival, San Francisco Sketchfest, Northwest Comedy Fest and The Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival, Katie-Ellen delights audiences with her unique voice, hilarious perspective and sharp wit. She can currently be seen on the comedy talk show “Morgan Brayton & Other People” on OUT-TV. Katie is also a 3-time Canadian National Open Water 5k Swim Champion; that’s unrelated to comedy, but it explains the shoulders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1443653135126-5IP3NBIF4626QD8JJWK9/image-asset.jpeg 2015 Line Up Kirsten Kuppenbender is a Power Lesbian with a heart made of precious metal. . Kirsten attended Atlantic Theater Acting School in New York City where she studied for years to become a Professional Auditioner. She is the creator and producer of Lez Stand up: a Portland-based, all-queer, feminist comedy revolution sketch and stand-up showcase which has performed up and down the West Coast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1443033647063-B9XYDFWP51L4GPLLVE3Q/image-asset.jpeg 2015 Line Up Emily Maya Mills is an actor, writer and stand-up comic based in Los Angeles. She's been seen on Parks and Recreation, Ellen, Childrens’ Hospital, Key and Peele, Harry's Law, Crash & Bernstein, Comedy Bang Bang and The Birthday Boys, as well as many of television’s most humiliating commercials. A San Francisco native, Emily has been a regular performer at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles since 2006. She has been named an “Up-and-Coming Comedienne You Should Be Laughing At” by TheFrisky.com, "2013's Comics to Watch" by SOmagazine.com, and a “Funny Female to Follow on Twitter” by the Huffington Post. She holds a PhD in parallel parking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442982470343-O2O8OFMBYU1L193F9YTF/kristine.jpg 2015 Line Up Kristine Levine is a blonde, tattooed, proudly overweight single mother working as a porn clerk in Portland, OR. In addition to regularly touring both stateside and abroad, Kristine was seen in feature stand-up documentary The Unbookables and has appeared in multiple sketches throughout each season of IFC’s Portlandia. Following the 2011 Seattle International Comedy Competition, 2012 saw her perform at the South By Southwest Music Festival, throughout the month of August at Scotland’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe and achieve a Guinness World Record as the first female to play 50 states in 50 days on The Biggest Tour Ever. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442984302845-2Q48EQL7VCR2QRB6S7X0/whitney.jpg 2015 Line Up Whitney Streed is a comedian because if they were not, their incessant punning would have no artistic or monetary value whatsoever. Festival appearances include Seattle Sketchfest, All Jane No Dick in Portland, and the Salt Lake City Comedy Carnivale, as well as Portland's Bridgetown Comedy Festival both as a performer and, since 2013, a producer. Whitney hosts and produces shows all over Portland and can seen playing a feminist and potential home-buyer on three seasons of IFC’s hit show "Portlandia." Whitney Streed cares about you and wants you to be happy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442981400069-DGEXG7UTIYX6SSBL5BNO/image-asset.jpeg 2015 Line Up Natalie Jose is a modern woman trying to have it all: stand-up comedy, singing, drinking, and unfulfilling sex. A self-proclaimed “party girl,” Natalie rarely knows when to stop and never learns a lesson. Natalie has vamped her way up the ranks of Chicago comedy to become one of the most beloved comics in the city. Audiences are endeared to Natalie’s self-deprecating charm as she puts her own lifestyle under a microscope, with a stage persona that’s both personal and silly. Natalie is a regular at The Laugh Factory, a cast-member of Chicago Underground Comedy and showcased in the top 100 of Last Comic Standing Season 9 on NBC. She was also featured on the OWN Network as one of five comedians in the TV Pilot “My Life is a Joke”; she “played” the drunk one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442981531886-Z0D9TYYG0XKQCUISBAGO/image-asset.png 2015 Line Up Sonia Denis is a Chicago-based. Sonia’s stand-up can be described as confessional, frenetic and another cool adjective. Sonia will be performing in the upcoming Comedy Exposition of 2015 in Chicago. She has also performed at The Bridgetown Comedy Festival, The Onion & A.V. Club’s 2nd Annual 26th Annual Comedy Festival, The Comedy Exposition of 2014, The Crom Comedy Festival, The SCOUT CHICAGO Festival, LaughFest, The Chicago Women’s Comedy Festival, and Snubfest. She’s also a co-producer of Congrats on Your Success (CoYS), a monthly stand-up showcase that has been featured featured on WBEZ/NPR and The Chicago Tribune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442983336108-SEIQPBJUSDYDC58JYBMI/abi.jpg 2015 Line Up Abi Harrison is the Winner of the Salt Lake Comedy Festival and the 5 Monkeys Comedy Competition, Hailing from Indiana, Abi combines sharp wit, absurd surrealism, and disarming charm. A regular at Wiseguys in Salt Lake City and Ogden, she has also been featured in the Rocky Mountain Laugh Off, The She Devil Comedy Festival, Chicago Women's Funny Festival, and the Laughing Derby. Abi has been seen on Peculiar People, LaughsTV, and Who's Laughing now? and has been a guest on the Bob and Tom show. Abi currently resides in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband, her baby, Israel, and her dog, Palestine. Surprisingly, they all get along. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442979043110-6OPV8PEUTMVE3IO6UUN0/image-asset.jpeg 2015 Line Up Page Hurwitz began her career as a stand-up comedian in San Francisco at Josie's Cabaret and Cobb's Comedy Club. Subsequently, she appeared at the Montreal Comedy Festival, had her own half-hour comedy special on MTV/Logo networks, and came to the realization that she should work behind the camera. After several years spent writing and producing television shows for TBS, Comedy Central, NBC, ABC, USA, Bravo, E!, and OWN, Hurwitz partnered with Wanda Sykes to form their own production company, Push It Productions. The company has successfully revived the NBC franchise Last Comic Standing (on which Hurwitz serves as show runner) and has original scripted and unscripted projects at NBC, BET, and LOGO.The company’s first series, Wanda Sykes Presents Herlarious (OWN) received a Gracie Award in 2014. Push It currently has a first look production deal with Universal Television. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442982989544-4KA1YH9IPV5TBW033ITB/image-asset.jpeg 2015 Line Up Bri Pruett is a stand-up comic and improviser from Portland, Oregon. She’s appeared at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, the All Jane No Dick comedy festival, and the 2013 Seattle International Comedy Competition. She is a regular host and performer at Curious Comedy Theater and a player with improv singing-ensemble: Pipes. She hosts at Helium Comedy Club, was a finalist in the 2014 Portland’s Funniest Person Contest. In the fall of 2013, Willamette Week named her one of the Funniest 5 Comedians in Portland. Also Taye Diggs follows her on Twitter: @BriPruett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442980695659-8BAX7MM9ANH52DUCQL8P/SarahBurns.jpg 2015 Line Up Sarah Burns is probably best known for her roles as the self-sabotaging lush Hailey, in the film "I Love You, Man" and for her portrayal of the conflicted Krista in HBO's award winning series "Enlightened", alongside Laura Dern and Mike White. Sarah performed at NYC's Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre in New York City for over 7 years and credits the theatre with both keeping her out of trouble and contributing to her enormous array of wigs and sketch props. Her credits include the Nicole Holofcener film "Enough Said," Comedy Central's "Drunk History," "The New Girl" as well as "The Mindy Project,". She can be seen as Abby in the current season of the FX show “Married” and as ADA Emma Sinclair ABC’s “How To Get Away With Murder,” as well as the upcoming film “Brother in Laws,” and the IFC film "Slow Learners". Sarah thinks Portland rocks and that it rolls too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442982131576-7N1NW1KBQ9PIV2PY5XX3/heather.jpg 2015 Line Up A classically trained actress and gifted comedian, Heather Thomson has the kind of performance skills that make you wonder “is that girl acting or just crying in public?” Her uniquely honest, tender and endearing presence on stage quickly earned her the nickname, “The Sweetheart of Stand Up.” She is the creator of the talk show Tea Time Thomson and co creator of the web series Print Models. She has performed at The Hollywood Improv, UCB Theater Los Angeles, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Gotham Comedy Club. She has studied Improv with UCB Theater and the world famous Groundlings. Heather is great, but she’s so glad you’re here to listen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442983466938-JDX5Y66RREZDOFDAR91H/anna.jpg 2015 Line Up Anna Seregina is a stand-up comic and performer, described as having the “worst aura.” She was named a “Comic to Watch” by the SF Weekly. She is a co-host of “Terrified with Dave Ross,” part of the Nerdist network. She has appeared in comedy festivals (RIOT LA, SF Sketchfest, Bridgetown, Sacramento, SF Comedy Day, SF Comedy & Burrito), told stories at storytelling events (the Moth, Porchlight), and done weird things publicly (SF MoMA, Artists’ Television Access, SFAI, Public Access TV). She starred in Joey Izzo’s “Stepsister.” Most facts about her are true. Most truths about her are facts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442983191632-MZSZQEJODHGVTDA8WU5F/image-asset.jpeg 2015 Line Up Kate WIllett is a regular opener for Margaret Cho who she’s toured with throughout the United States and Canada. Her work was recently featured on the Risk! podcast with Kevin Allison. She has opened for comedians like Kyle Kinane, Anthony Jeselnik and Jackie Kashian. Kate’s comedy has earned her “regular” status at The Punchline, Cobb’s, The Improv, Rooster T Feathers as well as a spot in San Francisco Sketchfest for the past three years in a row. She’s performed internationally in India, Ireland, and the UK. Kate is a favorite among audience members, flannel clad skateboarders, and all of her twenty-three roommates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442981593151-BA85SYXGGANYI58OP6KS/image-asset.jpeg 2015 Line Up People are talking about Caitlin Gill. Most of what they’re saying has to do with how funny she is. Caitlin has performed on the Oddball Comedy Tour, the Outside Lands Festival, SF Sketchfest, the Vancouver Global Comedy Fest and in some of the best comedy clubs in the nation. Her writing has been featured in a Believer Magazine project for 826LA. She was featured as one of the "7 Comics Rocking the Local Scene" in 7x7 Magazine, and was voted Best Comedian in the East Bay Express “Best Of” Edition in 2013. You can also hear her on podcasts like Put Your Hands Together, Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction, and NPR's Snap Judgment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442980994007-UXDMLDEX8SSK9DFJD19X/naomi.jpg 2015 Line Up Naomi Ekperigin is an actor, stand-up comedian, and writer who has appeared on VH1, MTV, and FX's TOTALLY BIASED WITH W. KAMAU BELL, and been published in TheHairpin.com, The Huffington Post and VanityFair.com. Naomi is currently a writer on Hulu’s new original series, DIFFICULT PEOPLE and also a writer on Comedy Central's BROAD CITY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442984892712-Z46PVTIB0WYWZS714CQV/marcia.jpg 2015 Line Up Marcia Belsky was raised an opinionated little Jewish girl in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Starting her career in Portland, Oregon, Marcia is now located in New York and has done festivals around the country. In 2014, she was a semifinalist at the NBC Stand-Up For Diversity competition, and since then can be seen hosting her monthly show CREEP in Brooklyn, as well as featuring on various shows throughout the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442979454663-OXU1VIKYSFSDAPUSZQ3J/image-asset.jpeg 2015 Line Up Nicole is an actress and comedian who moved from New York to Los Angeles for comedy and dreams. Nicole currently performs sketch comedy at UCB Sunset on Maude Night with New Money and performs improv every Sunday night at UCB Franklin with Search History. Nicole has appeared on 30 Rock, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Birthday Boys, @Midnight, Adult Swim, Chelsea Lately, Friends of the People and a Nestle commercial that only runs in Israel. She currently appears on MTV's Girl Code. She has also been featured in College Humor vidoes, Funny or Die videos and most notable her web series co-created with Sasheer Zamata; The Pursuit of Sexiness. Nicole is repped by 3Arts and APA. Twitter: @NicoleByer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442982815494-VM17B87Z6NVON9W2Y2F2/image-asset.png 2015 Line Up Courtney Gilmour is a Toronto-based stand-up comedian, storyteller, and writer. Like most, Courtney got her start to comedy by singing in the church choir. Upon graduating from the comedy writing program at The Second City Training Centre in 2012, she went on to perform stand up around the city as well as guest star in the critically acclaimed web series “Bill & Sons Towing”; her episode “Bikini Calendar” was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award. Courtney's most recent credits include Toronto's She Dot Festival, opening for Todd Glass, and producing her own monthly stand up show "You Can't Say That On Television!" at Toronto's Comedy Bar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442979883973-0BW1AVNHGYJBIF3OXP4F/image-asset.jpeg 2015 Line Up Alice “Pretty-in-a-Not-Shitty-Way” Wetterlund has performed her non-yelling brand of comedy at all the UCBees as well as San Francisco’s Punchline and, and LA’s Largo and The Hollywood Improv. She has also performed nationally in festivals such as Bridgetown, Moon Tower and Women in Comedy, and frequently tours with Comedy Central on Campus. She was a New Face for the 2013 Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal and was on the official line up for FOX’s Night of Comedy in Los Angeles the same year. Her credits include guest stars on NEW GIRL (FOX) and BETAS (Amazon original series), and she has appeared on @midnight and Chelsea Lately. Currently, Alice can be seen as a series regular on MTV’s GIRL CODE, and as a guest star on the upcoming season of SILICON VALLEY, and you can catch her as Jackie in Seth Rogen’s THE INTERVIEW in theaters this Christmas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442982244205-JGQBULYX5EZV1J1A0OJ5/sharon.jpg 2015 Line Up Sharon Houston is a stand up comic, actress, producer, and writer. She just finished shooting & producing all of the original comedy content for "Last Comic Standing". Sharon’s stand up TV credits include MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, and SiTV. She has been featured at the Women In Comedy Festival, the Ladies Are Funny Fest, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, and the Laughing Skull Festival. She’s appeared on “Nick Swardson’s Pretend Time”, “Everybody Loves Raymond”, and “Fagney and Gaycey.” She performs in Los Angeles at The Improv, The Improv Lab, MBar, Akbar, and Flappers. Once in a while she’s even at the UCB theater. You can listen to her hit podcast, “Daytime Justice” on iTunes or Stitcher. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442982684203-2H30S509J4BOZ0P47PJV/image-asset.jpeg 2015 Line Up Stacey Hallal founded the Curious Comedy Theater in Portland, Oregon in 2008 where she serves as Artistic Director as well as a regular performer, writer, director and teacher.She has the honoring of curating the annual All Jane Comedy Festival. Stacey performs at Curious Comedy as well as Helium Comedy Club where she has hosted for such legends as Bob Saget and Dana Gould and featured for Norm MacDonald. Stacey tours all over North America, both stand up and sketch. She has completed the prestigious Directing Program at Second City where she Assistant Directed the smash hit Second City Main Stage production, Between Barack and A Hard Place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1443653052850-OYJO968UF7KQXSGTGULU/image-asset.jpeg 2015 Line Up Curious Comedy All-Stars include Portland's funniest ladies including Katie Michels, Katie Behrens, Jenn Hunter, Stacey Hallal, Kara Moore and very special guest, Artistic Director of the Brody Theater, Domeka Parker! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442984234015-LMR1AAUVTPI1BXPNK1F7/joann.jpg 2015 Line Up JoAnn Schinderle hails from the upper Midwest and despite being a Portlander now, will probably never lose her “hot dish” accent. JoAnn’s performed in such festivals as Bumbershoot, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest (‘15,‘14), All Jane No Dick Comedy Festival (‘13,'14), Out of Bounds Comedy Festival. JoAnn has been known to win crowds over with her pervy charm. JoAnn also had the honor of opening for Lena Dunham on her ‘Not That Kind of Girl’ book tour in a sold out show at Portland’s Newmark Theatre. Twitter: @joannlizabeth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442979303117-TYXEHXRQGE1CS6B3NMG2/image-asset.jpeg 2015 Line Up Comedian Karen Kilgariff worked as an actor on HBO's legendary sketch program Mr. Show and as the head writer for Ellen DeGeneres. But she's found a niche for herself as the composer of scathingly-funny songs about smart-phone obsession, drinking on holidays and dysfunctional relationships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442980657983-4FF1N6YVDT8JH6EW5BWX/AnnieSavage.jpg 2015 Line Up Annie Savage is an LA based actress, writer and Podcaster. She starred in “The Thrilling Adventure Hour” at Largo at the Coronet for 10 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442983941080-ODCU6BZSIHL49MJ7ZMT0/image-asset.jpeg 2015 Line Up Caitlin Weierhauser spent her childhood in an Ewok tree fort with a rubber band cross-bow, her wolf, and a budding resentment of The Man. She grew up to be a feminist, atheist, and vegan liar that creates safer spaces for queer comedy. Caitlin is a member of Lez Stand Up, has performed at All Jane Comedy Festival, Grrrl Front, Not Enough! Fest, and Bridgetown Comedy Festival. She recently opened for James Adomian, was included in the AfterEllen list of "40 Hot Queer Ladies in Comedy," and plans to take down the patriarchy by Christmas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442981030081-XQL3W14LUZEF72Z2UGUO/amy.jpg 2015 Line Up Amy Miller was a contestant on Last Comic Standing Season 9, winner of Helium’s 2015 Funniest Person Contest, Winner 2015 Willamette Week Reader’s Choice for Best Portland Comedian and Voted Portland’s Funniest Comedian by the Willamette Week 2013. Amy Miller has been seen at the San Francisco Sketchfest, Bumbershoot, Noise Pop Festival, SF Punchline, Cobb’s Comedy Club, Harvey’s Comedy Club Portland, Helium Comedy Club, The All Jane No Dick Festival, The Siren Nation Festival, and in the Bridgetown Comedy Festival. You may also have heard her on NPR. She also has a podcast called Sorry About Your Dad. It’s about dad stuff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442979789324-LD5OVKTY5QGPK59L6PFH/image-asset.jpeg 2015 Line Up Subhah Agarwal is a stand up comedian currently working out of New York City. Subhah performs regularly at Stand Up New York, the Stand, Gotham, and New York Comedy Clu, and also has performed at Hannibal Buress’s Knitting Factory and Night Train with Wyatt Cenac. She recently showcased in the New York Comedy Festival and was featured on Scott Moran’s PBS documentary series “Modern Comedian.” She is known as one of the hardest working comedians. She has really been working to get her name out there so that one day she can write in a notebook without someone asking her if she’s doing homework. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442983430563-Y2L0BG6J7QT3GZCRGK80/stine.jpg 2015 Line Up Christine is a darkly charming voice from the Boston comedy scene. With winsome understatement, she ropes audiences into her unique frame of mind, where a tragicomic zeitgeist prevails and people know what tragicomic zeitgeist means. Sometimes, Christine plays funny songs on the ukulele. Christine has performed at colleges, the Women in Comedy Festival, the Boston Comedy Festival, the Laugh Riot Grrrl L.A. Comedy Festival, the Boston Comedy Arts Festival, the Chicago Women's Funny Festival, the Decatur Arts Festival, and shows with the Boston Comedy Chicks. She was the 2013 April Comic-in-Residence at The Comedy Studio in Harvard Square. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442982751094-WODKHQC34NDBW3IJF9X0/rye.jpg 2015 Line Up Rye Silverman is a Los Angeles-based stand-up comedian and writer whose prolific voice has been described as sarcastic and dry with a hint of dark silliness. Her debut album, Intimate Apparel, was the #1 best selling comedy album on Amazon.com in April 2015. That same month the funny fashionista was also featured as the #FashionTruth girl on ModCloth.com. Rye is known tackling challenging and personal material and pulling laughs from a broad assortment of audiences, whether they wear skinny jeans or blue collars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442984401399-YEGT56SDVHCZDLSGJWBO/image-asset.jpeg 2015 Line Up Katie Nguyen is a Portland-based comedian. She writes and performs stand-up, improv, and sketch comedy, and is an ensemble member at the Brody Theater. Katie also writes and performs with the group Vestivus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442984677683-OS18Y23RLW0EMMYGZNDK/barbara.jpg 2015 Line Up Originally from Seattle, Barbara Holm has performed at the San Francisco Sketchfest, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot Arts festival, and the Women in Comedy Festival in Boston. She has written for IGN, The Portland Mercury, and the Huffington Post. She has been awarded Time Out New York’s Joke of the Week and was named “one of the best things about comedy in 2012″ by the Comedy Bureau. Her comedy has been described as clever, unique, idiosyncratic, and exuberant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442980734038-3K65N59WA8QQCLU5SQIN/jessica.jpg 2015 Line Up Jessica Makinson is an actress and writer, known for South Park: The Stick of Truth (2014), Trigger Happy TV (2003) and Love Is Retarded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442981645278-T8KMDFQ7C0WK6BLUVM7J/rylee.jpg 2015 Line Up Rylee Newton is a standup comedian from Portland, Oregon. She has performed on Comedy Central's Premium Blend, Jimmy Kimmel Live and at the US Comedy Arts Festival in Apsen, CO. She currently resides in Los Angeles, where she performs for children who do not "get it." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1444411184370-L2NFXOGWUACTGPKCA8AW/image-asset.jpeg 2015 Line Up Susan Rice is all that and a bag of chips! She is familiar and funny and most people want her to have dinner with them. This veteran comedian has been making people laugh for 30 years. Her humor is down to earth and conversational. It’s her everyday experiences and her ability to bring it to life to others that sets this comic apart. She has performed for audiences as big as 5,000 and as small as 4 and she always gives 100%. It’s her love of her craft that shows in her professional approach to this crazy business. Rice’s industry credits run from HBO’s Comedy Festival, Showtime Comedy All Stars & The Las Vegas Comedy Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442983989415-B7HY5ES9NSVSVW1L57A7/image-asset.jpeg 2015 Line Up A Seattle-based comedian, Elicia Sanchez has been performing all over the West Coast since 2010. Elicia has performed at Seattle's Crypticon, Emerald City Comicon, Bumbershoot, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Northwest Comedy Fest, the All Jane Comedy Festival, Autostraddle’s annual LGBTQ event A-Camp and has appeared on The Bob Rivers Show, NPR's Latino USA and the Seattle-based sketch television show "The [206]." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1444804040061-6A1PAL434N7PLNNT5XK8/maggie.jpg 2015 Line Up Maggie Maye loves candy. She also loves performing comedy. She made her late night debut on Conan and was featured in AXS TV presents: Gotham Comedy Live. She’s performed stand up in festivals such as Bridgetown Comedy Festival, FunFunFun Fest, Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival, SXSW, and the All Jane Comedy Festival. She’s opened for Paul Rodriguez, Godfrey, Paul Mooney, and Earth, Wind and Fire. She’s had her name in comedy articles in the Huffington Post, LaughSpin, the New York Times, Sidesplitter, who named her among the 2015 top up-and-coming comics, and the Austin American Statesman, who named her as one of 2015’s People to Watch. She performs and writes sketch comedy for The Hustle Show and her sketch duo, AFL. Her comedy is described in the same way she is: sassy, charming, and smart. Also, a 6-year-old once told her she was the funniest person ever. And kids rarely lie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1443077804811-8QD54RNG3DD3KVC7Z1EF/image-asset.jpeg 2015 Line Up Born and raised in New York City- the talented, ambitious, and charming Zainab lives in Los Angeles. She' has appeared in films such as "Oakville" and "Cuffing Season" as well as guest starring on television shows like "Private Practice". Zainab is also a standup comedian, performing regularly at the Comedy Store in LA and the Comedy Cellar in NY. In 2014, she performed in the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival as one of the 2014 New Faces of Comedy as well as one of the breakout new comedians on NBC's Last Comic Standing. Zainab has also made appearances on Arsenio, BET's Comic View, and AXSTV's Gotham Comedy Live!. Zainab is currently headlining all over the nation and working on launching her own projects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442979391007-T9IB3SY1VBWPRBF89NXK/image-asset.jpeg 2015 Line Up Janet Varney works as an actor, writer, and producer in Los Angeles. She has most recently appeared on such shows as Bones, Better Off Ted, How I Met Your Mother, and has been recurring as studio executive Amy Miller on HBO's Entourage. She completed a pilot for ABC in April of this year opposite Leah Remini, Matthew Lillard, and Jonathan Silverman, recurs as a panelist on Chelsea Lately, and is enjoying her fifth year as host of TBS's Dinner and a Movie. She performs live with improv group Poke, produces and hosts the variety show Theme Park with Cole Stratton, and can be seen online alongside Randy and Jason Sklar in both seasons of the popular webseries Back on Topps. She also writes and records for Mystery Science Theatre 3000's Michael J. Nelson at Rifftrax.com. Janet is co-founder and co-director of SF Sketchfest, the San Francisco Comedy Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442981272604-ZEMMLJCD9EQ13EP5DG6L/scout.jpg 2015 Line Up Scout Durwood is an award winning sometimes musical comedienne, as well as one of six starring cast members on Oxygen’s “Funny Girls,”. After years of working as a cabaret singer in New York City, Scout relocated to Los Angeles in 2012 to work full time as a stand up comedienne. This spring, Scout released her debut comedy album, “Woman of Whimsy.” She has been featured as a comedian on playboy.com (article only *wink*) Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Chicago Women’s Funny Festival, After Ellen, Nylon, XFinity, CBS Radio, The Mindy Project, and is a proud Moth Storyslam champion. She stars in the webseries with Heather Anne Campbell, and is the host of Truth or Dare, a monthly comedy show at Bar Lubitch in LA. She takes pride in spreading laugher and joy wherever she and her ukulele may roam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442984586711-2K1W9IQ1OMD1Q429ZOZA/mona.jpg 2015 Line Up Mona Concepcion is the only female Chamorro comedian in the world, which makes her more unicorn than Pacific Islander. She is a host and producer of comedy showcases in Seattle and has performed with Dis/Orient/ed Comedy, the first national standup tour showcasing up-and-coming Asian American female comedians. Mona’s comedy cuts through the underbelly of life as an ethnic mom to two boys and islander transplant who learned about America through bad 90s TV. https://www.alljanecomedy.org/tickets daily 0.75 2023-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1443740072150-K6ZV6FY3CDSHX1JSTCHB/image-asset.jpeg Tickets https://www.alljanecomedy.org/sponsors daily 0.75 2023-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1537489060964-KZVGHAMRHT12VZ1EDHSU/gilgamesh.png Sponsors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505879482643-G551LKDYZV1HBFA9WBME/shirtnerdery-300x173.jpg Sponsors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1537489951480-BFKXO2ULTSPVHU899PDV/Autopilot+Empires+Heart+Brand+RED+Logo.png Sponsors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1444349778652-MZC8YPCDIC64ZCHNVU36/image-asset.png Sponsors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1537490007936-ZW3JWM121TAOL3MG4HPE/JayneLogo-transparent_black_400.png Sponsors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1537489890455-WWT86X14CRMWVTUZD5WG/2Towns_PreferredFullColorLogoPNG.png Sponsors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1537489474849-9HX7QZZANNRDQGIINZG4/Montucky+Logo.jpg Sponsors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1444349964496-4LOH5W5C1GOGYTI0GC21/image-asset.jpeg Sponsors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1537489555810-GQXCU3EKISLZJPTQRRTR/titos_logo_standard_cmyk.jpeg Sponsors https://www.alljanecomedy.org/submissions daily 0.75 2023-10-02 https://www.alljanecomedy.org/2016-performers daily 0.75 2018-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472096984119-RUZKQXH31UO1X60204ZF/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Becky Braunstein grew up on a mountain in Alaska. Like, a MOUNTAIN. You know the high altitude cooking directions on the back of the box? That was her. She skied down to America in 2010, and has been keeping Portland weirdly enamored ever since. A finalist for Best Comedian in the Willamette Week’s 2016 'Best of Portland', and one of Helium Comedy Club’s 2015 ‘Best of Portland’, she also hosts at Harvey’s Comedy Club and has performed at the Hudson Valley Comedy Festival and Pickathon. She is a 3-time semifinalist in the Portland's Funniest Person competition at Helium Comedy Club, and as a cancer survivor herself, she is the MC for the annual 'Notes of Hope' benefit event, which raises money for programs supporting young people with cancer. Becky studied for one term at the same acting school as Liam Neeson, and has a specific set of skills - which include illustrating #FatAnimals, being able to lip-sync the entirety of ‘Pehla Nasha’ from the 1992 hit Bollywood film Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, and demolitions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472090174867-8092JXW8354OZSWDGX1U/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Melody Kamali is a first generation Iranian-American from Connecticut where, believe it or not, none of the other kids had to prep for sleepovers by hiding their parents’ traditional Persian ass-cleaning bathroom watering can. The dualities of her life make for an awareness and appreciation of the absurd, and an almost confessional style of comedy she delights crowds with across Chicago. Her love of sketch videos and stand-up drove her to co-found, produce and perform at Double Feature, a monthly show that featured local Chicago stand-ups back-to-back with submitted comedic videos, which ran in conjunction with the historic Lincoln Lodge, the nation’s running independently-produced comedy show. Since then she has been featured in the Chicago Women's Funny Festival and Chicago's Comedy Exposition festival. Melody is an alumni cast member of the Comedy Sportz Theater’s 100 Proof Comedy show and currently produces and performs at The Monday Mulligan, a weekly comedy variety show at Chicago’s Hideout Inn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472098686472-YHN5KAQ49KA1K6V21WMQ/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Julia Ramos is a stand-up comic making her way in this world, and just trying not to get arrested...again. She's managed to make it 32 years living a life of procrastination, and acted no different by the time she started stand-up at the age of 27. Although she didn't take the time to remember any of her jokes until she stopped drinking, she looks back fondly on the random words written on pieces of napkins in her home, a home which held an abundance of lined paper. She's performed all over Portland, one place in Beaverton, and in front of an entire county of Drug Court Officials in Clark County, Washington. She recently made it into the NW Women's Comedy Festival and is beyond thrilled to perform there in the Fall. Her life is moving along swimmingly, and really strives to ease the lives of those around her through comedy and truth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472085584781-RS08E222W7PKT5HT3RGP/maggie.jpg 2016 LINE UP Maggie Maye loves candy almost as much as she also loves performing comedy, which, if you know her, if a whole lot. She had her late night debut on Conan and was featured in AXS TV presents: Gotham Comedy Live . She’s performed stand up in festivals such as Bridgetown Comedy Festival, FunFunFun Fest, Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival, SXSW, and the All Jane Comedy Festival. She’s opened for Paul Rodriguez, Gladys Knight, and Earth, Wind and Fire. She’s gotten shout outs in comedy articles in the Huffington Post, Variety, LaughSpin, the New York Times, Sidesplitter, who named her among the 2015 top up-and-coming comics, and the Austin American Statesman, who named her as one of 2015’s People to Watch. She performs improv comedy with the troupe Damn, Gina! and in various sketch and improv shows around Austin. Her comedy is described in the same way she is: sassy, charming, and smart. Also, a 6-year-old once told her she was the funniest person ever. And kids rarely lie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1443653052850-OYJO968UF7KQXSGTGULU/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Curious Comedy All-Stars include Portland's funniest ladies including Katie Michels, Katie Behrens, Jenn Hunter, Stacey Hallal, Kara Moore and very special guest, Artistic Director of the Brody Theater, Domeka Parker! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472089861122-NW3574LFSE93BGF4YT2Y/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Rana May was persuaded to try stand up comedy after doing “informational speeches” at backyard barbeques and in basements for a year or two. Her background is in booking illegal warehouse punk shows, social work, dog rescue, and used book stores -- where deadpan is considered a strength. Her stand up is sometimes weird, pragmatic, and whimsical and nobody has ever said she reminded them of anyone. Rana has been featured locally in the City Pages, Star Tribune, Minnesota Daily, MPR, and was picked as one of five Minnesotan comics to watch in 2016 by Growler Magazine. You can see her performing all over the Twin Cities producing and hosting Donut Party! Open Mic. You could also catch her performing as a cast member for Boy Kisses Comedy Show. She’s opened for Maria Bamford, Kyle Kinane, Jonah Ray, Mary Mack, Tim Harmston, Neil Hamburger, and others. Rana has performed on the Meltdown and in the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Crom Comedy Festival, Chicago Comedy Exposition, and Hell Yes Fest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472090971571-OFT1IBSNX6VWJDALBU4R/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Andie has risen quickly up the ranks of the Portland scene and is now the regular host of Curious Comedy Theater's weekly open mic.. She uses comedy as a form of activism and produces fundraisers that have raised thousands of dollars for causes close to her heart; like Planned Parenthood, Bernie Sanders, The Oregon Humane Society and The Orlando Tragedy, through the series Revolution Comedy. Festival credits include Bumbershoot, Seattle Sketchfest, SF Sketchfest, The All Jane No Dick Comedy Festival, Portland Pride 2014, Treefort Festival, Cromfest and The Comedy Exposition. She has recently performed for sold out crowds at UCBeast, UCB Chelsea and The Stand Nightclub in NYC, Doc's Lab in SF, and Helium Comedy Club in Portland. She has opened for TJ Miller, David Huntsberger, Myq Kaplan and James Adomian, and afterwords they all said "hey Andie that was great!" and got brunch because you can order brunch whenever you want in Portland. In her spare time she enjoys taking hikes with her not-so-smart dog, punk and post punk music, making goofy paintings, nature documentaries and yelling about the patriarchy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472087867825-3XHJUDXL42JNFGZZAM03/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Irene Tu is a San Francisco based stand-up comedian, writer, and actor. A regular at the Punch Line, she was named one of the “Bay Area’s 11 Best Stand Up Comedians” in 2016 by the SFist and has been featured in numerous comedy festivals including SF Sketchfest, Limestone Comedy Festival, Crom Comedy Festival, and the Comedy Exposition. Irene hosts several popular shows in the Bay Area including Laugh Function, Man Haters, and The Mission Position. She also runs Hysteria, a weekly comedy open mic for women and queer comedians, in San Francisco. You can follow her @irene_tu. irenetu.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472087331327-UEJJ2P6680OPYZGKOXPM/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Kate Willett has been featured on Comedy Central’s “This Is Not Happening,” Viceland’s “Flophouse” and is a regular opener for Margaret Cho who she’s toured with nationally and internationally. You might have seen her on Fusion TV or heard her on the Risk! podcast with Kevin Allison. She’s was named a top “Artist to Watch in 2016” by SF Weekly, has opened for comedians like Kyle Kinane, Jen Kirkman, Anthony Jeselnik, Dana Gould, Jackie Kashian, Myq Kaplan, and Michael Che. She’s appeared in the 2015 Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, BridgetownComedy Festival, and San Francisco Sketchfest (3 years in a row). She’s a regular feature at comedy clubs all over the country and a favorite of audience members, flannel clad skateboarders, and all of her twenty-three roommates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472097043793-L0L8IJQRDS0Y1497MPFF/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP   Bio: Nurtured by a mother who told everyone she was from "the South", to avoid admitting she was from Turkey Creek, WV in Appalachia; Belinda Carroll has been openly talking about the secret trashier side of life, being a queerdo, hypocrisy,and Republicans all over the country. She has appeared on Portlandia, Grimm, MTV ; written for Huffpost, Cracked.Com, Portland Mercury, and performed in Bridgetown Comedy Festival, San Francisco International Comedy Competition, and Hudson Valley Comedy Festival in NY. She's performed with Julie Goldman, ANT, Hari Kondabolu. Currently a WW's Best of Portland Nominee! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472086930766-ZCXETRTZX7KE5CKYWO93/jessica.jpg 2016 LINE UP Lisa Best is a comedian who currently resides in Los Angeles. She spends her free time foraging for food, defending her life choices from family members (and herself), and uncomfortably creating first person paragraphs about herself. The Portland Monthly wrote that Lisa "has a flair for turning embarrassing stories into comedy gold." She has appeared in sketches for Comedy Central and Funny or Die, and also appeared on a terrible show on SyFy once that she hopes she'll forget about like she did her SAT score. Lisa has performed in countless festivals and competitions including the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, California's Funniest Females, Rooftop's National College Comedy Competition, Meltdown, and some others she told her parents about before they replied, "What's that?" Lisa performs standup in clubs, colleges and homeless shelters across the country. But enough about her. How are you? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442984302845-2Q48EQL7VCR2QRB6S7X0/whitney.jpg 2016 LINE UP Whitney Streed is a comedian because if they were not, their incessant punning would have no artistic or monetary value whatsoever. Festival appearances include Seattle Sketchfest, All Jane No Dick in Portland, and the Salt Lake City Comedy Carnivale, as well as Portland's Bridgetown Comedy Festival both as a performer and, since 2013, a producer. Whitney hosts and produces shows all over Portland and can seen playing a feminist and potential home-buyer on three seasons of IFC’s hit show "Portlandia." Whitney Streed cares about you and wants you to be happy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472089043660-U1Q4RQXSRONW6M732YYQ/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Robby Hoffman is a stand-up comedian and writer. She was just featured in Just For Laughs 42 this past year on three shows, including the famed New Faces Show. She has also been named one of the “Top 10 Comedians” by the Montreal Mirror and hottest Top 50 on afterellen.com. She currently writes on the Emmy award winning children's show, Odd Squad (PBS) and has two original series projects in development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472091660559-2YBJ9FXF81M12HXGGDPS/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Portland comedian Barbara Holm has performed at the San Francisco Sketchfest, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, the All Jane Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot Arts festival, Rose City Comic Con, PAX Convention, and the Women in Comedy Festival in Boston. She has written for IGN, The Portland Mercury, and the Huffington Post. She has been awarded Time Out New York’s Joke of the Week and was named “one of the best things about comedy in 2012” by the Comedy Bureau. Her comedy has been described as clever, unique, idiosyncratic, and exuberant. Seattle City Arts Magazine called her a “comedy wizard” and Seattle Stranger Newspaper described her as an “adorable wunderkind” and she describes herself as “running away from this question to hide under the desk right now.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472098355009-3PTTDOE5K6KC3WBT2333/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Lucia Fasano is a Portland-based comedian from Los Angeles. She’s recently appeared in IFC’s Portlandia, on the All Jane Comedy Festival and the New York Funny Songs Fest, as well as shows all over the country. Her work has been featured on @midnight, in The Huffington Post, Paste Magazine, Pajiba, The Mary Sue, and more. She writes and co-stars in the feminist comedy web-series Catty B’s, is a columnist for humor site The Higgs Weldon, is a frequent guest on improv comedy podcast Gosh Darn Fiasco, and is a member of the all-women improv group Teacher’s Pet. Her comedy has been called “sharply hilarious” and not even because of all the knives. Follow her on Twitter at lucia_fasano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472090662210-HCL64TZ9JYBI1EE9N6TF/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP JoAnn has performed across the country in such festivals as Bumbershoot, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Chicago Comedy Exposition, SF Sketchfest (‘16,‘15,‘14), Hell Yes Fest, All Jane No Dick Comedy Festival (‘13,‘14), Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, as well as having won multiple rounds of Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction. Schinderle has been known to win crowds over with her pervy charm. JoAnn also had the honor of opening for Lena Dunham on her ‘Not That Kind of Girl’ book tour in a sold out show at Portland’s Newmark Theatre. As a working stand-up at Helium Comedy Club- Portland, her humor is relatable, snarky, and has a storytelling style that will make you feel like she’s your best friend letting you in on a secret. Also trained as an improvisor through courses at Second City Training Center and Curious Comedy Theater, JoAnn creates big characters and will “yes and” the shit out of you. JoAnn has appeared on Rooftop Comedy, Fight Stigma Web Series, and is a contributing writer for Laugh Staff. She also hosts, curates, and produces a weekly showcase called Control Yourself: A Showcase of Funny, which has been featured as 'Top 5 Portland Comedy Showcases to Watch’ 2years running by the Willamette Week. Control Yourself (which was also featured in Paste Magazine) runs every Sunday at Alberta Street Pub in NE Portland. If you enjoy friendly banter you can follow JoAnn on twitter @joannlizabeth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472084414436-8NBEAY1UD49CV0RXF7K1/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Maria Bamford is the creator and star of her own Netflix TV Series, the critically acclaimed and brilliant Lady Dynamite! which was recently renewed for a second season. Maria was named one of Rolling Stone's 50 Funniest People, and is the winner of the 2014 American Comedy Award for Best Club Comic. She recurred as Debris Bardeaux on Netflix’s Arrested Development reboot as well as on fX’s Louie and Comedy Central’s Kroll Show. She also created Maria Bamford: the special special special, one of Vulture.com’s Top 10 Stand-Up Specials of 2012, and of the cult hit web series The Maria Bamford Show, which screened at the Museum of Art and Design and was described as a “cold blast of brilliance” by The New Yorker. Maria is the first female comic to have two half-hour Comedy Central Presents specials and starred alongside Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis and Brian Posehn in the Comedy Central series The Comedians of Comedy and Netflix’s Comedians of Comedy: The Movie. She has made numerous late-night appearances, most recently on Conan and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Maria contributes comedic voiceovers for such animations as Netflix’s “BoJack Horseman,” Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time, PBS’s Emmy-winning series Word Girl, Nickelodeon’s Kung Fu Panda and Legend of Korra, and Fox’s upcoming Golan the Insatiable. She was also a regular voice on Nickelodeon’s CatDog and Back at the Barnyard (in which she reprised the role of Mrs. Beady from the Nick feature Barnyard). Maria’s writing has been featured in The Onion, GQ and LA Weekly. She can be seen as both herself and her mother in the My Damn Channel web series Ask My Mom. Her latest CD, Ask Me About My New God! is available on Comedy Central Records. In terms of showbiz, Maria has made it and is swimming in a gravy boat, filled with scrumptious gravy. She lives with two overweight dogs and a fiance in Eagle Rock, California. Go, Las Tiendas de Llantas! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472088214949-JB0TOJJ7FUVU2Q4TKDSZ/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Jessica Sele is a California comic who feels fine. This girl's stand up was recently featured on Viceland's "Flophouse." She has performed at festivals including Bridgetown, Limestone, and SF Sketchfest. Her subject material ranges from sexuality to living in the end times to mental health issues and their related substance abuse habits, etc... She was featured in Bitch Magazine as a "hilarious and talented queer woman." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472087699320-6W861F49M19XENFMCR7N/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Offering a fresh and honest perspective that’s rare to find, Dulcé Sloan was recently honored as the 2015 NBC Stand Up Showcase Winner and as a 2015 Montreal Just For Laughs New Face. A favorite among audiences, she was voted runner-up for Atlanta’s 2015 Laughing Skull Comedy Festival. She made her late-night debut this year on Conan. She can be seen this fall on Acting Out on MTV and Comedy Knock Out on truTV. Dulcé's signature sass and confidence drives her hilarious views on everything from her personal relationships to the absurdities of society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472089999679-S73F4GBVKRWQMFIRR68N/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Danielle Perez is a Los Angeles, CA based stand-up comedian who's bubbly personality, sharp wit, and unapologetic love of Mariah Carey has made her a standout in the Los Angeles comedy scene. Best known for being the woman in a wheelchair, with no feet, who won a treadmill on The Price Is Right, she has appeared as a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and was recently profiled by Refinery 29. She has opened for Maria Bamford and performed at Punch Line (San Francisco, CA), ComedyWorks (Denver, CO), and Crom Comedy Festival. This Fall she will perform at Cinder Block Comedy Festival in Brooklyn, NY. The Los Angeles native is a founding member of Thigh Gap Comedy and produces GENTRIFICATION, a monthly comedy show in her hometown neighborhood of Highland Park. Danielle brunches regularly and believes that success is owning multiple sequin bodycon dresses in a plus size. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472097164223-YPQZOFMZNJ5D1FKLTCY3/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Wendy Weiss is a Portland comic and purveyor of nude arts at Lucky Devil Lounge and Devil's Point. Weiss hosts Comic Strip and Who's Metal AF at Funhouse Lounge and co-hosts Flyass Jokes at Brody Theater. Her column Tits and Giggles is featured monthly in Exotic Magazine and she can be found at bars and showcases all around Portland, sometimes even performing comedy at them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472085154486-KMVEWS6Q2Q0NLK601BJ5/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Laura House is a comic, writer and meditation teacher. After starring on Mtv’s first scripted sit-com, "Austin Stories," she appeared on several stand-up shows and in the film "Where the Heart is," opposite Natalie Portman. She writes for Vice’s Broadly site and is published in several books including "True Tales of Lust and Love." She’s written TV shows for over a decade including "Blue Collar TV," "The George Lopez Show," the Emmy-winning "Samantha Who?" and CBS' "Mom." She’s also developed scripts at ABC, Nickelodeon and FX. She debuted her hit solo show "How to Hate Yourself" at the Hollywood Fringe Fest which Huffpo called “…a riotous laughfest and complete joy.” Her podcast "Laura House at Large" features a season called “Will you Med with Me?” where you can meditate along with comics, writers, rock stars and what-have-you. She’s currently a writer for "Loosely, Exactly Nicole" on Mtv. Vids and more at laurahouse.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472097606442-HDIHLLHWNP81MTG6M0T9/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Ali is a comedian and writer based in Portland, Oregon, who isn’t afraid to give the people what they really want: grammar-related humor. She was a semi-finalist in the 2015 Portland’s Funniest Person contest and can be seen co-hosting Get Wet, a weekly stand-up show at Splash Bar in downtown Portland. Ali has performed in venues all over Portland and will be saying words into a microphone in New Orleans at Hell Yes Fest this October. She once yelled at the father of the bride at her friend’s wedding, but it was for legitimate reasons regarding the dance playlist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472097831074-MJS1PR8W7CNMOB1GSJDO/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Amanda Arnold is a Portland based stand up comic. As soon as Amanda gets on stage you're ready to laugh. This self proclaimed "chubby not ugly" joke slinger delivers the funny from the very start. Amanda's fast paced, extremely funny comedic style won her the title of Willamette Valley's Funniest person in 2012. Amanda did stand up comedy for the first time when she was 8 years old! Yes! You read that correctly! It's no wonder you get a feeling when watching her that some people are just born funny. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442982684203-2H30S509J4BOZ0P47PJV/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Stacey Hallal founded the Curious Comedy Theater in Portland, Oregon in 2008 where she serves as Artistic Director as well as a regular performer, writer, director and teacher.She has the honoring of curating the annual All Jane Comedy Festival. Stacey performs at Curious Comedy as well as Helium Comedy Club where she has hosted for such legends as Bob Saget and Dana Gould and featured for Norm MacDonald. Stacey tours all over North America, both stand up and sketch. She has completed the prestigious Directing Program at Second City where she Assistant Directed the smash hit Second City Main Stage production, Between Barack and A Hard Place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472090794403-TFB9V5AZV19W4QNSYS3F/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Katie Nguyen is a Portland comedian who writes and performs stand-up, improv, and sketch. She's an ensemble member at the Brody Theater and has performed at SF Sketchfest, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, the Stumptown Improv Festival, and the All Jane Comedy Festival. Katie's material has been described as "weird, in a wonderful way," "razor sharp," and "gross implications." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472617170176-BE4KG6KOIYD8DAZD1JDX/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Daphnique Springs is a Stand-Up Comedienne who has featured For Martin Lawrence (2015) and Toured with Katt Williams on his Born Again...Again Tour (2014-2015). She is the 2015 Winner of the She-Devil Festival in New York City, NY. World Series of Poker Comedy Girls Satellite 1st Place Winner (2016). Multitalented comedienne, Daphnique Springs, is a Florida native living in LA. She is bursting onto the comedy scene with wit and versatility. Intelligent and biting, Daphnique's comedy is dark, honest, and still relatable. Ranging from personal experiences/subjects to social commentary, she has a unique blend of witty and pointed sarcasm which makes her a favorite among audiences. From the stage, Daphnique conveys ease and a confidence that engages audiences and leads to an unpredictable, unprecedentedly hilarious show. Springs has been featured in a variety of roles on shows such as, How I Met Your Mother (CBS), Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC) and Laughs On FOX. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472087430060-WDTHZAVB23ISUUEGPB30/candylawrence.jpg 2016 LINE UP Candy Lawrence is a Los Angeles based comic hailing from Chicago. Hilarious, dynamic and eccentric, she captivates you with her unique blend of energy and idiosyncratic comedy. Candy can be seen performing stand-up at various venues including Zanies, House of Blues, The Laugh Factory, and UP Comedy Club among others. She is also willing to rollerblade to other cities outside of LA to perform for you. She was apart of the Just For Laughs 2011 and 2013 festival in Chicago, Limestone Festival 2014, Riot LA 2015, Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland 2013, All Jane Comedy Festival 2014 and Oddball Fest 2014. She has opened for Maria Bamford, Jen Kirkman, Moshe Kasher, James Adomian, Judah Friedlander, Garfunkel & Oates, Brent Weinbach, Kurt Braunohler, Kyle Dunnigan, and Wyatt Cenac . She’s also appeared in Roustabout with Kurt Braunohler on Comedy Central and was chosen to be one of top 100 on Last Comic Standing. Candy generates one laugh per second and she would like to thank Rod Stewart for teaching her everything she knows about comedy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1444411184370-L2NFXOGWUACTGPKCA8AW/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Susan Rice is all that and a bag of chips! She is familiar and funny and most people want her to have dinner with them. This veteran comedian has been making people laugh for 30 years. Her humor is down to earth and conversational. It’s her everyday experiences and her ability to bring it to life to others that sets this comic apart. She has performed for audiences as big as 5,000 and as small as 4 and she always gives 100%. It’s her love of her craft that shows in her professional approach to this crazy business. Rice’s industry credits run from HBO’s Comedy Festival, Showtime Comedy All Stars & The Las Vegas Comedy Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472088686502-15H1BD7IFQPGT4PW4TX6/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Emily Galati is whip-smart and not afraid to prove it. She tackles everything from the metric system to Susan B. Anthony, occasionally bruising some feelings along the way and gleefully waiting for those shocked and chagrined reactions after delivering the punch line. Known for her relentlessly clever style, Galati’s routine combines sharp, short quips with longer stories tangling in recurrent punchlines. Galati brings a socially aware and quick-witted style. In March 2016 Emily performed standup on the Conan O’Brien Show on TBS. In 2014 Emily appeared on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” and the nationally syndicated “Comic’s Unleashed”. In 2013, Emily was chosen to represent Chicago in the "Best of the Midwest" Competition at Gilda's LaughFest. She was a semi-finalist in NBC's Stand Up for Diversity, and finalist in the “Bob and Tom” Comedy Contest held in Indianapolis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472089215565-BHNPLWQ20WC5CI1GYCA9/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Originally from San Francisco, Georgia keeps telling herself that moving to Columbus wasn’t a step backward. Catch her absurd opinions on everyday situations all around the Midwest. Georgia is the president of Ohio State’s Buckeye Standup Comedy Club as well as a member of the sketch group Actual Wolves and has opened for Dan St. Germain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472089767843-TOVN7WX4P5L5VGSP2833/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Perpetually 29 year old Luz Pazos, most likely the next break out Latina comedian is hard to understand…that’s because most people are too busy laughing at her jokes and forget that she has an accent. A former beauty queen from Peru, she is smart…and she can be a smart ass. With two degrees from Italy, she can afford to be. She has won several comedy contests in Los Angeles, has been on the Kroll show and has performed at the Comedy Store,Improv,Laugh Factory as well as many other top venues around America.She was at the Shedot Comedy Festival in Toronto and She will be in the 2016 Asheville Comedy Festival. In addition to Luz being one of the hardest working comedians currently in the business, she also writes sketch. Watch out America,this mama is HOT…funny HOT! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472088530189-JOI5L4CPM2ZYM8W6UVDJ/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP From the moment pint-sized comedian Leah Mansfield takes the stage, audiences are as interested as they are impressed. Being the daughter of Native American hippie scientists and the second of seven siblings provides Leah with an endless well of anecdotal family stories. Eager to rebel against her parents, Leah became devoutly religious and joined the Air Force immediately after graduating from the University of Washington. In a master stroke of irony, she became a Nuclear Weapons Launch Officer-where her job was to not press the red button and destroy the world. After years of diligently not doing much of anything, Leah began her adventure into standup comedy. Her unique ability to couple a whirlwind of comedic energy with her original outlook on life has allowed Leah to travel across the country as a festival favorite, and feature for national headliners such as Tom Green, Jimmy Dore, and Hal Sparks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472084578727-Q2MY5YRRU66AJ1WZ2Y07/jackie.jpg 2016 LINE UP Jackie Kashian's comedy is like listening to a really racy episode of “All Things Considered." Her new hour standup special "This Will Make an Excellent Horcrux" is available on CD, DVD and digital download on Comedy Film Nerds. She's appeared twice on the Conan O'Brien show, Comedy Central's @midnight and has recorded This American Life with Ira Glass for NPR. Her critically acclaimed podcast, The Dork Forest, is in its 10th year. She interviews all and sundry about the things they love. Their "dorkdoms." It's the safest space in podcasting. Tune into The Dork Forest on iTunes or at her website: www.dorkforest.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1475105542567-QZFXB1RQX5BIX0Q750JU/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Jenna Zine is the founder and curator of the popular Portland, OR. showcase, Keep It Like A Secret – a monthly comedy event held at Larry Crane’s legendary recording studio, Jackpot! featuring the city’s top standups combined with Skype sets from nationally known comedians. Past Skype guests have included: Ted Alexandro, Kate Berlant, Dan St. Germain, Matteo Lane, Dave Ross, Andi Smith and many more! In addition to performing at her own shows, she's also opened for Mike Lawrence, Creed Bratton from The Office, was chosen as "A Comedian You Should Know" for the coveted Earthquake Hurricane showcase, has been on the $5 Bill Showcase, The Ex Novo Comedy Hour, the Spilt Milk Showcase, Danny Felts’ Regular People podcast, the Funemployment podcast, and was a part of the Kill Rock Stars Red Bull party at MFNW in 2015. She has also emceed for Cheap Trick & Peter Frampton at the Oregon Zoo and the Main Stage at Pickathon in 2014. Jenna hates her bangs and will probably complain about them well into the afterlife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472090369991-FWZK6T6U6E3DXN2BUNVS/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Anica Cihla is a fresh comic from Seattle, WA whose style is an approachable blend of observational humor, self-deprecating anecdotes, and gypsy curses. She has appeared in the Redwood Comedy Festival, the 36th Annual Seattle International Comedy Competition, and the CROM West Comedy Festival in Denver, CO this summer. Anica has performed comedy all along the west coast and Midwest, but her crowning achievement was that one time she had a surprisingly good set in the back of a defunct sex shop in Las Vegas. Anica is CPR/AED certified. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1442979043110-6OPV8PEUTMVE3IO6UUN0/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Page Hurwitz began her career as a stand-up comedian in San Francisco at Josie's Cabaret and Cobb's Comedy Club. Subsequently, she appeared at the Montreal Comedy Festival, had her own half-hour comedy special on MTV/Logo networks, and came to the realization that she should work behind the camera. After several years spent writing and producing television shows for TBS, Comedy Central, NBC, ABC, USA, Bravo, E!, and OWN, Hurwitz partnered with Wanda Sykes to form their own production company, Push It Productions. The company has successfully revived the NBC franchise Last Comic Standing (on which Hurwitz serves as show runner) and has original scripted and unscripted projects at NBC, BET, and LOGO.The company’s first series, Wanda Sykes Presents Herlarious (OWN) received a Gracie Award in 2014. Push It currently has a first look production deal with Universal Television. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472088836726-NGMEOXZF2ABY5351CP67/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Bobbie Oliver is a 28-year comedy veteran, producer and author… and a life-long riot grrrl feminist. Originally from the Athens, GA area, Bobbie owns Tao Comedy Studio in Los Angeles and is the author of The Tao of Comedy: Embrace the Pause (recommended by Maria Bamford and Wendy Liebman). Bobbie just produced the 2nd Annual Laugh Riot Grrrl Comedy Festival featuring 125 comedians- 100 of which are women- in a week-long festival which includes a Women in Comedy Roundtable and a Self Defense for female comics workshop. At Tao Comedy Studio, Bobbie produces the weekly Women Only Laugh Riot Grrrl Open Mic and the monthly Pussy Riot feminist comedy show, as well as other shows, mics, and a feminist zine. Bobbie produced the Eagle Rock Comedy Festival for four years. Bobbie has appeared on ABC, WeTV, Sirius XM Radio, Style Network, TNN and has performed at NASA, IBM and Congressional fundraisers, as well as clubs, colleges, corporate events and hell gigs all over America. She has also won several comedy contests and festivals in Los Angeles. Bobbie has taught the Tao of Comedy standup workshops for 12 years, providing a safe space for women and men comedians to find their authentic voice and encouraging intersectional feminism in comedy. She has taught comedy at the Women In Comedy Festival in Boston, UC Irvine, Ice House Comedy Club, Pasadena City College, LaGrange College and more. Bobbie’s feminist essays about the comedy community (ex. The Subtle Oppression of Women by Comedy) have been used in classes at UCLA and William Patterson University, and landed her two speaking engagements at UCLA regarding gender in the US. Bobbie has three CDs on iTunes, the most recent being her album Feminazi C*nt. Bobbie has been on the cover of Pasadena Weekly twice, was recently featured in LA Weekly, and was called one of the “best comics in America” by the New York Post. Extensive list of credits, press and hours of extra video available at www.bobbieoliver.net https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472090450675-EAUQIODX0PSK3KO3K0AD/image-asset.jpeg 2016 LINE UP Fresh Hell (Emily Durrett, Elizabeth Guest and Hannah Garcés) is an improv and sketch team based in Los Angeles. They met and fell in love while studying at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. You can see these lil' critters pop up at UCBTLA's Harold Night, Comedy Bang! Bang!, LA's indie improv scene, Funny or Die, Cracked, behind you in the mirror when you look up from washing your face and other places! https://www.alljanecomedy.org/2023full-line-up daily 1.0 2023-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/b6bd9077-14c5-488b-9994-6f7a1afdabf1/ALLJANEBECKYBRAUNSTEIN.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Becky Braunstein grew up on a mountain in Eagle River, Alaska, moved to America after being diagnosed with metastatic thyroid cancer and almost losing her voice forever - but she didn’t lose it, and now she won’t shut up. Becky is a weirdly likable actor & comedian with a half hour special as part of Unprotected Sets on MGM+, and can be seen on Chad (Roku), Trinkets (Netflix), and Shrill (Hulu). She directed the music video for 'Hey New Zealand' by The Exbats, and co-wrote an award winning pilot, Cancer Culture, about her cancer experience. She has been featured in nearly every major comedy festival in the US, including Bridgetown, Big Sky, Laughing Skull, and SF Sketchfest, and recently headlined the 2023 Alaska B4UDIE Comedy Festival. Becky competed in the National Spelling Bee in 1997, is about half fluent in German, and dreams of someday living in a house with central air. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/f1d7758c-579d-4ab9-a2b0-040895ff5509/ALLJANERISSARISS.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out To be honest she’s never hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live. She’s never been on a VH1 Reality Show. Rissa Riss once opened for Mike Epps and Mosher Kasher at Helium and that’s about it for Name Dropping. Now She’s back from an extended Maternity leave and ready to Destroy Rooms, Burn Mics and Tear the Stage Up!!! It's What She Does, and she Does it well. Rissa Riss has been “Bringing Us the Funniest Sh*t You Ever Heard” for the past 20 years and believe it or not; “Anything IS Risible”. After a 2-year stint in Vegas, Headlining low budget Casinos, Winning Competitions, Touring with an Improv Act and Guest Hosting Comedy Clubs and Podcast, her polished Crowd Relations and Over the Top Stamina is just the tip of her Unmatched Greatness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/8f281a27-d90a-48e4-9c7a-8b2384f62d99/ALLJANERACHELROSENTHAL.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out With the dynamic duo of Rachel Rosenthal and Kristen Schier, Sugar Butts isn't just a team, it's a well-oiled comedy machine! These two seasoned performers have so much fun on stage and that energy is infectious. From the first moment of the show until the blackout, their big characters and committed acting will keep you giggling and leave you with belly aches… but ya now, the good kind. Together, Schier and Rosenthal bring down the house with their electric combo and leave you unable to explain to your friends just what the heck happened. Sugar Butts: Silly name. Serious comedy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/56a2c46f-279d-4af4-9109-ec71745ac8bb/ALLJANEASHALLEN.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out I am a queer Mississippi comic living in Portland, OR. I talk about what it was like always looking this lesbian in the South, how Hanson was a gay/sapphic siren song for the boys of my generation, how hard it is to use a public restroom, and so much more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/2fbe433d-e80f-4c8e-964b-7287e508e466/ALLJANEANNEBELLE.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/3763a616-f13c-4455-8753-80074970bea1/ALLJANERACHELABRAMS.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Rachel hosts a bi-weekly mic at the Improv to help amplify female and non-binary voices, and recently performed at Laugh After Dark fest in Vegas and Motor City Comedy Festival in Detroit. She’s been told she gives off “mean girl energy,” but if you catch one of her shows, you’ll feel like you made a new friend. She can be seen performing locally at clubs, across the country (Laugh Factory Chicago), and at your best friend’s-neighbor’s-cousin’s-backyard show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/82f2e2a7-02e5-4903-9372-f97e8fd75e1c/ALLJANETRACYHAMILTON.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Tracy Hamilton is a Toronto based stand up comedian, and host of the award-nominated podcast Love Is Everywhere. Her conversational style and cheerful sarcasm will make you feel as comfortable as she feels in her many cardigans. She performed in The Winnipeg Comedy Festival, has been published on CBC Comedy, and has opened for headlining acts such as Cameron Esposito, and Chris Gethard, among others. Her dog is also very cute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/a1bad3fb-7b35-450e-ba15-d9802de8a055/ALLJANENAOMI+FITTER.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Naomi Fitter escaped from Ohio at the age of 22. Her soothing midwestern voice has been described as "sexy," "librarian-like," and "nearly inaudible." She has opened for Bil Dwyer, Laurie Kilmartin, and Whitney Cummings, and performed in the All Jane Comedy Festival. When she's not telling jokes, she spends her time studying robots. Check out her comedy show "Naughty but Nerdy" at the Majestic Theater in Corvallis, OR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/104f36de-5b19-4a5e-9002-c7042d8a9c9a/ALLJANEPerformerImagesBrooks.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Brooks is a founding member of That’s What She Said, a queer comedy collective that’s been pissing off the patriarchy since 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/53db526d-d1e3-4f5b-9c7a-a863f5710b86/ALLJANETORYWARD.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Based in the Pacific Northwest, Tory Ward combines her amiable, light hearted personality with sardonic humor creating an experience that is singularly hilarious. She is a regular host at Helium Comedy Club, and recently opened for Marc Maron and Dave Attell. She was voted one of Portland’s funniest people by the Willamette Week, and has performed in festivals across the country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/316affdd-8d95-4bc0-9c01-6ed87eafe51b/ALLJANEJCOOKIE.png 2023 LINE UP J.Cookie is a comic out of Houston, Tx that became a comic after her appearance on The Judge Mathis Show. There, she was embarrassed when they called her a Promiscuous Pill Popper that cheats on her husband. Turning that pain into triumph, she used those attacks as the punchline of her jokes. She quickly became one of the hottest up & coming comics on the Houston scene. Never knowing she would become a comic, she became one after the death of her husband. Only wanting to try it as a hobby, it quickly became her passion. She's featured in Houston's prominent clubs such as Improv, Rudyard's (host to The Riot Comedy Club). You can find her in venues across the city bringing her unique and humorous perspective to her sometimes tumultuous life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/4de98e23-a3d5-4200-ba23-4cf96f75c304/ALLJANEJULIACORRAL.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Julia Corral is Mexican comic for Portland, OR. I know shocking right. She is 5ft tall with the intimidation factor of Shaq. She was voted Willamette Weekly Funniest 5. Her comedy has been described as the friendliest caustic person you will ever meet. She has been featured on OPB. And host of Helium all women showcase “Cooch Street” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/370c9b30-3372-45d8-b6d4-f3ce56ca358e/ALLJANEANNEZANDER.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/6554c470-47e7-4151-9039-1f334720021f/ALLJANEJAMIEBLISS.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Jamie Bliss writes ad copy by day and spends her evenings performing stand-up and telling stories at fun places like Zanies, Laugh Factory, The Comedy Store, M.i.’s Westside Comedy Theater, and at festivals. When speaking into a microphone, Jamie focuses on personal anecdotes, things that embarrass her, and mental health (and often the overlap of the three). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/6f35c2b1-c631-492b-993c-af6a4115a0e2/ALLJANEDEANNESMITH.png 2023 LINE UP - DEANNE SMITH Hoo buddy is DeAnne Smith good at comedy. A Canadian Comedy Award winner (yup, that's a thing), DeAnne has performed at comedy festivals around the world, from Just for Laughs Montreal to the Iceland Comedy Festival. Their television credits include Last Comic Standing, and The Late Late Show in the U.S., as well as appearances on CBC, ABC, and BBC. Their video Straight Men, Step Your Game Up has over 48 million views. You can find their critically-acclaimed half-hour comedy special, Gentleman Elf, on Netflix. They are currently the host of With a Twist, a cocktail and comedy show developed in Canada. The Philadelphia Weekly called their monthly New York comedy show, DeAnarchy, “one of the best comedy shows in the country.” Oh! And their second album, Chiweenie in a Tank Top, was recorded at Curious Comedy Theatre in Portland and is available right now on 800 Lb Gorilla. Oh again! They will be filming in the UK this fall with Hannah Gadsby for Netflix. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/fa7f3b7e-e7a4-48ca-a820-d5bd3b475f09/ALLJANELYNETTEMANNING.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Lynette Manning is a comedian from Olympia, WA and the first female member of the Olympia based comedy group U Got It Productions. Since hitting the scene in 2021, Lynette has been travelling all over the Pacific Northwest & beyond, connecting with audience members through laughter over her life experiences. Lynette has been accepted and performed at Comedy Festivals in Washington, Oregon, Colorado, South Dakota, Michigan & New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/6856708b-2262-48b1-a8be-2451f290af1a/ALLJANEJULIASTONE.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Julia Stone is a LA-based stand-up comedian and writer who performs across the U.S. in cities such as San Francisco, New York, and Chicago (to name a few recent destinations.) She has been seen at venues from the Hollywood Improv to the Laugh Factory Chicago and Don't Tell Comedy Nashville. She was previously a regular contributor for Late Night with Jimmy Fallopian Tubes, a monthly late night show performed at UCB Sunset in Hollywood. She has also performed in the 2019 Laugh Riot Grrrl Festival in Los Angeles, the 2021 Mutiny Radio Comedy Festival in San Francisco, the 2021 Electric Comedy Festival in St George, and the 2022 Sno Jam Comedy Festival in Sioux Falls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/2f85c57b-39e0-414e-8c19-7d63babdf1a4/ALLJANEELLENSUGARMAN.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Ellen Sugarman incubated in Boston and matured aged in San Diego spreading hilarity along her way. Ellen’s comedy has been called accessible and unique! Her unsparing take on everyday topics have won over audiences from coast to coast, and across 2 oceans. Ellen has featured for Maria Bamford, was comic-in-resident at Boston’s acclaimed Comedy Studio and regularly performs at the World-Famous Comedy Store La Jolla. Follow Ellen on Facebook and Instagram @ellensugarman617. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/fc9ef7d5-a384-4513-a945-e7826c9727af/ALLJANEHALEY.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/774c40dd-1ff1-4898-a27d-eb9b6a50bee6/ALLJANEAMBERRUFFIN.png 2023 LINE UP Amber Ruffin stars in and executive produces The Amber Ruffin Show on Peacock, while continuing to hold her positions as writer and performer on Late Night With Seth Meyers. She has been a part of LNSM since its inception in 2014, and is the first African American woman ever to write for a network late-night talk show. Amber has also performed and written for such shows as Drunk History, Stevie TV, and Key And Peele. Her play, King Kong: A Musical Parody, won Best Overall Musical at the NY Fringe Festival in 2015. She has been a performer and writer for Second City Chicago Mainstage, Second City Denver, and Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, where she did two tours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/8f88a6ba-abe0-4dae-bc57-892eb903d9da/ALLJANERACHELLECOCHRAN.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Rachelle describes her comedy style as “unique" and "loud." Think of her as the silly lesbian next door who owns too many crocs. Rachelle has been fortunate enough to share her observational comedy, boundless energy, and enthusiasm on stages at Seattle’s Highlarious Comedy Festival, Sacramento’s Comedy Festival, PDX Queer Comedy Festival, Harvey’s Comedy Club, and was recently recognized by her Doordash driver as “that one who didn’t do so bad” at Portland’s Funniest. Rachelle fills her free time working on her musical comedy, hiding from exercise, and sleeping. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1e4174c0-0ef6-47c0-af48-611864183756/ALLJANEMARIETJEHAUPRICH.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Marietje (muh-ree-chah) is a standup comic based in Portland, OR. She grew up in the rough streets of New York. The state not the city. Upstate. Dirt streets. Woods. She draws from her life experiences, such as the struggles of being a dedicated helicopter mom to four cats. Marietje is a regular at Helium Comedy Club and has performed at the Limestone and Upper Left Comedy Festivals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/166d6e1e-6e59-445a-851e-f7c86803c732/ALLJANEEMILYNEWTON.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/f4680b00-6460-4436-a55a-a988b2c5aefa/ALLJANEANDIEMAIN.png 2023 LINE UP Andie Main is a Portland based comedian who keeps busy by producing/hosting The Doug Fir Lounge's summer series The Cool Kids Patio Show, and her politically themed series called Revolution Comedy, which organizes fundraisers for progressive causes like Planned Parenthood, The ACLU, and Don't Shoot PDX. At this bizarre moment in our nation's history, her efforts have contributed over $10,000 to #theresistance and although she is a life long punkrocker, is stoked to see these shows selling out regularly. Festival credits include The Bridgetown Comedy Festival, The Comedy Exposition, repeated appearances at SF Sketchfest and The All Jane Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot, Seattle Sketchfest, Portland Pride, Treefort Festival and Cromfest. She has recently performed for sold out crowds at UCBeast, UCB Chelsea and The Stand Nightclub in NYC, and esteemed shows in LA like The Rabbit Hole and Put Your Hands Together. When in Portland she is a fixture on the NW circuit and a regular at Helium Comedy Club. She is a regular feature for comedians like TJ Miller, Myq Kaplan and David Huntsberger and after the shows they've all said "hey Andie that was great!" and got brunch because you can order brunch whenever you want in Portland. In her spare time she enjoys taking hikes with her not-so-smart dog, pizza, making weird art, nature documentaries and yelling about the patriarchy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/d0fe05c9-4ccc-41b1-81ce-657018305dc0/ALLJANEJUNOMEN.png 2023 LINE UP Juno Men (she/her) is a Seattle-based comedian and writer. She is openly transgender and obviously asian, the daughter of Cambodian immigrants. Her credits include the Upper Left Comedy Festival, Don’t Tell Comedy Seattle and Portland, opening for Chris Gethard, the Seattle Moth storyslam, and making her 94 year old non-english speaking grandma laugh more than her siblings and cousins combined. She can be found online on instagram @seattlejuno. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/344ec46e-492c-4d86-880f-3486fdbbf8a3/ALLJANEPerformerImagesANDREAMANCHACA.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Andrea is a Mexican immigrant and a mother with a desire to make friends with Karens and go back where she came from. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/488e2549-db03-478e-ae19-169e70dee9b3/ALLJANEKELLYTHOMAS.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out This crowd is about to get WORKED honey! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/8d3afae9-29dd-42c4-aa75-bd21d7f38091/ALLJANEWILLOW.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/7929360d-afbf-4d88-9853-4f5e45f4e7ac/ALLJANEGABBYJORDANBROWN.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Gabby Jordan Brown is a comic, producer and podcaster. She has been featured on Amazon as well as on the festival circuit, with recent appearances at LA Comedy Festival and LGBTLOL Fest in New Orleans. Gabby co-produces the show “If We Did It,” a murder-mystery comedy, as well as the courtroom themed LGBTQ+ showcase “Wait But Are You Sure?” She also is one half of Two Nosy Meerkats, a podcast with TikToker Lukas Arnold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/9a8e3009-fec4-43ae-9c6e-221081d7a23f/ALLJANEPerformerImagesBECHDEL.png 2023 LINE UP - THE BECHDEL CAS The Bechdel Cast -- ever heard of it?? -- is back at Curious Comedy to headline the 10th and final All Jane Comedy Festival 2023! Join hosts Jamie Loftus and Caitlin Durante for an intersectional feminist analysis on Say Anything (1989)! I love them. You love them. They are the best. But you know that. So, see you there! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/70a48e7a-9ef0-4399-99ff-8672d6977f9a/ALLJANELAURAHOUSE.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Laura House is an actress, comic, writer and teacher. She was discovered in Austin, Texas while performing stand-up comedy at night and teaching seventh grade by day. She was featured in HBO's Aspen Comedy Festival, then starred on Mtv's first scripted sit-com "Austin Stories." Later she performed on Comedy Central's "Premium Blend" and other stand-up shows while continuing acting and writing. She played a hillbilly slut opposite Natalie Portman in "Where the Heart is." Laura has written on hit TV shows including the Emmy-winning "Samantha Who?" and "Mom." She has developed a "Super Mom" show with Barry Sonnenfeld for ABC, a sketch show featuring Rachel Crow for Nickelodeon and a lady-slacker show with Katey Sagal for FX. She's published in three books, including "True Tales of Lust and Love," "Comedy Film Nerds Guide to the Movies, and "Stricken: The 5000 Stages of Grief." She's an LA favorite at stand-up and storytelling shows. She also teaches pitching, writing and meditation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/bc49f912-29ee-4184-859f-c092debb0f64/ALLJANEKAYLAEVANS.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Kayla Evans is a recent transplant to Portland, OR from Nashville, TN. She’s been kicking butt and taking names in standup since 2016 and she enjoys talking about the female experience, traveling, and deciphering her mental health. She has performed in the Asheville Comedy Festival and the Treefort Music Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/b53389f3-7c85-41b0-847e-1fc06941c7eb/ALLJANEERICAFIGUEROA.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out Erica Figueroa is a stand-up comedian but her real dream is to be a meme lord. Her work can be seen in the upcoming Sketch Coven Showcase. Catch her sharing upcoming shows and demented memes on the internet @figueroacomedy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/549456d2-787d-4676-93cd-551fa3d8e96c/ALLJANEKRISTENSCHIER.png 2023 LINE UP - Make it stand out With the dynamic duo of Rachel Rosenthal and Kristen Schier, Sugar Butts isn't just a team, it's a well-oiled comedy machine! These two seasoned performers have so much fun on stage and that energy is infectious. From the first moment of the show until the blackout, their big characters and committed acting will keep you giggling and leave you with belly aches… but ya now, the good kind. Together, Schier and Rosenthal bring down the house with their electric combo and leave you unable to explain to your friends just what the heck happened. Sugar Butts: Silly name. Serious comedy. https://www.alljanecomedy.org/about-2017 daily 0.75 2023-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1475181186717-LC08UO6KW4ICQK0OO451/image-asset.jpeg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1475210033084-29VJA3RWDJFX4Z3KSW7C/image-asset.jpeg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1475207750045-OGRKDKIBG164RQ1SXXWW/image-asset.jpeg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1475210383424-SCLF3QDO3VZHGTFVIXTR/image-asset.jpeg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1475207581845-ZZ7VE0KA4LFGF28W8FAZ/image-asset.jpeg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1475180998098-H3PC60877YKPBOC0DKMN/image-asset.jpeg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1475207780520-G87BMASS684HUYDSEE3B/image-asset.png About https://www.alljanecomedy.org/2016-line-up-1 daily 0.75 2017-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505877708095-5CWXU1QG7SZNUCAAUAO0/Lydia+Manning.jpg 2017 LINE UP Lydia Manning is a sort of cool comedian based in Portland, Oregon. With performances that are dynamic, smart, and absurd, she specializes in pulling the audience out of their comfort zones, and into her universe. Lydia has performed in the She-Devil Comedy Festival, won a couple of contests you've never heard of, and opened for some extremely cool comedians including Jay Pharoah, Mary Mack, Erin Foley, and Arj Barker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505875586063-UYE4PO3CE5XTCOS6AFT4/Barbara+Holm.jpg 2017 LINE UP Portland comedian Barbara Holm has performed at the San Francisco Sketchfest, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, the All Jane Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot Arts festival, Rose City Comic Con, PAX Convention, and the Women in Comedy Festival in Boston. She has written for IGN, Live Wire, Splitsider, Comic Book Resources, The Portland Mercury, and the Huffington Post. She has been awarded Time Out New York’s Joke of the Week and was named “one of the best things about comedy in 2012” by the Comedy Bureau. Her comedy has been described as clever, unique, idiosyncratic, and exuberant. Seattle City Arts Magazine called her a “comedy wizard” and Seattle Stranger Newspaper described her as an “adorable wunderkind” and she describes herself as “running away from this question to hide under the desk right now.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472096984119-RUZKQXH31UO1X60204ZF/image-asset.jpeg 2017 LINE UP Called a “hardcore comedy critics’ favorite” at the Idaho Laugh Fest by the festival’s director, who “never had that kind of feedback before from so many people about the same comic,” Becky Braunstein is a fast-rising standout performer with fresh energy and wide-eyed enthusiasm that is impossible to ignore. She grew up on a mountain in Alaska where she had no one to talk to, moved to Portland after being diagnosed with metastatic thyroid cancer and coming close to losing her voice forever - but she didn’t lose it, and now she won’t shut up. Becky was an audience favorite at the prestigious 2016 Big Sky Comedy Festival, was selected for 'Best of the Fest' at the 2017 Golden Spike Comedy Festival, and has also performed at the 2017 Bridgetown Comedy Festival, the All Jane Comedy Festival, the Idaho Laugh Fest, the 208 Comedy Fest, Pickathon, the Siren Nation Festival, NW Women’s Comedy Festival, and the Hudson Valley Comedy Festival. A finalist for ‘Best Comedian’ in the Willamette Week’s 2016 & 2017 Best of Portland, and selected for Helium Comedy Club’s ‘Best of Portland’, she performs regularly at Helium Comedy Club, Harvey’s Comedy Club, and Curious Comedy Theater. She studied at the same acting school as Liam Neeson, and has a specific set of skills - which include illustrating #FatAnimals, being able to lip-sync the entirety of ‘Pehla Nasha’ from the 1992 hit Bollywood film Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, and demolitions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505863805411-HKEO52ZTOMOOVY81FLBJ/HeartsHeadshot.jpg 2017 LINE UP Big hair. Big heart. Big mouth. Barbara’s ebullient stage presence combined with vulnerable material and goofy style have made her a quickly rising star in the Los Angeles alternative comedy scene. In 2016 she filmed sets for Viceland’s “Flophouse” and Hulu’s “Coming to the Stage” and she has written for the past three seasons of the hit show “Billy on the Street”. She can be seen in the upcoming "Corporate" on Comedy Central, as can be seen on CC's digital series "Deadliest Chef" as well as Nick Swardson's "Typical Rick", as well as MTV’s “Acting Out”. Along with touring all over the country, Babs has made multiple visits to SF Sketchfest and the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, where her performance was deemed ‘funny as get-out’ by the Portland Mercury. Her comedy has been featured on Huffington Post and Ellen, and her underground comedy show One-Two Punch, run out of her own living room in Silverlake, had a spread in the LA Times. She is also a regular at the top shows and venues in Los Angeles, including the Improv, Comedy Store, Meltdown, Good Heroin, and literally any place somebody will put a microphone and give her some attention. Barbara is also a co-host of the hit podcast “Lady to Lady”, which recently surpassed 3 million downloads from listeners all over the world. The live talk show can be seen at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater and the Hollywood Improv. The show combines the roundtable discussions of The View with the antics and characters of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. Described as “The funniest podcast ever” by BUST magazine, the ladies bring the weird every week with a combination of pop culture skewering and embarrassing personal revelations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505865957082-QSKNI023X8UGJ4139CM3/Ana-Maria+Stojic.jpg 2017 LINE UP Originally from Yugoslavia, Ana-Marija is living in Toronto doing stand-up all over the city. She can be seen regularly at The Corner Comedy Club and the ALTdot Comedy Lounge. Credits include: Crom Comedy Festival 2017 and has been featured on SiriusXM Radio. Ana-Marija is currently in the semi-finals for Sirius XM's Next Top Comic Competition 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505867013346-238A8KWIBOJ2OVALOJ91/StaceyHallalHeadshot.jpg 2017 LINE UP Stacey Hallal founded the Curious Comedy Theater in Portland, Oregon in 2008 where she serves as Artistic Director as well as a regular performer, writer, director and teacher.She has the honoring of curating the annual All Jane Comedy Festival. Stacey performs at Curious Comedy as well as Helium Comedy Club where she has hosted for such legends as Bob Saget and Dana Gould and featured for Norm MacDonald. Stacey tours all over North America, both stand up and sketch. She has completed the prestigious Directing Program at Second City where she Assistant Directed the smash hit Second City Main Stage production, Between Barack and A Hard Place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505860995320-6IF8D2BW29BIQG8TOBIL/Emma+Willmann+Headshot+-+USE.JPG 2017 LINE UP Maine native and Comedy Cellar regular, Emma is one of the top comedians in New York City. Emma made her late night debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2016 and has also performed standup on Fuse’s Uproarious, Seeso’s Night Train with Wyatt Cenac, and The Guest List and AXS TV’s Gotham Comedy Live. In 2017, Emma had the opportunity to record a set for the CNN series The History of Comedy. Later this year you can catch Emma on the MTV International talking head series Vidiots and the web series Gay Girl Straight Girl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505877103103-1XKEZ3VG62PVYDP73VSB/KATIEBhs.jpg 2017 LINE UP Katie Behrens is a local performer and improviser who has been involved with theater for as long as she can remember. She has been with Curious for 6 wonderful years and got addicted to improv under the teachings of Stacey Hallal and Bob Ladewig. She has since been a part of the duo, Katie, with Katie Michels and Biz Caj with Dylan Reiff and Garrett Palm. She can be seen all around town, but feels truly at home on the Curious Comedy stage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505873639929-EBORT7SW0SKX8P0HWO02/Belind+Carrol.jpg 2017 LINE UP Belinda Carroll is a Portland, Oregon native, LGBTQ activist and coffee addict. A stand-up comedian, actress, and singer she has appeared on fun stuff like Portlandia, MTV, XM Sirius radio and Grimm a couple of times. Her writing credits include, Huffington Post, Cracked.com, and PQ Monthly. She also has opened or featured for Hari Kondabolu, Shane Mauss, Erasure (Andy Bell), The Cliks, Julie Goldman, and Laurie Kilmartin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505865822751-FB4555P9UVTO8LBOQH3L/Mona+Shaikh.jpg 2017 LINE UP Mona Shaikh combines a South Asian sensibility with Americanized values cherishing the First Amendment—the right to bear big mouths. And her fresh, fearless, free speech has raised eyebrows. With her offbeat sense of humor Shaikh is a tightrope walker striving to maintain equilibrium while dealing with conflicting forces. With half of her life spent in a prominent conservative Muslim household, and the other immersed with America’s entertainment and culture, Mona knew she was set out to break boundaries. Mona performed her first open mic at Comix Comedy Club in NYC, after a friend suggested she pursue stand-up comedy. However, her conservative Pakistani Muslim upbringing prevented her from pursuing her dream for another 10 years. Later, Mona rebelled and moved out of her family’s home to relocate to the Big Apple and pursue her acting career. Shortly after moving to New York and landing numerous gigs, Mona was no longer limited to theatre and soon appeared in commercials as the global face of Kodak, a pharmacist for Wal-Mart, an Indian Mom for Cablevision and a businesswoman for Deutsche Bank, in addition to acting in various independent features and short films. Today Mona resides in Los Angeles, Calif., pursing her career as a comedian and actor while developing her upcoming One-Hour Special and Comedy TV series. Mona can be seen all around Los Angeles in such places as The Comedy Store, Flappers Comedy Club, The Laugh Factory, Ice House Pasadena, Hollywood Improv and many more. Recently, Mona hosted the Hollywood Improv for Comedy Juice night with Dane Cook. She became the first Pakistani female Comedian to be selected for the Laugh’s Factory Funniest Person in the World Competition. She also made history by becoming the first Pakistani female Comedian to headline Hollywood Improv. Mona was most recently featured in Newsweek, The Guardian, LA Weekly, New York Post, Huffington Post, Washington Post and BBC. Mona recently headlined The Real Flava Comedy Club in Dubai and a show in Lisbon, Portugal. She recently got her own show and again made history at The World Famous Comedy Store in Los Angeles called Minority Reportz with a launch of sold-out shows. Be on the look out for Mona Shaikh coming to a stage, radio and television near you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505862465080-IBGJA4V09K09S678AIIU/Riyler+Silverman.jpg 2017 LINE UP A Los Angeles resident with deep midwestern roots, the dark yet silly comedy of Riley Silverman has been seen on Seeso’s Take My Wife and Comedy Central’s Not Safe with Nikki Glaser. Her debut comedy album, Intimate Apparel, was a #1 best seller on Amazon. Riley is the head writer for the International Waters comedy panel show podcast, has posed as a body diversity model for the fashion brand ModCloth, and was also listed as one of 10 Women Comedians Who Smash the Patriarchy by The Culture Trip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505858803172-FXGD3TFJUJAYKR1JXT4F/Laurie-Kilmartin-website.jpg 2017 LINE UP Laurie Kilmartin is an Emmy nominated writer for Conan, the author NYTimes bestselling book Shitty Mom, a finalist of season 7 of Last Comic standing, and her comedy special 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad was in Vulture's top 10 comedy specials of 2016. You should probably be listening to her excellent Nerdist podcast with Jackie Kashian, The Jackie and Laurie Show. Laurie is a giant of comedy we are honored to have at All Jane. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505859684146-CAL9OEOEI9C3LVM6RJZM/Zainab+2017+USE.JPG 2017 LINE UP Zainab Johnson, a stand-up comedian and actress, is quickly being propelled as one of the most unique and engaging performers on stage and screen. Zainab’s comedy is based on her unique point-of-view, which was shaped growing up in Harlem as one of thirteen siblings in a Muslim family. After getting a degree in math and taking a job as a teacher, she quickly learned that she had a different calling. Zainab can most recently be seen in her breakout appearance on HBO’s All Def Comedy and has made appearances on Arsenio, BET's WOKE AF, MTV's Acting Out and AXSTV's Gotham Comedy Live!. In 2014, she performed in the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival as one of the 2014 New Faces of Comedy as well as one of the breakout new comedians on NBC's Last Comic Standing Season 8. She most recently sold a television show to ABC with Wanda Sykes producing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505874877043-6KXBBHEQXOV6R9MSSVUH/Katie+McCarthy.jpg 2017 LINE UP Katie McCarthy is a Boston-based comedian who will make you delightedly shriek “What?!” She’s peddled her brand of silly-yet-cerebral humor all around the country, impressing audiences at Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, and Women in Comedy Festival. Starting as a sketch writer and actor, Katie has since tackled stand up; her absurd ruminations on personal experiences, pop culture, and politics quickly made her a favorite of Boston’s legendary Comedy Studio, where she served as their Comic In Residence in January 2016. She’s appeared on Nerdist’s Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction podcast three times and can be seen on SeeSo’s Hidden America for like two minutes. She doesn’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day or the guarantee of seeing a dog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505872502715-VB1MVHL4TJE8OX176JQ2/50_lady_bits-1500px-276.jpg 2017 LINE UP Steph Tolev is a stand up and sketch comedian from Toronto currently residing in LA. Her unique brand of absurd and personal comedy has made her an audience favorite across North America both on stage and on television. As a stand up, Steph has done the prestigious Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal and featured in a TV Gala as well being part of the Homegrown competition in 2014. She was one of the 42 with her sketch duo Ladystache in the Just For Laughs 42 festival in Toronto. During JFL42 she was also a finalist for Sirius XM Radio’s Next Top Comic competition and featured on Andy Kindler’s Alternative show. She was well-received at the acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe Fest, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, San Fran Sketch Fest, Big Sky Festival, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver Sketch Fests, as well as North By North East. Steph won the award for Best Female Stand Up at the Canadian Comedy Awards in 2015 and was nominated for her sketch troupe. Her first stand up album “Hot N’ Hungry” hit number one on itunes and was listed top five comedy albums of 2016 by Exclaim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505877459191-8V6RN9GUDE81AMVJI6EX/Natalie+Holt.jpg 2017 LINE UP Natalie Holt's comedy career started in Seattle, but her absurd spirit is the result of her weird and wonderful upbringing in Florida. Onstage, she's a whirl of surreal wordplay and wears her heart on her sleeve. Her comedy has been described as "an emotional Penthouse letter" with "jokes that almost don't work". She keeps busy as performing around the Pacific Northwest and as a producer at Seattle favorite The Comedy Nest. She's performed at Bumbershoot and was a co-writer of the live interdimensional talk show Alyssa Explains It All. You can catch her anytime on your favorite podcasting platform discussing the birds, the bees, and THC on Sexual Awake'n'Baking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505873388621-YXWLCSB5CT45HT4J7WZ0/Lauren+Faber.jpg 2017 LINE UP Lauren Faber is a feral comedian who was raised in a basement by the early 90's specials of Ellen Degeneres, Paula Poundstone, Rosie O'Donnell and Elvira Kurt. (It was MUCH later that she noticed the common thread there, but that's a story for a show.) Lauren has yet to learn that you can make things up on stage, so get ready for some unadulterated truth about her misadventures as a lesbian globetrotter trying to get a date and save the world. When she isn't on stage, Lauren works at a university in Durham, NC with a justly reviled basketball team doing all the boring stuff so a brilliant economist can actually save the world. Lauren won the She-Devil Comedy Competition in NYC and the title of Carolinas' Funniest Comic in 2016. She performs in festivals across the country including the Limestone, Hell Yes, Laugh Your Asheville Off, Women in Comedy, Cinder Block, Cape Fear , Scruffy City , Charm City (Headliner), and Highlarious. Lauren has featured for Chad Daniels, emceed for Godfrey, Jim Breuer, Dan Cummins, Phil Hanley and Joe Zimmerman, and appeared with Maria Bamford on WUNC's the State of Things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505866895695-P8SMXV76PYFVVZXYVNM8/Dominique+Gelin.jpg 2017 LINE UP Dominique Gelin is a comedian in Oakland, CA who offers strong opinions on stupid things, -isms, and assholes. It’s all very fascinating. She has performed at SF Sketchfest, Boston’s Women in Comedy Festival, and was a finalist for the Ultimate Miami Comedian. She has also touched the stage of a really famous comedy club that one time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505864351054-WU8PBMYUAWXV9NB07CD4/Jen+Saunderson.jpg 2017 LINE UP Jen Saunderson brings an imaginatively whimsical and sometimes dark style of humor. She’s the co-hosts and creator of the new IFC series, "The Filling is Mutual." Saunderson was a judge’s favorite on NBC’s America’s Got Talent and can be seen on each season of FOX’s Laughs. Saunderson has performed in Bumbershoot, Bridgetown, SF Sketchiest and took third in the She-Devil Comedy Festival Competition in New York which hosted 60 female comics. She now lives in Los Angeles with her two cats, elderly dog and husband who was supposed to proof read this so if there are any errors, it’s his folt. Saunderson originally hails from Seattle where Seattle Weekly named her Best Comedian. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505868721506-HO374APDOZX71U6R3VV6/Katie+Nguyen.jpg 2017 LINE UP Katie Nguyen writes and performs stand-up, improv, sketch, and more. She has performed at SF Sketchfest, Asheville Comedy Festival, Crom Comedy Festival, Stumptown Improv Fest, and the Bridgetown Comedy Festival. Katie is an ensemble member at the Brody Theater and an instructor at Deep End Theater. She hosts the show Earthquake Hurricane and was named one of the Portland Mercury's Geniuses of Comedy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505873759199-Y7MT9ITU4Y88BGKLDUXN/Sarah+Burrows.jpg 2017 LINE UP Sarah Burrows is a comedian based in Los Angeles, performing regularly at Flappers Comedy Club, The Comedy Store and Westside Comedy. She has been a frequent performer with ‘Pretty, Funny Women’ and has twice been invited to perform in the hit show ‘Women Who Kill’ at the Hollywood Improv. Sarah is a graduate of both the Second City Acting and Writing Conservatories. She performed in a weekly improv show at the Second City Theater in Hollywood for 2 years and was a founding member of the improv group ‘The Laughteers’ that had a successful run at the Acme Comedy Theater for over 5 years. Sarah is also an in-demand essayist, sharing her stories at shows such as Pinata, PEZ, Tattle Tales and Word Salad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505868289528-NIK56MOSO27IHVUW8VX5/Holly+Lynnea.jpg 2017 LINE UP Charming and unapologetic with a wicked repartee, Holly Lynnea is a Louisville-based comedian and writer. She honed her comedic timing while training at The Second City and iO Training Centers in Chicago, IL.with a wicked repartee, Holly Lynnea is a Louisville-based comedian and writer. She honed her comedic timing while training at The Second City and iO Training Centers in Chicago, IL. Holly performs at venues and comedy clubs across the US and Canada. She has worked with D.L. Hughley, Roy Wood Jr., and Jackie Kashian to name a few. She made her television debut on the FOX Network's "Laughs TV" show and recently earned a spot as a semi-finalist for Stand-Up NBC. Her festival appearances include SheDot Comedy Festival, Laugh Your Asheville Off, Accidental Comedy Festival, Scruffy City Comedy Festival, Orlando Indie Comedy Festival, Women In Comedy Festival, Limestone Comedy Festival Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, and the 208 Comedy Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505877353445-XJ8S13VVR70TJOFWU9G0/Kate+Aguilar.jpg 2017 LINE UP Kate Aguilar is a Portland-based improviser, storyteller, and stand-up comic, originally from Los Angeles, California. Kate has performed at Seattle's Highlarious Comedy Festival, the Portland Queer Comedy Festival, and in more bars than she once thought humanly possible. A graduate of Smith College, Kate is a founding member of the queer feminist comedy collective, "That's What She Said", and is currently writing a feminist critique of the 1982 feature film "Tootsie". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1506828939503-4UIR6GGULNY1XFVU2AZ3/Liza+Treyger+Approved+Photo 2017 LINE UP   Liza Treyger is a Chicago-bred standup comic who now resides in NYC. She really misses alleys, her favorite bartenders, and her Russian parents. Liza’s Half Hour and first album will be released by Comedy Central in August 2015. She recently performed at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal and has appeared on Adam Devine's House Party on Comedy Central, Chelsea Lately and is a cast member on MTV2's Joking Off. She was thrilled to be a part of the New York Comedy Festival 2012 as one of Comedy Central's Comics to Watch (where she got to watch shows and eat cake balls with two professional wrestlers!). Check out her super cool web series How Many Questions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505859408370-I9JQRUJ65PY51NUTUUJ9/Jenny+Zigrino+Pic+-+USE.JPG 2017 LINE UP With the sweetness of the Midwest and the iron balls of the East Coast, Jenny Zigrino is a comedian that packs a punch of truly original humor. She's charmed audiences across the country with her wit, keen observations, embarrassing anecdotes, and brilliant honesty for a compelling performance you can't ignore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505858857839-6BP900GV2E2QMHL396RT/Amber+Ruffin+Headshot.jpg 2017 LINE UP Amber Ruffin is an Emmy nominated writer who currently writes for Late Night With Seth Meyers and the hilarious Comedy Central show, Detroiters. You can see her regularly on Seth Meyers during the "Jokes Seth Can't Tell" and "Amber Says What?" She also narrates for Drunk History. Amber is an alumni of Second City Chicago main stage and Boom Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505863335120-BTOLJX3XHWOI3DZDBL9B/Irene+Tu+Headshot+Daniel+Schuleman.jpg 2017 LINE UP Irene Tu is a Chicago-born, San Francisco-based stand-up comedian, writer, and actor. Named one of the Bay Area's "11 Best Stand Up Comedians" and a "Woman to Watch" by KQED, she has opened for comedians such as W. Kamau Bell, Hari Kondabolu, Aparna Nancherla, and Gary Gulman. Irene has also been featured in SF Sketchfest, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Riot LA, and on VICELAND and Seeso (RIP). You can follow Irene on social media @irene_tu or in real life at her shows: Man Haters, The Mission Position, and Millennials Ruin Everything (they do). irenetu.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505864761193-SY4ZN8PHY9SPKA0EYTB8/Marlena+Rodriguez.jpg 2017 LINE UP Marlena Rodriguez is a herspanic comedian who's been makin' em giggle since 1989. She's written for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The Second City, and was named a Comedy Central Comic To Watch. Google for more, listen to Marlena's podcast What Would My Friends Do?, and follow her on twitter @marlenarodrigz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505861517899-Q08OO44U8UP7U994OEZB/Lady+to+Lady.jpg 2017 LINE UP Lady to Lady is the irreverent comedy trio of Barbara Gray, Brandie Posey and Tess Barker. Boasting a top-rated iTunes podcast with over 3.3 million downloads, the Ladies host a digital series with Comedy Central, produce a live talk show at the UCB in Los Angeles, and stand up showcase at the Hollywood Improv. In addition to touring nationally, they will be headliners at several festivals this year besides All Jane, including Fest16 in Gainesville alongside huge music acts like Against Me! Each lady is a stand up comic and writer; Brandie Posey’s animation-standup pilot “Picture This” is currently in development with Wanda Sykes and Page Hurwitz' company “Push It” Productions; Barbara Gray has written for the past three seasons “Billy on the Street” and can be seen on Comedy Central’s “Corporate”; Tess Barker recently wrote on “Throwing Shade” for TVLand, and has written regularly for outlets including The Guardian, Vice, and MTV News. The podcast combines Brandie’s whimsical revenge plots, Tess’s oddly truthful life mantras, and Babs’s embarrassing personal revelations to form a show that is incredibly goofy and warmly genuine. From pop culture discussions to solving listener’s “Lady Problems,” the ladies are “One of the most fun hangouts in podcasting…” -- Paste Magazine. ‘The funniest podcast ever...They’re smart. They‘re strong. They’re badass women...Smart girl sleepover comfort food.’ - Bust Magazine ‘I have a major friend-crush on all of them. Their podcast is like the best adult sleepover, just having a hang with your best girlfriends.’ - Entertainment Weekly ‘Feels like sitting next to a very funny group of people at a bar, who you’re secretly more entertained by than the friend you’re with... Like ‘Inside Amy Schumer,’ ‘Lady to Lady’ approaches the female experience with equal parts glee and cynicism, appealing to any gender without being particularly worried about it.’ -Splitsider. ‘One of the most fun hangouts in podcasting... Infectious.’ -Paste Magazine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505867048066-Z3PG3KW4UYTJD2XH6I59/Reece+Cotton.jpg 2017 LINE UP REECE COTTON effortlessly fuses humor with controversy and is one of the most sought-after emerging comedians hailing from Boston, Massachusetts. While hosting the 2017 Women In Comedy Festival, Reece delivered her signature mind-bending performance and was immediately approached by a representative from ADULT SWIM (Cartoon Network) regarding a potential collaboration. She recently featured on live radio with WGBH 89.7 Under the Radar with Callie Crossley and performs at esteemed New York comedy venues such as Caroline’s on Broadway, Gotham Comedy Club and Broadway Comedy Club. Consistently devoted to her community, Reece founded an open mic and charity fundraiser called Straight Outta Money in 2015 and volunteers at multiple comedy festivals. Knowing no limits, she is even writing a series bible for a top-tier TV network as well as developing her own web-series warehouse entitled Tags & Bits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505878006776-6WCASS6QFN3P605MO4LX/coorheadshot.jpg 2017 LINE UP Portland-based Coor Cohen began her career as a comedy writer in the Deep South, but in 2012 she decided to step onstage and hasn’t looked back since. Coor’s background in comedy writing and natural charisma allowed her to quickly develop a distinct comedic voice described as “intellectually silly,” allowing her to tackle a wide variety of topics ranging from politics to the peculiarities of public radio. By avoiding typical “comedienne” topics, she brings a refreshing point-of-view to any stage and leaves audiences feeling like they just made their new best friend. Coor has appeared at the Cape Fear Comedy Festival, the Portland Queer Comedy Festival, and the Savage Henry Comedy Festival. She has opened for comics such as Nikki Glaser, Arj Barker, Ian Karmel, and Shane Torres. She has produced multiple benefit shows for various women’s reproductive rights organizations, such as Planned Parenthood and Lady Parts Justice (co-founded by DAILY SHOW co-creator Lizz Winstead), and also co-hosts a weekly show in Portland called I’mma Leave You With This. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505878429644-PIZ8U3RZVXR3A3VAZL4M/Girls+With+HEads+copy.jpg 2017 LINE UP Girls With Heads is a Performance Art Collective created by Mariah Muñoz. GWH's mission is to see more womxn more often on stage. Perpetuating strength, confidence, and connection into our community. Mariah Mercedes Muñoz has been doing improv in the Portland area since she was a teenager. Mariah created and curates the performance art collective Girls with Heads, which showcases the varied talents of Portland’s female identified entertainers. When not improvising and agitating for social justice, she enjoys eating cheeseburgers and working in the corporate offices of Dr. Martens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505878802059-53MNJQQOU9VVAYBIVDMR/Feelings+Image.jpg 2017 LINE UP   FEELINGS is an intersectional, feminist, queer improv show based on your suggestions. Kinzie is gay, Natasha is a white-passing Latina, and they want you to join them to eat dessert and dismantle the white-cis-hetero patriarchy. Show up in your PJS and bring some ice cream because it's about to get real. FEELINGS started performing together in 2015. Highlights include the Seattle Festival of Improvised Theatre in 2016 & 2017, Bumbershoot 2016, and the Los Angeles Diversity in Comedy Festival run by Second City Hollywood. Kinzie Shaw is a company member at Unexpected Productions, and Natasha Ransom is a company member at Jet City Improv both in Seattle, WA. We engage with a queer feminist perspective in an earnest way, while also being satirical and poking fun at ourselves. We find comedy in real and honest portrayals of women's issues and represent strong, smart, independent women. The suggestions we get from the audience come from an emotionally rooted place and give us a lot to work with. We talk about race, gender, sexuality, and politics while also making the audience laugh and reflect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1472090662210-HCL64TZ9JYBI1EE9N6TF/image-asset.jpeg 2017 LINE UP JoAnn Schinderle is a Portland based comic, actress, writer and producer. She has been seen on VICE, Laughs on Fox, and has been a live correspondent for the Keep Oregon Well campaign. JoAnn has appeared in such festivals as, All Jane, Bridgetown, Bumbershoot, Chicago Comedy Expo, Hell Yes Fest, Out of Bounds, and SF Sketchfest. As a working stand-up at Helium Comedy Club- Portland, her humor is relatable, snarky, and has a storytelling style that will make you feel like she’s your best friend letting you in on a secret. Also trained as an improvisor through courses at Second City Training Center and Curious Comedy Theater, JoAnn creates big characters and will “yes and” the shit out of you. Schinderle is represented by one of the top talent agents in the PNW, Option Talent, and has landed principal roles in both national and local commercials. She also hosts, curates, and produces a weekly showcase called Control Yourself: A Showcase of Funny, which has been featured as ‘Top 5 Portland Comedy Showcases to Watch’ 3years running by the Willamette Week. Control Yourself (which was also featured in Paste Magazine) runs every Sunday at Alberta Street Pub in NE Portland. If you enjoy friendly banter you can follow JoAnn on twitter @joannlizabeth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505867609902-WAA6VP4KFMPZ5TQMC0ZS/Andie+Main.jpg 2017 LINE UP Andie Main is a Portland based comedian who keeps busy by producing/hosting The Doug Fir Lounge's summer series The Cool Kids Patio Show, and her politically themed series called Revolution Comedy, which organizes fundraisers for progressive causes like Planned Parenthood, The ACLU, and Don't Shoot PDX. At this bizarre moment in our nation's history, her efforts have contributed over $10,000 to #theresistance and although she is a life long punkrocker, is stoked to see these shows selling out regularly. Festival credits include The Bridgetown Comedy Festival, The Comedy Exposition, repeated appearances at SF Sketchfest and The All Jane Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot, Seattle Sketchfest, Portland Pride, Treefort Festival and Cromfest. She has recently performed for sold out crowds at UCBeast, UCB Chelsea and The Stand Nightclub in NYC, and esteemed shows in LA like The Rabbit Hole and Put Your Hands Together. When in Portland she is a fixture on the NW circuit and a regular at Helium Comedy Club. She is a regular feature for comedians like TJ Miller, Myq Kaplan and David Huntsberger and after the shows they've all said "hey Andie that was great!" and got brunch because you can order brunch whenever you want in Portland. In her spare time she enjoys taking hikes with her not-so-smart dog, pizza, making weird art, nature documentaries and yelling about the patriarchy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505863482828-QOVYDZ9316G60XKGPZYI/Brandie_Posey-Headshot.jpg 2017 LINE UP Originally from Annapolis, Maryland, Brandie Posey is a stand up comedian, writer & producer who calls LA's comedy scene home. She has been featured as a performer at the New York Comedy Festival, RIOT Comedy Festival, San Francisco Sketchfest, FEST in Gainesville, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Tig Notaro's Bentzen Ball, among many others. She has opened for the legendary punk band Against Me! and has appeared on MTV, E! & Comedy Central. Brandie made her feature film debut in the indie dark comedy, "The Worst Year Of My Life" directed by Jonathan Smith & her first stand up record Opinion Cave debuted at #1 on iTunes & #12 on Billboard.com. Brandie tours the country, headlining every dark corner with a microphone. She is the co-creator & host of Picture This, a popular comedy-animation show with franchises in LA, Portland, New York, Philadelphia & San Francisco. Picture This is currently in development with Wanda Sykes and Page Hurwitz' Push It Productions. At the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre & The Hollywood Improv, Brandie co-hosts Lady to Lady alongside Barbara Gray & Tess Barker. Lady to Lady is also a celebrated weekly podcast on the Maximum Fun Podcast Network with over 3.3 million downloads & loyal fans around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505864081828-WKVDTNZ3OZH6CAMA4ORB/TessHs.jpg 2017 LINE UP Tess is a Los Angeles based writer and nationally touring comedian who has appeared at the Comedy Central Stage, Meltdown Comics, UCB, and at clubs and colleges throughout the country. She has written for TVLand's "Throwing Shade," TruTV’s “Billy on the Street," and is regularly published on a number of outlets, including Vice, The Guardian, Vox, MTV News, Jezebel, and L.A Weekly, where her work has ranged from investigative pieces about wage inequity in professional cheerleading to profiles of icons like Charo and Betsey Jonson. She was one of the hosts of Ovation TV’s “Broadway Bash,” -- a talk show devoted to the television show Smash. She holds a B.A. in Screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University, and is the co-bookwriter and lyricist of “Time Between Us,” an original two person musical, which premiered in New York as part of the 2011 New York Musical Theater festival, where it was named Critic’s Pick, and has since enjoyed a number of regional productions, including at Serenbe Playhouse in Atlanta, GA. She is one of the producers and hosts of Lady to Lady, a popular podcast on the Maximum Fun Network; live talk show at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade in Los Angeles; and regular SnapChat series on Comedy Central. When she's not writing or doing stand up, Tess enjoys dogs, running, and talking about Britney Spears. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505876156455-PZNHF48PKSPDMOZY31DF/LauraSamsHeadShot.jpg 2017 LINE UP - Laura Sams is a writer, filmmaker, zoologist and comedian. She has written and produced material for The Jim Henson Company, PBS KIDS, The Smithsonian Network, Animal Planet, Belladonna Comedy and more. She owns Sisbro Studios with her brother, and together they create children's television, music, books and incredible stories that help people explore their world. Laura Sams is a writer, filmmaker, zoologist and comedian. She has written and produced material for The Jim Henson Company, PBS KIDS, The Smithsonian Network, Animal Planet, Belladonna Comedy and more. She owns Sisbro Studios with her brother, and together they create children's television, music, books and incredible stories that help people explore their world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505875284077-BO5HUTOIHYTPM17F320Z/Kristen+Kuppenbender.jpg 2017 LINE UP Kirsten Kuppenbender is a Portland based Powerhouse with a heart made of precious metal. She's a comedian, she's an actor and she is the visionary of a comedic revolution. In addition to her brilliant stand up and hosting skills, she is The Founder and Producer of Lez Stand Up: a Portland-based, all-queer, feminist comedy collective and showcase which performs up and down the West Coast. You may have seen her in the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, All Jane, Funny Women Festival LA and more recently when she opened for Micheal Che!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505862110529-ZETKCS3KG3GG4V41UOD0/IMG_3535.JPG 2017 LINE UP The Puterbaugh Sisters, Tiffany and Danielle Puterbaugh are a sister duo act that experiments with ridiculousness. Originally from Chicago and now in LA. Yes, they're sisters. They're parents relationship has failed, but their sister act will not. "Taking they're shtick into absurdist parallel universes.. it works 100% of the time. Making them one of the most innovative and up and coming acts to catch in town." - The Onion AV Club "Named Chicago Comics to watch" - Chicago Magazine You've seen these sisters everywhere, featuring at CVS and headlining Walgreens. They've also performed at TBS Just For Laughs Festival, Riot LA, "Best Bars in America" (Esquire), Benzen Ball (Washington, DC), High Plaines (Tru TV), The Andy Kauffman Awards (Gotham Comedy Club, NY), Top 100 "Last Comic Standing" Season 9 and NY/Chicago/San Francisco Sketchfest. They produce a critically acclaimed variety show "Entertaining Julia" running for 8 years in Chicago and now in its 9th season monthly at Akbar, Los Angeles. It's like watching Sister Act 2, when everyone comes out and raps about God. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505860760192-IS088PKBZ3QO7YH9RPD4/Aparna+2017.jpg 2017 LINE UP Aparna Nancherla is delighted you are here. She’s a comedian of the stand-up variety, but can often be seen sitting. She recently worked as a writer and performer for Late Night with Seth Meyers on NBC. Her television credits include Netflix’s new season of Master of None and Love, HBO’s Crashing, Comedy Central’s upcoming series Corporate, and Inside Amy Schumer. Other credits include writer and performer on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell and appearances on Conan, Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, @midnight, Adam Devine’s House Party, Last Comic Standing, and Night Train with Wyatt Cenac. She has also done videos for Above Average, Refinery29, Funny or Die, Slate V, and MTV Other. Aparna has accumulated a list of ‘top comedian’ lists and awards including: Variety’s “Top Ten Comics to Watch 2016,” Shorty Nomination for “Best Comedian on Social Media 2016,” Vulture’s “50 Comedians You Should Know in 2015,” Marie Claire’s “Funniest Women of 2015,” Time Magazine’s “140 Top Tweeters of 2014,” Jezebel’s “Comedy Queens of 2014,” Time Out NY’s “10 Funniest Women in New York,” Flavorpill’s “11 Essential Young Comedians in New York City,” LA Weekly’s “12 Comedy Acts to Watch” and Serial Optimist’s “10 Comics You Must Know.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505873804174-P3ZGQUHHG2H78GEVFXHQ/virginia+jones.jpg 2017 LINE UP Virginia Jones' comedy is feminist, intellectual, philosophical, and has a lot of animals in it. She came up in Portland, OR, and is delighted to return to the fabulous All Jane comedy festival. She was a semifinalist in the San Francisco International Comedy Competition and was in Portlandia and CNN's History of Comedy. Her album, Gothic American, was on WhoHaHa's list of prominent women comedian's albums in 2016. She was a contributor to both Laughing Matters, an art exhibit about women in comedy, and The Girl In The Show, a book about three generations of women in comedy. Virginia Jones believes comedy is an artform, just like her kind of liberal, uppity shits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505874950304-F96CES9HZANBE2KKB2D6/Katie+Hannigan.jpg 2017 LINE UP Katie Hannigan is a writer performer hybrid living in New York City Katie's legit acting background includes a BFA and training at the Moscow Art Theatre, Second City, and Upright Citizen’s Brigade. Katie’s comedic acting has been featured on MTV’s Inside Joke, FineBro’s, College Humor, Seeso, and The Oxygen Network. Recently she starred in a Colombis MFA scifi romcom, You Me and Me. Additionally Katie performs stand up nightly in New York City at Greenwich Village Comedy Club, Caroline's, New York Comedy Club, The Standing Room, and Stand Up New York. She also tours frequently and has featured for Mike Lawrence, Adam Conover, Andy Woodhull, Anthony Devito, Jon Rineman, etc. And appeared in the Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, The Women in Comedy Festival and the Woodstock Comedy Festival. Katie’s current projects include headlining Caroline’s on Broadway as part of the breakout artist series, developing an online trivia prank show with the History Channel, competing in Roast Battle at the Stand in NYC and the Comedy Store in LA, and cohosting The Comedienne Project with Corrine Fisher of Guys we F*cked. The Comedienne Project grew out of a self produced piece in the 2015 New York City Fringe Festival in which female comics examine the relationship between audiences expectations and a comics material choice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505939456065-0DHT9KTNKL8GDZOX0075/Ali_Reingold.jpg 2017 LINE UP Ali Reingold is a comedian based in Portland, Oregon, who endears herself to audiences with her friendly hair, curly demeanor, and grammatically correct jokes. She has performed in venues all over the country and in such festivals as SF Sketchfest, Women in Comedy, Hell Yes Fest, and All Jane. When not performing comedy, Ali enjoys eating peanut butter straight out of the jar to the point of self-disgust, and cuddling with her cat, Terwilliger Van Buren. She once yelled at the father of the bride at her friend’s wedding, but it was for legitimate reasons regarding the dance playlist, and she regrets nothing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505873448826-MWHNX7T61KA7436F1FJ1/Tory+Ward.jpg 2017 LINE UP Tory Ward is a comedian living in Portland Oregon. She has been featured on Helium's Dirty Dozen showcase and the weekly local showcase at Al's Den. She currently hosts and produces a show with her family on the Oregon Coast in a transformed mortuary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505866156492-IDDZSA24NHBZX9MVL2PE/Caitlin+Peluffo.jpg 2017 LINE UP Caitlin Peluffo is a comedian currently living in Brooklyn, NY. She has been featured in NBC Seeso’s “New York's Funniest,” the Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, and the Limestone Comedy Festival. Caitlin currently performs regularly in NYC at New York Comedy Club and Stand Up NY as well as clubs nationwide with comedians like Gilbert Gottfried, Gary Gulman, and Jeff Dye. She recently made her TV debut as a finalist in the Trial By Laughter Comedy Show on Comcast. Peluffo has been showcased at the Women in Comedy Festival and was runner-up in both the Stand Up NY Comedy Competition and the Fingerlakes Comedy Competition. Caitlin is a former soccer player who dropped the wind sprints but kept the thighs as well as the drinking habit. No subject is off limits, however, she did make a promise to her mother that she would never, ever discuss that one time she took those ‘whorish, yet tastefully executed’ photos for a guy she used to date in the military. She may be a patriot, but a promise is a promise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505874992144-FUJ37RXG0NDJ5JZIHUAB/Heather+Marulli.jpg 2017 LINE UP Heather Marulli is a comedian and writer living in Los Angeles. Born in New York City and raised in the ever-thrilling suburbs of Colorado Springs, Colorado, Heather brings a unique worldview to her performances. Completely unabashed and unafraid to speak her mind on issues such as dating, sex, family, work, death, and the absurdity of life, Heather has a unique opinion on nearly every subject. Heather trained in improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade. She performs stand up regularly in the Los Angeles area at numerous venues, including The Comedy Store, Hollywood Improv, Westside Comedy Theater, and the Ice House. Heather also appears on popular shows like Roast Battle, where Jeff Ross told her she’d be a “huge star”. She is definitely letting this go to her head. Heather has also performed in the Laugh Riot Grrrl Festival, LA Sketchfest, Funny Women Festival, Idaho Laugh Fest and the Cape Fear Comedy Festival. Heather was recently seen on Comedy Central in commercials for "Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505860258728-G6F2HRNE6XPQS8M19AJL/DeAnne_Smith.jpg 2017 LINE UP DeAnne Smith has performed all over the world, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Iceland Comedy Festival and Just for Laughs Montreal and Chicago to name a few. She’s also been on TV in four countries, including on Last Comic Standing NBC, The Late Late Show on CBS, Canada’s The Comedy Network and CBC, Australia’s Channel 10 and ABC, and UK’s Sky TV. The Montreal Gazette says DeAnne is “fresh, cutting…one of the finest wits in the country.” The UK’s Telegraph calls her “Smart. Very funny. Effortless charm lets her get away with murder.” She’s never actually murdered anyone. https://www.alljanecomedy.org/2018-line-up daily 0.75 2018-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536120928517-FVG0W7MDLM1VCW1OBL58/966a0b80-7c9c-4a47-b658-c72a4d71d828.jpeg 2018 LINE UP Corina is a Portland comedian with a high-energy style. She was raised in the suburbs of Northern California and went to Catholic school which gives a lot of context to her raunchy material. She placed third in the 2018 Portland’s Funniest Person Contest at Helium Comedy Club and the Portland Mercury named her one of their ‘Undisputable Geniuses of Comedy’. She has been on the Portland Queer Comedy Festival for the last two years and is one of the hosts of Flyass Jokes, the longest running comedy show in Portland. Her butt has been described as ‘breathtaking’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536121936313-AHFY9LFYBA18MEA54I5G/whitney_streed_headshot_5-2016.jpg 2018 LINE UP Whitney Streed is a comedian because if they were not, their incessant punning would have no artistic or monetary value whatsoever. Festival appearances include Seattle Sketchfest, Bumbershoot, and All Jane, as well as Portland's Bridgetown Comedy Festival both as a performer and, from 2013 to 2017, a producer. Whitney can seen playing a feminist on three seasons of IFC’s hit show "Portlandia," and one time their face was on the background of Amazon Video home screen for a couple days, that was pretty cool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536117297322-A6OQ0ACFWSXDIT4WZB9C/img_6745.jpg 2018 LINE UP Jes Tom (they/them) is an actor and weird queer stand up comic. Born & raised in San Francisco and now based in New York, Jes's comedy gleefully provides the nonbinary queer Asian American radical cyborg perspective that everyone never knew they wanted. In collaboration with fellow comedian Chewy May, Jes Tom wrote, co-directed, and starred in the viral video Ghost In The Shell PSA, which received praise on platforms such as Buzzfeed, Upworthy, Nextshark, iO9, and Perez Hilton. Jes has been featured in GO Magazine, Splitsider, and the Fader, and were named one of TimeOut New York's "LGBTQ POC Comedians We're Obsessed With." Their writing has been published in Reductress, By Shondaland, and Condé Nast's Them. Follow Jes on Twitter @jestom and Instagram @jesthekid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505873639929-EBORT7SW0SKX8P0HWO02/Belind+Carrol.jpg 2018 LINE UP Belinda Carroll is a Portland, Oregon native, LGBTQ activist and coffee addict. A stand-up comedian, actress, and singer she has appeared on fun stuff like Portlandia, MTV, XM Sirius radio and Grimm a couple of times. Her writing credits include, Huffington Post, Cracked.com, and PQ Monthly. She also has opened or featured for Hari Kondabolu, Shane Mauss, Erasure (Andy Bell), The Cliks, Julie Goldman, and Laurie Kilmartin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536117695854-RDRY9GX90YG7WU4IJCC3/maya.jpg 2018 LINE UP Maya May is a writer and stand-up who turned to humor to navigate the awkwardness of growing up a black nerd in suburban Chicago. t worked. She got voted Most Likely to Make the Yearbook Famous" and received the Daughter of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award in the same year she called the principal a bastard. Destined to prove she didn't peak in high school her comedy is just like she is: engaging, mischievous, and deliciously over-the-top. Sometimes incisive, sometimes self-deprecating, but always bluntly honest, Maya keeps audiences on their toes, seamlessly transitioning from rants about parenting to wry observations on race, gender, and that one time she was mistaken for Michelle Obama. Since moving back to the US in 2014 after 8 years overseas, she has taken her unique perspective on American life to stages all over the country, featuring at the Boston Comedy Festival, Women in Comedy Festival and headlining the Lady Laughs Comedy Tour. She’s performed everywhere from Chicago’s Laugh Factory to NYC’s Gotham Comedy Club, but her favorite place to perform is wherever you are. Awwwwww. Once she gets off this Interpol wanted list it's over for you hoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536476833112-3TLTDPT0SVD3EH7B8G76/headshot_1.jpg 2018 LINE UP Chanel Ali is a standup comedian, writer, and actress living in New York City. After blossoming on the Philadelphia circuit, she quickly became a crowd favorite with her commanding stage presence and story-telling style. Her observational comedy covers her upbringing, her unique worldview, and the realities of being a polite person in the entertainment industry. Chanel has performed at the Limestone Comedy Festival and the Women in Comedy Festival and appears on the Starz series Night Train with Wyatt Cenac, as well as MTV’s Girl Code for Snapchat. In 2018, Chanel was featured on the dias of the Friar’s Club Roast of Gloria Allred.Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @Chanel_Ali. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536121729843-GT5PGF6T2QAICRFUD3DF/janelle_draper_comedy_photo.jpg 2018 LINE UP Janelle Draper is a New York based comedian, writer and producer. She brings her quirky charm and quick wit on-air as a regular Bingo & Trivia host for the offbeat comedy channel, IFC. You can hear her stand up on Audible and watch it on IFC.com, "That’s Funny”. She has appeared in commercials for T-Mobile, Bud Light, Levi’s and many more. She performs stand-up all over the country, most notably at Women In Comedy Festival (Boston), Laugh Factory (Chicago), The Comedy Store (LA), The Stand (NYC) and Carolines on Broadway (NYC). Janelle’s comedy can be described as off the cuff, high energy and unapologetically honest. Janelle’s comedy pilot, “The Katie Scarlet Letters” was a semi-finalist at the ATX TV Festival Pitch Competition. Janelle is originally from Boston but she only has an accent while drinking Chardonnay. She started doing stand-up in LA when she was an NBC Page in an itchy Brooks Brother’s uniform giving Burbank studio tours and working on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536124443171-UQELBLDE741BURIMVIYA/CathyHumes.jpg 2018 LINE UP Cathy Humes is your friendly neighborhood feminist comedian whose jokes are a mix of self-deprecation, silliness, and snark. Originally from Virginia, she's been living in New York City for 10 years, so she counts as a New Yorker now, capiche? She hosts and produces the long-running Brooklyn standup showcase, Park Dope, and has performed in the Beast Village Comedy Festival, Cinder Block Comedy Festival, She-Devil Comedy Festival, and Orlando Indie Comedy Festival. Follow her on Twitter @CrappyFumes for a constant stream of political ranting and bad puns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536122736195-YLGSGX9D194CHNCXAVL8/linkedin_profile.jpg 2018 LINE UP In 2013 Stephanie Oberto took an introduction to stand-up class taught by Alex Falcone and since then has been honing her quirky, clean style in Portland and beyond. Stephanie competed in the 2015 Seattle International Comedy Competition and was a semi-finalist in Portland’s Funniest Person Contest for three consecutive years. Stephanie’s YouTube presence consists of her squandering her film production degree on not films. Most recently she opened for Jeff Allen and was featured on the Daren Streblow Comedy Show. No one seems to know who either of those people are, but she enjoyed both of their stand up specials when she was in high school. People tell Stephanie that she will be famous one day, but she's not a go-getter, so it's unlikely. You will find her hunching her shoulders under an orange backpack googling how to end a conversation with confidence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536123063145-3TW7H3U5R69BQHSTTQNX/avivasiegelcomedy.jpg 2018 LINE UP Aviva is a stand-up comic by day, and a stand-up comic by night. Her jokes are silly (clown horn sound) yet personal (awooga), and she really just wants to have fun up there. She lives in Oakland and produces shows like “Talkies” at the All Out Comedy Theater and Witches’ Brew, an all-women stand-up comedy seance. She’s been nominated as one of the “Best Comedians in the Bay” by the East Bay Express, and owns a “Best Actress” trophy that she bought for herself. Her comedy’s been featured in SF Sketchfest, The Nevada City Film Festival, and Heeb Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505867609902-WAA6VP4KFMPZ5TQMC0ZS/Andie+Main.jpg 2018 LINE UP Andie Main is a Portland based comedian who just completed moderating and writing the show A Town Hall with Paul Ryan starring Chris Fairbanks, which toured in midwestern swingstates the day after Paul Ryan announced his retirement. There is no possible reason that Paul Ryan retired other than him having seen the tour posters. When she's not delivering satirical democracy to the people, she keeps busy by producing/hosting The Doug Fir Lounge's summer series The Cool Kids Patio Show, and her monthly series called Revolution Comedy, which organizes fundraisers for progressive causes like Planned Parenthood, The ACLU, and Don't Shoot PDX. At this bizarre moment in our nation's history, her efforts have contributed over $10,000 to #theresistance. She just added a weekly brunch show to her roster, Egg Riot! at The Night Light Lounge. Festival credits include Bridgetown., The Comedy Exposition, repeated appearances at SF Sketchfest and The All Jane Comedy Festival, The 208 Festival, Bumbershoot, Seattle Sketchfest, Portland Pride, Treefort Festival and Cromfest. She has recently performed for sold out crowds at UCBeast, UCB Chelsea and The Stand Nightclub in NYC, and esteemed shows in LA like Put Your Hands Together. When in Portland she is a fixture on the NW circuit and a regular at Helium Comedy Club. In her spare time she enjoys taking hikes with her not-so-smart dog, pizza, making weird art, nature documentaries and yelling about the patriarchy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536120116723-EK5QU5Q6YSGDF0DBFCSU/andee.jpg 2018 LINE UP Andy Iwancio is a transgender gal comedian from Seattle. Her comedy speaks to the trials and tribulations of being trans, and also the fun of growing boobs. She is a regular at the "Comedy Nest" and a producer of the "Five Quarters Funny" show at Shorty's. She has appeared at Bumbershoot, Women in Comedy NW, Intersections Festival and Seattle Trans Pride. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1537324420403-EBOGO83L2RH1MKWMZDJF/Laura+Anne+Whitley.jpg 2018 LINE UP Laura Anne Whitley is a comedian, storyteller and writer based in Portland, Oregon. She is one of the producers of Lez Stand Up, has performed at Pickathon and Backfence PDX and as the self proclaimed "bad boy of Portland comedy", her candid stories of being a femme stoner with cartoon DNA and an obsession with conspiracy theories offers a perspective both funny and unique. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536117969371-WN8TD64PIZJKZ7HLGVNO/pallavi_gunalan_headshot.jpg 2018 LINE UP Pallavi has performed on booked shows at The Comedy Store, The Hollywood Improv, Westside Comedy, Flappers Comedy Club, The Ice House, HaHa Cafe Comedy Club, Seattle’s Comedy Underground, and the Canvas Laugh Club (Mumbai). She co-produces Oversharing Comedy, and, as a co-producer of Facial Recognition Comedy, was highlighted in Splitsider and co-hosts the Facial Recognition Comedy Podcast. She has performed at Desi Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest, Portland Queer Comedy Festival, and on the Kill Tony Podcast, as well as all over the US and India (Pune, Mumbai, and Chennai). In Spring, 2018 she received the Upright Citizens Brigade Diversity Scholarship. She will be performing at the Pittsburgh Comedy Festival in August and the 208 Comedy Festival in September. In her spare time, Pallavi is tired. Luckily, she wouldn’t have it any other way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536118965058-7XDAN8IIY497Q23ZS8ZQ/rileyphoto.jpg 2018 LINE UP Highlighted by VICE for her “wry observational comedy, radical openness, and casually inviting demeanor,” Riley Silverman has been seen on Take My Wife, Comedy Central’s Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, and headlining 2017’s Portland Queer Comedy Festival and the All Jane Comedy Festival. Her debut comedy album, Intimate Apparel, was a #1 best seller on Amazon. Riley is the head writer for the International Waters comedy panel show podcast, was a body diversity model for the fashion brand ModCloth, and was listed as one of 100 Queer Women We Love by GO Magazine, and “10 Women Comedians Who Smash the Patriarchy” by The Culture Trip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536124640756-OTDYSLD4FTPF1A99QDG6/36261486_10157610250361038_327880736839303168_n.jpg 2018 LINE UP Lexie Grace is an ambidextrous Black and Puerto Rican comedian and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Raised by a pack of wild female comediennes, Lexie Grace has always been drawn to comedy. It’s in her blood. A Billy Wilder devotee, she believes his quote, "If you’re going to tell the truth, be funny, or they will kill you". She currently is watching lots of Korean Soaps, Telanovelas, and German Sitcoms. All of which make her cry for different reasons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536124187047-AEAWCIQ8ZSRV0UGK5SAK/_dsc7653-2.jpg 2018 LINE UP Erin Crouch does comedy in the Pacific Northwest and Eastern Europe, because she can't get enough of rain and socialism. She has opened for UK comic Fin Taylor and Seattle comic Kermit Apio, headlined the international show with Finnish comic Kaisa Pylkkänen ( as seen on Finnish Channel 4’s hit show Stand up!) in Tallinn, Estonia in July 2018 and was recently selected to perform at the 7th annual Chicago Women's Funny Festival in August 2018. She co-produces a monthly comedy show called Laughing Mater at the historic Alma Mater building in downtown Tacoma, Washington. She can be seen on showcases around Seattle, WA, Tacoma, WA and Portland, OR and she wants you to know that women are born with all the jokes they will ever have already inside their bodies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536114873810-1WH9N8JA3CGGGMFKZZXU/Feimster%2CFortune.jpg 2018 LINE UP A stand-up comedian, writer and actor Fortune first made a name for herself on CHELSEA LATELY. Feimster currently stars in the NBC series, CHAMPIONS, as a series regular and is known for her role of ‘Nurse Collette on Hulu’s THE MINDY PROJECT. Her Netflix stand up special was released last summer and received rave reviews. Feimster has also performed stand-up on TBS’s ‘Conan,’ Comedy Central’s ‘@midnight’ and has her own Comedy Central half hour special. Feimster can be seen in a fun role for the Amblin Pictures feature film, OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY in addition to the adventure comedy, DEPORTED. Amblin recently acquired BAD COP, BAD COP a feature that she co-wrote and will star in. Prior to that Fortune co-wrote and sold two comedy pilots to ABC with the latter being produced by Tina Fey. Previously, Feimster had a recurring role on CBS’ LIFE IN PIECES and many guest appearances on hit TV shows including DEAR WHITE PEOPLE, IDIOTSITTER, WORKAHOLICS, DRUNK HISTORY, @MIDNIGHT. Fortune now headlines the best comedy clubs across the country and is one of comedy’s fastest rising stars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536122096924-1O9VE1EUR5EO4JUUBXQX/mary-jane-french-headshot.jpg 2018 LINE UP Mary Jane French is a recent transplant to Los Angeles from Richmond, VA. She has opened for Cameron Esposito, Rory Scovel, Brandie Posey, and Sara Schaefer. She has preformed on festivals across the country including the Burning Bridges Comedy Festival, Cape Fear Comedy Festival, Women in Comedy Festival, Portland Queer Comedy Festival, Charm City Comedy Festival, The Bechdel Test Festival, and Baltimore XFest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536121152497-QIPG1DAZXUIKUOQNTZGY/ella_gale2.jpg 2018 LINE UP Ella is a comedian and writer in Los Angeles, CA. She thinks the best comedy is like an open house in another person’s brain, and she would like to invite you into hers. Described by the Austin Chronicle as “exceedingly clever,” her jokes run the gamut from honest to absurd. She is a former engineer and unpaid intern who has performed at the Bridgetown, Moontower, and Limestone comedy festivals and whose work has appeared at the New York Television Festival. She also writes satire for Reductress, Bunny Ears, and the Hard Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536121398712-NOU967DU2WL2HTDRNFZW/bvd_by_corey_hendrickson_xtra_small.jpg 2018 LINE UP Bethany Van Delft’s “hip & grounded, laid back delivery” has earned her the honor of performing at the prestigious Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, SF Sketchfest, as well as appearances on Comedy Central, TV Guide Channel, and hugely popular 2 Dope Queens podcast. She was selected for the Hannibal Buress Comedy Experience at Boston Calling Festival performing along side Phoebe Robinson and Jordan Rock. Her series at the Women in Comedy Festival "38/7%" was a huge hit, and monthly show, Artisanal Comedy, has been named “one of the top indie nights to check out”. Her latest project, a hilariously cringeworthy live storytelling show/podcast “Starstruck: Close Encounters of the Awkward Kind” was named Boston’s Best Comedy Show. Unashamedly in touch with her inner nerd, Bethany has been a panelist on “You’re The Expert” and “Literary Death Match”. She hosts MOTH mainstages and GrandSlams around the country, and MOTH storyslams monthly. She is thrilled to have a MOTH story re-posted by SULU! (aka George Takei) and honored to have a story included in The MOTH's 2nd book "All These Wonders". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536122874960-R8DLN9AK77PSUEW53OTN/img_1961.jpg 2018 LINE UP Anna Valenzuela is a Los Angeles based comedian and real woman. Always fond of comedy, she worked for 10 years in the mental healthcare industry before deciding to try stand-up in Long Beach in 2014. After a year of performing in Long Beach and Orange County, she began making moves in Los Angeles, appearing at the Broke L.A. Comedy Festival and as a frequent competitor on Roast Battle at The Comedy Store. Her joyful delivery of biting roast jokes and stories highlighting her troubled childhood has won audiences over time and time again, eventually earning her a spot on the second season of Comedy Central’s Roast Battle-The Regional's, which premiered in 2017 and on Roast Battle 2- War of the Words, where she made it to the Quarter Finals. Anna can also be seen performing in all over Southern California and heard as the host of the 12 Questions and Brujaja Podcast on the Unpops network. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536123462969-F93C5FU63XNV0ICTMS1D/all_jane_headshot.jpg 2018 LINE UP When you first see Elena C. Hayden you’re probably wondering, isn’t she past her curfew? Don’t be fooled by her sweet smile and fairy-like disposition, this girl is out for vengeance after getting a pair of pants in the mail with fake pockets. Elena C. Hayden is a Cuban-America stand-up comedian hailing from rainy Portland, OR. She played the lead in the short film “Victimized” which was accepted into 13 international film festivals. Post college, like most millennials, Elena struggled to find a conventional job, so in 2017 she took to the road and traveled across America via train. Her adventures can be found on elenaescapes.wordpress.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1537323895958-V3LFOE9AY6QOCB5ZVLTR/High+Res+Marcella+Arguello+Headshot.JPG 2018 LINE UP Too lazy to shoot hoops and too tall to model, Marcella Arguello stands over 6 feet. Although she may be taller than most men, the only thing more intimidating than her height is her comedy. Marcella mixes a combination of genuine reason with a sexy suggestion of street. Deemed as “sexually and ethnically ambiguous” she appeals to everyone and is not afraid to tell you how she really feels about subjects concerning race, gender, politic, relationships, family, work, music, pop culture and whatever else is on her mind that day. Time Out Magazine deemed Marcella an “LA Comedian to Watch in 2017” and is a fan favorite on Comedy Central’s @midnight. Most recently, she won her appearance on TruTv’s Comedy Knock Out and can be seen on The UCB Show’s upcoming second season on Seeso. She was featured on Viceland’s Flophouse, and in 2015 on NBC’s Last Call with Carson Daly; her stand up has been highlighted on rapper Tyler, The Creator’s mobile app and on Fox’s The Real. Her Twitter account (@marcellacomedy) has been featured on CNN, TIME.com, HuffingtonPost.com and various entertainment websites. Marcella just wrapped a stint as a write on the series “Bill Nye Saves the World” for Netflix on which she did some on-camera work as well. She is a regular opener for Last Comic Standing Winner Felipe Esparza as well as NBC Superstore’s Nico Santos. She has opened for David Alan Grier, Norm MacDonald, J.B. Smoove, Hannibal Buress, Ron Funches, Godfrey, Bryan Callen, Aries Spears, Hasan Minhaj, Al Madrigal, Joey Coco Diaz, Melanie Comarcho, Melissa Villaseñor and has shared a stage with Bill Burr, Paul Mooney and Robin Williams. She has worked at The Improv Comedy Clubs all over the country and is a regular at The Punch Line Comedy Clubs in Northern California. She has performed at San Francisco Sketchfest, Riot LA Comedy Festival, overseas for American troops and comedian Sean Keane referred to her as the “finest export from Modesto since George Lucas.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536122650512-VBW0NAXZ35DA6ITOPGT2/headshot_copy.jpg 2018 LINE UP Georgea Brooks a comedian, actress, and writer based in Los Angeles. She started comedy in high school through the Canadian Improv Games, a nationwide improv tournament for high schools. After graduating she moved to Toronto and began performing stand up at Comedy Bar and Second City. Within her first year she was nominated for the Tim Sims Encouragement Fund, a Second City sponsored scholarship given to new faces in Canadian comedy. While in Canada she co-hosted the television show Late Night with Matty D. Upon immigrating to America, she launched her successful live comedy show Strip Comedy at the Hollywood Improv. She has since produced comedy fundraisers for animal shelters as well as a regular weekly stand up show. Georgea has toured around the country; she's been on countless live shows within LA, been featured on HelloGiggles/ LifeTime’s YouTube show OverSharing, and was listed on The Culture Trip’s Top 10 Rising Stars. Georgea just recorded her debut album with ASpecialThing records which will be released early fall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536477031705-XG7ZPRPLM49FGAS18EMD/CaitlinW.jpg 2018 LINE UP Caitlin Weierhauser was on New Faces at Just For Laughs in Montreal 2018, they won Portland’s Funniest Person 2017 and was voted Favorite Comedian in the Willamette Week Readers Poll in 2017 and 2018. You can see them in Season 2 of The Benefits of Gusbandry on Amazon Prime and in the upcoming SVOD Disney movie, Timmy Failure (2019). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1505875284077-BO5HUTOIHYTPM17F320Z/Kristen+Kuppenbender.jpg 2018 LINE UP KIRSTEN KUPPENBENDER is a goddamn Power House, with a heart made of precious metal. She's a comedian, a writer, an actor and is the visionary behind the comedy revolution that is Lez Stand Up. Kupp's comedy has been described as "observational, with bouts of off-the-cuff brilliance". As a host, she has been deemed quirky, bubbly and "completely out of control" by guests and performers alike. You may have seen her in Bridgetown Comedy Festival, All Jane Festival, hosting Hump! Film Festival, or The State of Period with Margaret Cho, or maybe when she opened for Emily Heller, Michael Che or DeAnne Smith! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536116418675-88BONJDAWNPOOVVH09U6/fd91cd32-d677-464e-8fb0-a7769f97fde3.jpeg 2018 LINE UP The Puterbaugh Sisters, Tiffany and Danielle Puterbaugh are the first alternative sister duo act since vaudeville. Real life sisters, they’re parents relationship has failed but they’re act will not. Originally from Chicago and currently based in LA. “Taking they’re shtick into absurdist parallel universes...it works 100% of the time.” - The Onion AV Club, “Named Chicago Comics to Watch” -Chicago Magazine You’ve seen these sisters everywhere, featuring at CVS and headlining Walgreens. They’ve opened for Kyle Kinane, Bridgette Everett and Beth Stelling. They’ve also performed at TBS Just For Laughs Festival, Riot LA, “Best Bars in America” (Esquire), Benzen Ball Comedy Festival (DC), High Plaines (Tru TV), All Jane (Portland) and Chicago/NY/San Fran Sketchfest. They produce a critically acclaimed show “Entertaining Julia” now in its 10th year. It’s like watching Sister Act 2, when everyone comes out and raps about God. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536281660377-WMFQPVLQFQ0T4J83PI7Q/Marlena_Rodriguez.jpg 2018 LINE UP Marlena Rodriguez is a herspanic comedian who's been makin' em giggle since 1989. She's written for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The Second City, and was named a Comedy Central Comic To Watch. Google for more, listen to Marlena's podcast What Would My Friends Do?, and follow her on twitter @marlenarodrigz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536120685163-D911TSXGVBA4MEV6BUBL/ayanna_dookie.jpg 2018 LINE UP Ayanna Dookie is a stand-up comedian, writer, and storyteller based in Brooklyn, New York. The daughter of immigrants, Ayanna's humor is reflective of growing up brown, woman, and first generation American. She is the 2014 winner of the She-Devil Comedy Festival, a 2016 writer for NBC's Scene Showcase, and a recipient of UCB's diversity scholarship. Ayanna has been featured on truTV's Laff Traffs, Fox's Laughs, and AXS TV's Gotham Comedy Live. Her writing can be seen on BET's 50 Central. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1537324562201-E57BBPRTY4RCD1MV6TQN/Ali_Reingold.jpg 2018 LINE UP Ali Reingold is a comedian based in Portland, Ali Reingold is a comedian based in Portland, Oregon, who endears herself to audiences with her friendly hair, curly demeanor, and grammatically correct jokes. She has performed in venues all over the country and in such festivals as SF Sketchfest, Women in Comedy, Hell Yes Fest, and All Jane. When not performing comedy, Ali enjoys eating peanut butter straight out of the jar to the point of self-disgust, and cuddling with her cat, Terwilliger Van Buren. She once yelled at the father of the bride at her friend’s wedding, but it was for legitimate reasons regarding the dance playlist, and she regrets nothing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536121639234-BWLF6LCQ4C3IOA1JIG42/1_becky_braunstein_headshot_august_2018.jpg 2018 LINE UP To the probable surprise of everyone she went to high school with, Becky Braunstein was recently featured in Teen Vogue, in an article insisting that each one of her life experiences "deserves [its] own television show". Called a “comedy tsunami”, an “audience favorite”, and “the best thing that’s ever come from Alaska… like, by far” by the Portland Mercury, Becky is a fast-rising standout performer with fresh energy and wide-eyed enthusiasm that is impossible to ignore. She grew up on a mountain in Eagle River, Alaska where she had no one to talk to, moved to Portland, Oregon after being diagnosed with metastatic thyroid cancer and almost losing her voice forever - but she didn’t lose it, and now she won’t shut up. Becky has performed at nearly every top comedy festival in the country, including the Big Sky Comedy Festival, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest, Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, All Jane Comedy Festival, Limestone Comedy Festival, the 208 Comedy Fest, Beast Village Comedy Festival, and many others. Her comedy has appeared on SiriusXM, IFC and Audible, and she is currently filming a special for the new Epix series 'Unprotected Sets', premiering in October, 2018. Becky hosts a spectacular show called 'Becky with the Good Jokes', which has featured appearances by Matt Braunger, Pete Holmes, Jamie Lee, The Unipiper, Shane Torres, Shane Mauss, Jenny Conlee from The Decemberists, and the mayor of Anchorage, Alaska. She competed in the National Spelling Bee in 1997, is about half fluent in German, and dreams of one day living in a house with central air. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536117726185-T11RYOMSG3I8KDAGJJT7/leahrudick.jpeg 2018 LINE UP Leah Rudick is a comedian currently living in Los Angeles by way of New York by way of Ohio. Most recently she filmed her first special with the streaming platform “Seed & Spark” at the Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles which is slated to be released at the end of the summer. She is the co-creator/co-star of the critically acclaimed web series Made To Order (madetoorderseries.com) which has been featured on Indie Wire, New York Observer, Flavorwire, and Decider to name a few and was listed as one of “6 Brilliant Web Series” by Marie Claire. She began performing comedy in NYC in 2006 with her sketch duo Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting (Upright Citizens Brigade, Caroline's on Broadway, the People's Improv Theater). Festivals include: New York Sketchfest, Fringe Festival NYC, Los Angeles Comedy Festival, Charleston Comedy Festival, Ladies Are Funny Festival, East to Edinburgh at 59E59, Capital Fringe Festival in DC, Women in Comedy Festival, FRIGID New York and Out of Bounds. Her duo has been critics picks in Time Out New York, Washington Post, and Charleston City Paper and they have been highlighted in WNYC Culture Blog, Heeb Magazine, Pomp & Circumstance, and Pluck Magazine. They were named as one of the twenty-five funny people that should have their own television show by Complex Magazine. Some favorite film credits include “Chemical Cut” (Official selection of Slamdance Film Fest), “Jammed” (Runaway Bandit Productions), “Prayer To a Vengeful God” (Insurgent Pictures) and “Cut to Black” (Insurgent Pictures). She is a regular performer on the webby-winning channel The Key of Awesome. She can be seen as Isabel on the HBO hit High Maintenance. She also recently co-starred and co-wrote the Indie feature “Sweet Parents”, which premiered this summer at the Brooklyn International Film Festival and won the “Best Brooklyn Film” award, followed by a stint at the Lower East Side Film Festival where it took home the “LESFF Neighborhood Award.” Currently, she co-hosts the monthly comedy show The Reunion at Bar Lubitsch in West Hollywood and performs stand up around the city at venues such as The Comedy Store, Flappers, HaHa Cafe, and UCBT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536123732196-PCNYAADVJ1T7AD9I6RAA/tiny_online.png 2018 LINE UP Valerie Tosi is a comedian, actor, writer, and voiceover artist. She features for Dana Gould on the road and performed stand up at several comedy festivals including Limestone, Laughing Skull, Out of Bounds, and more. She also hosts and produces The Mermaid Comedy Hour, the longest running all female show at The Hollywood Improv. An alumni of both The Second City & iO, her improv background led to several Buzzfeed videos garnering millions of views including a video with Kevin Hart & Ice Cube. You may have heard her voice literally everywhere as the voice of the Google Home Mini campaign. Recent credits include IFC’s STAN AGAINST EVIL, Netflix’s THE JOEL McHALE SHOW WITH JOEL McHALE, and the lead in the feature film THE SEX ADDICT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536120277105-RJN0QI5AA9P1A44MB1YJ/14053730_308929376127092_7068737069805269555_o.jpg 2018 LINE UP Lynn Stein is a stand-up comedian and writer based in Los Angeles. Her satirical slant on marriage, motherhood and societal norms resonates with audiences of all ages and backgrounds. You can find Lynn performing in venues all over Southern California including Flappers Comedy Club, The Ice House and The Comedy Store. Recently, she was featured on Laughs on Fox and appeared at the 2018 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival in Austin. Other festival credits include the SheDot Festival in Toronto, Sonoma Laughfest and both the San Diego and Sacramento Comedy Festivals. Lynn has trained at The Groundlings, UCB Theatre LA and iO West. She has a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Oregon and while living there was crowned the 2nd Funniest Person in Eugene, OR. She lost that competition to a dummy. An actual wooden dummy named “Hot Karl”. Now please stop reading Lynn’s bio. It’s making her feel very uncomfortable that you know so much about her. Will this be on the Internet? 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She has appeared at the Portland Queer Comedy Festival and has performed alongside Hari Kondabolu, Ron Lynch, Aparna Nancherla, Laurie Kilmartin, and Guy Branum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568015478255-BRXZ0GVGSH9TG0M7GMY1/JENNA.jpeg 2019 LINE UP Jenna Vesper is Portland based comic who is a high energy, crass, hardworking, loud divorced/queer/chubby/hairy slut who loves jokes about her dead parents! Recently awarded ‘Best Comedian’ in the Willamette Week and current semi finalist in the Portland’s Funniest Person Contest, Jenna produces Portland favorite Comic Strip every last Friday of the month. She also produces/hosts SMUT, Disowned The Show, a bachelor recap podcast called Date Card Pod, and is the associate Producer of the Portland Queer Comedy Festival now in its third year. She was a semi finalist in Queerspace Magazines Outstanding Queer Comedy Competition and has graced the stages of All Jane comedy festival, Portland Queer Comedy Festival, Mutiny Radio Comedy Festival, HAHA Harvest Festival, and Point Break Comedy & Meatball Festival. Validate her on all social media platforms @jennawithasmile ”Seriously, give Jenna validation. She really needs this right now.” - Jenna’s therapist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568014835120-S75V0TREO4Q3UTQC7YPY/Naomi.jpg 2019 LINE UP Naomi Fitter escaped from Ohio at the age of 22. Her soothing midwestern voice has been described as "sexy," "librarian-like," and "nearly inaudible." When she's not telling jokes, she spends her time studying robots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568319067933-4IV23VA18TPJ5FYKEUWM/6D8A3777b.jpg 2019 LINE UP Sarah made her stand-up comedy debut on NBC’s Last Comic Standing. Sarah has since appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Late Late Show with James Corden, and Comedy Central’s Adam Devine’s House Party. When she’s not performing stand-up, Sarah spends her time with several sketch house teams at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater where she had a successful run of shows with her independent sketch group “Bullshit Women” at UCB. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568320209323-8AASGSFNR4U8IETH87EW/69844812_580708885795383_8927539813402279936_n.jpg 2019 LINE UP Anneke is a Portland Actor and Improvisor. She has been performing for over 20 years, doing Sketch Comedy, Improv, film and theater. Anneke has guest starred on the formerly Portland produced hit NBC television show Grimm, starred in music videos with musicians such as Esme Patterson, and worked with many local artists on numerous film, TV and web productions here in the Portland area. Anneke is stoked to be a founding member of the all female identifying Portland improv group Mom Jeans, who has appeared at the Del Close Marathon in NYC, delighted audiences for over 4 years, and producers a local monthly show at Kickstand Comedy. She is also a former ensemble member of Deep End Theater, and currently plays with the diabolically experimental improv group, Please Help Us. Anneke has taught improv and stagecraft for many years, working with teens and adults, and has traveled internationally to Canada, Australia and New Zealand to teach workshops, perform and learn from incredible improvisors in festivals such as Paper Street Theater’s International Improv Fest, New Zealand International Improv Fest, and Up Front Theater’s Seattle International Improv Fest to name a few. Anneke is delighted and honored to be participating in this years All Jane Comedy Festival at Curious Comedy. When Anneke isn’t performing, she loves riding her motorcycle, surfing the Oregon Coast and traveling the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568295244423-50YJJ2TSU3I5Z2F75KTL/secretcervix.jpg 2019 LINE UP Secret Cervix is a Portland-based improv duo consisting of Hallie Zmroczek & Adrien Warner. Their spy movie long form show "Secret Cervix Presents" premiered at Curious Arthouse in February 2019 for a six week run. They performed at the Phoenix Improv Festival in May, 2019. Hallie has been doing theater throughout her life. She studied improv at Portland State University, went through full training at The Brody Theater, The Liberators, and is currently on Curious Comedy Theater main-stage team, Battle Ax. She performed at the 2018 Stumptown Improv Festival with Battle Ax, and as a guest monologist and performer with Portland improv staple, J Names. She also performs with her other independent team, Crathorne. Adrien has been performing improv for 6 years. She trained at The Brody Theater and Curious Comedy, and performed with The Ape house team Cashmere at DCM 2018. In addition, she performs with her independent teams Add Hawk and Secret Cervix. Adrien performed with the Brody ensemble in the 2017 Stumptown Improv Festival with the all-women's show Girls, Girls, Girls! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568014364108-LOKGRD5SJYJYMVXXN3TL/BECKY.jpg 2019 LINE UP Becky Braunstein grew up on a mountain in Eagle River, Alaska where she had no one to talk to, moved to Portland, Oregon after being diagnosed with metastatic thyroid cancer and almost losing her voice forever - but she didn’t lose it, and now she won’t shut up. She appears in Season 1 of ‘Trinkets’ on Netflix, and was recently featured in Teen Vogue, in an article which insisted that each one of her life experiences "deserves [its] own television show". Wanda Sykes & Page Hurwitz agreed, producing Becky’s half-hour stand-up/documentary special as part of ‘Unprotected Sets’ on EPIX. Becky is a fast-rising one-in-a-million performer with fresh energy and wide-eyed enthusiasm that is impossible to ignore. She has performed at nearly every top comedy festival in the country, including the Big Sky, Bridgetown, SF Sketchfest, Laughing Skull, All Jane, Limestone, 208 & Women In Comedy Festivals, and many others. Her comedy has aired on SiriusXM, IFC & Audible, and she recently opened for Tom Segura and Gary Gulman on tour. Becky hosts a spectacular show called 'Becky with the Good Jokes', which has featured appearances by Matt Braunger, Pete Holmes, Jamie Lee, The Unipiper, Ian Karmel, Jenny Conlee from The Decemberists, and the mayor of Anchorage, Alaska. She competed in the National Spelling Bee in 1997, is about half fluent in German, and dreams of one day living in a house with central air. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568014695781-STSTARX0VG6JPIE6CS1O/NORI.jpg 2019 LINE UP Nori Reed isn’t just a comedian & writer based in Oakland, California. Nori is a lifestyle. When she isn’t perfecting her skin care routine or thinking about the devastating impact of U.S. imperialism, Nori performs regularly at the finest comedy clubs & colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nori recently opened for Amy Poehler at Comedy Central’s Clusterfest. She also featured at SF Sketchfest where she worked alongside Janeane Garofalo and Neil Patrick Harris. For her writing prowess, Nori was awarded the 2019 Diversity in Comedy Writing Fellowship at Killing My Lobster SF. Currently she co-produces the multiple award-winning comedy show, Man Haters. Nori is not Japanese. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568013901754-DJ7LP08VD3CIDH7PJ61M/DMartinAustin.jpg 2019 LINE UP D MARTIN AUSTIN is a nonbinary femme writer, comedian, and accidental activist living in Portland, OR. They have been a regular contributor to The Portland Mercury, finalist in Queerspace Magazine's OUTSTANDING Queer Comedy Competition, Associate Producer for Portland Queer Comedy Festival, and a featured performer in the NW Black Comedy Festival (3 years in a row). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568778309105-EI7CTQWZQIDGEAS1QHOJ/RODO.jpg 2019 LINE UP A game show in which comedians compete using their wits and dance moves. Hosted by Whitney Streed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568015531413-WIH0HTEVLHSHQ7P5MR5T/glo-chitwood-headshot-smaller.jpg 2019 LINE UP Glo Chitwood is a standup comedian originally from South Park, Colorado, currently living in Chicago, Illinois. She has been very lucky to perform standup comedy at places like The Annoyance, CIC, Schubas, Logan Square Improv, and The Shithole. She also wrote a book of stories this year called Deadbeat Magpie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568015590631-3842YX87HO3TMFGALIRO/ElizabethTeets.jpg 2019 LINE UP Elizabeth Teets is a Portland based Writer, Comedian and Fashionista. She is the host of Queens of Hollywood on X-Ray Fm and producer of the Women In Comedy series Isn't She Great at the Hollywood Theater. She has been featured at The Oregon Fringe Festival, Cream City Comedy Festival, Laugh Ruot GRRRL Festival and the TBS National College Comedy Competition. Her writing can be found at The Hard Times, Bunny Years and YesClash. You can follow her on Twitter @elizabethteets but you should really try @elteets on Instagram because that's where the outfits are. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568011433737-RBTOLMRPPJ4S11XQSI7K/PUTERBAUGH.jpg 2019 LINE UP The Puterbaugh Sisters, Tiffany and Danielle Puterbaugh are the first alternative sister duo act since vaudeville. Real life sisters, they're parents relationship has failed, but their act will not. Originally from Chicago and currently based in LA. "Taking their shtick into absurdist parallel universes.. it works 100% of the time." - The Onion AV Club "Named Chicago Comics to watch" - Chicago Magazine You've seen these sisters everywhere, featuring at CVS and headlining Walgreens. They’ve opened for Kyle Kinane, Bridgette Everett, Judy Tenuda and Beth Stelling. They've also performed at TBS Just For Laughs Festival, Riot LA, "Best Bars in America" (Esquire), Bentzen Ball Comedy Festival (DC), High Plaines Comedy Festival (Tru TV), The Andy Kauffman Awards (NY- Gotham) , All Jane Comedy Festival (Portland) and NY/Chicago/San Francisco Sketchfest. They produce a critically acclaimed variety show "Entertaining Julia" running for 8 years in Chicago and now in its 9th season monthly at Akbar, Los Angeles. It's like watching Sister Act 2, when everyone comes out and raps about God. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568015296100-PW7FSF4ZB2X0JCMSOHJ7/katbuckley-headshot.jpg 2019 LINE UP Kat Buckley is a comedian hiding from Tampa Florida in Portland Oregon. She was lucky enough to be a part of the inaugural Portland Queer Comedy Festival, the Highlarious Comedy Festival, co-found the Point Break Comedy & Meatball Sammich Festival. Her most notable contributions to the internet include a Twitter account @awkwardlyours and being mutinied out of an improv troupe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568291944487-TKUWY052YWUD96B8PE2Y/robyn.jpg 2019 LINE UP Originally from New Mexico and now based in Portland, Oregon, Robyn Vazquez has grown up on the stage; dancing, singing, acting and telling stories. Robyn graduated from Portland State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater Arts with a concentration in Acting. She had been performing improv for over seven years and had performed at the Del Close Marathon in New York City as well as internationally at the Paper Street Theater Improv Festival in Victoria, B.C. She made her improv directorial debut with an original format based on the tv show “Twin Peaks” called No Place in Particular. When not performing, Robyn enjoys photography, writing and working on film projects. She is currently a proud member of the improv teams Mom Jeans and Splash! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568014625169-22H9CDMXI8B3BR3V7XM1/SONYA.jpg 2019 LINE UP Comedian, Actor, & Writer Sonya Vai was born and raised in New York City but is constantly asked “where are you really from?” by drunk men in bars. Sonya is a paid regular at both Carolines on Broadway and New York Comedy Club. She also performs at Gotham Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club, Greenwich Village Comedy Club, West Side Comedy Club, LOL Times Square, The Grisly Pear, and the Village Lantern. In November, Sonya was in the New York Comedy Festival where she co-produced Facial Recognition Comedy, a show dedicated to showcasing female-identifying South Asian comedians. FRC was featured in the New York Times as one of top 5 shows to see at the Festival. Most recently, Sonya featured for the critically acclaimed comedian Judah Friedlander in NYC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568291186929-IDW3CL63UD177T8FA8BY/Sarah%2BDelphine%2BThompson.jpg 2019 LINE UP Sarah Delphine Thompson is an improviser, teacher, and writer based in Portland OR. Originally from California (don’t tell anyone!), Sarah loves to tell playful, honest and absurd stores with her troupe Mom Jeans and duo Dock of the Bay. She also produces and performs in the hellish and innovative Please Help Us and regularly performs with Secret Aardvark at Kickstand Comedy. Sarah has been immersed in the world of improv for 8 years, allowing her to produce the Coup de Comedy Festival in Southern California for four years, study in both Chicago and Europe, and teach in Southern California, Portland and Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568013442396-OIS162YOR9W8TAL75I35/Bethany-Van-Delft-orange%2Bwings%2Bcropped.jpg 2019 LINE UP Bronx-born Bethany Van Delft moved to Boston with her Marxist Dutch dad, black Puerto Rican mother and siblings, where she learned “zebra” didn’t mean she was weird but cool. At “19” she went to Paris to model, got kicked out, and ended up in Milan eating gelato and speaking Spanglish with an Italian accent. She was named Boston Magazine “Best Comic 2019” and has performed at JFL, SF Sketchfest, All Jane Festival, Boston Calling, Women in Comedy Festival. She is thrilled to get open for her faves, including Michelle Buteau, Phoebe Robinson, Ronnie Chieng, Reggie Watts, Rob Delaney and Alonzo Bodden. Bethany is a regular host and storyteller for The Moth, her mainstage story sharing her post partem experience after her first child (born with Down Syndrome) went viral with over 15 million views. Today she speaks on the power of sharing your family’s story at conferences in the special needs community, and leads storytelling workshops for families for use in their advocacy. She is a fierce advocate for her daughter, produces comedy shows locally, and manages to keep her kids and husband not super unhappy. She also bakes pretty well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568014903232-WG1OC0RD18OALK1Z6J68/mav_viola_headshot_2.jpg 2019 LINE UP Mav is an LA based comedian and writer who recently featured all over the country for Whitney Cummings (HBO, Netflix). Mav has also featured for Ian Harvie (Amazon, NBC) and is currently on tour with the popular podcast “Two Dykes and a Mic.” Mav headlined the Meatball Sammy Festival in Portland this year alongside friend and fellow comedian Brent Weinbach and will be performing in her second year of Portland's Queer Comedy Festival this summer. In Los Angeles, Mav is a regular at the Hollywood Improv and can be seen performing nightly, all over town. She's edgy, androgynous, tattooed; fully present, approachable, warm and engaging. Her comedy is inclusive and for all audience (except babies, but what do they know anyway) and her crowd work is unparalleled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568320887173-0P1NXH0WQPTFV2XJZL7R/chelseaburns.jpg 2019 LINE UP Chelsea Burns is a comedian, writer, and improviser in Portland, OR. She's created dozens of memes for Cracked.com and wrote an article that was featured on their 'Viral on Cracked' list. In 2018 she performed at the HIGHlarious Comedy Festival in Seattle, WA and the NW Women's Comedy Festival in Springfield, OR. Chelsea is the producer and co-host of Comedy: The Musical, a show where a comedian tells jokes, then the musical improvisers create songs inspired by their punchlines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568249741620-JA6EUK14K6GMA96GPFRN/zahra_ali_comedy_flier.jpg 2019 LINE UP Zahra Ali is an internationally touring stand-up comedian, writer, actress, and all-around cool person. She is based in Los Angeles where you can see her any night of the week at comedy clubs and alt comedy shows all over town. She recently performed at the Lincoln Center Theatre in New York. Her arsenal of jokes covers everything from tacos to terrorism often leaving the crowd with advice and words of enlightenment. She is a ranked roast battler and professional insult comedian. She also performs with her sketch group, No Fly List, at the Comedy Central Stage in Hollywood. She co-hosts the popular 2 Girls, 1 Guy podcast recorded at the World Famous Comedy Store. She is also a host, producer, and co-founder of nationally touring comedy show and podcast called Facial Recognition Comedy featured in The New York Times and The Daily Beast. Having been a part of festivals such as the San Francisco Sketchfest and New York Comedy Festival, the All Jane Comedy Festival has been on Zahra's vision board for some time and it is an honor to be included in a festival showcasing the funniest, smartest, and most original women in comedy! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568014764532-6IGOVC8BK9CHMI010ZMZ/MEGANKELLYDUNN.jpg 2019 LINE UP Megan Kelly Dunn is a comedian originally hailing from Austin, Texas. She has appeared on Comedy Central, Travel Channel, and Comedy Time Network, and has been featured around the web on comedy sites such as Funny Or Die and Buzzfeed, as well as being listed as one of Refinery 29's “Female Stand-Up Comedians You Need To Know.” She has performed stand-up all around the US, including world famous venues such as The Comedy Store, Laugh Factory, Carolines on Broadway, and many more. She is trained in improv with the legendary Groundlings and sketch writing with Upright Citizens Brigade. Currently, she's located in Los Angeles working as an Associate Story Producer on Nat Geo's "Wicked Tuna." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568301593683-35WP439XOJIF4Y42DR40/dahlia.jpg 2019 LINE UP Dalia started comedy in London, UK, where she first started honing her silly, playful, and sometimes dark material in major clubs and festivals all over the country. Her warm and conspiratorial stage presence and punchy writing helped her progress quickly and gain favor with reviewers. Her comedy was broadcast on BBC Radio, and she also performed at Live' Nation's Latitude Festival, the Brighton Fringe Festival, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, including a full run with Christian Knowles Productions’ Lunchtime Special show. She has also performed in Canada, Ireland, including Live Nation's Electric Picnic Festival, as well as Egypt where her family is from, including Egypt’s first ever Cairo Comedy Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568015723121-DZF69B1DWMV3NXDMQS7B/dewa_headshot_small.jpg 2019 LINE UP Dewa Dorje is a Tibetan American stand up comic born and raised in Seattle. Her raunchy comedic style, upbeat energy, and first generation background team up to bring the audience her unique feminist perspective. She runs the comedy showcase Loudmouth Cunts and a female-focused open mic “The Comedy Nest." She’s performed all over the west coast and can’t wait to see where her comedy career takes her next. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568011743667-VY54WQNWFJVMZQ6C5HG6/MMay_1091_fr.jpg 2019 LINE UP Maya May is a writer and stand-up who turned to humor to navigate the awkwardness of growing up a black nerd and only child in suburban Chicago. It worked. She got voted “Most Likely to Make the Yearbook Famous" and received the Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award in the same year she called the principal a bastard. Maya's comedy is just like she is: a healthy balance of optimism and rage, mischievous, and deliciously over-the-top. With a BA in Political Science, an MFA in Creative Writing and an OMG in student loan debt, her jokes layer her life experiences with observations on parenting, race, politics, class, and gender. Since moving back to the US in 2014, after 8 years abroad, she has quickly become known for her socially conscious humor, featuring at some of the country’s best indie shows (Butterboy, Chicago Underground Comedy, Women Crush Wednesdays), headlining colleges and appearing at festivals including the Asheville Comedy Festival, Boston Comedy Festival, and Women in Comedy Festival. She’s performed everywhere from Chicago’s Laugh Factory to the Hollywood Improv, but her favorite place to perform is wherever you are. Awwwwww. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568332004114-X397MYFGRJE837UPZEOO/171118_ChanelAli_190-web.jpg 2019 LINE UP Chanel Ali is a standup comedian, writer, and actress living in New York City. She is the host of the Food Network digital series Food Debate! and a cast member on MTV’s Girl Code. After blossoming on the Philadelphia circuit, she quickly became a crowd favorite with her commanding stage presence and story-telling style. Her observational comedy covers her upbringing, her unique worldview, and the realities of being a polite person in the entertainment industry. Chanel was a “New Face” at the 2019 prestigious Just for Laughs festival in Montreal and has performed at the Limestone Comedy Festival, the Women in Comedy Festival, and the All Jane Comedy Festival, and appears in the Starz series Night Train with Wyatt Cenac. In 2018, Chanel was featured on the dias of the Friar’s Club Roast of Gloria Allred (where is she is now a member), and, in 2019, she has written for the @NetflixisaJoke social media accounts. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @Chanel_Ali. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536120928517-FVG0W7MDLM1VCW1OBL58/966a0b80-7c9c-4a47-b658-c72a4d71d828.jpeg 2019 LINE UP Corina is a Portland comedian with a high-energy style. She was raised in the suburbs of Northern California and went to Catholic school which gives a lot of context to her raunchy material. She placed third in the 2018 Portland’s Funniest Person Contest at Helium Comedy Club and the Portland Mercury named her one of their ‘Undisputable Geniuses of Comedy’. She has been on the Portland Queer Comedy Festival for the last two years and is one of the hosts of Flyass Jokes, the longest running comedy show in Portland. Her butt has been described as ‘breathtaking’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568295769986-VFOPMOAT0Y1JP9XEI2TF/joyelle_orig.jpg 2019 LINE UP Joyelle Nicole Johnson is a comedian and writer who brings joy to the stage. She is currently the warm up comic for Hasan Minhaj’s talk showPatriot Act on Netflix and the permanent guest host for the Sirius XM radio show Godfrey Complex. Joyelle made her network TV debut on Late Night with Seth Meyers and has written for Broad City. She has performed on Wyatt Cenac’s Night Train for SeeSo, This Week at the Comedy Cellar and Comics to Watch for Comedy Central, LaffMob for TruTV, was a panelist on Refinery 29/Facebook Watch’s After After Party and can be seen in this season of HBO’s Crashing. She was selected for the 2018 FOX Comedy showcase, was a finalist in NBC’s Stand Up For Diversity Showcase and has performed at festivals like SF Sketchfest, Bonnaroo, The New York Comedy Festival and Bumbershoot. She regularly features for Hannibal Buress and has opened for other legends like Dave Chappelle, Russell Peters and Maria Bamford. She also tours with Daily Show creator Lizz Winstead's Lady Parts Justice League making her dreams of combining comedy and activism come true. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568014994540-4QWMO45CQS9JETUQZA9C/KEONNA.jpg 2019 LINE UP I'm a stand up comedian from Atlanta, GA. I'm a host, writer, and actress who has done college films, comedy clubs and theaters. I'm a women who brings laughter to real life events. I admire working with women because we are amazing. I'm a mother of three and an RN by day. Stand up is my life. I've been doing comedy for 4 years and have worked with some amazing people on my journey of comedy such as Kim Coles, Bill Bellamy, Tiffany Haddish. It will be pleasure to work with a group of such outstanding and hilarious women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568292601532-PSM5W6Y8511RBM0PQAQM/SummerStacey.jpg 2019 LINE UP Stacey Hallal founded the Curious Comedy Theater in Portland, Oregon in 2008 where she serves as Artistic and Managing Director as well as a regular performer, writer, director and teacher. As Artistic Director, Stacey oversees the scheduling, production and creative direction of over 650 shows per year and has the honoring of curating the annual All Jane Comedy Festival. Stacey performs sketch and stand up as well as improv. She has hosted for such legends as Bob Saget and Dana Gould and featured for Norm MacDonald. Stacey was a semi-finalist in the Portland Funniest Person Contest as well as the Laughing Skull Comedy Contest and was one of ten performers in Portland’s Ten Comics to Watch Showcase for Comedy Central. She tours all over North America, including stand up guest spots at clubs like The Improv in Atlanta and producing her one and two person comedy sketch shows on the Canadian Fringe Festival circuit. Stacey, with partner Sam Niemann, co-created the cartoon Ruby Rocket, Private Eye which was developed into a web series by Aniboom.com in 2008 and lives on as live shows, videos, and a podcast. Stacey has been devoted to comedy in Portland and Chicago for over fifteen years and has appeared and taught at more than 80 festivals across the United States and Canada. While in Chicago, Stacey completed the iO, Annoyance, and Second City training centers. She went on to complete the prestigious Directing Program at Second City where she also taught improv and comedy writing as a member of the Second City Training Center Faculty. Stacey Assistant Directed the smash hit Second City Main Stage production, Between Barack and A Hard Place. To pay for all of her other activities, Stacey also uses improv to help huge corporations better understand and communicate their brand stories with Character, LLC, a Portland-based company she helped start up in 2001. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568015873920-C6DI452AHCO0AR2Y29WD/CheriHodge.jpeg 2019 LINE UP Straight out of Compton, and other luxurious neighborhoods, Cheri mixes world weary cynicism with offbeat whimsy to give you a Stand-Up performance you won’t soon forget. Growing up with a drug dealing dad and struggling with depression, she uses humor to try and make sense of it all. Recently Cheri was featured in the choir scene of the “Childish Gambino - This Is America” video on YouTube, She played Rachel in the Pilot Genius, and is currently a writer for The Collins Key Company, videos which have garnered over 11 million views. Cheri has recently opened for Russell Brand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568014956369-GXOGMXHEFWBRLCDXGSY3/kirsten_van_ritzen_headshot_dsc_2555edweb879kb_0.jpg 2019 LINE UP Kirsten is an acclaimed comedienne who has appeared on stages across North America, acting in more than fifty plays and in TV roles for Disney, Hallmark, Lifetime and Netflix. She has performed her quirky solo sketches at numerous comedy variety shows. She presented THE KIRSTEN VAN RITZEN SHOW at Chicago’s Solo Fest, and in Hollywood - where she was named L.A.'s Best Solo Comedy Artist. Her one-woman play ALL MY DAY JOBS has been performed across the country, and is published in an anthology. She is also the author of a humor novel THE COMEDY DIVA DIARIES. Kirsten is an improvisor and creator of legendary long-forms SIN CITY IMPROVISED SERIAL and DIE-NASTY SOAP OPERA, both nominated for Canadian Comedy Awards. Her stand up credits include festivals, national radio and TV. She Executive Produced SHE KILLS ME TV series starring female comedians; and produced the FUNNY WOMEN FESTIVAL in Victoria, B.C. Kirsten is Canadian and has the frostbite to prove it. http://www.kirstenvanritzen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1569382599025-6IVOREPQDZ5EV13Y7XSM/Brittany.jpg 2019 LINE UP Brittany Carney began standup in DC, where she appeared at the DC Improv Comedy Club, Drafthouse Theaters, Black Cat, and Underground Comedy’s The Big Hunt. She now lives in NYC and performs at venues including Upright Citizens Brigade, Caroline’s On Broadway, and the Comedy Cellar. She has featured for some of the most venerable names in comedy now including Aparna Nancherla, Chris Gethard, Melissa Villasenor, Hari Kondabolu, Moshe Kasher, Wyatt Cenac, Jena Friedman and many more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568014517657-GV9972PR3L184KIDRID8/wally_baram.jpg 2019 LINE UP As seen on Comedy Central Digital, Showtime, and A&E, Wally Baram is a 21 year old Mexican-Syrian writer/comedian working in Los Angeles. Still very much in the process of growing up, Wally brings a unique perspective on the strange banalities of entering the adult world from someone still very much learning. Jumping between Mexican and Middle-Eastern households during her youth, her work also sheds light on two relevant cultures, as well as growing up with a strong multi-cultural identity. Wally is an opener for Jeff Garlin as well as a frequent performer at the Hollywood Improv. She headlined The Pittsburgh First Night NYE Event in 2017 (3 20min shows for 4,000 people) and has performed in The Pittsburgh Comedy Festival (where she opened for W. Kamau Bell), The Boston Comedy Arts Festival, World Series of Comedy (Boston), as well as a slew of other comedy festivals. She's currently writing a show for Snapchat-- whatever that means. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568012522911-ZO3BNHNR5O8HQHYS5THB/ICM%2BHeadshot%2B-%2BEmmy%2BBlotnick.jpg 2019 LINE UP EMMY is a stand-up/actress/writer based in NY. She has appeared on THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT, where she was also a staff writer. Previously, she was head writer for the Comedy Central series THE PRESIDENT SHOW. She has been highlighted as one of Comedy Central’s Comics to Watch. Emmy can most recently be seen in her half hour stand-up special for Comedy Central. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568778767855-64YEB41XJTYLEY5Y58MJ/67332832_439898773525097_8304839876981817344_n.jpg 2019 LINE UP Brunch is an award-winning comedy duo from Vancouver, BC. Brought to you by two women raised on Mary Kate & Ashley movies and Celine Dion’s greatest hits, Brunch promises to tell you that you’re not the Miranda of your friend group. They have performed at Portland Sketch Fest, Montreal SketchFest, the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival, Just For Laughs NorthWest & Edmonton’s Improvaganza, to name a few. Simply need to hear their voices? Check out their podcast, You’ve Got Brunch where they grapple with their love/hate, hate/love relationships with Rom Coms. “The Vancouver, BC, two-piece blew me away at last year’s fest” - Portland Mercury “Brunch was new to me but they stood out as my favourite new discoveries of the festival” - My Entertainment World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568291481089-WQQIQ0KU21C1CCOWG22O/momjeans.jpg 2019 LINE UP Mom Jeans is an all-female improv troupe from Portland, Oregon. We've have been performing together for three years at almost every improv location in town, including residencies at Kickstand Comedy, where we produce a monthly show. Mom Jeans displays a powerful ability to walk the line of the real and surreal, the absurd and the grounded. We follow the show wherever it goes with genuine and earnest enthusiasm, and we have absolute trust in each other that shows on stage. Plus, we're five bad-ass ladies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568015160679-KCH5ROGHQYOO905H77CI/69750868_2366316383627702_4584149256515878912_n.jpg 2019 LINE UP Stand-up comedian and Portland Queer Comedy Festival Co-Founder/Co-Director Belinda Carroll has had the great pleasure of producing and featuring in shows with — Nico Santos, Guy Branum, ANT, James Adomian, Dana Goldberg, Jason Stuart, Sandra Valls, Julie Goldman and many more. Belinda has been seen on Portlandia, MTV, in various commercials and for .0007 seconds of several tv shows you've never heard of. She was a co-organizer for the 2010 Butch Voices National Conference, and a recipient of the 2011 Pride-in-Action award from Pride NW for her work on founding the Q Patrol; a community foot patrol to reduce LGBTQ hate crimes in downtown Portland. She was awarded a Queer Hero award by GLAPN (Gay and Lesbian History Archives of the Pacific Northwest) in 2018. As a comedic writer, she has written for the anthology Persistence: All-Ways Butch/Femme, Curve, Huffington Post, Cracked.com, Portland Mercury, Willamette Week and PQ Monthly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568778500609-4GFSA35AH5RRLIVLLKAM/RACHEL%252BSCANLON.jpg 2019 LINE UP Minnesota native Rachel Scanlon is a stand-up comedian, writer and co-host of the weekly podcast/live show “Two Dykes and A Mic”. Rachel shares her stories about being a Midwest gal living in Los Angeles, and singing her way out of the closet. She is also a ranch dressing enthusiast. She has performed all over the country including The Comedy Store, The Hollywood Improv, Acme Comedy Club, Punchline Comedy Club, and many more. In 2018, Fullscreen premiered her first comedy special “Rachel Scanlon is Hot & Hungry”. “Rachel Scanlon is a comedic breath of fresh Midwest air. She’s high energy, absurdly positive, and your new comedy crush.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568758932423-AOYJ2IOOSR82PBT20Y3S/dani_still_4.jpg 2019 LINE UP Dani Schi (she/her) is a Michigan-grown person and a Portland-grown comedian. Dani has been working in nonprofits and is an advocate and activist with an opinion about comedy. She is new to comedy but enjoying the minutes of stage time that she doesn't have to hear about other peoples problems and will hopefully be around to be an up-and-comer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568016154922-HBPKMGJOLQQ9LL6GR82I/CAITLIN.jpg 2019 LINE UP Caitlin Reese is a Brooklyn based stand up comedian, improviser, and sketch writer. Caitlin has been a comedy writer since 2005 with a self-published magazine distributed by Tower Records and sold out copies at the Portland Zine Fest. In 2014, she kicked off comedy as a career and regularly performs at theaters, clubs, and bars throughout the northeast. She has traveled throughout the US for festivals and shows. She features for headliners on tour and auditioned successfully for the Academy at Upright Citizens Brigade New York. Her comedic voice is honest, goofy, and offbeat. Credits: Finalist on Amazon Prime Comics Watching Comics Season 8 Winner on PAID or PAIN on Sirius XM Finalist in the 2018 National Ladies of Laughter Competition at Gotham Comedy Club Selected performer for HBO’s Women in Comedy Festival (2018 & 2019) Opened for Kevin McDonald from Kids in the Hall Quarter Finalist on Last Comix Standing at Mohegan Sun Acted in indie comedy film, Vanilla (2019 release) Club Appearances: COMIX at Mohegan Sun, the Nerdist, Upright Citizens Brigade, Gotham Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club, Greenwich Village Comedy Club, EastVille Comedy Club, Westside Comedy Club, Laugh Boston, ImprovBoston, the Comedy Connection, Nick's Comedy Stop, Brew Ha Ha at City Steam, Vermont Comedy Club, Fairfield Comedy Club, and the Funny Bone (Albany, Syracuse & Hartford). Festival Selections: Women in Comedy Festival (2018 & 2019), Hell Yes Fest, FEST, Charm City Comedy Festival, Baltimore Comedy Festival, Hoboken Comedy Festival, 5th Borough Comedy Festival, North Carolina Festival, Connecticut Comedy Festival, Bad B*tch Revolution Festival, Portland Maine Comedy Festival, and Portland Queer Comedy Festival. Beyond stand up, Caitlin is also an improviser. She is currently in the Academy with Upright Citizens Brigade with additional training from Second City, the Magnet, and the iO. Caitlin has studied improv with Armando Diaz and Will Hines. She performs on a harold house team, is a member of the touring company, and teaches at Sea Tea Comedy Theater, Hartford, CT. Caitlin has traveled throughout the United States to perform in improv festivals including the Del Close Marathon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568290274338-V78MS7Z1ZF45PGUOPH68/aisha.jpg 2019 LINE UP Born into a mixed racial (Arab/Mexican), rarely quiet household, Aisha Farhoud started performing comedy when she was unemployed and tired of Judge Judy reruns. Aisha has since performed at the Bumbershoot Music and Arts festival and the Intersections festival in Seattle, the Arab-American Comedy Festival in New York City, and the Westside Comedy Showdown in Los Angeles. She is co-creator and editor of "Aisha and Arijana" sketch videos with fellow comedian Arijana Ramic. Aisha can often be found at The Comedy Nest in Seattle, a womxn-focused show she helps produce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568291759598-UOV3ACLAA0LYTUAIVN2I/elenaheadshot.jpg 2019 LINE UP Elena Afanasiev traveled in her mothers womb (8 months pregnant) from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan to Woodburn, Oregon. Elena is an actor, director, producer, storyteller, and sketch comedian with a B.A. in Theater Arts and 9 years of improv experience. While attending PSU, she was the recipient of the 2015 Phyllis and Tom Burnham Award for outstanding contributions to the school of theater + film. She's performed in the Del Close Marathon in NYC with her current troupe, Mom Jeans. She participated in Paper Street Improv Festival in Victoria, Canada. Recently she directed and performed in Impact: An Improvised Play About Choices. She was in the local ensemble in Stumptown Festival 2018. You can see Elena at Kickstand theater producing a monthly show with her all-female improv troupe Mom Jeans every 4th Tuesday. Her other troupes include Splash and Dock of the Bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568290791219-O0564ZE65PMBYHTIBR2Z/STEPHANIENAM.jpg 2019 LINE UP Stephanie grew up Las Vegas but has moved 10 times in the past 4 years across 4 different continents and can (kind of) speak 4 languages. They are a queer Korean comic who talks about identity and shares observations of the world. They can be found performing in and around Seattle. They produce shows under Caracol Productions which is dedicated to creating community and spaces for underrepresented voices and are also a producer at the Comedy Nest, a womxn-focused comedy show and open mic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568778967104-D8RV1XDRDC5JRJDY9G2P/mckenzie.jpg 2019 LINE UP McKenzie Goodwin is a writer and stand-up comedian based in Los Angeles. Her works have been in McSweeneys, Points in Case and more. Co-host of the comedy show and podcast Two Dykes and a Mic, which is currently touring all over the United States. McKenzie also co-hosts the podcast My Friend Chuck, with Chuck Tingle, premiering September 3rd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568015360874-ZB31IHAJ68Y6RGWQJ1FI/pigeau_photo.jpg 2019 LINE UP Part time comedian and full time intern with a long history of minor head injuries, Jessica Pigeau has opened for the likes of Patrick Maliha, Zainab Johnson, and Yumi Nagashima. Featured on such shows as Queer as Jokes and the Monthly at the Vancouver Yuk Yuk’s and Story Story Lie at the historic Rio Theatre. Jessica is culturally rural, coming from a small city in the depth of the Canadian prairies, but likewise passionately urban, now living in the heart of Vancouver. She is known primarily for her strong writing, breathtaking topical range, and extremely weird speech impediment. High-energy, witty, and unique. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568292284827-ILOEDWP6SO8CB69RB9X5/kristen-7.jpg 2019 LINE UP Kristen Schier is the Co Artistic Director of Curious Comedy Theater in Portland Oregon and was the former long time Improv Producer at the Philly Improv Theater. Kristen was also the long time Artistic Director of the Philly based short form ensemble The N Crowd for 13 years. In addition to teaching and directing Kristen brings extensive performance experience in both scripted and unscripted theater, as well as clown. She has worked regularly as an actor with various professional theater companies in Philadelphia. Kristen has toured both internationally and around the country performing, teaching and headlining at improv festivals in Seattle, Edmonton, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, Boston, Montreal, Providence, Austin, DC, Baltimore and Detroit - to name a few. Kristen has a BFA in the Performing Arts from The University of the Arts Ira Brind School of Theater, where she was a Senior Lecturer having taught Acting for Non-Majors, Freshmen Acting Studio and Improvisation for the Actor. In addition to training she received at UArts Kristen continued to pursue her education in long-form improvisation with intensives at The Second City in Chicago, The Annoyance Theater in Chicago and The Magnet Theater in New York as well as workshops in physical theater through Pig Iron and The Movement Theater Studio in New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568016027792-4SJ77MCCNUOEHL52CIAH/BROOKS.jpg 2019 LINE UP Brooks is a Portlander by way of Philadelphia and still has the attitude to prove it. Her career has spanned both journalism and politics. Her writing has been published in Rolling Stone, Time Magazine, New York Magazine, and many other financially unstable bastions of the fourth estate. These days she’s a civil servant with a stand up comedy habit as a member of the feminist killjoy comedy collective That's What She Said. You've seen her perform as part of the Backfence PDX Russian Roulette storytelling series and at the Portland Queer Comedy Festival. Find her online at Brooksisfunny.com and BrooksisBrooks on Instagram. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568015654987-BEEZH21NGKZ7KXT2MILS/DHAYA.jpg 2019 LINE UP Dhaya Lakshminarayanan is the 2016 winner of the Liz Carpenter Political Humor Award (previously awarded to Samantha Bee, Wanda Sykes and satirist/humorist Mark Russell) presented by the National Women’s Political Caucus. Comedy Central Asia crowned her the Grand Prize Winner of “The Ultimate Comedy Challenge” filmed in Singapore. She is the sole subject of the documentary “NerdCool” which premiered at the LA Comedy Festival in 2018 KQED named her one of the twenty “Women to Watch” a series celebrating women artists, creatives and makers in the San Francisco Bay Area who are pushing boundaries in 2016. She was named one of “The Bay Area’s 11 Best Standup Comedians” in 2016 and “13 San Francisco Standup Comedians to Go See Now” in 2018 by SFist. The SF Weekly named her one of the “16 Bay Area performers to watch in 2016.” The San Francisco Bay Guardian named her Best Comedian 2013 in the “Best of the Bay” Readers’ Poll. She has opened/featured for or worked with the following: Janeane Garofalo, Marc Maron, Greg Behrendt, Jello Biafra, the late Dick Gregory, Anthony Jeselnik, Maz Jobrani, and Greg Proops. Dhaya introduced former Vice President Al Gore at an event. He then laughed onstage at her joke, so technically she once opened for Al Gore. She has performed internationally in Shanghai, China; Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, and Singapore. In the US she has been an invited performer at Bridgetown Comedy Festival (Portland, OR), San Francisco Sketchfest, the Boston Comedy Festival (semifinalist), the Limestone Comedy Festival (Bloomington, IN) and Laugh Your Asheville Off (Asheville, NC). Dhaya is also a TV host and storyteller. She hosted the premier year of the Emmy award-winning series High School Quiz Show on PBS’s WGBH. She is a frequent comedic storyteller on NPR’s Snap Judgment and has appeared live in Austin on The Risk podcast. She is currently the host of San Francisco’s monthly Moth StorySLAM after winning a Moth StorySLAM and competing in the GrandSLAM. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568297887921-PXFYY13B0P8RVF79NHOZ/2dykes.jpg 2019 LINE UP TWO DYKES AND A MIC is a Los Angeles-based comedy duo made up of queer best friends, McKenzie Goodwin and Rachel Scanlon. The two perform stand up all over the country, have a monthly show in LA and host a weekly podcast by the same name. When hosting together, Rachel and McKenzie have a real “will they won’t they vibe” according to Rachel and a definite “it will never happen” from McKenzie. They also both perform and work as individual comedians, each with their own style. Outside of TWO DYKES, McKenzie recently wrote on a pilot for Adult Swim, and has works featured in McSweeneys, Points in Case and more. Rachel is currently working on a sketch series for Comedy Central’s digital platform. https://www.alljanecomedy.org/2023-line-up daily 0.75 2023-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568290274338-V78MS7Z1ZF45PGUOPH68/aisha.jpg 2023 LINE UP Born into a mixed racial (Arab/Mexican), rarely quiet household, Aisha Farhoud started performing comedy when she was unemployed and tired of Judge Judy reruns. Aisha has since performed at the Bumbershoot Music and Arts festival and the Intersections festival in Seattle, the Arab-American Comedy Festival in New York City, and the Westside Comedy Showdown in Los Angeles. She is co-creator and editor of "Aisha and Arijana" sketch videos with fellow comedian Arijana Ramic. Aisha can often be found at The Comedy Nest in Seattle, a womxn-focused show she helps produce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568301593683-35WP439XOJIF4Y42DR40/dahlia.jpg 2023 LINE UP Dalia started comedy in London, UK, where she first started honing her silly, playful, and sometimes dark material in major clubs and festivals all over the country. Her warm and conspiratorial stage presence and punchy writing helped her progress quickly and gain favor with reviewers. Her comedy was broadcast on BBC Radio, and she also performed at Live' Nation's Latitude Festival, the Brighton Fringe Festival, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, including a full run with Christian Knowles Productions’ Lunchtime Special show. She has also performed in Canada, Ireland, including Live Nation's Electric Picnic Festival, as well as Egypt where her family is from, including Egypt’s first ever Cairo Comedy Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568292601532-PSM5W6Y8511RBM0PQAQM/SummerStacey.jpg 2023 LINE UP Stacey Hallal founded the Curious Comedy Theater in Portland, Oregon in 2008 where she serves as Artistic and Managing Director as well as a regular performer, writer, director and teacher. As Artistic Director, Stacey oversees the scheduling, production and creative direction of over 650 shows per year and has the honoring of curating the annual All Jane Comedy Festival. Stacey performs sketch and stand up as well as improv. She has hosted for such legends as Bob Saget and Dana Gould and featured for Norm MacDonald. Stacey was a semi-finalist in the Portland Funniest Person Contest as well as the Laughing Skull Comedy Contest and was one of ten performers in Portland’s Ten Comics to Watch Showcase for Comedy Central. She tours all over North America, including stand up guest spots at clubs like The Improv in Atlanta and producing her one and two person comedy sketch shows on the Canadian Fringe Festival circuit. Stacey, with partner Sam Niemann, co-created the cartoon Ruby Rocket, Private Eye which was developed into a web series by Aniboom.com in 2008 and lives on as live shows, videos, and a podcast. Stacey has been devoted to comedy in Portland and Chicago for over fifteen years and has appeared and taught at more than 80 festivals across the United States and Canada. While in Chicago, Stacey completed the iO, Annoyance, and Second City training centers. She went on to complete the prestigious Directing Program at Second City where she also taught improv and comedy writing as a member of the Second City Training Center Faculty. Stacey Assistant Directed the smash hit Second City Main Stage production, Between Barack and A Hard Place. To pay for all of her other activities, Stacey also uses improv to help huge corporations better understand and communicate their brand stories with Character, LLC, a Portland-based company she helped start up in 2001. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568015723121-DZF69B1DWMV3NXDMQS7B/dewa_headshot_small.jpg 2023 LINE UP Dewa Dorje is a Tibetan American stand up comic born and raised in Seattle. Her raunchy comedic style, upbeat energy, and first generation background team up to bring the audience her unique feminist perspective. She runs the comedy showcase Loudmouth Cunts and a female-focused open mic “The Comedy Nest." She’s performed all over the west coast and can’t wait to see where her comedy career takes her next. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568297887921-PXFYY13B0P8RVF79NHOZ/2dykes.jpg 2023 LINE UP TWO DYKES AND A MIC is a Los Angeles-based comedy duo made up of queer best friends, McKenzie Goodwin and Rachel Scanlon. The two perform stand up all over the country, have a monthly show in LA and host a weekly podcast by the same name. When hosting together, Rachel and McKenzie have a real “will they won’t they vibe” according to Rachel and a definite “it will never happen” from McKenzie. They also both perform and work as individual comedians, each with their own style. Outside of TWO DYKES, McKenzie recently wrote on a pilot for Adult Swim, and has works featured in McSweeneys, Points in Case and more. Rachel is currently working on a sketch series for Comedy Central’s digital platform. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568778767855-64YEB41XJTYLEY5Y58MJ/67332832_439898773525097_8304839876981817344_n.jpg 2023 LINE UP Brunch is an award-winning comedy duo from Vancouver, BC. Brought to you by two women raised on Mary Kate & Ashley movies and Celine Dion’s greatest hits, Brunch promises to tell you that you’re not the Miranda of your friend group. They have performed at Portland Sketch Fest, Montreal SketchFest, the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival, Just For Laughs NorthWest & Edmonton’s Improvaganza, to name a few. Simply need to hear their voices? Check out their podcast, You’ve Got Brunch where they grapple with their love/hate, hate/love relationships with Rom Coms. “The Vancouver, BC, two-piece blew me away at last year’s fest” - Portland Mercury “Brunch was new to me but they stood out as my favourite new discoveries of the festival” - My Entertainment World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568778500609-4GFSA35AH5RRLIVLLKAM/RACHEL%252BSCANLON.jpg 2023 LINE UP Minnesota native Rachel Scanlon is a stand-up comedian, writer and co-host of the weekly podcast/live show “Two Dykes and A Mic”. Rachel shares her stories about being a Midwest gal living in Los Angeles, and singing her way out of the closet. She is also a ranch dressing enthusiast. She has performed all over the country including The Comedy Store, The Hollywood Improv, Acme Comedy Club, Punchline Comedy Club, and many more. In 2018, Fullscreen premiered her first comedy special “Rachel Scanlon is Hot & Hungry”. “Rachel Scanlon is a comedic breath of fresh Midwest air. She’s high energy, absurdly positive, and your new comedy crush.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568012522911-ZO3BNHNR5O8HQHYS5THB/ICM%2BHeadshot%2B-%2BEmmy%2BBlotnick.jpg 2023 LINE UP EMMY is a stand-up/actress/writer based in NY. She has appeared on THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT, where she was also a staff writer. Previously, she was head writer for the Comedy Central series THE PRESIDENT SHOW. She has been highlighted as one of Comedy Central’s Comics to Watch. Emmy can most recently be seen in her half hour stand-up special for Comedy Central. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568295769986-VFOPMOAT0Y1JP9XEI2TF/joyelle_orig.jpg 2023 LINE UP Joyelle Nicole Johnson is a comedian and writer who brings joy to the stage. She is currently the warm up comic for Hasan Minhaj’s talk showPatriot Act on Netflix and the permanent guest host for the Sirius XM radio show Godfrey Complex. Joyelle made her network TV debut on Late Night with Seth Meyers and has written for Broad City. She has performed on Wyatt Cenac’s Night Train for SeeSo, This Week at the Comedy Cellar and Comics to Watch for Comedy Central, LaffMob for TruTV, was a panelist on Refinery 29/Facebook Watch’s After After Party and can be seen in this season of HBO’s Crashing. She was selected for the 2018 FOX Comedy showcase, was a finalist in NBC’s Stand Up For Diversity Showcase and has performed at festivals like SF Sketchfest, Bonnaroo, The New York Comedy Festival and Bumbershoot. She regularly features for Hannibal Buress and has opened for other legends like Dave Chappelle, Russell Peters and Maria Bamford. She also tours with Daily Show creator Lizz Winstead's Lady Parts Justice League making her dreams of combining comedy and activism come true. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568014835120-S75V0TREO4Q3UTQC7YPY/Naomi.jpg 2023 LINE UP Naomi Fitter escaped from Ohio at the age of 22. Her soothing midwestern voice has been described as "sexy," "librarian-like," and "nearly inaudible." When she's not telling jokes, she spends her time studying robots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568295244423-50YJJ2TSU3I5Z2F75KTL/secretcervix.jpg 2023 LINE UP Secret Cervix is a Portland-based improv duo consisting of Hallie Zmroczek & Adrien Warner. Their spy movie long form show "Secret Cervix Presents" premiered at Curious Arthouse in February 2019 for a six week run. They performed at the Phoenix Improv Festival in May, 2019. Hallie has been doing theater throughout her life. She studied improv at Portland State University, went through full training at The Brody Theater, The Liberators, and is currently on Curious Comedy Theater main-stage team, Battle Ax. She performed at the 2018 Stumptown Improv Festival with Battle Ax, and as a guest monologist and performer with Portland improv staple, J Names. She also performs with her other independent team, Crathorne. Adrien has been performing improv for 6 years. She trained at The Brody Theater and Curious Comedy, and performed with The Ape house team Cashmere at DCM 2018. In addition, she performs with her independent teams Add Hawk and Secret Cervix. Adrien performed with the Brody ensemble in the 2017 Stumptown Improv Festival with the all-women's show Girls, Girls, Girls! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568778309105-EI7CTQWZQIDGEAS1QHOJ/RODO.jpg 2023 LINE UP A game show in which comedians compete using their wits and dance moves. Hosted by Whitney Streed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568014695781-STSTARX0VG6JPIE6CS1O/NORI.jpg 2023 LINE UP Nori Reed isn’t just a comedian & writer based in Oakland, California. Nori is a lifestyle. When she isn’t perfecting her skin care routine or thinking about the devastating impact of U.S. imperialism, Nori performs regularly at the finest comedy clubs & colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nori recently opened for Amy Poehler at Comedy Central’s Clusterfest. She also featured at SF Sketchfest where she worked alongside Janeane Garofalo and Neil Patrick Harris. For her writing prowess, Nori was awarded the 2019 Diversity in Comedy Writing Fellowship at Killing My Lobster SF. Currently she co-produces the multiple award-winning comedy show, Man Haters. Nori is not Japanese. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568014364108-LOKGRD5SJYJYMVXXN3TL/BECKY.jpg 2023 LINE UP Becky Braunstein grew up on a mountain in Eagle River, Alaska where she had no one to talk to, moved to Portland, Oregon after being diagnosed with metastatic thyroid cancer and almost losing her voice forever - but she didn’t lose it, and now she won’t shut up. She appears in Season 1 of ‘Trinkets’ on Netflix, and was recently featured in Teen Vogue, in an article which insisted that each one of her life experiences "deserves [its] own television show". Wanda Sykes & Page Hurwitz agreed, producing Becky’s half-hour stand-up/documentary special as part of ‘Unprotected Sets’ on EPIX. Becky is a fast-rising one-in-a-million performer with fresh energy and wide-eyed enthusiasm that is impossible to ignore. She has performed at nearly every top comedy festival in the country, including the Big Sky, Bridgetown, SF Sketchfest, Laughing Skull, All Jane, Limestone, 208 & Women In Comedy Festivals, and many others. Her comedy has aired on SiriusXM, IFC & Audible, and she recently opened for Tom Segura and Gary Gulman on tour. Becky hosts a spectacular show called 'Becky with the Good Jokes', which has featured appearances by Matt Braunger, Pete Holmes, Jamie Lee, The Unipiper, Ian Karmel, Jenny Conlee from The Decemberists, and the mayor of Anchorage, Alaska. She competed in the National Spelling Bee in 1997, is about half fluent in German, and dreams of one day living in a house with central air. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568320209323-8AASGSFNR4U8IETH87EW/69844812_580708885795383_8927539813402279936_n.jpg 2023 LINE UP Anneke is a Portland Actor and Improvisor. She has been performing for over 20 years, doing Sketch Comedy, Improv, film and theater. Anneke has guest starred on the formerly Portland produced hit NBC television show Grimm, starred in music videos with musicians such as Esme Patterson, and worked with many local artists on numerous film, TV and web productions here in the Portland area. Anneke is stoked to be a founding member of the all female identifying Portland improv group Mom Jeans, who has appeared at the Del Close Marathon in NYC, delighted audiences for over 4 years, and producers a local monthly show at Kickstand Comedy. She is also a former ensemble member of Deep End Theater, and currently plays with the diabolically experimental improv group, Please Help Us. Anneke has taught improv and stagecraft for many years, working with teens and adults, and has traveled internationally to Canada, Australia and New Zealand to teach workshops, perform and learn from incredible improvisors in festivals such as Paper Street Theater’s International Improv Fest, New Zealand International Improv Fest, and Up Front Theater’s Seattle International Improv Fest to name a few. Anneke is delighted and honored to be participating in this years All Jane Comedy Festival at Curious Comedy. When Anneke isn’t performing, she loves riding her motorcycle, surfing the Oregon Coast and traveling the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568013901754-DJ7LP08VD3CIDH7PJ61M/DMartinAustin.jpg 2023 LINE UP D MARTIN AUSTIN is a nonbinary femme writer, comedian, and accidental activist living in Portland, OR. They have been a regular contributor to The Portland Mercury, finalist in Queerspace Magazine's OUTSTANDING Queer Comedy Competition, Associate Producer for Portland Queer Comedy Festival, and a featured performer in the NW Black Comedy Festival (3 years in a row). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568778967104-D8RV1XDRDC5JRJDY9G2P/mckenzie.jpg 2023 LINE UP McKenzie Goodwin is a writer and stand-up comedian based in Los Angeles. Her works have been in McSweeneys, Points in Case and more. Co-host of the comedy show and podcast Two Dykes and a Mic, which is currently touring all over the United States. McKenzie also co-hosts the podcast My Friend Chuck, with Chuck Tingle, premiering September 3rd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568320887173-0P1NXH0WQPTFV2XJZL7R/chelseaburns.jpg 2023 LINE UP Chelsea Burns is a comedian, writer, and improviser in Portland, OR. She's created dozens of memes for Cracked.com and wrote an article that was featured on their 'Viral on Cracked' list. In 2018 she performed at the HIGHlarious Comedy Festival in Seattle, WA and the NW Women's Comedy Festival in Springfield, OR. Chelsea is the producer and co-host of Comedy: The Musical, a show where a comedian tells jokes, then the musical improvisers create songs inspired by their punchlines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568332004114-X397MYFGRJE837UPZEOO/171118_ChanelAli_190-web.jpg 2023 LINE UP Chanel Ali is a standup comedian, writer, and actress living in New York City. She is the host of the Food Network digital series Food Debate! and a cast member on MTV’s Girl Code. After blossoming on the Philadelphia circuit, she quickly became a crowd favorite with her commanding stage presence and story-telling style. Her observational comedy covers her upbringing, her unique worldview, and the realities of being a polite person in the entertainment industry. Chanel was a “New Face” at the 2019 prestigious Just for Laughs festival in Montreal and has performed at the Limestone Comedy Festival, the Women in Comedy Festival, and the All Jane Comedy Festival, and appears in the Starz series Night Train with Wyatt Cenac. In 2018, Chanel was featured on the dias of the Friar’s Club Roast of Gloria Allred (where is she is now a member), and, in 2019, she has written for the @NetflixisaJoke social media accounts. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @Chanel_Ali. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568014956369-GXOGMXHEFWBRLCDXGSY3/kirsten_van_ritzen_headshot_dsc_2555edweb879kb_0.jpg 2023 LINE UP Kirsten is an acclaimed comedienne who has appeared on stages across North America, acting in more than fifty plays and in TV roles for Disney, Hallmark, Lifetime and Netflix. She has performed her quirky solo sketches at numerous comedy variety shows. She presented THE KIRSTEN VAN RITZEN SHOW at Chicago’s Solo Fest, and in Hollywood - where she was named L.A.'s Best Solo Comedy Artist. Her one-woman play ALL MY DAY JOBS has been performed across the country, and is published in an anthology. She is also the author of a humor novel THE COMEDY DIVA DIARIES. Kirsten is an improvisor and creator of legendary long-forms SIN CITY IMPROVISED SERIAL and DIE-NASTY SOAP OPERA, both nominated for Canadian Comedy Awards. Her stand up credits include festivals, national radio and TV. She Executive Produced SHE KILLS ME TV series starring female comedians; and produced the FUNNY WOMEN FESTIVAL in Victoria, B.C. Kirsten is Canadian and has the frostbite to prove it. http://www.kirstenvanritzen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1536120928517-FVG0W7MDLM1VCW1OBL58/966a0b80-7c9c-4a47-b658-c72a4d71d828.jpeg 2023 LINE UP Corina is a Portland comedian with a high-energy style. She was raised in the suburbs of Northern California and went to Catholic school which gives a lot of context to her raunchy material. She placed third in the 2018 Portland’s Funniest Person Contest at Helium Comedy Club and the Portland Mercury named her one of their ‘Undisputable Geniuses of Comedy’. She has been on the Portland Queer Comedy Festival for the last two years and is one of the hosts of Flyass Jokes, the longest running comedy show in Portland. Her butt has been described as ‘breathtaking’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568291481089-WQQIQ0KU21C1CCOWG22O/momjeans.jpg 2023 LINE UP Mom Jeans is an all-female improv troupe from Portland, Oregon. We've have been performing together for three years at almost every improv location in town, including residencies at Kickstand Comedy, where we produce a monthly show. Mom Jeans displays a powerful ability to walk the line of the real and surreal, the absurd and the grounded. We follow the show wherever it goes with genuine and earnest enthusiasm, and we have absolute trust in each other that shows on stage. Plus, we're five bad-ass ladies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568016154922-HBPKMGJOLQQ9LL6GR82I/CAITLIN.jpg 2023 LINE UP Caitlin Reese is a Brooklyn based stand up comedian, improviser, and sketch writer. Caitlin has been a comedy writer since 2005 with a self-published magazine distributed by Tower Records and sold out copies at the Portland Zine Fest. In 2014, she kicked off comedy as a career and regularly performs at theaters, clubs, and bars throughout the northeast. She has traveled throughout the US for festivals and shows. She features for headliners on tour and auditioned successfully for the Academy at Upright Citizens Brigade New York. Her comedic voice is honest, goofy, and offbeat. Credits: Finalist on Amazon Prime Comics Watching Comics Season 8 Winner on PAID or PAIN on Sirius XM Finalist in the 2018 National Ladies of Laughter Competition at Gotham Comedy Club Selected performer for HBO’s Women in Comedy Festival (2018 & 2019) Opened for Kevin McDonald from Kids in the Hall Quarter Finalist on Last Comix Standing at Mohegan Sun Acted in indie comedy film, Vanilla (2019 release) Club Appearances: COMIX at Mohegan Sun, the Nerdist, Upright Citizens Brigade, Gotham Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club, Greenwich Village Comedy Club, EastVille Comedy Club, Westside Comedy Club, Laugh Boston, ImprovBoston, the Comedy Connection, Nick's Comedy Stop, Brew Ha Ha at City Steam, Vermont Comedy Club, Fairfield Comedy Club, and the Funny Bone (Albany, Syracuse & Hartford). Festival Selections: Women in Comedy Festival (2018 & 2019), Hell Yes Fest, FEST, Charm City Comedy Festival, Baltimore Comedy Festival, Hoboken Comedy Festival, 5th Borough Comedy Festival, North Carolina Festival, Connecticut Comedy Festival, Bad B*tch Revolution Festival, Portland Maine Comedy Festival, and Portland Queer Comedy Festival. Beyond stand up, Caitlin is also an improviser. She is currently in the Academy with Upright Citizens Brigade with additional training from Second City, the Magnet, and the iO. Caitlin has studied improv with Armando Diaz and Will Hines. She performs on a harold house team, is a member of the touring company, and teaches at Sea Tea Comedy Theater, Hartford, CT. Caitlin has traveled throughout the United States to perform in improv festivals including the Del Close Marathon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568011433737-RBTOLMRPPJ4S11XQSI7K/PUTERBAUGH.jpg 2023 LINE UP The Puterbaugh Sisters, Tiffany and Danielle Puterbaugh are the first alternative sister duo act since vaudeville. Real life sisters, they're parents relationship has failed, but their act will not. Originally from Chicago and currently based in LA. "Taking their shtick into absurdist parallel universes.. it works 100% of the time." - The Onion AV Club "Named Chicago Comics to watch" - Chicago Magazine You've seen these sisters everywhere, featuring at CVS and headlining Walgreens. They’ve opened for Kyle Kinane, Bridgette Everett, Judy Tenuda and Beth Stelling. They've also performed at TBS Just For Laughs Festival, Riot LA, "Best Bars in America" (Esquire), Bentzen Ball Comedy Festival (DC), High Plaines Comedy Festival (Tru TV), The Andy Kauffman Awards (NY- Gotham) , All Jane Comedy Festival (Portland) and NY/Chicago/San Francisco Sketchfest. They produce a critically acclaimed variety show "Entertaining Julia" running for 8 years in Chicago and now in its 9th season monthly at Akbar, Los Angeles. It's like watching Sister Act 2, when everyone comes out and raps about God. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568291186929-IDW3CL63UD177T8FA8BY/Sarah%2BDelphine%2BThompson.jpg 2023 LINE UP Sarah Delphine Thompson is an improviser, teacher, and writer based in Portland OR. Originally from California (don’t tell anyone!), Sarah loves to tell playful, honest and absurd stores with her troupe Mom Jeans and duo Dock of the Bay. She also produces and performs in the hellish and innovative Please Help Us and regularly performs with Secret Aardvark at Kickstand Comedy. Sarah has been immersed in the world of improv for 8 years, allowing her to produce the Coup de Comedy Festival in Southern California for four years, study in both Chicago and Europe, and teach in Southern California, Portland and Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568291759598-UOV3ACLAA0LYTUAIVN2I/elenaheadshot.jpg 2023 LINE UP Elena Afanasiev traveled in her mothers womb (8 months pregnant) from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan to Woodburn, Oregon. Elena is an actor, director, producer, storyteller, and sketch comedian with a B.A. in Theater Arts and 9 years of improv experience. While attending PSU, she was the recipient of the 2015 Phyllis and Tom Burnham Award for outstanding contributions to the school of theater + film. She's performed in the Del Close Marathon in NYC with her current troupe, Mom Jeans. She participated in Paper Street Improv Festival in Victoria, Canada. Recently she directed and performed in Impact: An Improvised Play About Choices. She was in the local ensemble in Stumptown Festival 2018. You can see Elena at Kickstand theater producing a monthly show with her all-female improv troupe Mom Jeans every 4th Tuesday. Her other troupes include Splash and Dock of the Bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1569382599025-6IVOREPQDZ5EV13Y7XSM/Brittany.jpg 2023 LINE UP Brittany Carney began standup in DC, where she appeared at the DC Improv Comedy Club, Drafthouse Theaters, Black Cat, and Underground Comedy’s The Big Hunt. She now lives in NYC and performs at venues including Upright Citizens Brigade, Caroline’s On Broadway, and the Comedy Cellar. She has featured for some of the most venerable names in comedy now including Aparna Nancherla, Chris Gethard, Melissa Villasenor, Hari Kondabolu, Moshe Kasher, Wyatt Cenac, Jena Friedman and many more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568249741620-JA6EUK14K6GMA96GPFRN/zahra_ali_comedy_flier.jpg 2023 LINE UP Zahra Ali is an internationally touring stand-up comedian, writer, actress, and all-around cool person. She is based in Los Angeles where you can see her any night of the week at comedy clubs and alt comedy shows all over town. She recently performed at the Lincoln Center Theatre in New York. Her arsenal of jokes covers everything from tacos to terrorism often leaving the crowd with advice and words of enlightenment. She is a ranked roast battler and professional insult comedian. She also performs with her sketch group, No Fly List, at the Comedy Central Stage in Hollywood. She co-hosts the popular 2 Girls, 1 Guy podcast recorded at the World Famous Comedy Store. She is also a host, producer, and co-founder of nationally touring comedy show and podcast called Facial Recognition Comedy featured in The New York Times and The Daily Beast. Having been a part of festivals such as the San Francisco Sketchfest and New York Comedy Festival, the All Jane Comedy Festival has been on Zahra's vision board for some time and it is an honor to be included in a festival showcasing the funniest, smartest, and most original women in comedy! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568015478255-BRXZ0GVGSH9TG0M7GMY1/JENNA.jpeg 2023 LINE UP Jenna Vesper is Portland based comic who is a high energy, crass, hardworking, loud divorced/queer/chubby/hairy slut who loves jokes about her dead parents! Recently awarded ‘Best Comedian’ in the Willamette Week and current semi finalist in the Portland’s Funniest Person Contest, Jenna produces Portland favorite Comic Strip every last Friday of the month. She also produces/hosts SMUT, Disowned The Show, a bachelor recap podcast called Date Card Pod, and is the associate Producer of the Portland Queer Comedy Festival now in its third year. She was a semi finalist in Queerspace Magazines Outstanding Queer Comedy Competition and has graced the stages of All Jane comedy festival, Portland Queer Comedy Festival, Mutiny Radio Comedy Festival, HAHA Harvest Festival, and Point Break Comedy & Meatball Festival. Validate her on all social media platforms @jennawithasmile ”Seriously, give Jenna validation. She really needs this right now.” - Jenna’s therapist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568015160679-KCH5ROGHQYOO905H77CI/69750868_2366316383627702_4584149256515878912_n.jpg 2023 LINE UP Stand-up comedian and Portland Queer Comedy Festival Co-Founder/Co-Director Belinda Carroll has had the great pleasure of producing and featuring in shows with — Nico Santos, Guy Branum, ANT, James Adomian, Dana Goldberg, Jason Stuart, Sandra Valls, Julie Goldman and many more. Belinda has been seen on Portlandia, MTV, in various commercials and for .0007 seconds of several tv shows you've never heard of. She was a co-organizer for the 2010 Butch Voices National Conference, and a recipient of the 2011 Pride-in-Action award from Pride NW for her work on founding the Q Patrol; a community foot patrol to reduce LGBTQ hate crimes in downtown Portland. She was awarded a Queer Hero award by GLAPN (Gay and Lesbian History Archives of the Pacific Northwest) in 2018. As a comedic writer, she has written for the anthology Persistence: All-Ways Butch/Femme, Curve, Huffington Post, Cracked.com, Portland Mercury, Willamette Week and PQ Monthly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568319067933-4IV23VA18TPJ5FYKEUWM/6D8A3777b.jpg 2023 LINE UP Sarah made her stand-up comedy debut on NBC’s Last Comic Standing. Sarah has since appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Late Late Show with James Corden, and Comedy Central’s Adam Devine’s House Party. When she’s not performing stand-up, Sarah spends her time with several sketch house teams at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater where she had a successful run of shows with her independent sketch group “Bullshit Women” at UCB. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568015531413-WIH0HTEVLHSHQ7P5MR5T/glo-chitwood-headshot-smaller.jpg 2023 LINE UP Glo Chitwood is a standup comedian originally from South Park, Colorado, currently living in Chicago, Illinois. She has been very lucky to perform standup comedy at places like The Annoyance, CIC, Schubas, Logan Square Improv, and The Shithole. She also wrote a book of stories this year called Deadbeat Magpie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568014517657-GV9972PR3L184KIDRID8/wally_baram.jpg 2023 LINE UP As seen on Comedy Central Digital, Showtime, and A&E, Wally Baram is a 21 year old Mexican-Syrian writer/comedian working in Los Angeles. Still very much in the process of growing up, Wally brings a unique perspective on the strange banalities of entering the adult world from someone still very much learning. Jumping between Mexican and Middle-Eastern households during her youth, her work also sheds light on two relevant cultures, as well as growing up with a strong multi-cultural identity. Wally is an opener for Jeff Garlin as well as a frequent performer at the Hollywood Improv. She headlined The Pittsburgh First Night NYE Event in 2017 (3 20min shows for 4,000 people) and has performed in The Pittsburgh Comedy Festival (where she opened for W. Kamau Bell), The Boston Comedy Arts Festival, World Series of Comedy (Boston), as well as a slew of other comedy festivals. She's currently writing a show for Snapchat-- whatever that means. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568016027792-4SJ77MCCNUOEHL52CIAH/BROOKS.jpg 2023 LINE UP Brooks is a Portlander by way of Philadelphia and still has the attitude to prove it. Her career has spanned both journalism and politics. Her writing has been published in Rolling Stone, Time Magazine, New York Magazine, and many other financially unstable bastions of the fourth estate. These days she’s a civil servant with a stand up comedy habit as a member of the feminist killjoy comedy collective That's What She Said. You've seen her perform as part of the Backfence PDX Russian Roulette storytelling series and at the Portland Queer Comedy Festival. Find her online at Brooksisfunny.com and BrooksisBrooks on Instagram. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568301459967-1VAVJ8X4TIA0GW08FRCN/KATE.jpg 2023 LINE UP Kate Aguilar is a Portland-based writer, stand up comic, and storyteller. An attendee of East Los Angeles College and a graduate of Smith College, Kate is currently working on her first book. She has appeared at the Portland Queer Comedy Festival and has performed alongside Hari Kondabolu, Ron Lynch, Aparna Nancherla, Laurie Kilmartin, and Guy Branum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568014764532-6IGOVC8BK9CHMI010ZMZ/MEGANKELLYDUNN.jpg 2023 LINE UP Megan Kelly Dunn is a comedian originally hailing from Austin, Texas. She has appeared on Comedy Central, Travel Channel, and Comedy Time Network, and has been featured around the web on comedy sites such as Funny Or Die and Buzzfeed, as well as being listed as one of Refinery 29's “Female Stand-Up Comedians You Need To Know.” She has performed stand-up all around the US, including world famous venues such as The Comedy Store, Laugh Factory, Carolines on Broadway, and many more. She is trained in improv with the legendary Groundlings and sketch writing with Upright Citizens Brigade. Currently, she's located in Los Angeles working as an Associate Story Producer on Nat Geo's "Wicked Tuna." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568014903232-WG1OC0RD18OALK1Z6J68/mav_viola_headshot_2.jpg 2023 LINE UP Mav is an LA based comedian and writer who recently featured all over the country for Whitney Cummings (HBO, Netflix). Mav has also featured for Ian Harvie (Amazon, NBC) and is currently on tour with the popular podcast “Two Dykes and a Mic.” Mav headlined the Meatball Sammy Festival in Portland this year alongside friend and fellow comedian Brent Weinbach and will be performing in her second year of Portland's Queer Comedy Festival this summer. In Los Angeles, Mav is a regular at the Hollywood Improv and can be seen performing nightly, all over town. She's edgy, androgynous, tattooed; fully present, approachable, warm and engaging. Her comedy is inclusive and for all audience (except babies, but what do they know anyway) and her crowd work is unparalleled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568015296100-PW7FSF4ZB2X0JCMSOHJ7/katbuckley-headshot.jpg 2023 LINE UP Kat Buckley is a comedian hiding from Tampa Florida in Portland Oregon. She was lucky enough to be a part of the inaugural Portland Queer Comedy Festival, the Highlarious Comedy Festival, co-found the Point Break Comedy & Meatball Sammich Festival. Her most notable contributions to the internet include a Twitter account @awkwardlyours and being mutinied out of an improv troupe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568015590631-3842YX87HO3TMFGALIRO/ElizabethTeets.jpg 2023 LINE UP Elizabeth Teets is a Portland based Writer, Comedian and Fashionista. She is the host of Queens of Hollywood on X-Ray Fm and producer of the Women In Comedy series Isn't She Great at the Hollywood Theater. She has been featured at The Oregon Fringe Festival, Cream City Comedy Festival, Laugh Ruot GRRRL Festival and the TBS National College Comedy Competition. Her writing can be found at The Hard Times, Bunny Years and YesClash. You can follow her on Twitter @elizabethteets but you should really try @elteets on Instagram because that's where the outfits are. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568291944487-TKUWY052YWUD96B8PE2Y/robyn.jpg 2023 LINE UP Originally from New Mexico and now based in Portland, Oregon, Robyn Vazquez has grown up on the stage; dancing, singing, acting and telling stories. Robyn graduated from Portland State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater Arts with a concentration in Acting. She had been performing improv for over seven years and had performed at the Del Close Marathon in New York City as well as internationally at the Paper Street Theater Improv Festival in Victoria, B.C. She made her improv directorial debut with an original format based on the tv show “Twin Peaks” called No Place in Particular. When not performing, Robyn enjoys photography, writing and working on film projects. She is currently a proud member of the improv teams Mom Jeans and Splash! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568015873920-C6DI452AHCO0AR2Y29WD/CheriHodge.jpeg 2023 LINE UP Straight out of Compton, and other luxurious neighborhoods, Cheri mixes world weary cynicism with offbeat whimsy to give you a Stand-Up performance you won’t soon forget. Growing up with a drug dealing dad and struggling with depression, she uses humor to try and make sense of it all. Recently Cheri was featured in the choir scene of the “Childish Gambino - This Is America” video on YouTube, She played Rachel in the Pilot Genius, and is currently a writer for The Collins Key Company, videos which have garnered over 11 million views. Cheri has recently opened for Russell Brand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568290791219-O0564ZE65PMBYHTIBR2Z/STEPHANIENAM.jpg 2023 LINE UP Stephanie grew up Las Vegas but has moved 10 times in the past 4 years across 4 different continents and can (kind of) speak 4 languages. They are a queer Korean comic who talks about identity and shares observations of the world. They can be found performing in and around Seattle. They produce shows under Caracol Productions which is dedicated to creating community and spaces for underrepresented voices and are also a producer at the Comedy Nest, a womxn-focused comedy show and open mic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568014994540-4QWMO45CQS9JETUQZA9C/KEONNA.jpg 2023 LINE UP I'm a stand up comedian from Atlanta, GA. I'm a host, writer, and actress who has done college films, comedy clubs and theaters. I'm a women who brings laughter to real life events. I admire working with women because we are amazing. I'm a mother of three and an RN by day. Stand up is my life. I've been doing comedy for 4 years and have worked with some amazing people on my journey of comedy such as Kim Coles, Bill Bellamy, Tiffany Haddish. It will be pleasure to work with a group of such outstanding and hilarious women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568015654987-BEEZH21NGKZ7KXT2MILS/DHAYA.jpg 2023 LINE UP Dhaya Lakshminarayanan is the 2016 winner of the Liz Carpenter Political Humor Award (previously awarded to Samantha Bee, Wanda Sykes and satirist/humorist Mark Russell) presented by the National Women’s Political Caucus. Comedy Central Asia crowned her the Grand Prize Winner of “The Ultimate Comedy Challenge” filmed in Singapore. She is the sole subject of the documentary “NerdCool” which premiered at the LA Comedy Festival in 2018 KQED named her one of the twenty “Women to Watch” a series celebrating women artists, creatives and makers in the San Francisco Bay Area who are pushing boundaries in 2016. She was named one of “The Bay Area’s 11 Best Standup Comedians” in 2016 and “13 San Francisco Standup Comedians to Go See Now” in 2018 by SFist. The SF Weekly named her one of the “16 Bay Area performers to watch in 2016.” The San Francisco Bay Guardian named her Best Comedian 2013 in the “Best of the Bay” Readers’ Poll. She has opened/featured for or worked with the following: Janeane Garofalo, Marc Maron, Greg Behrendt, Jello Biafra, the late Dick Gregory, Anthony Jeselnik, Maz Jobrani, and Greg Proops. Dhaya introduced former Vice President Al Gore at an event. He then laughed onstage at her joke, so technically she once opened for Al Gore. She has performed internationally in Shanghai, China; Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, and Singapore. In the US she has been an invited performer at Bridgetown Comedy Festival (Portland, OR), San Francisco Sketchfest, the Boston Comedy Festival (semifinalist), the Limestone Comedy Festival (Bloomington, IN) and Laugh Your Asheville Off (Asheville, NC). Dhaya is also a TV host and storyteller. She hosted the premier year of the Emmy award-winning series High School Quiz Show on PBS’s WGBH. She is a frequent comedic storyteller on NPR’s Snap Judgment and has appeared live in Austin on The Risk podcast. She is currently the host of San Francisco’s monthly Moth StorySLAM after winning a Moth StorySLAM and competing in the GrandSLAM. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568013442396-OIS162YOR9W8TAL75I35/Bethany-Van-Delft-orange%2Bwings%2Bcropped.jpg 2023 LINE UP Bronx-born Bethany Van Delft moved to Boston with her Marxist Dutch dad, black Puerto Rican mother and siblings, where she learned “zebra” didn’t mean she was weird but cool. At “19” she went to Paris to model, got kicked out, and ended up in Milan eating gelato and speaking Spanglish with an Italian accent. She was named Boston Magazine “Best Comic 2019” and has performed at JFL, SF Sketchfest, All Jane Festival, Boston Calling, Women in Comedy Festival. She is thrilled to get open for her faves, including Michelle Buteau, Phoebe Robinson, Ronnie Chieng, Reggie Watts, Rob Delaney and Alonzo Bodden. Bethany is a regular host and storyteller for The Moth, her mainstage story sharing her post partem experience after her first child (born with Down Syndrome) went viral with over 15 million views. Today she speaks on the power of sharing your family’s story at conferences in the special needs community, and leads storytelling workshops for families for use in their advocacy. She is a fierce advocate for her daughter, produces comedy shows locally, and manages to keep her kids and husband not super unhappy. She also bakes pretty well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568014625169-22H9CDMXI8B3BR3V7XM1/SONYA.jpg 2023 LINE UP Comedian, Actor, & Writer Sonya Vai was born and raised in New York City but is constantly asked “where are you really from?” by drunk men in bars. Sonya is a paid regular at both Carolines on Broadway and New York Comedy Club. She also performs at Gotham Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club, Greenwich Village Comedy Club, West Side Comedy Club, LOL Times Square, The Grisly Pear, and the Village Lantern. In November, Sonya was in the New York Comedy Festival where she co-produced Facial Recognition Comedy, a show dedicated to showcasing female-identifying South Asian comedians. FRC was featured in the New York Times as one of top 5 shows to see at the Festival. Most recently, Sonya featured for the critically acclaimed comedian Judah Friedlander in NYC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568292284827-ILOEDWP6SO8CB69RB9X5/kristen-7.jpg 2023 LINE UP Kristen Schier is the Co Artistic Director of Curious Comedy Theater in Portland Oregon and was the former long time Improv Producer at the Philly Improv Theater. Kristen was also the long time Artistic Director of the Philly based short form ensemble The N Crowd for 13 years. In addition to teaching and directing Kristen brings extensive performance experience in both scripted and unscripted theater, as well as clown. She has worked regularly as an actor with various professional theater companies in Philadelphia. Kristen has toured both internationally and around the country performing, teaching and headlining at improv festivals in Seattle, Edmonton, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, Boston, Montreal, Providence, Austin, DC, Baltimore and Detroit - to name a few. Kristen has a BFA in the Performing Arts from The University of the Arts Ira Brind School of Theater, where she was a Senior Lecturer having taught Acting for Non-Majors, Freshmen Acting Studio and Improvisation for the Actor. In addition to training she received at UArts Kristen continued to pursue her education in long-form improvisation with intensives at The Second City in Chicago, The Annoyance Theater in Chicago and The Magnet Theater in New York as well as workshops in physical theater through Pig Iron and The Movement Theater Studio in New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568015360874-ZB31IHAJ68Y6RGWQJ1FI/pigeau_photo.jpg 2023 LINE UP Part time comedian and full time intern with a long history of minor head injuries, Jessica Pigeau has opened for the likes of Patrick Maliha, Zainab Johnson, and Yumi Nagashima. Featured on such shows as Queer as Jokes and the Monthly at the Vancouver Yuk Yuk’s and Story Story Lie at the historic Rio Theatre. Jessica is culturally rural, coming from a small city in the depth of the Canadian prairies, but likewise passionately urban, now living in the heart of Vancouver. She is known primarily for her strong writing, breathtaking topical range, and extremely weird speech impediment. High-energy, witty, and unique. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568011743667-VY54WQNWFJVMZQ6C5HG6/MMay_1091_fr.jpg 2023 LINE UP Maya May is a writer and stand-up who turned to humor to navigate the awkwardness of growing up a black nerd and only child in suburban Chicago. It worked. She got voted “Most Likely to Make the Yearbook Famous" and received the Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award in the same year she called the principal a bastard. Maya's comedy is just like she is: a healthy balance of optimism and rage, mischievous, and deliciously over-the-top. With a BA in Political Science, an MFA in Creative Writing and an OMG in student loan debt, her jokes layer her life experiences with observations on parenting, race, politics, class, and gender. Since moving back to the US in 2014, after 8 years abroad, she has quickly become known for her socially conscious humor, featuring at some of the country’s best indie shows (Butterboy, Chicago Underground Comedy, Women Crush Wednesdays), headlining colleges and appearing at festivals including the Asheville Comedy Festival, Boston Comedy Festival, and Women in Comedy Festival. She’s performed everywhere from Chicago’s Laugh Factory to the Hollywood Improv, but her favorite place to perform is wherever you are. Awwwwww. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55f5c2e5e4b033f7602f6570/1568758932423-AOYJ2IOOSR82PBT20Y3S/dani_still_4.jpg 2023 LINE UP Dani Schi (she/her) is a Michigan-grown person and a Portland-grown comedian. Dani has been working in nonprofits and is an advocate and activist with an opinion about comedy. She is new to comedy but enjoying the minutes of stage time that she doesn't have to hear about other peoples problems and will hopefully be around to be an up-and-comer. https://www.alljanecomedy.org/read-me-avenue daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/4fd1028ee4b02be53c65dfb3/1377122138273-T4CY2P9250M4AKM3YGHZ/Brand%27s+creative+mind+%2820130821%29.jpg Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/4fd1028ee4b02be53c65dfb3/1377122430471-3N5PIOOQ8YDNX5VOP807/CRAINE%26JONSON+%2820130821%29.jpg Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/4fd1028ee4b02be53c65dfb3/1377122107913-PW08QOSWT7TOGMPCJLIF/HELLO+ZSO+%2820130821%29.jpg Read Me