Beyond Performers

Looking to encompass a few Funny “Ladies” on your lineup? Check out bios of our beyond exhibit performers!April 1, 2021

Edi Gibson is a rise up comic firstly from Sacramento, CA. She has been seen on MTV, Fox, and Nickelodeon. Edi is also the host of the hit podcast “True Scary Stories With Edi” which has been downloaded over one million instances! 

Jessica Grant, a local of Humboldt County, has graced the degree as both comic and host.  She tempers her friendly demeanor with a difficult pass. Librarian through day, comedian by night time. Jessica has opened for acts like Kyle Kinane, Billy Wayne Davis and Dave Ross. 

Rachel Dunbar is a Boston-based totally comedian who has done all around the u . s . a .. She has performed at Boston University.  She has been featured inside the Midwest Queer Comedy Festival, the District Queer Comedy Festival, the New York Comedy Underground Festival, and the 2020 Boston Comedy Festival wherein she became a semi-finalist.March 31, 2021

Autumn Bruewer is a comic from Cincinnati OH who moved to LA and become right now corrupted by using the hippy/communist crowd. She’s an improviser became standup so you realize she’s depressed!

Emma Paxton is a stand up comic residing in Rochester Ny, at first from New Jersey. She has a unique meta fashion and a penchant for puns, social statement and sarcasm. She has executed at golf equipment in NYC along with StandUpNY and all around the tristate vicinity. You can discover her on many zoom shows as well.

Keri Costa is Jersey City primarily based comedian who has executed all through NYC, the tri-nation location and overseas on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She is currently in pre-production for a new web series ‘Life of Burger’ if you want to drop in Spring on YouTube and Instagram along her different comedy videos at Costa Sauce Comedy.

Stephanie Knowles is honestly not your normal comic. With her off the wall songs and a laugh power, you’re gonna desire you had a larger mug! With over 5 years in doing comedy, drag and burlesque she’ll have you ever tapping your ft n’ giggling your booty off!March three, 2021

Lauren Cocroft cut her personal bangs and didn’t regret it. She’s a get up comedian and man or woman performer that started after doing competitive speech and debate in university. Based in LA, she is the cohost of the comedy speech podcast “Van Talk” and became the 2017 Top Speaker in California. She has now devoted her time to tweeting her each thought. Twitter: @laurencocroft, IG: @you.cross.glen.loco

Algiers has graced the levels of such comedy houses together with:  the DC IMPROV, The Funny Bone, The DC Drafthouse, Chuckles, The Baltimore Comedy Factory and so many greater. She’s spontaneous,  humorous and alway offers the target audience the great of herself. She’s featured and opened for a number of the greats and her comedic style is exciting, colourful and considerate.

Janine Ryle began taking stand-up training in January 2020 as a New Year’s resolution and performed precisely once in front of a stay audience before COVID struck. These days, when she’s now not putting Zoom on fireplace with her sarcastic memories, she’s sitting in her pajamas watching the View and seeking to determine out how lengthy it’s been because she remaining showered.

Dani Riedel is a comedian and posted creator from Philadelphia. Her novel Smile and Walk Away is available from Champagne Book Group anywhere books are bought on line. She can often be seen acting with Rampantly, Comedy Therapy NJ/Broadway Comedy Club, and from time to time on a Philadelphia sidewalk. Dani is the spouse of a Vulcan and the mom of a clowder of 4. http://www.danielleriedel.com/February 24, 2021

Hailing from Los Angeles, Abby is an artist on all fronts. As an improviser, she toured with the Second City National Tour Co and studied and achieved with the greats. As a solo performer, she stormed the Chicago theatre scene and accomplished her shows nationally and across the world. In 2018, Abby stepped out of the alternative comedy scene and dove into stand-up. She’s accomplished on the Plano (digital) Comedy Festival, The Floodwater Comedy Festival, clubs, bars, zooms and parks. When now not acting, she writes and illustrates children’s books and sure, on occasion endures a craft binGe. To introduction! IG @your_friend_abby

Cathy Zhao is a stand-up comic and a sit down-down entrepreneur based in Palo Alto, California. Growing up in China, her English pronunciations and mistaken phrase utilization have added laughters and embarrassments to many humans (herself protected). Her unique ridiculous attitude of American lifestyle, and her brutal honesty about Asian immigrants’ lives, also earned her the name of “insult comic.” She carried out around the bay region comedy venues at night before the quarantine and now practices comedy therapy for her buddies to enhance their intellectual fitness totally free. She received 1/3 area in the 18th Rooster T Feathers Comedy competition initial round (no other rounds due to Covid19). She’s now operating on extra smooth jokes and humor workshops for children from economically deprived households.

Chu is a author, comedian and content material author who hosts the weekly radio show, Undercover Creatives. She also is the author and producer of the lively net series, CHU-izms.February 17, 2021

Melissa McGillicuddy is a stand-up comic based in Sacramento, California. As a newcomer to the scene in 2015, she won the Wildcard Competition at the Sacramento Comedy Festival. Since then, Melissa has opened for talented comedians inclusive of Cameron Esposito, Rhea Butcher, and Vicki Barbolak. Melissa additionally co-produces the Moving Van Show, a monthly, secret pop-up comedy show, in addition to Sacramento FemmeFest, the city’s first all-lady comedy festival. In 2019, she changed into voted quality comic by means of the Sacramento News & Review.

Danna Kiel is a comedian, actress, writer, and mother who is a renaissance female having taught the whole thing from math to chess. Danna grew up a nerd and turned into always the kid who talked too much.  You can see this comic at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank, CA, zoom suggests everywhere and stay suggests real soon. She is the co- host of Flappers Comedy Club The Weekly Flapp! She became Selected for the 2020 Laugh Riot Girrrland New York Underground Comedy Festivals.

Abby November has mucho years revel in as a stand-up comedy she is a recuperating nutritionist from the extremely good state of Texas now retired inside the exceptional kingdom of California how best accomplish besides being Bobby is being referred to as the Jewish mom up Austin comedy and the world most inappropriate grandmother.February 3, 2021

Emily Paige is a Jersey-primarily based comic who has studied with the American Comedy Institute based totally out of NYC. Emily’s relatable content material focuses on navigating the world as a single mom and all of the insanity that incorporates it. She has studied comic strip writing with UCB and performs on a digital improv-based show referred to as Wingin’ It. IG- @emilypaigecomedy, Twitter- @empaigecomedy, Venmo: @emilypaigemac

Originally from India, Ritu Tirthani is a Nashville based totally comedian. Her accomplishments encompass one failed marriage with a aim of failing at a few extra.

Gail Jones is a recuperating Southern Belle from a touch bump in the street metropolis referred to as Hartselle, Alabama.  In the late 70’s Gail commenced doing lectures on sex education.  She was surprised to find that she had a knack for making humans snort and setting her target audience relaxed with hard issue count.  It didn’t take her lengthy to develop a stand-up recurring combining her humor from the lecture circuit with the developing pains she persisted as a small town top-lady. She combines the perception and humor that she gets from her  former job as a intercourse therapist with the laughs and ache of being an older single person within the courting global.  Frankly, she’s a dating therapist that has decided that relationships are too darn difficult.

Valerie Vernale is a raging, ranting and raving ball-of-emotions arise comic. Born, raised and primarily based inside the Bay Area she cut her enamel inside the lowliest of comedy spaces and even carried out at some fancy spots too (Punch Line SF and The Stand NYC). Valerie changed into mentioned in The San Francisco Chronicle as one of the “Six Comics to Catch,” she’s carried out in SF Sketchfest and is always right down to sing “Careless Whisper” at any dive bar. She changed into additionally the co-host of the podcast Color(ed) Comedy and currently hosts The Valerie Vernale Podcast.January 27, 2021