LIA BERMAN is a Mother, Wife, Coffee Drinker, Dave Matthews Band lover,and Boston Sports Fan Enthusiast. When she is not doing any of the above she is running the Logan Lounge Open Mic (5 years running) every Monday night at the Logan Movie Theatre. She is a PROUD member of The Momedians of Momedy.
JESSICA BESSER--ROSENBERG is a writer, improviser, and a stand-up and has performed throughout the Midwest, including at the Chicago Women’s Funny Festival, the Big Little Comedy Festival, and A Jangleheart Circus. She can also be seen regularly at the iO Theater. Her writing has been featured in the RedEye, MockMoms, The Belladonna Comedy, The Second City Network, and the iO Comedy Network. Follow her on Twitter for hot takes on gun control and Real Housewives of any city, anywhere at @JessGBR.
PAM ENGELHART is a stand-up comedian who performs clean comedy and is known for her hilarious shorts (digital videos, not clothing!) and slapstick one-liners. She has performed at Zanies in Rosemont and Old Town, the Laugh Factory, The Comedy Shrine in Aurora, LOL Comedy Club in Schaumburg, Woodstock Opera House, the Continental Comedy Club (NEW!) inside the Continental Restaurant in Buffalo Grove and more! She has also opened for the rock band New Colony Six! For more on Pam, read her interview by author C.L. Paur HERE
KELLYE HOWARD is a multi-hyphenated creative artist; widely known for her stand up comedy performances as she’s been featured on Comedy Central, Last Comic Standing, FOX Laughs, WGN, and Nickelodeon. Kellye is a writer and speaker; she has written, produced, and performed two one woman shows, one which was featured at the JFL Chicago Comedy Festival. Kellye is an alumni of Second City Chicago, serves as an active member on Columbia College Chicago Creative Industry Board, and has co-starred on NBC’s Chicago Justice. She has a Youtube Be Less Petty TV centered around living a less petty life; and a podcast “Be Less Petty w/ Kellye Howard.” IG/Twitter: @kellyehoward / @kellyehoward www.kellyehoward.com
EUNJI KIM is a comedian and writer based in Chicago. She is currently a Writer for Cards Against Humanity and can be seen performing improv at iO Chicago and stand-up/solo sketch all over the city, including Zanies, Laugh Factory and The Lincoln Lodge. She was honored to be a 2017 NBC/Universal Bob Curry Fellow at Second City. She has been invited to perform at comedy festivals all over the Midwest, including NBCUniversal/Second City Break Out Festival, Chicago Women's Funny Festival and Detroit Improv Festival. She co-hosts The Ajumma Podcast (@AjummaShow) with fellow comedian/Korean, Peter Kim (@Peterkz). To learn other reasons she feels great about herself, follow her @TheBestEunji.
MICHELLE KRAJECKI was born and raised in Chicago. Her comedy comes from her mid-western, middle class, middle child views. She is a graduate of The Second City Training Program in Chicago and Zanies stand-up comedy classes. Her comedy transcends gender, age, perspectives and blood types. She has hosted her own comedy minute on 95.9 The River, a suburban Chicago radio station. She also was a co-host of her own comedy cable television show, "Comedy-At-Random" in Downer’s Grove, IL. Michelle can be seen at clubs and comedy events all over town including Zanies, The Laugh Factory and Riddles Comedy Club. She was a finalist in The Clean Comedy Challenge at Hoosier Park Casino, Indiana, in 2015. She also was the winner of 'The High Fiber Division' at a Chicago Comedy competition, 2016.
Michelle’s comedy path has come full circle. The original ‘plan’ was to go to The Second City after getting her theater degree. Deciding she was not the starving artist type, she taught special education before staying home with her kids. After performing comedic roles in church dramas, encouragement from family and friends and a mid-life crisis, she decided to pursue a career in comedy. Realizing her dream, she graduated from The Second City Training Center in Chicago. Afterward, she felt compelled to strike out on her own and perform stand-up comedy.
As a mother with two children ‘on the spectrum’, Michelle chooses to look at life through a ‘twisted lens’. She believes most comedy comes from imperfect people living in an imperfect world. “You can’t control life, but you can control your reaction to it.” I like to share my twisted views with other.
After a somewhat empty nest (they always seem to be around), Michelle and her husband moved from the suburbs back into the city. There, they live with their part-time tenant—their college-aged daughter. (The oldest was successfully launched and is working in Virginia –also working on her second Masters.) www.michellekcomedy.com
Michelle’s comedy path has come full circle. The original ‘plan’ was to go to The Second City after getting her theater degree. Deciding she was not the starving artist type, she taught special education before staying home with her kids. After performing comedic roles in church dramas, encouragement from family and friends and a mid-life crisis, she decided to pursue a career in comedy. Realizing her dream, she graduated from The Second City Training Center in Chicago. Afterward, she felt compelled to strike out on her own and perform stand-up comedy.
As a mother with two children ‘on the spectrum’, Michelle chooses to look at life through a ‘twisted lens’. She believes most comedy comes from imperfect people living in an imperfect world. “You can’t control life, but you can control your reaction to it.” I like to share my twisted views with other.
After a somewhat empty nest (they always seem to be around), Michelle and her husband moved from the suburbs back into the city. There, they live with their part-time tenant—their college-aged daughter. (The oldest was successfully launched and is working in Virginia –also working on her second Masters.) www.michellekcomedy.com
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. 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. 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.
JAN SLAVIN is a singer, writer and comic who has performed at Davenport's, Skokie Theatre, Comedy Shrine, Zanies, Laugh Factory, and many other top cabaret and comedy clubs. Jan is the producer and host of "The High Fiber Comedy Show", soon to become a monthly show at the Comedy Shrine in Aurora. Jan was recently featured on ChicagoNow.com as a "rising, ageism-fighting comedy star."
PATTI VASQUEZ is a comedian, writer, actor, and talk show host who always loves finding the funny moments in life. Funny happens. And it always happens when comedian Patti Vasquez is around. You don’t have to take our word for it either. Lewis Black says, “Patti is simply marvelous.” Bill Maher called her, “The funniest woman in comedy since Carol Burnett.”
She became a Zanies regular, sharing the stage with comedy legends like, Lewis Black, Sarah Silverman, Brian Reagan, John Mulaney, Kevin Hart and John Pinnette. She hit the road, performing 48 weeks of the year in comedy clubs all over the world, and building a fan-base that continues to follow Patti on her adventures. Many return just find out about her family, occasionally yelling out “How’s your mom?” Patti never tires of catching them up on “Abuelita’s” antics.
In addition to headlining in comedy clubs and colleges all over the United States, Canada and Europe, Patti has written and performed three hit solo shows for theater audiences: Tequila and Shamrocks: Every Flower Has Her Roots, Pregnant Party Girl: From Stoli’s to Stirrups, Mamacita: Tales of a Diaper Diva. On television Patti has appeared on NICK’S MOM’S NIGHT OUT on Nickelodeon, THE VERY FUNNY SHOW on TBS, MTV’s Tr3s, COMEDY.TV, and Comics Unleashed. Patti also made regular appearances on the popular Bob and Tom TV Show on Superstation WGN and their daily morning radio show, syndicated in 139 cities across the country. Patti has appeared in many comedy festivals including Just For Laughs, HBO’s Las Vegas Comedy Festival, the Chicago Comedy Festival and Marshall’s Women in Comedy Festival in New York City.
Her TV special MY LIFE IS A JOKE aired on The Oprah Network in 2013. She co-hosted the daytime talk show pilot FUNNY GIRLS for ABC Television in 2014. For the last five years the Chicago native has been hosting her own talk show on WGN radio every night Monday through Friday. Chicagoans have made the show #1 in its time slot. Because of WGN’s powerful 50,000 watt signal listeners in 38 states and Canada enjoy the show too!
While still hosting her eclectic and wildly successful radio show, Patti began working with ABC to develop a sitcom based on Patti’s life entitled “Patti Happens” and she is currently working with film producers on a project scheduled to start shooting in 2019.
If you want to be where the funny is then you want to be there when “Patti Happens.” Listen to Patti HERE or at https://www.patreon.com/ThePattiVasquezShow For more about Patti visit www.pattivshow.com/meet-patti
She became a Zanies regular, sharing the stage with comedy legends like, Lewis Black, Sarah Silverman, Brian Reagan, John Mulaney, Kevin Hart and John Pinnette. She hit the road, performing 48 weeks of the year in comedy clubs all over the world, and building a fan-base that continues to follow Patti on her adventures. Many return just find out about her family, occasionally yelling out “How’s your mom?” Patti never tires of catching them up on “Abuelita’s” antics.
In addition to headlining in comedy clubs and colleges all over the United States, Canada and Europe, Patti has written and performed three hit solo shows for theater audiences: Tequila and Shamrocks: Every Flower Has Her Roots, Pregnant Party Girl: From Stoli’s to Stirrups, Mamacita: Tales of a Diaper Diva. On television Patti has appeared on NICK’S MOM’S NIGHT OUT on Nickelodeon, THE VERY FUNNY SHOW on TBS, MTV’s Tr3s, COMEDY.TV, and Comics Unleashed. Patti also made regular appearances on the popular Bob and Tom TV Show on Superstation WGN and their daily morning radio show, syndicated in 139 cities across the country. Patti has appeared in many comedy festivals including Just For Laughs, HBO’s Las Vegas Comedy Festival, the Chicago Comedy Festival and Marshall’s Women in Comedy Festival in New York City.
Her TV special MY LIFE IS A JOKE aired on The Oprah Network in 2013. She co-hosted the daytime talk show pilot FUNNY GIRLS for ABC Television in 2014. For the last five years the Chicago native has been hosting her own talk show on WGN radio every night Monday through Friday. Chicagoans have made the show #1 in its time slot. Because of WGN’s powerful 50,000 watt signal listeners in 38 states and Canada enjoy the show too!
While still hosting her eclectic and wildly successful radio show, Patti began working with ABC to develop a sitcom based on Patti’s life entitled “Patti Happens” and she is currently working with film producers on a project scheduled to start shooting in 2019.
If you want to be where the funny is then you want to be there when “Patti Happens.” Listen to Patti HERE or at https://www.patreon.com/ThePattiVasquezShow For more about Patti visit www.pattivshow.com/meet-patti
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