JILL BOURQUE has performed her unique style of improvisational stand-up comedy in nightclubs, festivals, and theaters all over the world. The San Francisco Examiner says her “immediate and intimate improv resonates.” Bourque is the creator and host of the international smash improv show, How We First Met, called “amazing and addictive” by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and a “riotous and rare treat” by Listen & Be Heard Magazine. (more)
BRENT WEINBACH is the winner of the 2007 Andy Kaufman Award, a coveted prize given to promising performers with the potential to impact the evolving culture of comedy. The East Bay Express said, “Weinbach’s comedy is about poaching characters from real life and inhabiting them that you forget who you’re watching onstage.” (more)
WILL FRANKEN was named “Best Comedian” by the San Francisco Weekly. The New York Times says, “What elevates Mr. Franken above your garden-variety comedian is an erudite wit and a highly developed sense of the absurd.” Rob Avila at the San Francisco Bay Guardian said, “Imagine a surreal-estate agent guiding you through some Escher-like architectural marvel, where each room is it’s own deeply funny, satirical
dream.” (more)
MOSHE KASHER won the prestigious “Best of the Fest” this past summer at the Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival. The San Francisco Examiner says he “displays a fiery frustration and agile, confident showcase of his neuroses.” And Punchline magazine says Moshe “has a powerful comedic voice and amazingly wide range.” (more)
MARY VAN NOTE is a stand-up comedienne of the weird variety. She performs at colleges, clubs and festivals across the country and she is the creator and star of the award winning Independent Film Channel web series The Mary Van Note Show: Gavin Really Wants Me. The San Francisco Bay Guardian called her a “Zine-Queen Comedian” as she regularly makes zines, crafts and mini-comics. Her specialties are stick-figures and cross-stitch. (more)
WE ARE NUDES is new alternative comedy from the demented mind of Cirque Du Soleil performer/creator John Gilkey. John and his fellow Nudes, Donny Divanian and Alec Jones-Trujillo team up to deliver a show that ought never to be allowed on stage. These guys are dangerous, absurd and subversive. And complete flippin’ idiots. Chloe Veltman of SF Weekly said their show is “a face-achingly funny tale of three comedians striving to get it right.” (more)
LOREN KRAUT’s style is laid-back and somewhat dark, covering such subjects as her obsessive-compulsive disorder and anorexia, or writing the perfect suicide note. Her unique style leaves audiences both interested and rolling in the aisle. Loren was a finalist in the Battle of the Bay Comedy Competition 2007 and 2009, appeared on the John Miller & Susan Maletta Show on Pirate Cat Radio, and fccfreeradio with Michael Hyde. She was in OCD & ADD Comedy at The Clubhouse. (more)