2013 Women in Comedy Festival

Zach Sherwin aka MC Napkins

Zach Sherwin, aka MC MR. NAPKINS, is a comedian and a rapper. Now based in Los Angeles, he plays live shows all over the country and posts videos at youtube.com/mcmrnapkins.

Niki Luparelli

One half of the Steamy Bohemians, who hosted a WICF show the very first year, Niki Luparelli's act combines stand-up, music, hula hooping, and boobie magic.

Velveeta

Mixing saucy dance moves with sassy lyrics (not to mention outfits that put the “attire” in satire,) Velveeta is a pop parodista who is pa-ready to blow your minds!

COCOON CENTRAL DANCE TEAM: The Recital

Remember when you and your cousins made up that dance to Mariah Carey's "Fantasy" at Uncle Stanley's barbecue? COCOON CENTRAL DANCE TEAM is exactly like that but it's 2013.

WICF Goes Rogue...with Rogue Burlesque!

Rogue Burlesque brings brilliant bawdiness and slapstick striptease back to WICF! The notorious Liz Fang emcees this ribald evening of comedy at its skimpiest!

Lillian DeVane

Erryday I'm LOL

Kristin Seltman

The stand up comedy stylings of Kristin Seltman

Carly McMenoman

The nicest naughty girl you'll ever meet!

Charlene Mae

From CBS's Rules of Engagement

Crystal Ward

This Former Police Officer would rather makem laugh than lockem up

Eloisa Bravo

Crazy comedy is her thing! Eloisa is a spicy Venezuelan that addresses the urban issues of a single woman.

Deb Farrar-Parkman

An Emmy Award winning producer, Deb is the co-founder of ColorStruck: Women of Color in Comedy. She performs nationally, in festivals and in the Merry Wives of Comedy.

Jen Seaman

Was a judge favorite on America’s Got Talent. She's performed in a variety of festivals: Bumberhoot, She-Devil Comedy Festival & Seattle International Comedy Competition.

Lane Moore

Lane Moore is a comedian and writer for The Onion, truTV, VH1, Ms., Feministing, and WitStream, former editor for Jezebel, and a regular on VH1 talking head shows.

Leah Dubie

Leah Dubie is a stand up comedian with great triceps. In 2012, Leah moved to Los Angeles, advanced to the a semi finals of the Boston Comedy Festival and buried two cats.

Dana Jay Bein

Dana Jay Bein has been performing stand up, improv and sketch comedy for over ten years.

Amanda Day

Torontonian Amanda Day's smart, silly, and very dirty comedy stylings will keep you laughing. She has opened for Maria Bamford, Jason Rouse, and Craig Gass.

Kate Ghiloni

Kate Ghiloni is a stand-up comic and writer in real life and on Twitter: @kateghiloni.

Bobbie Oliver

Bobbie Oliver is a 20-year comedy veteran who has appeared on ABC, The Style Network and TNN. The New York Post recently called her one of the best comics in America.

Valerie Jean Garduno

Proud owner of a Jack Russel Terrier. VJG is an Iowa-born and Colorado-raised, stand-up comedian, who splits her time between New York City and Los Angeles.

Christie Walsh

Christie Walsh is a stand-up comedian and writer. Her blog Attackofthe6FootWoman.com is the home of her feminist rants and pop-culture obsessions.

Julie Kitayama

Julie will weave her way into your heart and tickle your funny bone with a razor sharp wit, clever observations and charm.

Margie Mintz

Margie lives in LA with her husband, baby son and five-year-old dog. Her comedy is true, personal stories that people either relate to or say “I’m so glad I’m not her.

Joleen Lunzer

Joleen Lunzer is a Minneapolis-based comedian. Jolen's comedy is a mixture of her “Minnesota Nice” upbringing, love of story telling and sardonic wit.

Mary Radzinski

Mary draws her material from the everyday as a single girl in Philly. With a unique perspective and laid back, deliberate style, her comedy is the personification of a wink.

Erin Judge

Erin Judge is a comedian and writer living in New York. Her first comedy album, "So Many Choices," is available through Rooftop Comedy. Visit www.erinjudge.com for more!

Jenny Zigrino

Jenny Zigrino is a tidal wave of weird, witty, and wonderful comedy.

Chelsea Shorte

Since taking the stage as a standup in early 2011, as a way to stave off the boredom of being a beautiful twenty-something, Chelsea has flourished in the DC comedy scene.

Veronica Elizabeth

Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, gay New York-based comedian Veronica Elizabeth muses on life and love in the big city. As seen from the historic Stonewall Inn!

Chris Doucette

Chris Doucette is a stand-up comedian. He has written for Jane Lynch, he won a comedy festival in Chicago, and he performs for colleges all over the country. He's dangerous.

dana cairns

Dana speaks into a microphone sometimes to entertain people, but usually just to try to fill the empty void in her soul.

Heather Snow

Heather Snow hails from Denver, CO and uses humor about her life experiences to help you feel better about yours.

Jennifer Myszkowski

Jennifer Myszkowski is a stand-up comic who has been forcing laughter on the good people of the northeast region for more than 10 years.

Langston Kerman

Langston Kerman is a stand-up comedian, originally from Chicago. He is successful enough to write his own bios. He is very funny. He's not just saying that.

Beards and Broads with Matt Kona

Matt Kona hosts a diverse lineup of funny standup comedians of both genders doing both broad humor, and specific. Two genders! Some facial hair may apply.

Becca Trabin

Becca rants and raves about this and that and throws in a few one-liners.

Adam Strauss

Adam Strauss’s comedy has been called many things, mostly adjectives. His monologue Varieties of Religious Experience recently premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Anna Phillips

Anna Phillips performs stand up comedy. It will be funny. That is not open to discussion.

Christine An

Christine An, a thoughtful and sensitive and Korean young person, tells jokes about the human condition. Unintentional irony, poignancy, and lists abound.

Elahe Izadi

Elahe Izadi is a D.C.-based standup comic and political journalist. She grew up in rural Maryland and is the daughter of Iranian immigrants who own an Italian restaurant.

Kayla Avery

Kayla tells Jokes!

Lindsay Gonzales

Lindsay Gonzales has had a lifetime of incredible adventures and egregious encounters with outrageous eccentrics. Her comedy a series of witty repartee, rejoinders and retorts

Julee Antonellis

JULEE ANTONELLIS is a unique force in Boston’s comedy community, taking many of the characters she's created to stages from Los Angeles to London.

Esther Nevarez

Esther Nevarez has performed in clubs all around the Detroit area. You can also catch her as part of the hilarious and lovely Laugh Riot Dolls.

Heather Snow

Heather Snow hails from Denver, CO and uses humor about her life experiences to help you feel better about yours.

Kate Ghiloni

Kate Ghiloni is a stand-up comic and writer in real life and on Twitter: @kateghiloni.

Becky Bays

In addition to having the best name in show business, Becky Bays has an acerbic comedic style comprised of quirky observations of life that are not only funny, but dead on.

Chelsea Shorte

Since taking the stage as a standup in early 2011, as a way to stave off the boredom of being a beautiful twenty-something, Chelsea has flourished in the DC comedy scene.

Wes Hazard

Wes Hazard is extremely happy to have the chance to make you laugh. Slinging jokes with wit, honesty, and energy is what he does and what he loves. Try him, you'll like him.

Ed Kopesky

Ed Kopesky is a stand-up comedian from the Boston area. He is also an engineer with a degree from MIT, so he hopes the WICF will help him understand women, at least a little.

Elyse Martin

Elyse Martin is Los Angeles based Comedian and babysitter.

Erin Cyr

Kate Nee

Kate Nee has been a regular on the Boston Comedy scene for years. She connects with people through her relatable experiences as a cynical outlook.

Raj Sivaraman

Raj uses his unique perspective to highlight the quirks of American imperialism, the existentialist nature of nachos, and why scones are terrible.

Regina DeCicco

Regina's comedic voice is in fact her voice! She never thought anything of her deep, raspy sound until other comics pointed it out, and now it's her calling card!

Alison Griffin Vingiano

Alison Griffin Vingiano shares hilarious stories about her first love.

Andrea Gibbs

Hailing from down under, Andrea Gibbs is a comedian, writer, improvisor & co-creator of Barefaced Stories, the most popular storytelling night in Australia.

Anna Roisman

Anna is a comedian, actress, writer, and storyteller from NYC. She enjoys short walks around the block with her dog Bobby Flay. Maybe she will tell you a story about it.

Zena Lord

This stand -up comedy material is a small excerpt of a solo performance, that originates from my personal experience as a black child,in a white foster family, in Canada.

Françoise "Flash" Gordon

After having been hit by a car 11 years ago, and subsequently suffering a brain injury, Françoise Gordon has now taken up stand up comedy for this chapter of her life. Enjoy.

Jess Beaulieu

Jess Beaulieu is a sardonic and quirky stand-up and storyteller who tells hilarious and inappropriate personal tales that her mother does not approve of.

Taylor Orci

Taylor Orci talks about an unplanned pregnancy.

Mélia Mills

Topical, edgy and charismatic, Mélia Mills has been described as a female Chris Rock. Come check out her story about working a low level job at a high end Beverly Hills Hotel!

Sara Armour

Sara Armour blends stand-up & storytelling to create an animated, intimate, & effervescent performance. Topics include her idiot parents, adult dental work, & being Jew-lite.

Jenny Zigrino

Jenny Zigrino is a tidal wave of weird, witty, and wonderful comedy.

Alyssa Wolff

New York based comedian Alyssa Wolff has a distinct style and deadpan delivery that help her point out what everyone is doing wrong; especially herself.

Amy Garson

Amy Garson is a NY based comedian who is undeniably pregnant. Her solo show, "Five Finger Discount", was nominated for Best Writing & Best Solo Act Live at the LA Comedy Fest.

Matt D.

Jokes written & performed by Matt D.

Anthony Scibelli

Anthony Scibelli is a handsome stand-up comedian and comedy writer. His material examines topics as varied as life, death, video games, sex, Star Wars and video games.

Carolyn Busa

Carolyn Busa has performed in shows all over Philadelphia as well as the 2012 Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, Oregon. Her set will charm your figurative pants off.

Caitlin Durante

Caitlin Durante is a Boston comedian who takes her cynicism, social ineptitude, and self-deprecation and blends them together to form a hilarious perspective on life.

Phoebe Angle

Edgy, but charming, with a sense of humor that pokes fun at everything, but really, mostly herself-Phoebe's a mix of bizarre true stories, and misfired synapses of the brain.

Scott Oddo

Traditional stand-up, veering between innocent and cynical. At turns clever, self-deprecating and sometimes edgy, my humor focuses on the absurdity of life and relationships.

Shalewa Sharpe

Shalewa Sharpe is based out of Atlanta, GA. In her jokes she tackles race, sex and relationships. Maybe "tackles" is too strong a verb. It's more like "tickles."

Steve Macone

Steve Macone was a finalist in the Boston Comedy Festival and has performed standup around the U.S, England and Ireland.

Kat Radley

Kat Radley performs stand-up in clubs, colleges, and festivals across the country, and was the recipient of the Friars Club Audience Award at WICF in 2011.

David Drake

David Drake is a stand-up comedian out of Chicago. He's a very funny comedian. Sometimes he'll eat fries off your plate. He feels bad about it.

Danielle Soto

Danielle Soto has been performing stand up comedy in and around Boston for a fifth of a decade. She can be seen at the Comedy Studio, Nick's Comedy Stop, and ImprovBoston.

Kofi Thomas

Let's all get together and laugh at me, It's Ok, I'm laughing too.

Marlena Rodriguez

Chicago comedian, Marlena Rodriguez, shares the universe and her greatest humiliations, for your entertainment. Have YOU ever peed you pants in a mall arcade?

Peggy O'Leary

Peggy is a bit aggressive but in that fun loving comic way, that's a thing, right!?

Ross Parsons

Ross Parsons is a special little whimsical snowflake of a comedian whose low-energy antics will leave you chortling.

stef doyle

happy to look in the mirror and share her twisted observations, stef doyle has a likability that is infectious and rare. queer edgy comedy not to cool to come from the heart!

Ted Pettingell

Ted Pettingell: Stand Up Comedian First, Human Being Second, Masked Wrestler all the Time.

Lillian DeVane

Erryday I'm LOL

Christa Weiss

Neurotic & misanthropic in the cutest way, Christa might not be the best role model for your kids, but she's sure to make you laugh if you’ve ever had to bail one out of jail.

Shea Spillane

Irreverent, sassy, and walking a fine line between inappropriate and polite, the stand-up comedy of Shea Spillane has a crass yet classy flair unlike anyone else.

Alana Eisner

Hailing from all over the place, Alana's comedy is a mix of dry wit and sassy energy.

Anna Drezen

Anna Drezen is one of the year's freshest new comics out of NYC. Her confessional, cerebral style covers everything from dating to porn with a unique perspective.

Shannon DeVido

Shannon DeVido has had an interesting life, so far. She spins her stories into witty, funny and poignant tales from a life at butt level.

Casey Malone

Casey Malone does stand up comedy? Enh? Try it, you might like it.

Christi Chiello

Armed with a quirky voice and ridiculous love for pop culture; Christi Chiello disarms you with cuteness while slinging her unique and hilarious brand of absurd humor.

Charlene Mae

From CBS's Rules of Engagement