Hot comedy, cool air-conditioned theater! Come along to the PIT (154 W 29th St, bet 6th and 7th Avenue) this weekend. etc… is proud to present a fantastic line up of local comedians that will have you charging the stage in a fervent display of appreciation the likes that this theater has never seen!
Featuring:
The Steagles: Kevin Flinn & Justin Leahy Featured duo The Steagles will be your MyPod hosts—they ask that you arrive with a friend who can take over laughing once you’ve passed out in pure comic ecstasy.
Gab Cody: A semifinalist in the 2006 Laugh Off (look for her in the finals at Carolines this fall.), Gab has just returned from a cross country tour. A truly mind-tingling comic, she performs her brand of in-your-general-face-area comedy regularly at the Improv on 53 rd Street. We’re not worthy!
Catie Lazarus: Emerging Comics of New York awarded her “Best Comedy Writer” and The New York Resident selected her as a “Top 100 New Yorker” for comedy! Freaking Wow!
Robin Cloud: She has been seen spewing her inner most thoughts, passions, and comedic observations to the masses at Caroline’s, The Duplex, New York Comedy
Club, and The Peoples Improv Theatre; at times in the form of characters Jerri Beige, Angela Davison and JD West. A comedienne armed with a bag of wigs and attitude, Robin Cloud will hijack your funny bone and feed it to your soul.
August 22nd, 2006
Meet the myPod Artists from the inaugural myPod:
MICHELE CARLO, a native New Yorker, a Nuyorican and a natural redhead, is a writer/performance artist/actor who works as a soloist, as comic character Carmen Mofongo and as a storyteller with the MOTH, Speakeasy and TalkingStick. She has appeared in Off-Off Broadway productions and independent films too numerous(and sometimes too torturous) to mention, few of which anyone has ever seen. She is also the author of the short story “My Fundillo”, featured in the recently published Chicken Soup For The Latino Soul.
Michele currently produces and performs in IT CAME FROM NEW YORK, a storytelling/music show with an all native New York cast and is completing a novella about growing up as a redheaded Latina in 70s/80’s NYC.
ROBIN CLOUD move to NYC after getting her BS in film from Howard Univeristy, grabbed the mic and hasn’t let go since. She has been seen spewing her inner most thoughts, passions, and comedic observations to the masses at Caroline’s, The Duplex, New York Comedy Club, The Improv, The Peoples Improv Theatre and The Kraine Theatre; at times in the form of characters Jerri Beige, Angela Davison and JD West. In addition, she has studied at the Peoples Improv Theatre, Michael Howard Studios, and the American Comedy Institute.
This year she completed her first one person show Tales from the Big House.
“Black people are so funny. She’s black, right?” James, Brooklyn
“Damn that b*&ch is crazy.” Jethro, South Carolina
NEGIN FARSAD earned her comedy chops as one-half of the comedy duo, Madame Funnypants. With MFP she has performed all over the country for comedy festivals in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Atlanta — not to mention comedy hotspots in New York City, including Caroline’s, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, and The People’s Improv Theatre. Madame Funnypants has been nominated as Best Comedy Duo in the Emerging Comics of New York Awards and is routinely a Time Out New York “Don’t Miss” Critic’s Pick while Backstage has said of their shows, “it doesn’t get much funnier than this.”
She is a regular guest host for Sirius and Pacifica radio. She has done voiceovers for MTV and assorted commercials not to mention acting roles in short films, and publishing credits in humor magazines (Jest, Communique). She received classical training as an actor at Cornell University and additional comedy training at the Upright Citizens Brigade and the Peoples’ Improv Theatres. She is also a political junkie, intending to lead a dual role as a comedian and politician in the future. Vote Farsad for President in 2016! Go ahead, waste a vote. She dares you.
KIMMY GATEWOOD currently resides with mainstage company at Chicago City Limits, New York’s Longest running improv-comedy revue. Kimmy has a BFA in acting from Syracuse University, where she played Cathleen alongside Sam Waterston in Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Kimmy performs standup with her Hohner guitar. She was named Best Musical Act by Time Out NY, was nominated Best Musical Act for an ECNY, and was a semi-finalist for the Andy Kaufman award. As a director, Kimmy’s specializes in solo shows, including Bootleg Islam, My Pony’s in the Garage, and Tales from the Big House. Kimmy has been in a many commercials and promos, including MTV, Comedy Central, and Dunkin Donuts. She teaches improv at Chicago City Limits and solo performance at the PIT. Currently, Kimmy writes for the Oxygen network. She loves strawberries and apple pie. Check out kimmygatewood.com!
ANNE JOHNSON Theatrical credits: The Magnificent Hour (co-authored), Apocalypse! Book One, Me Too, Then, The Good Doctor, A Slight Ache. Sketch comedy: Causin’ a Scene (The Red Room), One Odd Saturday (Producer’s Club). Original Work Debuts: Clitty Conversations (WOW Café Theater), Buckle Up (Producer’s Club), Developed works: etc…presents The Lab (The Tank, Peoples Improv Theater), Law & Order: etc… (Peoples Improv Theater) Improv: Hooray for Everything. Regional (Actors Shakespeare Company): Much Ado About Nothing, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Two Gentlemen of Verona, King John, A Midsummer’s Nights Dream.
Anne has studied at Eric Loeb Studios, the Actors Shakespeare Company, Brian Siedlecki (Saturday Night Live), Kevin Allison (The State) and Marci Phillips (ABC) She is a member of etc…experimental troupe comedy, New Jersey Repertory Company and the Actors Shakespeare Company. Anne is currently working on a solo piece entitled The Next Logical Step.
April 24th, 2006
etc… proudly presents myPod, a monthly live showcase of NYC’s hottest comedic solo artists. myPod is a multimedia hybrid of storytelling and sketch comedy that will be broadcast regularly online here at mypod.opensourcecomedy.net.
The first performance will be this Wednesday April 12th 2006 at 8:00pm at the Tank, 279 Church Street between Walker and Franklin.
April 11th, 2006
