Pacific Northwest Women's Comedy Festival, Part 3!

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If you like funny things, live in or around Eugene, and either know a woman or are one, please come check out two nights of comedy at the Third Annual Pacific NorthWest Women's Comedy Festival at the Actor's Cabaret, November 14th and 15th! This year, there are two nights of laughs, with comics from Seattle, Portland, Eugene, Corvallis (I know! Corvallis!) and elsewhere. I'll be performing on the 14th, and hanging out the rest of the time.

Producer and booker Leigh-Anne Jasheway-Bryant is posting updates and promo information on the participating comedians here: Comedy Festival Blog. This is my third year attending and my second year performing and I'm looking forward to it. It's also part of The Grrrlz Rock! month of women in music.

Pacific Northwest
Women’s Comedy Festival ‘08
November 14 & 15, 7-10 p.m.
Actors’ Cabaret of Eugene, 996 Willamette

Friday, November 14 7-10 p.m.
The Best of Oregon
Melody Dodd, The Free Range Chix, Veronica Heath, Leigh Anne Jasheway-
Bryant, Virginia Jones, Potpie Theater, Ashly Reiss, Sarah Ulerick

Friday, November 14 10-midnight
Booze & Schmooze
Join the Pacific Northwest’s funniest females for two hours of giggling and partying.

Saturday, November 15th
The Best of Washington (with one Best of Oregon thrown in for good measure)
Amy Alpine, Sebrina Doyle-Schultz, Robin Fairbanks, Bryley Hull, JeanAnn O’Brien, Suzanne Park, Lizzy Pilcher, Alysia Wood


Tickets are $25 for each show. The Booze & Schmooze is also $25. You may purchase yours by calling 541/683-4368 or logging onto http://www.actorscabaret.org/tickets.php.

Who Are These Funny Women Anyway?

Amy Alpine is a board-certified clinical sexologist and stand-up comic. She prides herself on rarely confusing the two professions. She is also the former producer of Standing Room Only, a television comedy talk show and the former host of a weekday radio show in Seattle.

Melody Dodd performs comedy to prevent herself from adding husband #4 to her permanent record. She has performed for the Cottage Grove Elks Club and can now die happy.

Sebrina Doyle -Schultz is a fabulously funny multitasking mama and self-proclaimed superwoman who mines comedic gems from the rubble of life.

Standing a whopping 4’11”, Robin Fairbanks sees life through the eyes of a woman who truly understands that, “Life is short!” Robin co-founded The Material Girls and The Divine Order of the Ha Ha Sisterhood shows in Seattle. comics with audiences who craved their brand of humor.
The Free Range Chix are hysterical and 100% organic and steroid-free. At least they are today. With their pitch-perfect vocals and thigh-slapping comedy, don’t be surprised if you end up singing one of their songs at your next annual exam.

Often referred to as a Party Girl Comic, Veronica Heath delivers comedy that will have you blushing a little and laughing a lot. She was a part of the Shades of Laughs Comedy Tour and placed in the finals of the 2007 Stephen Colbert Portland Amateur Comedy Competition and others.

Having overcome her education, Bryley Hull spends her time writing, doing improv, and spending time with family (and not just to get new material, honest!). She has performed in comedy clubs all around Seattle.

Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant couldn’t decide whether to become a politician or a comedian, but having no grasp of foreign policy whatsoever and not being able to see Russia from her hometown of Eugene, she decided to make people laugh. She’s the 2003 Erma Bombeck Humor Writing winner, a former radio host, and has performed at clubs and conventions all across the U.S.

Virginia Jones was a finalist in Portland’s 2007 Amateur Comedy Competition, The Portland Mercury’s PIZZAZZ talent show, and in Portland’s Comedy Knockout. Her mother is proud of her.

JeanAnn O’Brien is a big force in the Seattle comedy scene, but if the new diet works, that won't be true much longer. Throwing caution to the wind and displaying a disregard for public safety, JeanAnn goes on stage completely devoid of estrogen. She is the founder of the Divine Order of the Ha Ha Sisterhood and has played in comedy clubs and for conferences, luncheons, and retreats all around the country.

Suzanne Park was a finalist in the Oxygen Network's "Girls Behaving Badly" talent search. In 2005 she was the winner of the Seattle Sierra Mist Comedy Competition, and in 2007 she was a semi-finalist in NBC's "Stand Up For Diversity" showcase in San Francisco.

Lizzy Pilcher is 73 inches of sarcasm and self deprecation that melds potent blend of humor that is truly unique. She has performed all over the Pacific Northwest including: the Seattle Comedy Underground, Tacoma Comedy Underground, Giggles Comedy Club, Laughs Comedy Cafe in Bellevue, and Yuk Yuk's in Vancouver, B.C. When not doing comedy, she shuffles papers for the man.

Potpie Theater, voted by their own parents as "The Best Thing Ever" in an impressive three to one victory, formed in 2005. Their performances, an off-beat blend of improvisational theater and sketch comedy, have entertained audiences since only very slightly later in 2005.

Ashly Reiss alternates stand-up comedy and meetings of Shy People Anonymous, where she is Treasurer and Class Clown. She doesn’t have a day job and thanks you not to suggest she stick with it.

From her secret life as the comedy column writer on her high school paper in Virginia, to a 1970s improv group at the Red Dog Saloon in Juneau, Alaska, to her current 15-year shtick as Eugene's Queen Bananita Sluginsky, the first Russian-Western-American S.L.U.G. Queen, Sarah Ulerick she has always used humor for good not evil.

Alysia Wood was selected by Campus Activities Magazine as a Hot Comedian of 2009. She hopes they are referring to her material. She's appeared on Bob & Tom, Comedy Time and in bankruptcy court where the judge ruled, "it's really too bad you don't have better 'people' because you really are quite funny."