Industry Showcase
Monday | November 13, 2023
Meet Tomorrow’s Ladies of Late Night
*Season 2 Lineup TBA
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COMICS! Come get your most pressing industry questions answered
INDUSTRY! Discover LA’s funniest and freshest talent.
Last Season’s Funny Ladies
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Heather Pasternak
HOST
E-mail: hellopasternak@gmail.com
Heather Pasternak is a Los Angeles native, comedian and NYU Tisch school graduate. She's appeared on CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Netflix’s Cooking on High, FOX’s The Mindy Project, New Girl, etc. She features for Jeff Garlin in Los Angeles, New York, London, Chicago and performs all over Los Angeles at The Improv, The Comedy Store, The Laugh Factory, The Westside Comedy Theatre, Flappers, Upright Citizens Brigade and several times a week alone in the shower.
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Asia Chardonay
COMEDIAN
E-mail: alldisbody@gmail.com
Asia Chardonay, better known as ‘All Dis Body’, is a bold and bodacious woman with a comedic style to match as she represents for other women, people of color, and LGBTQ+. Originally from Indianapolis, IN, Asia relocated to Los Angeles to further pursue her comedy career. Asia has made her mark performing on incredible stages in Los Angeles and across the country, including Hollywood's Laugh Factory, Hollywood Improv, & The World Famous Comedy Store.
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Celine Kuklowsky (they/them)
COMEDIAN
E-mail: celinekuk@gmail.com
Celine Kuklowsky is a French American stand up comedian that can be seen performing all over LA, including at the UCB Theater, the Crow and the HaHa Comedy Club. They regularly perform in Paris and New York (St. Marks Comedy Club and the Tiny Cupboard) and they will be back performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August for the second year in a row. Celine has also done voiceover work for several Disney films and was featured in the 2018 Netflix documentary "Feminists: What Were They Thinking?" starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.
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Diana Hong
COMEDIAN
Email: dhongcomedy@gmail.com
Diana Hong is a rising stand-up comedian and writer with a style all her own. Her composed demeanor stems from the pressure of being an only child to Korean immigrants but sometimes pressure doesn’t make diamonds, it makes comedians. With experiences that range from professional golf to retail, she shares personal anecdotes of navigating identity and life, digging into serious topics in a way that will make you relate, laugh, and want to give her a hug. In a seashell, her humor is like the ocean: deep, dark, and salty.
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Julia Stone
COMEDIAN
E-mail: akajuliastone@gmail.com
Julia Stone is a LA-based stand-up comedian and writer who regularly convinces herself to leave the house. She performs across the U.S. in cities such as New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. Her dry humor and dead-pan delivery have been seen at venues like the Laugh Factory (Hollywood & Chicago), Don't Tell Comedy (Nashville), and the Hollywood Improv. She also co-hosts and co-produces a monthly show in the Lab at the Hollywood Improv: Gimmie Gimmie Peach Samba. She was previously a regular contributor for Late Night with Jimmy Fallopian Tubes, a monthly late night show performed at UCB Sunset. When not on stage, she spends her time in a variety of sweatpants.
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Lisa Holly
COMEDIAN
E-mail: hahaholly13@yahoo.com
Instagram: @lisahollycomic
Lisa Holly has been performing stand-up comedy, which she performs throughout the country and internationally, for over 20 years. Born of artistic and funny parents, the amount of sarcasm and humor flowing through her, in addition to unique commentary, and the ability to connect with diverse audiences, allows her to adapt to different venues. As a student of Temple University’s School of Communications, she utilizes her knowledge and love of writing throughout her career.
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Julia Austin
COMEDIAN
E-mail: jaustin327@gmail.com
Instagram: @JuliaAustinWasTaken
Julia Austin has been performing for over a decade. She was named one of Time Out LA's "Top 10 Comics To Watch" in 2020, performed in Netflix is a Joke 2022, and is a regular at the Hollywood Improv, The Crow and the Westside Comedy Theater.
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Roxanne Acree
COMEDIAN
Email: roxanneacree@gmail.com
LA-based stand-up who hails from the bluegrass of Kentucky, Roxanne Acree seems sweet and southern until her deadpan and dark wit catches you by surprise. She is an acclaimed reviewer of trash-TV on Tik-Tok, but her true passions are joke writing and storytelling. Her favorite topics range from her Southern Baptist roots, menagerie of health issues, mental illness, and irreverent sex life.
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Kari Assad
COMEDIAN
Email: kariassad@gmail.com
Instagram: @assadkarirocks
Kari Assad is a Mexican-Lebanese comedian and writer based in Los Angeles. Her silly and relatable content has been featured on the popular comedy platform WhoHaha, and she's also been a featured performer at premium festivals like Limestone and 10,000 Laughs. Kari also hosts the hilarious podcast 'Kari Assad: Ghost Detective,' where she breaks down real-life ghosting stories with guests to determine what really happened. When she's not on stage, you can find her borderline making out with your dog.
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Keira McGill (she/they)
COMEDIAN
Email: keira.mcgill93@gmail.com
Bio: Keira McGill is a standup comedian, writer and actor. She/they (whatever makes you comfortable) was the winner of the 2019 New York Queer Comedy Festival, which is a title (due to "global circumstances") she held for 2 and a half years. Last year, she had the honor of opening for Maria Bamford. She performs all over New York City and Los Angeles in addition to her residency at Greenwich Village Comedy Club and Broadway Comedy Club. Her play, “Witch, Please,” ran at The PIT with several sold-out performances and received rave reviews from both of her parents. She co-runs a meme account, @hypedykes, that has been featured in Seventeen Magazine and that is all of the running she is willing to do.
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Nina Nguyen
COMEDIAN
E-mail: Ninanguyen3000@gmail.com
Nina Nguyen’s comedy is vulnerable and sincere but will quickly detour into playful foolishness. She’s a bisexual Vietnamese trans comic from Houston TX pouring her heart out on stage, punctuating sentiment with something stupid. Nina was a finalist on StandupNBC, toured colleges through NACA and a writer for CBS Diversity Showcase. She recently performed at Limestone Comedy Festival and can be seen at clubs and festivals all over - but mostly in Los Angeles where she lives with her wife and cat.
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Jessica Keenan
COMEDIAN
Email: jessicalynnkeenan@gmail.com
Representation: Commercial Agent- Reign
Jessica Keenan is a Mexican/Lebanese comedian, born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is one of the most original voices on the L.A. comedy scene and performs at all the major clubs. Jessica has appeared on Chelsea, NuvoTV’s Stand Up and Deliver, HBO Max’s Ha Festival: The Art of Comedy, and she was also a finalist for Standup NBC. In 2021, her first special was released on HBO Max: What She Said!
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Leslie Liao
COMEDIAN
Email: lesliao8@gmail.com
Leslie Liao is a standup comedian, actress, and writer. Audiences around the world have been drawn to her relatable, introspective, and matter-of-fact style of humor which is often anchored around her experiences as a single Chinese-American woman living in Los Angeles. In 2023, her debut Don't Tell Comedy set, “Fixing Straight Men”, debuted boldly on YouTube with clips from her set going viral on Instagram and TikTok. She has toured with some of the biggest names in comedy, including Fortune Feimster, and her stand up is featured on Netflix Is A Joke Radio on SiriusXM. She can often be seen in Los Angeles gracing the stages of The Comedy Store, Hollywood Improv, Laugh Factory, Flappers, and many more. In 2022, Leslie headlined at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, the Boulder Comedy Festival, and was featured in The Comedy Chateau Festival in Los Angeles.