with Barbara Gray, Brandie Posey & Tess Barker
Tess Barker
Tess Barker is a Los Angeles based writer and nationally touring comedian who has appeared at the Comedy Central Stage, Meltdown Comics, UCB, and at clubs and colleges throughout the country. She regularly writes for a number of outlets, including Vice, The Guardian, Vox, MTV News, Jezebel, and L.A Weekly. She has also written for TruTV's "Billy on the Street;" was one of the hosts of Ovation TV's "Broadway Bash," and recently wrapped work on season one of "Throwing Shade" for TVLand. She holds a B.A. in Screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University, and is the co-bookwriter and lyricist of "Time Between Us," an original two person musical, which premiered in New York as part of the 2011 New York Musical Theater festival, where it was named Critic’s Pick, and has since enjoyed a number of regional productions. She is one of the producers and hosts of Lady to Lady, a popular podcast on the Maximum Fun Network; live talk show at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade in Los Angeles; and regular SnapChat series on Comedy Central. Samples of Tess's stand up and writing can be found at TessBarker.com
Barbara Gray
Barbara’s ebullient and goofy stage presence combined with vulnerable dark material have made her a quickly rising star in the Los Angeles alternative comedy scene. In 2016 she filmed sets for Viceland’s “Flophouse” and Hulu’s “Coming to the Stage” and she has written for the past three seasons of the hit show “Billy on the Street." She recently co-starred in Comedy Central’s new series “Hampton DeVille” as well as their digital series “Would You Rather”, “Deadliest Chef”, and Nick Swardson’s show “Typical Rick”. Along with touring all over the country, Babs has made multiple visits to SF Sketchfest and the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, where her performance was deemed ‘funny as get-out’ by the Portland Mercury. Her comedy has been featured on Huffington Post and Ellen, and her underground comedy show One-Two Punch, run out of her own living room in Silverlake, had a spread in the LA Times. She is also a regular at the top shows and venues in Los Angeles, including the Improv, Comedy Store, Meltdown, Good Heroin, and literally any place somebody will put a microphone and give her some attention.
Brandie Posey
Originally from Annapolis, Maryland, Brandie Posey is a stand up comedian, writer & producer who calls LA's comedy scene home. She is the co-creator & host of Picture This!, the popular comedy-animation show with franchises in LA, Portland, New York & San Francisco currently in development with Wanda Sykes' Push It Productions. Brandie has been featured as a performer at the New York Comedy Festival, RIOT Comedy Festival, San Francisco Sketchfest, FEST in Gainesville, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, The All Jane Festival, among many others. She has opened for the legendary punk band Against Me! and has appeared on MTV, E! & Comedy Central. Brandie made her feature film debut in the indie dark comedy, "The Worst Year Of My Life" directed by UCB's Jonathan Smith & her first stand up record Opinion Cave debuted at #1 on iTunes & #12 on Billboard.com.
She is honored to rep the LA comedy scene on the chart topping compilation album "Holy Fuck. Album Comedy." and produced #BurnThisElection, a charity compilation album with all proceeds going to RAINN (because Trump would hate that). Brandie tours the country, headlining every dark corner with a microphone. Brandie is one of the hosts of the incredibly popular Lady to Lady Podcast, which boasts a regular series on Comedy Central's Snapchat, and has sold out live shows at the Hollywood improv & the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.
David Janove
(producer)
David Janove is a Los Angeles based writer, director and producer. His shorts have been screened at the New York Television Festival, LA Web Series Festival, The El Cid, Holy Fuck, Vidiots, The Clubhouse and the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater. He wrote and directed the original musical "Jeb & Jeremiah" that played to rave reviews at the Hollywood Fringe Festival as well as No Refunds, a sketch show co-written and co-performed with Jackie Smith, which had three sold out shows at the same festival. In 2012, David founded The Little Modern Theater which held stand up, improv and sketch shows with regular performers like Bill Burr, Bobcat Goldthwait, Maria Bamford and every UCB House team. David produces the live show and podcast "Lady to Lady" which has been featured as one of the top Comedy Podcasts on iTunes and regularly has shows at the UCB Theater. David was also one of the producers of the extremely popular 1st Annual Los Angeles Indie Improv Festival which had hundreds of performers at three different venues. He has directed several independent comedy pilots and web series which you can see at his YouTube channels: /lovegoodproductions and /davidjanove.