October 23rd Line Up
Kendall Relf
is a New York based comedian who recently opened for SNL’s Punkie Johnson on her summer comedy tour. He has appeared on Kevin Hart’s SirusXM ‘Love Thang with Punkie Johnson’. He was also featured as an opener on Jon Dore’s Juno Award winning Comedy Album ‘A Person Who is Ginger Bread’. Kendall has opened for nationally touring comedians Jon Dore, Brent Morin, Josh Johnson, Jeff Dye, Ismo, Devon Walker, and Maddy Smith. He has trained and performed at the world renowned Second City in Chicago and the UCB Theater in New York. In New York he produces the weekly Paperweight Comedy show in Green-point BK.
Sean Donnelly
When he’s not walking around looking like fisherman Sean can be found headlining clubs and festivals all over the country. He has appeared on "The Late Show with David Letterman", "Conan", "Colbert", "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" and NBC’s "Last Comic Standing". Sean hosts the podcast "Brand New Jerks", and he released his debut comedy album “Manual Labor Face” in 2015 on Comedy Central Records. Sean has been featured on the truTV series "World’s Dumbest", "Comedy KO", and "Almost Genius" as well as "Adam Devine’s House Party", "@midnight", "The Half Hour", "Broad City", "The Equalizer" and "Inside Amy Schumer" on Comedy Central, Amazon’s "Alpha House", GSN’s "Lie Detectors", and "Limitless" on CBS.
Maggie Olmstead
Maggie Olmsted is a Brooklyn-based comedian whose cracked persona can be seen all over the city, from the Bell House to the antiques museum where she hosts her own show, Mess With Us. She is a member of the Brooklyn Comedy Collective’s 2023 Mainstage Residency cast with performances through the month of October. Her improvised show Not Like Other Girls is in New York Comedy Festival this November and you can read her words in The New Yorker.
Esther Fallick
Esther Fallick is a comedy icon, cabaret icon, and transfemme icon based in Brooklyn, NY. Her three main passions are performing, fostering community, and receiving compliments. She combines these passions at Heart O' The City, her monthly variety show and clothing swap where she spotlights Brooklyn's best trans/gender non-conforming talent. Under her deadname, Broadway World called her “deeply hilarious”. Post-transition, Broadway World called her “intriguing”! Also recently, Vulture called her “Funniest Internet Videos of October”. She's a musical comedian but get this: she actually has a really great musical theater BFA (Go Blue!). Her solo shows have played UCB & 54 Below.
Conor Janda
Conor Janda is a Brooklyn-based comedian and writer. He and his writing partner are in a development deal with Imagine Entertainment and Scott King on their pilot BOYS. He co-hosts a monthly queer comedy show at Club Cumming called BOYS CLUB (2022 NYCF headliner) and co-hosts a weekly podcast of the same name, where he and his co-host interview guests on the silly Boys' Clubs that they've been kept out of, and more importantly, contribute to. He has been featured on the Gag, the Comedy Central queer digital channel.
Ashley Hamilton
Ashley Hamilton is a stand up comedian and writer from Chicago, IL . She relocated to New York City and can be seen performing all around the city. She is currently the co host of the Celebrity Memoir Book Club Podcast which has reached #7 on the U.S. Comedy Podcast charts as well as the top 10 in over a dozen countries. The duo has sold out live shows across the world from Los Angeles to London.
Michael Abber
Michael Abber is a Brooklyn-based comedian and writer who loves to talk about sex, dogs, and dying. Informed by his queer and Jewish identity, Abber’s standup comedy has proudly earned him a reputation as “a dirty, filthy heathen” and “loud.” Abber has performed at major comedy venues such as The Bell House, Union Hall, Stand Up NY, and Club Cumming. He can be regularly seen on his monthly standup showsNeighborhood Darlings and Hot Gossip.
