OPEN Finance Women+ is thrilled to present its first ever Comedy Show.
This showcase-style performance will feature some of the boldest and most diverse queer women voices in the comedy scene today. Bringing their fresh and unique perspectives to the stage, these funny and fierce comics will give us a glimpse into their world and an afternoon full of laughs.
Our lineup of comediennes has made several notable appearances including HBO’s Comic Relief, Will Ferrell’s Funny or Die, and Handmaid’s Tale: The Musical, and regularly crack up audiences at comedy clubs and festivals around the country.
Women across the spectrum: bring your allies and your mothers (it’s Mother’s Day!) and join us in celebrating the power of community and laughter.
By supporting the Ladies’ Comedy Night you are helping empower women in comedy and reaffirming that diversity and inclusion matter.
The show will begin promptly at 1:00 PM. Cash bar will be available before and after the show.
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Comedian Bios
Marga Gomez. Marga is a GLAAD Award winner and was named “Best Bay Area Comedian” by the SF Weekly, Bay Area Reporter and The SF Bay Guardian. Robin Williams called her “Amazing..a lesbian Lenny Bruce.” Armistead Maupin called her “astonishing.”Gomez’s comedy has been featured on HBO, LOGO, Showtime, Comedy Central and PBS. She has been a guest on leading comedy podcasts Marc Maron’s "WTF," "The Keith and The Girl Show” and Kevin Allison's "Risk." Her comic style has been described as “deliciously cheeky and incendiary” by the New York Times and “salaciously surreal” by the San Francisco Chronicle. She is a regular performer on Olivia Cruises and has been featured at numerous comedy festivals including SF Sketchfest, Montreal’s Just For Laughs, South Beach Comedy Festival, Vancouver Comedy Festival and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She is also the author/performer of twelve solo plays which have been presented Off-Broadway, nationally and internationally. Gomez can be seen in season two of the Netflix series “Sense8." Her website is margagomez.com.
Eman El-Husseini. A Canadian, a Palestinian, a Muslim, and a lesbian walk into a bar … ladies and gentlemen, it’s just Eman El-Husseini. Yes, she’s all those catastrophic identities rolled into one — her life is a current event. From the Muslim ban to Palestinian rights and marriage equality to the ice cream truck that insists on parking in front of her building, it’s all happening and it’s happening to her, especially. Strap in and get comfortable, Eman has a lot to work through. In her decade-long comedy career, Eman has headlined across Canada, opened for Patton Oswalt, and recorded her first comedy album, “Unveiled,” which can be heard regularly on SiriusXM Radio. She currently lives in New York City, legally, thank you very much. Website: emantertainment.com.
Jess Salomon. Jess is a Canadian comedian now based in New York. She was a 2017 StandUp NBC Finalist and had her stand up featured on SiriusXM’s “Raw Dog”. She’s done lots of cool festivals including Just for Laughs, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, the Laughing Skull Festival, San Francisco Sketchfest, and she recently taped her debut album at the 2018 New York Comedy Festival with 800 Pound Gorilla. Jess has written for the award-winning sketch comedy show “Baroness Von Sketch” (IFC/CBC) and her comedy has aired on television in Canada on the CBC and radio shows like SiriusXM’s “Canada Laughs” and CBC’s “LOL”. Jess is the regular host of “Dirty Laundry” at UCB (Hell’s Kitchen) Monday nights at 11pm. You can also catch her co-hosting The Lesbian Agenda at Union Hall in Brooklyn. She also performs as part of the comedy duo, The El-Salomon’s, with her wife Eman El-Husseini (@TheElSalomons). Website: jesssalomon.com.
Fun fact: before comedy Jess used to be a U.N. war crimes lawyer. The jury is still out on whether this was a good move.
Sophie Santos. Sophie is a Brooklyn based comedian who Time Out NY recently named as one of the LGBTQ POC comedians you should know. She currently hosts the monthly show The Lesbian Agenda at Union Hall. She has written for MTV and BRIC TV and can also be seen in Handmaid’s Tale: The Musical and Riverdale Live. Sophie has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and The Kennedy Center. Website: www.sophiesantos.com.
Jes Tom. Jes (they/them) is a New York based actor, writer, and weird queer stand up comic, gleefully providing the nonbinary queer Asian American radical cyborg perspective that everyone never knew they wanted. They have appeared in videos by Funny Or Die and Seriously.TV, and their writing has been published by Reductress, By Shondaland, and Condé Nast's Them. Jes has been featured in GO Magazine, Splitsider, and the Fader, and they were named one of TimeOut New York's "LGBTQ POC Comedians We're Obsessed With." Jes was a 2018 StandUp NBC semifinalist. Follow Jes on Twitter @jestom and Instagram @jesthekid. Website: www.jestomdotcom.com.
Glo Shantae Butler. Originally from Charleston, South Carolina. Started comedy in DC then moved to Brooklyn, NY. Since then she’s been featured on a segment on Wendy Williams. She currently hosts and produces a monthly comedy show “ Glo in there city live “ in Brooklyn, based off of her comedy webseries “ Glo in the City”( featured on IMDb, funny or Die, and YouTube). She has performed all over the country, and most recently featured in New York Comedy Fest and Black Women In Comedy Festival. And was listed in 2019 Time Out Mag: “LGBTQ POC Comedians You Should Know.”
Mindy Raf. Mindy is a comedian, actress, writer, musician and published author based in Brooklyn, New York. Mindy has contributed to MTV's GIRL CODE, COLLEGEHUMOR, TNT, VH1, The Daily Comedy Network, and the MY PARENTS WERE AWESOME anthology. Mindy's debut young adult novel THE SYMPTOMS OF MY INSANITY (DIAL/Penguin) is out now. Her critically acclaimed solo comedy show NOT THE ONE: a love story was named an "LBGT Best Bet" by Time OutNew York, “hilariously quirky” by Theatre Is Easy, "Barrier Breaking" by The Edinburgh Reporter, and "cheeky and infectious" by Ed Fest Magazine. Not The One has played to a sold out run Off Broadway at 59E59, garnered 4 star reviews the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and has sold out at Brooklyn's Cloud City, The People's Improv Theater, The Tank NYC, as well as its recent guest production residency at NYC's Theaterlab. Mindy also co-produces a monthly comedy show, Golden Spiral Comedy, the first Tuesday of the month at Dream Baby in the East Village. Website: mindyraf.com.