More than 60 brave, funny souls signed up to perform at the Attendee Stand-Up Comedy Night at 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 28, at the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop.
Unfortunately, we can only accommodate 18 performers. We randomly picked 12 (below) to perform along with the winner (Yuliya Patsay) and two runners-up (Carolyn Freudenthal and Karen Jaffe) of Erma’s Got Talent, a pre-workshop virtual event held in February. Because this night has become such a popular event at the workshop, comedian Carole Montgomery will choose another three people from the hilarious writers she meets in her Stand-Up Comedy Boot Camp at 2 p.m., Friday, March 27, in the Marshall Room at Daniel J. Curran Place.
If you weren’t selected, we encourage you to attend her boot camp and make your best comedic pitch for why you should be included. The boot camp is open to all attendees interested in learning more about writing and performing stand-up comedy, not just those who are performing Saturday night. A short rehearsal for the stand-up performers is scheduled for 3:30 p.m., Saturday, March 28, in the Kiefaber Room near the ballroom at the University of Dayton Marriott.
Here are the performers:
Bobbi Beall
Dakota Cloud
Ivy Eisenberg
Christy Heitger-Ewing
Carolyn Freudenthal (runner-up, Erma’s Got Talent)
Karen Jaffe (runner-up, Erma’s Got Talent)
Julie Love-Ott
Michael Oliss
Yuliya Patsay (winner, Erma’s Got Talent)
Tonya Reid
Rebecca Rothman
Jay Schwartz
Laura Skopec
Robin Spindt
Mary Warwick