Elizabeth stand up! HOLLA! #ComeLaughWithMe

Anna Lucero is a comedian, actor, & director in Chicago. She created & co-produces the long-running female/GNC comedy showcase, The Gogo Show, with Sommer Austin. She also founded The Lincoln Loft, an ever-changing labor of love and performance space, with Adam Schulmerich. After earning her degree in acting from Towson University in Baltimore, Anna moved to Chicago where she diversified her comedy performance and directing education at The Second City, The Annoyance Theater, Green Shirt Studio, Get Riffed with Ever Mainard, and The Feminine Comique with Cameron Esposito & Kelsie Huff.  She acted, directed, built, painted, focused lights, produced, and choreographed with Lights Out Theatre Company. 

The sweetest Toxica you’ll ever meet! Oh and I’m a comedian too 😂

Christina Galston is self-proclaimed “Jewrican ” and has spent her life honing her unique cross-cultural upbringing into a powerfully honest sense of humor and razor-sharp wit. A master storyteller Christina has been performing stand-up in NYC for 12 years. Half-hour stand-up specials have been a staple of the Comedy Central brand since the 90s.

75% Mexican, and 100% colonized, Hilary Jimenez is a Chicago based comedian, writer, and Limited Too Fitting Room Survivor, who's comedy style is crossing the border and the line all while wearing designer shoes. Her comedy gives loud, abrasive voice to the female, chicana experience, with a self-deprecating wit and unapologetic delivery that makes her mother deeply uncomfortable. Originally from the suburbs of Detroit, MI, Hilary graduated from Western Michigan University with a degree in Theatre Performance, and moved to Chicago to pursue the extremely lucrative career of Stand Up Comedy. Hilary has performed at The Laugh Factory Chicago, Zanie's, The Lincoln Lodge, Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle, and many more.

Irma Ruiz is a former wannabe chola, turned school teacher, turned comedian. Although she's been kicked out of every neighborhood Nextdoor.com group she's joined and is banned from 5 Facebook Mom groups, you can still find her performing in comedy clubs, casinos & festivals in Texas and various locations throughout the nation. Her comedy covers motherhood, education, marriage, family and more. She is the producer of the Teachers Gone Bad Show and even though she doesn't believe in tarot cards, she pretends to in her Tarot Card Comedy Show on VivaLiveTv. Her comedy is not to be missed!

Janice Rodriguez (first name rhymes with Denise because she likes to be difficult), is a Chicago-based entrepreneur and comedian. When she’s not slaving over an unnecessary spreadsheet or micromanaging others, she performs her unique brand of stand up across the Chicagoland area.  Janice uses her experience as being the whitest Latina she knows and an at best average marriage partner to tell her side of the story. Janice aims to bring a fresh perspective to topics related to her culture, Indiana upbringing (Indiana+culture=oxymoron), and her professional and personal lives. She’s also really tired. Janice regularly performs at Chicago area comedy and storytelling showcases and has performed at comedy clubs Zanies, Improv, The Drop (South Bend), Laugh Factory, Comedy Vault, Comedy Bar Dubuque, LOL Comedy Club (San Antonio) Comedy Shrine, The Market Lounge,  and Jackie Knights (St. Augustine, FL). She has also been invited to perform at several comedy festivals such as Chicago Women’s Funny Festival, SheDot (Toronto), Lady Laughs (Madison) and LaughFest (Grand Rapids). Janice is a founder and producer of  Las Locas Comedy, a comedy showcase that features Latina/Latinx comedic talent and our favorite locas of any background.   Check out her performance calendar to see her at an upcoming show!

queen of the mosh pit | stand up comedian | pro wrestling trainee | funnier online

Jess Martínez is a Chicago-based comedian who enjoys making audiences laugh as she genuinely tries to make sense of the world around her. She has entertained audiences across the country and was selected as one of 11 acts to perform at the 2022 Latinx Theatre Commons Comedy Carnaval. Her love of stand-up comedy started in middle school when she became obsessed with Comedy Central’s half-hour specials. She especially enjoyed Comedy Central performances by Gabriel Iglesias, Mitch Hedberg, Jim Gaffigan, Demitri Martin, Pablo Francisco, Mike Birbiglia, and Maria Bamford. She finally hit the stage herself for the first time in 2017 and graduated from both The Second City Training Center and Feminine Comique stand-up programs in 2018. Jess is co-producer of Holiday Party, co-founder of the Latina Comedy Festival, and assistant producer at The Moth StorySLAM Chicago.

Latina Stand-Up Comedian and Professional Speaker.

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, started her comedy career in 2016 those 5 min at an open mic open the doors to tours all over Texas, New York, New Mexico, Los Angeles and Puerto Rico. Her spicy and unfiltered comedy will make you blush but her passion is to make anyone laugh. “If you smile when you hear her name, then she’s accomplished her purpose”.

Bronx, NY native, Shari Diaz,  switched up her stomping grounds for Raleigh, NC in 2014 where she started standup comedy at Goodnights Comedy Club and Raleigh Improv.  Shari Díaz is also a Co-Producer for the first official Raleigh comedy festival called, Oak City Comedy Festival. In 2019, she moved back to NYC to pursue comedy where she has been booked consistently on some of the hottest comedy shows in the NYC and produces comedy shows all over the city. Her accolades include opening for Gina Brillon, Pauly Shore, Michael Yo, Mark Viera, The Lucas Bros, Shawn Wayans, Maria Bamford, and Damon Wayans. Shari has been performing at comedy festivals around the country, such as, North Carolina’s Comedy Festival 2018 & 2019 in Greensboro, NC, Big Pine Comedy Festival 2018 in Flagstaff, AZ where she won “Best of Fest”, BTF Comedy Festival in Philly 2019 and Dallas Comedy Festival 2019, and DC’s Comedy Festival 2019, and New York Comedy Festival 2019. You can catch her first comedy special on HBO Max’s “Entre Nos Episode 11: What She Said!”.