The Comics
Adesuwa Agbonile
Adesuwa has been performing stand-up for years, if you count all the times she talks to herself in the bathroom mirror. If not, this is her first time. She likes making her friends laugh, writing things that feel true, and eating avocados.
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Joy Alexander Allen
Joy Alexander inhabits intersections. She is a social scientist engineer pursuing her PhD in construction. She can be found investigating how technology supports people-processes, folding origami, or organizing a queer open mic.
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Bunnard Phan
Bunnard is excited to perform stand up for the first time, and he believes that practicing joy in social justice work is powerful. He is supported and grounded by his family, friends, community, and ancestors—who all inspire him to perform.
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Carah Alexander
Carah is best summarized by a conversation she once had with
her roommate:
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Hannah Nguyen
Hannah has been a stand-up comic since being trapped in the Fort Lauderdale Airport on Christmas Eve. When she’s not ranting about forms of institutionalized inequality, she’s usually laughing at memes on the toilet.
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Kavita Selva
Kavita has never performed standup before. But she frequently laughs at
her own jokes, so she’s got that going for her. |
Madeleine Morales
Madeleine is a stage manager at heart, but they appreciate this chance to perform. They'd like to take this space to come out... as a thespian sociologist. I mean, it's fairly self-evident she's a lesbian socialist.
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Neil Singh
Despite Neil's best efforts of avoidance, the inevitability of his identity as an Indian man in the Bay Area subsumed him, and he now is pursuing an MS in Computer Science. #RIP
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Shreya Venkat
Shreya is a 5-foot tall gal who's just doing her best. She enjoys telling jokes, watching movies, and scouring the world for the best ramen.
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The Trainers
Cassandra Falby
Peacock Rebellion Cassandra Falby is a West Indian American genderqueer femme who has lived in the Bay Area for almost 20 years. She’s a geek, creator, and a psychotherapist who believes that humor and sci-fi/fantasy have the capacity to heal. Cassandra is a Brouhaha alum (Spring 2015).
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Devi Peacock
Peacock Rebellion Devi grew up around the Klan and cracked jokes to survive. They still do. Devi’s the founding Artistic and Executive Director of Peacock Rebellion, a member of the arts collective QTPOC4SHO, and an activist cat mom writing their debut collection
Love Poems for Haters. [Photo by Luna Merbruja] |
Lexi Adsit
Peacock Rebellion Lexi is a fierce, fat, femme Translatina born and raised in the East Bay. She's currently earning her MA in Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University and will be pursuing her doctorate at University of Minnesota beginning in the fall. She is the Managing Director of Peacock Rebellion and our resident Capricorn Boss lady.
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The Production Team
AnQi Yu
Co-producer Asian American Theater Project (AATP) AnQi is a storyteller, director, and a believer in small and magic things.
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Dan Holland
Co-producer BLACKstage & Latinx in Theater (LiT) Dan is a senior undergraduate majoring in Theater and Performance Studies with a concentration in production and technical theater. Further fields of interest include music production, sound design, recording technology,
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Danee Conley
House Manager JUST ART Danee Conley is a dramaturg turned academic in Stanford TAPS’ PhD program. Her research looks at contemporary strategic board games as they intersect with postcolonial spectatorship, activism, and identity formation through game play.
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Eve La Puma
Stage Manager TAPS & JUST ART Eve is a junior majoring in TAPS. She is an avid theater maker and the artistic director for [wit]: a gender-conscious theater company. When Eve is not in rehearsal, she likes to think about cats.
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Frank Chen
Photographer Frank has photographed many Stanford theater events over the years, and is still wowed by all the quality theater that the Stanford community creates every quarter. When not busy photographing, Frank works as an engineer on machine learning at Google.
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Jessi Piggott
Co-producer JUST ART Jessi is theater-maker and historian who gets excited about folks speaking mirth to power.
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Kari Barclay
Sound Designer JUST ART Kari is a writer, director, and theater-maker usually creating work about sexuality, race, and capitalism. Their last play, CAN I HOLD YOU, broke ground for asexual representation in theater.
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Luz Ruvalcaba
Recruitment Team Member JUST ART Luz is an educator, poet, and doctoral candidate in the Program in Modern Thought and Literature. She believes in the power of literature to bring about change in the world.
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Melissa Valentine
Co-producer JUST ART Melissa loves watching stand-up and exploring counterpower (alternate ways of being, living, and knowing - h/t Os Keyes) so is delighted to see this production come to life.
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Starr Jiang
Selection Committee Member Asian American Theater Project (AATP) Starr is an artist who believes life itself is art. You'll probably find her in a used book store flipping through books she'll never buy. In her free time, she enjoys photography and thinking about the next great American road trip.
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Suhaila Meera
Co-producer JUST ART Suhaila is a dancer/actor/theater-maker who loves thinking and talking about
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Thao P. Nguyen
Producer & Artistic Director JUST ART Thao is a solo performer, writer, and producer. They make art about whatever pisses them off — racism, sexual violence, white power, hetero/cis-sexism, and people who don't say "please" and "thank you."
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Tyler Miller
Lighting Designer JUST ART Tyler is graduating this June. He's hoping to become a fitness trainer/healer for other trans people, and to keep lighting and learning from the performances of people who don't look like him.
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