Laugh for a Cause: A Night of Laughter and Fun to Support Diverse City Fund
Sunday, September 15th
6-8pm
$25 earlybird /$30 regular. Buy tix!
Josephine Butler Parks Center, 2437 15th St. NW
Join us for an evening of laughter and fun, featuring four amazing social justice comedians! All proceeds raised will support DC Fund’s grantmaking, which nurtures community leaders and grassroots projects which are acting to transform DC into a more just, vibrant place to live. Advance ticket purchase required through the link above.
Featured Performers:
Sampson McCormick has done it all. An award-winning, black, openly gay stand-up comedian, writer and activist, Sampson has produced three comedy albums, written two books, and won several awards including most recently the Gillard-Alston Award For Contributions to LGBT Youth Empowerment (2012).
Jessica Brodkin is an up-and-coming comic in Washington, DC. She performs all over the DC and New York areas, including the DC Imrov, Gotham and the New York Comedy Club.
Known among the DC comedy community for his laugh and a catchphrase or two, Haywood Turnipseed describes himself as, “comedian; jedi knight; sith lord; force naturalist; avatar; husband; dad; son; sun; brother; reader; thinker; dreamer.”
Yev Kirpichevsky is a standup comedian and a storyteller. He is a winner of the Story League’s Story Tournament’s Audience Favorite Award and has performed all over DC, including the Black Cat, the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, the Arts Club of Washington, and the DC Arts Center.
Event Coordinated by: Liz Anderson Consulting
