100% of Ticket Sales goes to Local Artists! Smile More But With Your Eyes Hosted by Valerie Nies with Bonfire Live

• Valerie Nies: Valerie Nies is a comedian, writer, and gluten enthusiast living in Austin, Texas. She's written humor for McSweeney's and Reductress, and her sketches have been featured on Jezebel, Bitch, Salon, and Huffington Post. She's won screenplay awards for multiple sitcom pilots that never aired and spends a good deal of her free time scanning WebMD and ridding her clothing of cat fur.

• Kaitlyn Jeffers: Kaitlyn is a stand-up comedian and writer based in Los Angeles. She's been in the first ever Native American showcase at UCB for the past 2 years. She is a contributing writer for The Hard Times, and once got kicked in the face at CBGBs (she was very young when it happened and is not old).

• Kristal Adams: Kristal is a standup comedian and podcaster living in Los Angeles. She has appeared in Season 2 of Laugh After Dark on Amazon Prime Video, JFL's Straight Up, Stand Up series, Vidcon, SF Sketchfest and most recently won Best of Fest at the 2019 Big Pine Comedy Festival. She was featured on Whohaha as part of their first ever Comedian Callout. In September 2019 she was named Comic of the Week by the Jackie & Laurie Podcast. She is the host of the podcast, Black Card Rehab, a comedy podcast about black pop culture.

• Samantha Rae Lopez: Samantha is an Austin-based stand-up comedian and podcaster. She is on the cast of Critics on Tap, a weekly podcast from creatives/comedians discussing new films, drinks in hand. Samantha is currently spending her time exploring sketch and personal essay writing and looks forward to gracing the stages of the many locally-owned venues in Austin once we are able to gather again.

• Sahana Srinivasan: Sahana is an actress, standup comedian, writer, filmmaker, and host of Netflix’s Brainchild. For her work on the series, Sahana has been named one of ESPN’s “Game Changers." Her short film “TIED” received Best Director and Best Cinematography at UT Arlington’s Short Shorts Festival. Sahana has hosted for comedians Ari Shaffir and Emo Phillips, and recently advanced to the finals in Cap City Comedy Club’s “Funniest Person in Austin” contest. 

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