Press Kit for Edinburgh Acts

Hop For Pop Press Kit Writer · Director · Performer Lucy Boisvert She staged her first play in a converted church in a Wisconsin town of 3,000 — it sold out, because nothing else was on. Around thirty shows in three years later, she does not believe creative block exists.BasedNew York City …

Hop For Pop Press Kit Clown · Solo Show · Improv Liz Coin New York comedy has an epidemic of people wanting to look cool. She trained as a clown, so she wants the opposite — to be the thing on stage you came to laugh at.BasedNew York City · from Iowa Works inClown · Solo show &middot…

Hop For Pop Press Kit Playwright · Director · Producer Hannah Ponturo In 1518 the people of Strasbourg began dancing in the streets and could not stop, and some of them died of it. She wrote it as a straight drama, found it was not working, and made it a comedy.BasedLos Angeles, California Works inPlaywriting…

Hop For Pop Press Kit Playwright · Performer · Artistic Director Fletcher Michael A published novelist who gave up the solitude for a stage, and now writes what he calls satire with a heart — comedy built so that the laugh is the way in, and the silence afterwards does the work.BasedBrooklyn, New York …

Hop For Pop Press Kit Stand-up · Character Comedy · Producer Chloe Matonis A stand-up who plays a drill sergeant sent back from 2075 to end the loneliness epidemic — by making an audience of strangers flirt with each other, on command.BasedSan Francisco, California Works inStand-up · Interactive…

Hop For Pop Press Kit Whisper Theatre · Physical Comedy · Circus Britt Anderson & Richie Schiraldi Two physical-theatre makers who nearly quit over dinner during lockdown, in tears, convinced theatre was over. One of them said: we should write a farce. They brought three shows to Edinburgh.CompanyWhisper…

Hop For Pop Press Kit Stand-up · Improv · Clown Brendon Lemon His first ever joke worked because he looked like Haley Joel Osment. Twenty-five years later, at his fifth Edinburgh Fringe, his plan for a British crowd was to jump out of the plane and assemble the parachute on the way down.StartedMark…

Hop For Pop Press Kit Comedian · Singer · Writer Aarushi Agni Made to sing for the aunties and uncles at Indian parties in Wisconsin, aged four, against her will — and struck by what a room does when you hold it. She has been chasing that ever since.BasedNew York City · from Madison, Wisconsin …

The Comics Unseen Press KitStand-up · Solo Hour Irene Woo A software engineer at Google who quit to do stand-up full time — and whose hardest audience was not a room of strangers but her Chinese father, who had spent her whole childhood steering her toward straight As.BasedNew York City · from France …