Somewhere in France there is a unicycle that ruined Tori Morancay’s childhood and, indirectly, launched her comedy career. She fell off it at twelve in front of a packed crowd, and has since decided nothing on a stand-up stage will ever come close to that level of humiliation. Bombing an open mic? Rookie numbers compared…
Liz Coin grew up in Iowa and now works out of New York. Her first stage role was Drake the butler, at eleven. It was a community theatre production of Annie. The lead forgot his lines and kept calling for champagne. Coin walked on with two trays and improvised the rest. The room came apart, and she drew a conclusion she still…
Meg Millane got married in her early 30s. Five of her friends did the same within roughly the same window. She was already doing wedding-adjacent characters and sketches on stage. Bride To Be is what happened when she noticed how much material there was. She workshopped it about a year ago, before the wedding. Then she let it…
The Cat Was Raised in a Box: An Interview With Tom Nemec
August 7, 2026
Tom Nemec is sixty years old. He has been doing standup for about thirty-five years. He has been sober for thirty-six, since 1990. He was twenty-four when he stopped drinking, and started performing shortly after. By forty he had held a hundred and seventy-five different jobs.
A Cat in a Box is his first one-man play, directed…
Brendon Lemon has been telling jokes for twenty-five years. The last three and a half he has spent learning how to fail at them properly. Born in Detroit, now based in New York, he first took a microphone in 2002. The room was Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle, the oldest club in America still run by its original owner. He arrived…