Jason Salmon : Press Kit
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Jason Salmon : Press Kit

October 14, 2026
Hop For Pop Press Kit Stand-up · Actor · Voice Jason Salmon A Texan engineer who took acting classes to meet women, ended up voicing a character in Red Dead Redemption, and now builds jokes around the thing most comics are terrified of: silence.BasedNew York City · from Texas Works inStand-up &middot…
Hannah Ponturo : Press Kit
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Hannah Ponturo : Press Kit

October 14, 2026
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…
Fletcher Michael : Press Kit
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Fletcher Michael : Press Kit

October 14, 2026
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 …
Fábio Rabin : Press Kit
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Fábio Rabin : Press Kit

October 14, 2026
Hop For Pop Press Kit Stand-up · Brazil · Portuguese & English Fábio Rabin A trained actor whose parents joked they would sell him if he did not start earning. He found stand-up in 2008, when Brazil barely had a scene, and helped build one.FromBrazil Works inStand-up in Portuguese and English…
Dosmukhamed Ali : Press Kit
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Dosmukhamed Ali : Press Kit

October 14, 2026
Hop For Pop Press Kit Stand-up · Crowd work · Almaty, Kazakhstan Dosmukhamed Ali He performs stand-up in three languages and is learning a fourth. He took a Kazakh act to a Chicago open mic, came home to a city that had just discovered a feeling of freedom, and built an English-language comedy scene in Almaty out…
Diogo Portugal : Press Kit
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Diogo Portugal : Press Kit

October 14, 2026
Hop For Pop Press Kit Stand-up · Festival Director · Club Owner Diogo Portugal He is Brazilian, despite the surname. He started when there were no comedy clubs in Brazil, went on when the jazz band took its break, and had to explain to audiences what stand-up comedy even was.BasedCuritiba, Brazil Works…
Corinne Fisher : Press Kit
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Corinne Fisher : Press Kit

October 14, 2026
Hop For Pop Press Kit Stand-up · Podcast Host · Storyteller Corinne Fisher She wrote and performed a one-woman show at 24, before she had even started stand-up — not because she was fearless, but because she did not yet know enough to be scared. She has been doing the hard thing first ever since.BasedNew…
Chloe Matonis : Press Kit
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Chloe Matonis : Press Kit

October 14, 2026
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…
CeeKay Brown : Press Kit
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CeeKay Brown : Press Kit

October 14, 2026
Hop For Pop Press Kit Stand-up · One-liners · Clown CeeKay Brown A one-liner comic who did 180 shows in her first year and 260 in her second — then took a head injury in a car crash and had to learn her own jokes again.Works inStand-up · Roast battle · Clown · Theatre Known…
Byron Bertram : Press Kit
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Byron Bertram : Press Kit

October 14, 2026
Hop For Pop Press Kit Stand-up · Character Comic · Street Performer Byron Bertram Twenty years a working comic in Canada, and it was a tracksuited Russian called Sergey Potensky — born out of a break-up — that finally made people remember his name.BasedVancouver, Canada Works inStand-up &middot…