FUNNY GIRLS ON FILM FESTIVAL
You’ve seen ‘em on Comedy Central, The Guggenheim and YouTube and even on the New York Times site. Finally they come together for one unique and rousing performance of the newest generation of filmmakers/comedians – The Funny Girls on Film Festival, featuring award winning shorts coupled stellar stand-up performances. It will be film festival meets stand-up and back again.
This festival features the hilarious video and comedic work of Ilana Glazer, Jena Friedman, Abbi Jacobson, Livia Scott, Jessica Delfino, Hilary Schwartz, Rachael Parenta and Anya Garrett and many special guests.
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Friday July 8th @7pm
Opening Reception – featuring the photography of Mindy Tucker, Joanne Levey, Anya Garrett and Flash Rosnberg
8pm screening/show featuring Jessica Delfino & Jena Friedman
Saturday July 9th @5pm featuring Rachel Parenta & Hilary Schwartz
Saturday July 9th @9pm featuring Ilana Glazer & Abbi Jacobson
Sunday July 10th @ 7pm featuring Livia Scott & Anya Garrett
Q&A/Wine & Cheese Reception to follow each screening
TIX INFO
Per Screening $10 ADV/$12 Door screening/show
Full Weekend Pass $30 ADV/$35 Door
TIX: http://tinyurl.com/fgfilm
GIRL GONE BLUE presents
JJO PRODUCTIONS
JESSICA DELFINO is an NYC based comedian, musician, performer and writer who plays many instruments ranging from the flying V ukulele to the rape whistle. She grew up in Damariscotta, Maine and went to art school in Philadelphia where she studied animation. Delfino decided to try stand-up comedy when a comedian she met said females couldn’t do comedy.
After soon moving to NYC, Jessica started playing chess and performing at comedy clubs and on any stage she could find, which morphed into playing music into the subway. Jessica then began bringing her guitar on stage and making videos which led to to her public denouncement by the Catholic League and banning, then unbanning from Youtube.
She has performed on ABC’s “Good Morning America”, The Sundance Channel, Fox News’ “Red Eye”, in the Reading & Leeds Festival, Montreal Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Fest, Dublin Comedy Festival, London’s Soho Theatre.
“I’ve had a whole ton of fun and adventures,” Delfino says of her career. “It hasn’t all been rainbows and unicorns, but even the shitty parts are probably better than your job.”
JENA FRIEDMAN is a comedian, writer and actor living in New York. Her work has been featured in such publications as New York Magazine, Glamour, Salon, Hulu, Gawker, Current TV, The Huffington Post,The Chicago Tribune, Funny or Die, Atom Films and Time Out New York.
As a stand up, Jena can be seen performing around the world. She will be appearing in the 2011 Glasgow International Comedy Festival, the 2011 Boston Women in Comedy Festival and the 2011 SXSW Music Festival. She has also recently performed at the Kukabarra Comedy Club in Berlin, The Pranzo in Paris, the 2010 Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, the Laughing Skull Festival in Atlanta and the 2010 Glasgow Comedy Festival in Scotland.
Jena has appeared in a few music videos and comedic sketches on Atom.com, Funny or Die,UCBcomedy.com, College Humor and was recently the female lead in American Florence, and independent feature film shot in Italy and expected to be released Fall 2010. In addition, her play, “The Refugee Girls Revue: A Musical Parody,” received critical acclaim in The 2008 New York International Fringe Festival. Jena hosts a bi-weekly variety show in the East Village called “Entertaining the Bartender,” a goal the show often lives up to. For more information, check out www.jenafriedman.com.
ILANA GLAZER is a comedy writer, actor, and stand-up living in Brooklyn. She has produced sketch and stand-up shows with her brother, Eliot, including the variety sketch show, High School Talent Show, that ran at the UCB for 3 years, the stand-up show, New York Shitty, and multi-media storytelling show, Baby Steps.
She continues to do stand-up around the city and write one-off sketches in addition to her web series, co-created and produced with Abbi Jacobson, Broad City.
She can tap dance, too.
ANYA GARRETT is a photographer, filmmaker, and performer. She’s documented the NYC downtown comedy scene for over 6 years and has been recognized multiple times at the ECNY Awards. Anya‘s book containing a full year of daily self portraits, 365(6), was just published.
She’s been seen on Comedy Central’s STELLA as well as onstage at UCB. Works in film and television that she has contributed to have been recognized by the Emmy and Webby Awards, and at the NY Television Festival. She recently produced the first season of a syndicated late night talk show, and had her first gallery exhibition in Soho. Sometimes, Anya even sleeps. http://anyagarrett.com 
ABBI JACOBSON is a writer, performer and visual artist living in New York City. She is 1/2 of the cult web series Broad City which has been releasing episodes for a year and has been featured in the NYTimes, The Wall Street Journal, and overthe AV Club.
Abbi can currently be seen performing her solo show,Welcome to Camp! at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater in New York.
Abbi is also an illustrator who’s work can be seen in AOL’s new campaign, as well as TwoOneFive Magazine.
LIVIA SCOTT is an actress, comedian and character powerhouse who’s appeared on Law & Order, Late Night With Conan O’Brien, the Comedy Central series Honesty, the upcoming feature filmSnatched as Andrew McCarthy’s nurse and she pulls a Peter Sellers by playing about 7 different roles in National Lampoon’s Dirty Movie directed by Christopher Meloni.
She’s an ensemble player in The Shushan Channel by writers from The Daily Show With Jon Stewart with guest appearances by Will Forte, Scott Adsit, Rachel Dratch, John Oliver & Joel McHale; Wake Up World by Lizz Winstead (co-creator of The Daily Show) and MEAT, the critically acclaimed all-female sketch phenomenon hailed as “One of the nation’s best groups” by THE ONION.
Livia also does stand up at Moonwork, Sweet, Tell Your Friends, Hot Tub with Kurt Braunholer & Kristen Schaal and was a double ECNY Award nominee for Best Emerging Comic of the Year and Best Solo Show for Goodnight, OJ, her adaptation of real letters written to OJ Simpson which ran for a year at UCB and was directed by Baron Vaughn.
She has been featured in The New York Times, Backstage, The New York Post, The NY Daily News and The Apiary.
Recently she won the 2010 Channy Award for Best Actress in a Web Series for Saving Love and was just named “One Of Our Favorite 53 Female Comedians” by THE HUFFINGTON POST.
RACHAEL PARENTA, stand-up comedian extraordinaire, resides in Brooklyn. Audiences have been laughing at her from coast to coast and all over NYC. The New York City Underground Comedy Festival named Ms. Parenta an “Emerging Comedian.”
When not performing Ms. Parenta is writing writing writing having had short and full-length plays produced on both costs as well having contributed prose to Gawker.com and the 2009 book What Was I Thinking?! among others.
Currently, Rachael keeps busy as the co-producer and co-headliner of the comedy, variety show “Please, Someone Kill Me!”— Emotionally inappropriate comedy.
FLASH ROSENBERG is a cartoonist, writer, photographer, poet, performer, turtle wrangler and artist-in-residence for LIVE from the New York Public Library, where she draws discussions between prominent authors, in real-time to animate “Conversation Portraits.”
Flash has created animations for CNBC, Harper Collins Publishers, the Lower Eastside Girls Club, and created the pilot for a new animated show by Cindy Chupak, former writer and executive producer for Sex and the City.
In her current solo performance “Laughing at the Speed of Light,” she romps through hundreds of original, projected images to humorously examine our transition from a film to digital mentality. She has performed internationally and was featured in the January 2011 “Light in Winter Festival of Arts and Science” at Cornell University.
She is a regular performer in “Monologues and Madness,” a poet with “Brevitas” and a main-stage performer for “The Moth,” an urban storytelling venue.
Her photos for radio, “audio snapshots” called“Flash Moments,” were a daily feature on public radio in Philadelphia (WXPN-fm) and in New York (WBAI-fm).
Her cartoons, drawings and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News, the Forward, The Funny Times, Lilith Magazine, and numerous, humor anthologies.
Her award-winning, 30-minute motion picture Pulse of Desire, screened internationally. Her photo-animated short, Mattress Melt aired on public television.
She was the Founder and Executive Director of Flash Artists, a troupe of thirty photo/art-clowns basedin Philadelphia, and dedicated to supporting independent artists by offering interactive art experiences for all kinds of public, private and corporate events. VIMEO
Ranging from personal subjects to social commentary, HILARY SCHWARTZ’s stand-up comedy is intelligent, dark, honest, and somehow still adorable. She has been heard on XM Radio and seen on MTV. Hilary has been featured in TimeOut New York, Heeb Magazine, and The Washington Post. Hilary has opened for established comedians, including Dave Attell, Cory Kahaney, and Jonathan Katz. She was selected to perform at the 2010 and 2011 Women in Comedy Festival in Boston, was a finalist in the DC Improv’s comedy contest, and appeared in the long-running San Francisco show, Kung Pao Kosher Comedy.
Hers is a rare act that translates successfully from New York clubs to alterative showcases to road shows. With nearly ten years experience as a stand-up, she has appeared at New York clubs, such as Carolines, Stand-Up New York, and Comix, and has been a regular presence on alternative shows in the city. Her comedy has taken her on the road from California to Canada, not to mention, Delaware.
Hilary tours regularly with the critically acclaimed variety show, Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad. She has hit the road with the Obama Girls of Comedy. And she was co-producer and writer for the variety show, Urban Hee Haw, a Village Voice Choice. Her comedic writing can be read in What Was I Thinking?: 58 Bad Boyfriend Stories, alongside Carrie Fisher and writers from “Sex and the City,“ a book featured on “The Today Show“. Her comedic writing was also tapped for the collection, Half-Jewish: A Celebration. Hilary also writes and performs comedy songs. She has written for and performed with the alt-country-music-comedy act, The Manson Family Singers, whose album is titledSaggy Boobs and Other Hits. She was selected for “Music Is A Joke” at Stand-Up New York. Other projects include the mini-podcast, Agreeing at the Top of Our Lungs with comedian Rena Zager and which is available on iTunes. She also co-produces a show and comedic shorts under the banner, Please, Someone Kill Me with comedian Rachael Parenta. She was the creator of the much-loved 90s ‘zine, Melrose Place Journal, and most significantly, at eight years old wrote The Bow-Wow Times, a much-needed newspaper for dogs.
Hilary was born and raised in Washington, D.C., where she attended DC public schools and learned to type. She typed well enough to graduate with honors from New York University. She is also the proud aunt of several animals.
Producer/Ringleader:
SUSANNAH PEARLMAN AKA Goddess Perlman is a comedian/chanteuse and the ringleader of “Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad,” a variety extravaganza that has traveled the country far and wide. Perlman has also been featured on two season’s of “Last Comic Standing” on NBC.
In addition, she has performed on every stage known to man, has appeared in numerous festivals, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, NY, Burlesque Festival, The HOWL Festival and The NY Underground Comedy Festival.
She has been on WE, TLC, MTV and several other media outlets at 4 in the morning because that’s when her audience is tuned in. She has a few albums to her credit. “Beating Around the Bush” and “The Goddess Bless America” and has won a few awards for her musical video.
