Brava presents
Who’s Your Mami Comedy
THURSDAY, MAR 16, 2023
7:30pm in Brava’s Cabaret
Planning ahead? Tickets NOW on sale for our April 20th show with Sampson McCormick and more! Purchase tickets below!
Celebrate women's history month by laughing the patriarchy away at Brava's hit comedy series "Who's Your Mami Comedy" on Thursday March 16th, 2023 at 7:30pm. After selling out our February show in a flash Brava presents MORE badass comedy QUEENS in March : Dhaya Lakshminarayanan, Karinda Dobbins and Monica Palacios with boss emcees Marga Gomez and Riley Manlapaz. "Who's Your Mami Comedy" continues every third Thursday. Full bar available!
ABOUT THE COMEDIANs
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Dhaya Lakshminarayanan - Her debut album DHAYATRIBE debuted #2 on iTunes. Dhaya has received the Liz Carpenter Political Humor Award (previously awarded to Samantha Bee, Wanda Sykes and Mark Russell) for her stand-up. Comedy Central Asia crowned her the Grand Prize Winner of “The Ultimate Comedy Challenge” filmed in Singapore. A seasoned storyteller as well as comedian, Dhaya has been featured on NPR’s Snap Judgement She hosts the San Francisco’s monthly "Moth StorySLAM" and has appeared on the "Moth Radio Hour and Podcast." Her latest television project is “Dating With Dhaya” on KQED.
photo by Jennifer Graham
Karinda Dobbins newly released debut comedy album Black & Blue is available on all streaming services. She has performed at comedy festivals across the country including Comedy Central's Clusterfest, SF Sketchfest, and Bridgetown Comedy Festival. She has opened for, Trevor Noah, Gina Yashere and Arsenio Hall. She has been featured on SiriusXM Radio, Nick At Night and Logo's NewNowNext.
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Monica Palacios is a Chicana lesbian playwright and solo performer living in Los Angeles, creating work promoting the LGBTQ Latinx experience. Palacios is one of the first Chicana lesbian comics to be out and proud on stage during the 80s in San Francisco when the AIDS crisis was raging and homophobia was rampant. Because of her triumphant history, national and international scholars have critically engaged her work in academic journals, books, dissertations and conference panels. Numerous undergraduate and graduate courses regularly incorporate her live, published and video archived work into their curricula. Monica is a 2024 United States Artist Fellow Nominee. She is featured in the new queer film: STAND UP, STAND OUT: The Making of a Comedy Movement, winner of Best Documentary Santa Fe Film Festival 2021, about the first gay comedy club in the nation in San Francisco during the 1980s, directed by David Pavlosky. Palacios received the Nancy Dean Lesbian Playwriting Award 2021 by Open Meadows Foundation. Monica was selected as the Lucille Geier Lakes Writer-in-Residence at Smith College, Spring 2019. Monica was granted The McKenna Guest Theater Artist Award 2019 at Holyoke Community College. Palacios received a Postdoctoral Rockefeller Fellowship from UC Santa Barbara, enabling her to write, direct and produce her play: Sweet Peace. Monica has worked with iconic playwrights: Maria Irene Fornés, Luis Alfaro, Migdalia Cruz and Paula Vogel. Palacios has received numerous awards, including from the City of Los Angeles as a Latinx LGBTQ Trailblazer 2017. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa declared October 12, 2012 “Monica Palacios Day” honoring her 30-year career as a pioneering Chicana lesbian writer/performer.
Tickets now on sale for Monica’s one women show San Francisco Mi Amor! happening at Brava in April!
Hosted by Marga Gomez & Riley Manlapaz
Marga Gomez Co-Host is the creator, curator and Head Mami of “Who’s your Mami Comedy” She is also a nationally touring comedian and the writer performer of 13 solo plays.
Riley Manlapaz Co-Host has been a frequent host and emcee of San Francisco media events. He has also performed at the National Queer Arts Festival and Great American Music Hall.
(Save the date April 20th 2023 - Who’s Your Mami Comedy celebrates 420)
TICKETS
$15 (including fees)
ABOUt who’s your mami comedy
Who’s Your Mami Comedy was created as a hilariously trenchant response to misogyny in the comedy industry. But in the upside down new normal Brava’s women-led, rotating line up of deeply funny, culturally diverse, subversive comedians will mix truths with hot takes, a little raunch, and a mega dose of ‘red hat’ unfriendly weaponized wit aiming where no punchline has gone before.