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Live From Dayton... |
It's Saturday Night! |
Saturday March 25, 2006
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Admission Is Free! |
Everyone Welcome! |
Cash Bar |
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With Hour Host & MC
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Gordon Kirkland has been writing his syndicated humor column, Gordon Kirkland At Large, for Canadian and American newspapers since 1994. His first two books, Justice Is Blind - And Her Dog Just Peed In My Cornflakes and Never Stand Behind A Loaded Horse, each received Canada's Stephen Leacock Award of Merit For Humour. His third book, When My Mind Wanders It Brings Back Souvenirs, is nominated or this year's Leacock Award. He will be launching his latest book, I Think I'm Having One Of Those Decades at this year's Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop. He's been called 'one of North America's premier humorists.' He brings his stories to life in his live appearances throughout Canada and the United States, some of which are featured on his live comedy CD, I'm Big For My Age. |
and featuring appearances by Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Attendees: |
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Virginia Armstrong planned to be a comedian when she graduated from high school many years ago, but a job, marriage, kids, and career interfered. As an urban high school teacher and principal, she's been an audience for many comedy sketches -- both on stage and off. She is an instructor and consultant for the University of Virginia; published articles in The Virginian Pilot Newspaper and The Tidewater Women. Virginia is currently writing a memoir that will be ready to send to an agent this August. |
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Seth Brown (aka The Rising Pun) is a humor writer, just like the rest of you. He has led a classical kazoo quintet, and would have been a rapper if he wasn't so uncool and so white. In addition to writing columns for a few small papers you've never heard of, he appears frequently in the Washington Post's Style Invitational, is a contributor to the OEDILF (OED In Limerick Form), and is the author of Think You're The Only One. |
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Jessica Burgess is a 29-year-old columnist for Quick, a publication of The Dallas Morning News. She lives in Dallas, Texas, where from what we can gather from her website, she is in the habit of renting monkeys for her husband, partaking in alcoholic beverages and swinging from staircase banisters. She says she no longer skydives because, "I broke my ass..." | |
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Heather Campbell's biggest claim to fame is going to the Junior Prom with humorist Dave Barry. She has been working on a second claim to fame ever since! She has won more than 20 awards for her creativity, public speaking, and writing. Her communications experience includes public relations, marketing communications, and journalism. She has worked for media, publishing, and educational organizations. She is active in Toastmasters and has competed in international, humorous, and extemporaneous public speaking contests, placing at city and state level contests. She is active in the Boston area stand-up comedy scene and enjoys jewelry making. |
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Jenn Dlugos' edgy and off-beat humor has been charming crowds all over the Northeast. Her musings (read: idiotic ramblings) were recently featured in Traveler's Tales, Whose Panties are These? In August 2004, her stand-up was featured on the USA World Showcase for the PAX network where she won Most Promising Comic and was a runner-up for Best in Show. | |
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Sasha Faynor is 44 going on 24 on a good day. Otherwise, emotionally, she's a frustrated 14-year-old would-be ballerina/punk rock singer. By day she's been a feature writer, a secretary, a business writer, a technical writer, and a school teacher. By night she turns into her alter-ego, a pre-published non-fiction author and little published creative writer -- screenplays, humor column, and short stories. She's currently shopping my, at times, darkly humorous manuscript Memoir of Madness and Healing which depicts my overcoming disabling manic depression and addiction. |
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Debbie Finley lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, Keith, and two gold retriever mutts. She worked as a freelance cartoonist in the mid 1980s which led to computer graphics and computer programming in the 1990s. Now, she is now going to graduate school in Mass Communication at Texas State and is pursuing comedy writing and performing. | |
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Danny Gallagher was born in New Orleans. He left his heart in San Francisco and his liver in Scranton. He now lives in Texas. He is a freelance writer, humorist and reporter. He writes two weekly columns including called Movies that Suck, stories of life, love and the lack thereof at a theater near you. He also works as a ghostwriter for several stand-up comics and authors, and is a regular contributor to Arriviste Press.com. |
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Dave Glardon is a product of the fifties who came of age in the seventies and is still trying to figure out the nineties. Since 1999, he has amused readers and live audiences with his witty perspective on life. It's spicy, irreverent, and provocative, yet tame enough for the family. Well, most families. Dave entered the world of comedy with his award-winning humor column. Dave is a favorite at comedy clubs throughout the Midwest, and is a regular guest on Killin' Time (WKWH 1520 AM - Shelbyville , IN ). Audiences love his witty perspective on the things we tend to take for granted, but usually don't discuss around the dinner table. From medical exams to parenting, he finds the humor in every situation and leaves audiences begging for more. |
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 Mary Hirsch |
Mary Hirsch is a writer, playwright, comedian, and swell gal. Her first play The Indian Princesses was produced by her third grade class at Robert Fulton Elementary School in Minneapolis , Minnesota to rave reviews from mothers, teachers and fellow classmates. Thirty-five years later her second play Gianni Sent Me was produced by Bravissimo Entertainment International and ran for 18 months in Minneapolis . She is currently working on a new play “Shady Lady” based on the life of actress Ruth Gordon. Mary was a writer for Garrison Keillor's nationally acclaimed radio program "A Prairie Home Companion." She has published two books: I Wake-Up Beautiful . . . And Other Fantasies and A Treasury of Office Humor. She was chosen Funniest Woman in Minnesota by the readers of the Minnesota Women's Press, Mary's one woman shows Pull Yourself Up By Your Bra Straps and If I Don't Marry Davy Jones I'll Just Die were sell-out hits for the past three years at the Minnesota Fringe Festival. More importantly, Mary can play the Beer Barrel Polka on her hands, walk like a penguin, touch her tongue to her nose, sing the entire score of The Music Man and is eh reel gud spellur. |
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Sharyn Lonsdale grew up in Boston and now for reasons that she still hasn't figured out, lives in Englewood, Florida, the only town in America without a Starbucks.
She is a reporter for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune where she writes a column and covers pig roasts, spelling bees and way too many Red Hat Society gatherings.
She is married to a man who watched a lot of BBC America, despite not being British, but we'll let her explain that. She has two teen-age daughters which may explain why she drinks heavily. |
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 Lynnette Sheffield |
Lynette Sheffield was born in San Diego, however, for reasons that cannot be explained to anyone's satisfaction, she is currently living in Bend , Oregon . She started writing online in 2002. She's been a stay-at-home mom since the birth of her son. She graduated from San Diego State University in 1984 and remains a huge Aztec, Padres and Chargers fan. Lynette shares her home with three dogs, two cats, three guinea pigs, one rabbit and a hedgehog, two kids and one extremely tolerant husband.
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 Michele Wojciechowski |
Michele Wojciechowski performed her first standup comedy routine nearly 20 years ago when she was a senior in high school. Uh, make that kindergarten... She has performed locally in Baltimore, Maryland, where she was born, raised, and lives today. For more than a decade, she has worked as a full-time freelance writer and editor and published in Family Circle, womenswallstreet.com, Maryland Life, and Baltimore Magazine, among many others. Her weekly humor column Wojo's World, runs in the Times-Herald in Baltimore. All in the name of getting a story, she has ridden an elephant, done aerobics with Richard Simmons, worked as a serving wench at a Renaissance Festival, and walked on the catwalk over the shark tank at the National Aquarium in Baltimore - and lived to tell about it. |
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