Post Solo Show Glow
It’s taken me a while to blog about my solo stand-up show (a month) but that’s because I’m still processing the awesomeness…. On Friday 26th October I performed my first solo stand-up show This Much I Know to a packed house at the Flying Beaver Pubaret. I was nervous as hell but the show went well, I filled a full hour and the crowd were appreciative, vocal and gave me a standing O at the end. Heather and Maggie at the Flying Beaver made everything run so...
Read MoreMy first solo show sold out!
I did it! I sold out the show. Five days ahead of time. I am unreasonably excited. And properly scared. Which I think is appropriate for your first solo stand-up show. Right now I’m finessing a couple of jokes and running my material ready for Friday night. According to the data from Brown Paper Tickets the audience will be just the right mix of fans who know my material, friends who’ve never seen my stand-up before and complete strangers. I’m very grateful to Maggie Cassella...
Read MoreTickets on sale for my show
It’s really happening. Tickets are now available for my first solo stand-up show entitled “This Much I Know” which takes place on Friday October 26th at 7pm at the Flying Beaver Pubaret. You can either get them from Brown Paper Tickets or at the Flying Beaver. Dinner is available before, during, and after the show. Please note that dinner patrons get priority seating. So I would go ahead and call 647.347.6567 and make a reservation for supper. The food at the Flying Beaver...
Read MoreMe and Nikki Payne get interviewed at TIFF
It was our one-and-only interview during TIFF, but it was a doozie! Katie Uhlmann describes herself on her YouTube channel as a “freelance entertainment host who chats with professionals in the entertainment industry” – and boy does she get around! (In the nicest possible way, natch.) Prolific doesn’t come close to describing this fine lady’s work as an internet chat show host. Annie Bradley, the director of The WBI (the movie we just pitched at TIFF), said that...
Read MoreMy one-woman show(s)
Maggie Cassella called my bluff. After my second night performing at The McComedy Show (and having been at the Flying Beaver Pubaret for Topher McFarlane’s The GLAM! Pride Game Show Revue) Maggie, who runs the Flying Beaver, told me I should do a one-woman show there. I told her I was toying with the idea of a one-woman show. She told me I should email her the next day with a date. I did. It’s on. Fuckadoodle. Now I have to write the bastard. I have seven weeks. I want the show to...
Read More2011 – an amazing year!
2011 was an incredible year for me professionally for many reasons. At the beginning of January I was looking forward to returning to London, Ontario to play Madge Larrabee in the Grand Theatre‘s production of Sherlock Holmes, the Final Adventure. I was delighted to have something in the pipeline. In the second week of January my agent called and said that I had an audition for The Railway Children. Rehearsals would start two weeks after Sherlock Holmes closed. It was too good to be...
Read MoreThis week’s gig – it’s a doozie
Wanna see Sandra Shamas (and me) for $10? Here’s how. West End Girls is a monthly all-female stand-up show (featuring one token boy) produced by Daniela Saioni and features many comics who trained, as I did, with Dawn Whitwell. The show normally takes place at Poor John’s Cafe in Toronto’s West End (hence the title of the show) but for the anniversary shows Daniela likes to take it up a notch and have a fancy location. This year we’re performing at The Royal Cinema with...
Read MoreIn the news again
The Brantford Comedy Festival is in the news again! This article appeared in Brant News today. And I get a mention – hooray! I dunno, all this media attention could go to a girl’s head. First The Sputnik and now Brant News – where will it end? I had a blast tonight opening for Tom Green at Chrysalids Theatre in Kitchener. The audience were very responsive and Tom is a super-nice guy. I can’t wait to do it again in Niagara Falls tomorrow night and on Saturday night in...
Read MoreMarilla who?
I am a British-born actress and stand-up comic who does lots of voice work (for commercials, cartoons and corporate clients) and sometimes, when I'm very lucky, tv and film. When I was in England I did mostly theatre. Now I'm in Canada I spend the majority of the time writing and performing stand-up. When I'm not producing and mcing Storytelling at Caplansky's, that is. And that's me for you.