Girls Nite Out
Get ready to laugh out loud! Gather the girls, partners, family and friends and head to Shenkman Arts Centre for a night of belly laughing with these Canadian, award-winning female comedians in their side-splitting improv and stand-up comedy show.
Elvira Kurt
Elvira is a Canadian Screen Award, Canadian Comedy Award, Cannes Film Festival Award-winning, trail-blazing, blazer-wearing, queer comedy icon. You may have seen her on Canada’s Drag Race (Crave), The Great Canadian Baking Show (CBC), Baroness Von Sketch Show (Prime), The Debaters and ‘q’ (CBC).
Jennine Profeta
Jennine is an actor, improviser, teacher and writer. She was a member of The Second City’s National Touring Company (Canadian), spent a year performing sketch and improv comedy for The Second City aboard Norwegian Cruise Lines in the Mediterranean and Caribbean, and was a corporate improv facilitator at The Second City Works (Toronto & Chicago).
Diana Frances
Diana Frances is a Canadian Screen Award winning comedy writer for her work on "Corner Gas: Animated." She has also been nominated for a Writer’s Guild of Canada Award for Best Writing: Comedy and was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for writing the Canadian Screen Awards. Hello Canadian showbiz! As an improviser, Diana has been nominated for eight Canadian Comedy Awards.
Karen Parker
Karen Parker is a five-time Canadian Comedy Award winning actor and an alumna of the Second City Toronto Mainstage where she was nominated for the prestigious Dora Mavor Moore Award. Karen has performed with theatre companies across Canada, including a most recent run of She the People with Mirvish Productions. She tours the world with her comedy troupe, The Lusty Mannequins. They were named ‘Best of the Fest’ at the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival and won the ‘Best Comedy Characters of the Year’ Award from Phoenix Remix, UK for their show Uncommonwealth, which debuted at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe.
Jordan Armstrong (musical accompanist)
Jordan Armstrong is a versatile composer, musical director and performer known for her improvised accompaniment and band leading. Highlights include composing for and musical directing three critically acclaimed Second City Mainstage reviews, Death Ray Cabaret (Best of the Fest, Outstanding Performance, Outstanding Production Toronto Fringe 2019).
