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IAN KARMEL
Ian Karmel is an Emmy award winning LA-based stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. Ian was head writer for The Late Late Show with James Corden, and was one of the founding writers in the show's 2015 re-creation. His stand-up has been featured on Conan, The Late Late Show, Comedy Central, Netflix's The Comedy Line Up, and as Just for Laughs New Face in 2013. His debut comedy album, 9.2 on Pitchfork, was released in 2015. Ian hosts the weekly podcast All Fantasy Everything, where funny people and experts come together to fantasy draft pop culture. Ian played an instrumental role in Portland's comedy renaissance and was voted Portland's Funniest Person in their inaugural contest. His debut memoir, T-Shirt Swim Club, co-written with his sister Alisa Karmel, explore the daily humiliations of being fat and why it’s so hard to talk about something so visible. Kirkus calls it “a comic and philosophical exploration suffused with hard-won wisdom and charming wit.”
LAURIE KILMARTIN
Laurie Kilmartin is a comedian and an Emmy-nominated/WGA Award-winning writer for CONAN, who has also written for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, The Late Late Show, and Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. She has performed standup on CONAN, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Comedy Central and Showtime. Her standup special, 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad, made Vulture’s list of Top Ten Comedy Specials of 2016. Laurie has written two books, Dead People Suck and the New York Times bestseller Shitty Mom. She and fellow comic Jackie Kashian host a popular podcast about standup comedy called The Jackie and Laurie Show. Her new one hour comedy special, Cis Woke Grief Slut, is availale on AppleTV, Amazon Prime and YouTube.
NOË ÁLVAREZ
Noé Álvarez was born to Mexican immigrant parents and raised working-class in Yakima, Washington. His first book, "Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land," chronicled a four–month–long journey from Canada to Guatemala alongside other indigenous runners and was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. His latest book, "Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico," is an odyssey to repair a severed family lineage, told through the surprising history of a musical instrument. Booklist calls him "an essential contemporary voice" and Publishers Weekly calls this book "[a] poignant blend of personal and cultural history."
LIZZIE NO
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Lizzie No has been hailed by NPR as "a magnetic performer and a rising star in the folk world." She burst onto the indie folk scene with her 2017 debut "Hard Won," praised by Billboard for being "simultaneously understated and fervent." After a dizzying five-year span (including appearances at AmericanaFest, the Newport Folk Festival, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, and SXSW, as well as tours with Iron & Wine, Son Little, and Adia Victoria), she found herself at the forefront of a new vanguard of genre-defying artists. Her latest album, "Halfsies," searches for freedom from the constraints of categorization, her own personal despair, and an increasingly violent and nightmarish American cultural and political landscape. Rolling Stone calls it "a daring leap forward that's bound to make new fans."