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We've got an awesome show coming up on January 15!

Shanti Charan’s bubbly personality and contagious smile lure in audiences and her comedic abilities keeps them laughing. She is a fast-rising fresh face in the Bay Area comedy scene. Her ability to formulate quick connections makes it easy for her to communicate with diverse audiences. She won 1st place in the 2011 Rooster T Feather’s Comedy Competition and participated in the 2011 San Francisco International Comedy Competition where she advanced to the semi-finals. Charan was recently awarded SF Weekly’s 2012 Best Stand-Up on the Way Up. SF Weekly says Charan’s writing “is clever and confident beyond her years.” www.shanticharan.com

Jules Posner is a stand up comedian and San Francisco native. He has been described as a comedian who, “puts the ‘b’ in subtle”. Jules started performing stand up in the San Francisco Bay Area in January of 2009 and has established himself as a fixture in the comedy community. Jules has been featured on Jokes.com’s No Drink Minimum, Rooftopcomedy.com’s Road Trip on Hulu and Time Out New York Magazine. Although Jules is based in San Francisco, he performs all over the country. He has headlined shows from New York to Los Angeles and is a favorite at the SF Punchline as well as Cobb’s Comedy Club. Jules has also performed in multiple festivals such as SF Sketchfest 2011-2013, the SF Comedy and Burrito Festival, and the S.H.I.T.’s and Giggles Festival in Humboldt. He has also performed with some of the best comedians in the industry such as Maria Bamford,  Arj Barker, Chelsea Peretti, Kyle Kinane, Bobcat Goldthwait, and Mike Birbiglia just to name a few. www.julesposner.com/

Mary Van Note is a stand-up comedienne of the weird variety.  She performs at colleges, clubs and festivals across the country and she is the creator and star of the award winning Independent Film Channel web series The Mary Van Note Show: Gavin Really Wants Me.  The San Francisco Bay Guardian called her a “Zine-Queen Comedian” as she regularly makes zines, crafts and mini-comics.  Her specialties are stick-figures and cross-stitch.  She also posts regularly on her personal style and comics blog at www.maryvannote.com/blog. 

Also:

Jason Mack Iris Benson 85-year-old show "announcer" Remi Barron Improv from Narcissists Anonymous

And special guest Paul Simmons!

Where/When:

8pm Wednesday, January 15, 2014, at the intimate Mission District hot spot Stage Werx Theatre. Doors and refreshments at 7:30.

♥♥♥ Some heavily discounted tickets are available on Goldstar! ♥♥♥