Half Empty Half Full is a competition of wits between optimists and pessimists, where Austin’s sharpest, stand-up comedians, writers and artists battle out their positive and negative points of view in front of a panel of entertaining judges! Hosted by Valerie Nies.
Judging at a pun competition. Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wordplayfest-tickets-1379958275349
Half Empty Half Full is a competition of wits between optimists and pessimists, where Austin’s sharpest, stand-up comedians, writers and artists battle out their positive and negative points of view in front of a panel of entertaining judges! Hosted by Valerie Nies.
Half Empty Half Full is a competition of wits between optimists and pessimists, where Austin’s sharpest, stand-up comedians, writers and artists battle out their positive and negative points of view in front of a panel of entertaining judges! Hosted by Valerie Nies.
Half Empty Half Full is a competition of wits between optimists and pessimists, where Austin’s sharpest, stand-up comedians, writers and artists battle out their positive and negative points of view in front of a panel of entertaining judges! Hosted by Valerie Nies.
Half Empty Half Full is a competition of wits between optimists and pessimists, where Austin’s sharpest, stand-up comedians, writers and artists battle out their positive and negative points of view in front of a panel of entertaining judges! Hosted by Valerie Nies.
Half Empty Half Full is a competition of wits between optimists and pessimists, where Austin’s sharpest, stand-up comedians, writers and artists battle out their positive and negative points of view in front of a panel of entertaining judges! Hosted by Valerie Nies.
Half Empty Half Full is a competition of wits between optimists and pessimists, where Austin’s sharpest, stand-up comedians, writers and artists battle out their positive and negative points of view in front of a panel of entertaining judges! Hosted by Valerie Nies.
Half Empty Half Full is a competition of wits between optimists and pessimists, where Austin’s sharpest, stand-up comedians, writers and artists battle out their positive and negative points of view in front of a panel of entertaining judges! Hosted by Valerie Nies.
Half Empty Half Full is a competition of wits between optimists and pessimists, where Austin’s sharpest, stand-up comedians, writers and artists battle out their positive and negative points of view in front of a panel of entertaining judges! Hosted by Valerie Nies.
Half Empty Half Full is a literary comedy game show with a twist! Optimism versus pessimism—Austin's sharpest and wittiest stand-up comics and writers share their talents and compete to determine if the glass is half empty or half full. The show's host, comedian and poet Valerie Nies (McSweeney's, Rattle, and the comedy show Smile More), is joined by a panel of clever judges to choose who wins: the comedians and writers who see life half full or half empty!
The lineup for February includes stand-up comedians Ernest Evans Sr. and Katie Felton along with writers Wendi Aarons and Jamie Yael Katz.
Judges include the cynically hilarious: Stephanie Chiarello, Jason Dudey, and Half Empty Half Full staple Tyler Randle.
Tickets: https://coldtownetheater.fourthwalltickets.com/shows/half-empty-half-full
How To Say You’re Afraid Of Commitment In 140 Characters Or Less
A One Woman Show by Valerie Nies!
Voted Best of Week at Frontera Fest! How to Say You’re Afraid of Commitment in 140 Characters of Less is a comedy show that answers questions like: Do our wounded inner children make all of our relationships polyamorous?
Writer and performer Valerie Nies (McSweeney’s, Reductress, Out of Bounds Comedy Festival) explores the humor in breakups, relationship self-help, and all that she learned from finally finishing the book Attached.
Featuring Denise O' Young and hosted by Samantha Rae Lopez.
How To Say You’re Afraid of Commitment in 140 Characters Or Less, by Valerie Nies. A standup/one-woman hybrid performance that answers questions like: Do our wounded inner children make all of our relationships polyamorous? Writer and performer Valerie Nies (McSweeney's, Reductress, Out of Bounds Comedy Festival) explores the humor in breakups, relationship self-help, and all that she learned from finally finishing the book Attached. Part of FronteraFest’s Short Fringe. Buy Tickets
Smile More! is a feminist standup comedy show that’ll have the audience smiling, but not because some random dude on the street suggested it. Austin’s most unapologetically funny women break through the glass microphone to deliver big laughs. Period.
Valerie Nies hosts a curated night of comedy from a combination of veteran and beginner all-female, all-funny standup comics in this showcase that recurs the first Saturday of the month.
Grab friends, get drinks, and guffaw!
November Lineup:
Ashley Overton
Emily Howell
Holli Cuomo
Lana Knight
and headliner: Arielle Norman!
Smile More! is a feminist standup comedy show that’ll have the audience smiling, but not because some random dude on the street suggested it. Austin’s most unapologetically funny women break through the glass microphone to deliver big laughs. Period.
Valerie Nies hosts a curated night of comedy from a combination of veteran and beginner all-female, all-funny standup comics in this showcase that recurs the first Saturday of the month.
Grab friends, get drinks, and guffaw!
***PLUS IF YOU WANT TO VOTE IN TRAVIS COUNTY IN NOVEMBER***, but aren't registered, or moved, you can register/update your info at this event.
October Lineup:
Allison Wojtowecz
Jonna Juul-Hansen
Brett VerVoort
Jamie Meeks
and headliner: YOLA LU!
Performing improv with Red Handed.
Smile More! is a feminist standup comedy show that’ll have the audience smiling, but not because some random dude on the street suggested it. Austin’s most unapologetically funny women break through the glass microphone to deliver big laughs. Period.
Valerie Nies hosts a curated night of comedy from a combination of veteran and beginner all-female, all-funny standup comics in this showcase that recurs the first Saturday of the month.
Grab friends, get drinks, and guffaw!
***PLUS IF YOU WANT TO VOTE IN TRAVIS COUNTY IN NOVEMBER***, but aren't registered, or moved, you can register/update your info at this event.
September Lineup:
Norah Franklin
Maria Geary
Rachel Hall
Sarah Szarzynski
and headliner: Melody Shifflet!
Performing improv with Red Handed
August Lineup:
Brandi Davis
Hope Carew
Lauren Deaton
Sam Noorani
and headliner: Elizabeth Spears!
Smile More! is a feminist standup comedy show that’ll have the audience smiling, but not because some random dude on the street suggested it. Austin’s most unapologetically funny women break through the glass microphone to deliver big laughs. Period.
Valerie Nies hosts a curated night of comedy from a combination of veteran and beginner all-female, all-funny standup comics in this showcase that recurs the first Saturday of the month.
Grab friends, get drinks, and guffaw!
July Lineup:
Angelina Martin
Emily Howell
Espi Rivandeneira
Jennifer Dorsey
and headliner: Lisa Friedrich!
Smile More! is a feminist standup comedy show that’ll have the audience smiling, but not because some random dude on the street suggested it. Austin’s most unapologetically funny women break through the glass microphone to deliver big laughs. Period.
Valerie Nies hosts a curated night of comedy from a combination of veteran and beginner all-female, all-funny standup comics in this showcase that recurs the first Saturday of the month.
Grab friends, get drinks, and guffaw!
June Lineup:
Jessica Leath
Becca Taute
Tori Jones
Holli Cuomo
Megan Tucei
and headliner: Lea'h Sampson!
This MAY be the best lineup we've had all year (definitely the best this month). Come check out standup from some of the great local Austin comedians:
Joe Tullar
Valerie Nies
Symply Courtney
Emily Howell
Shariq Iqbal
Jami Shofner
Leon Liu
Smile More! is a feminist standup comedy show that’ll have the audience smiling, but not because some random dude on the street suggested it. Austin’s most unapologetically funny women break through the glass microphone to deliver big laughs. Period.
Valerie Nies hosts a curated night of comedy from a combination of veteran and beginner all-female, all-funny standup comics in this showcase that recurs the first Saturday of the month.
Grab friends, get drinks, and guffaw!
May Lineup:
Colleen McCollough
Liz King
Marla Camp
Maria Geary
Sahana Srinivasan
and headliner: Christina Parrish!
Red Handed improv battles Eenie Meanie Beanie Babies in this cagematch-style show.