Jackie Monahan is a bi-coastal comedian and actress who is very excited to have her stand up featured on Showtime’s Pride Comedy Jam. She has been taking the country by storm with her national tours, Delightfully Inappropriate and award winning Andrea Meyerson’s Curiously Strong Comedy. Most recently, Jackie starred in Madeleine Olnek’s feature film, Co-Dependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same which premiered, to rave reviews, at this years Sundance Film Festival. Along with her hit podcast, “Girls on Girls” for the Here! Network, she regularly guest stars for Maxim’s Sirus  and VH1 shows. Look out for Jackie on MTV’s LOGO , “One Night Stand Up”  Nominated as Best Female Stand Up Comedian by ECNY and was the winner of Time Out New York’s Joke of the Year in 2009. She is GO Magazine’s 100 Women We Love. After Elton declares ”Jackie Monahan stands out… she was laugh outloud hilarious. The Edge Provincetown claims ”Jackie Monahan is poised to break out to the larger world, a la Ellen.” Nothing is off limits with this comedian, so don’t miss any opportunity to see Monahan on the rise.

Comedian Shann Carr has headlined on more gay men’s cruises than any woman on earth! 72 to be exact. So, she is totally excited to be working a vacation with lesbians for a change. This year, her production company, The Moxie Studios is producing a series of 6 different, one-woman-shows called Out For Laughs: With The Girlz, to follow up some of her other programs like Out For Laughs On The Ocean and OFL The Land Cruise.

In the last few years, Shann published a comedy book called “You’re Going To Be Gay!” produced a Gay Commercial Making Contest, and a Gay TV Week. She was voted in the top 10 lesbian comedians by curve magazine and produced a 90 day US tour in a pink, rhinestone covered RV. Shann lives in Palm Springs with her dogs Boris and Beckham who receive as much fan mail as she does.

Jennie McNulty is a stand up comedian currently living in Los Angeles. She can be seen on MTV Network’s LOGO channel in the comedy special “One Night Stand Up,” and as the host of her signature bi-weekly walking talk show, “Jennie McNulty Presents: Walking Funny With…” on the premiere lesbian website, AfterEllen.com. Episodes of “Walking Funny” have included guest appearances with comics Sabrina Mathews and Poppy Champlain, and athletes like women’s soccer gold medalist Saskia Webber and swimmer Diana Nyad.

Jennie has traveled the world doing comedy – literally. In addition to headlining in comedy clubs all over the US and Canada, she has entertained the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. She also does comedy in more peaceful settings, including entertaining the ladies on Olivia Cruises and at the iconic Dinah Shore Weekend event in Palm Springs. She has performed at The Toronto Gay and Lesbian Comedy Festival and countless Pride events coast to coast. She has also become a favorite summer performer at regular gigs in Provincetown, where she enjoys engaging the crowd through frequent and hilarious improvisation, and at Harrah’s Casino in Las Vegas. Jennie also produces the popular, “GOLD!” Comedy Night in West Hollywood, and was featured as a physical trainer on the hit NBC Show “Starting Over.”

In her spare time, Jennie plays women’s tackle football for the California Quake in the Independent Women’s Football League.

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Fernanda Cardoso (Director/Writer/Editor), originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil is a graduate of the University of Southern California film school and has been working for the past ten years as a television editor on shows such as “The Real L Word”, “America’s Next Top Model” and “Amazing Race”. She was a recipient of the Ila Rosenbaum Screenwriting Scholarship, the Barbara Boyle Scholarship and a fellowship from Film Independent. “Bloomington” is her feature directing debut.

Julie Wheeler is an award winning singer/comedian who has performed, written, and produced her one woman show in Provincetown and was also half of the very popular duo The Lesbian Lounge Lizards. She’s starred as Elvis to rave reviews in the NYC production of Viva Las Vegas; the musical, and really stretched her acting skills by stepping into the starring role of the Obie Award winning play, Epidog. She was voted one of the top ten sexiest people in MetroSource Magazine for her ”certain something”, and the German magazine FACTS lauded Julie for being one of NYC’s most sought after drag kings. Her unique look landed her in an art installation at the Guggenheim Museum, “A Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography” and, just this past year, in another installation at Gallery Ehva in Provincetown.

Julie is also a sought after MC, and has hosted numerous events including: Hartford Pride, Palm Springs Pride, Lesbopalooza at Irving Plaza in NYC, Maine Women’s Music Fest, Fragglerock in NYC, and the Benefit for 3$Bill in NYC (w/Tony Kushner, Mario Cantone, and Holly Hughes, among other notables). She’s appeared in the feature films ”Lie Down With Dogs” and ”Chasing Amy”, commentated on Q Television, and been a morning radio DJ across the country. Striving to become an international superstar (like David Hasselhoff), Julie has performed in Austria, Switzerland, Brazil, and Mexico garnering legions of foreign fans, and on the world wide web, the YouTube video of her singing ”How Can I Tell You” has surpassed 100,000 hits and is still going strong. Her new show, ”Butch Blanket Bingo”, really gets back to the essence of what Julie is all about; her amazing, soulful voice, her quirky humor, and that ”certain something”.

For all things Julie go to TheJulieWheeler.com

Fortune Feimster, the loveable Southern comic with great hair and an even better personality, moved to Los Angeles in 2003 to pursue comedy after graduating Summa Cum Laude from Peace College in North Carolina. But first she made a pit stop in Sevilla, Spain for a year where she taught English, studied Spanish, and backpacked all over Western Europe. Even in a place where people spoke a different language, Fortune was able to tap into the universal gift of laughter.

Upon arriving to L.A., Fortune became a columnist for Beck/Smith Hollywood and wrote for such outlets as the Creators Syndicate, netscape.com, and the NY Daily News. Having studied acting in college, she decided to take an improv class for fun, but soon a budding comedian was born!

She has since taken the Los Angeles comedy scene by storm and last year made her national TV debut on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” where she finished as a semi-finalist. Now Fortune is a full-time writer and performer on the E! Network’s popular “Chelsea Lately” show.

In her spare time, Fortune travels the country doing standup, but can often be seen at the Hollywood Improv and the World Famous Comedy Store where she is a paid regular. She also happens to be a highly accomplished sketch comedian and improv artist and is a member of the prestigious Groundlings Sunday Company, which boasts such alumni as Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, and Lisa Kudrow. While Fortune has already made tremendous strides in a short period of time, there’s no doubt this is only the beginning of what’s to come!

Television and film star Traci Dinwiddie is one of the unique female guest stars recurring on CW’s television show Supernatural as the badass and blind psychic, Pamela Barnes, although, you will most likely recognize her as Peyton Lombard in last year’s Elena Undone. She has also guest starred on 90210, Make It or Break It, and shared the screen with Demi Moore playing her creepy kidnapper, Sarah Leaves, in the feature film Mr. Brooks. As a seasoned stage actress, she’s tackled a diverse range of roles such as Patsy Cline, Titania, Lady M, and Mrs.Forrest.

A dynamic force on and off screen, she fills her days with West African drumming, Anusara Yoga, and myriad forms of community improv theater. Her motto in life is Rumi’s poetry…”Let the beauty we love be what we do.”