Suzanne Westenhoefer
Comedian

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What words best describe Comedian Suzanne Westenhoefer? How about bold, bawdy, and just plain hilarious? Not afraid to ask tough questions that uncover the laughs underneath, Suzanne’s made a career out of telling the truth. And the truth is, life is funny.

And now, Suzanne takes it to the road one more time with her upcoming tour, most appropriately named, “Totally Inappropriate.” This new show will continue Suzanne’s tradition of working mostly unscripted, so when she hits the stage it’s an unpredictable, original night of comedy magic. Every night on the tour will feature new material inspired by her experiences in that city, some of which are created on the spot. “The audience and I participate in the creation of each night’s show,” she says, an interactive approach that makes her shows unique in the world of live comedy.

While she says she can’t promise dancing girls or magic tricks on her new tour, she does guarantee an hour and a half of “the same brilliant stand up comedy that I’ve been pumping out for 19 years.” And, she adds, “Each show on the tour will have its own version of inappropriateness, so you’ll need to come to a show and find out for yourself.” Upcoming stops on the “Totally Inappropriate” tour include shows in Ft Lauderdale, Denver, Alexandria, Va., Santa Ana, Ca., and Ft Worth, Tx.

Suzanne says the inspiration for her new show came from a joke between her and her girlfriend of six years, Jennifer. “We were each raised very differently,” Suzanne says, “And ever since we’ve been together she’s been shocked, horrified, and aghast at the things I’ll say. This includes everyday things like asking people about their sexuality in the bank line. She tells me I don’t have appropriate boundaries, so it’s become a huge running joke between us.” Suzanne hopes that “Totally Inappropriate” can progress from a stage show to something that eventually she can get down on paper, like a book, or perhaps, she says, “a comedy brochure.”

After entering the world of comedy on a dare, Suzanne has been delivering gay material in mainstream clubs to straight audiences and proudly performing within the LGBT community ever since. She became the first openly lesbian comic ever to appear on television in 1991 on an episode of Sally Jesse Raphael entitled “Breaking the Lesbian Stereotype…Lesbians Who Don’t Look Like Lesbians.” She went on to become the first openly gay comic to host her own HBO Comedy Special in 1994, which earned her a Cable Ace Award nomination. Other television appearances include The Late Show with David Letterman, GSN’s remake of the classic game show, “I’ve Got a Secret” as well as HBO, Bravo and LOGO TV specials. Now beginning her 20th year of side-splitting merriment, she continues to forge new ground while enjoying her well-earned reputation as a pioneer on the lesbian comedy scene.

Suzanne’s recent tour, “Finally legal… in a few states,” entertained audiences across the country, and was a headlining act on Sweet’s recent Caribbean cruise. Her latest venture, a starring role in the popular online web drama “We Have To Stop Now” is about to enter its second season, with the first soon available on DVD. Her GLAMA award-winning specials “Nothing in my Closet but my Clothes,” “I’m Not Cindy Brady” and “Guaranteed Fresh” are all available on DVD, as are her most recent televised specials, “Live from the Village” and “A Bottom on Top.”

COMEDY CDS / DVD & AWARDS
“HBO Comedy with Suzanne Westenhoefer” (1994): Nominated for a Cable Ace Award
“Nothing in my Closet but my Clothes” (1999): Gay and Lesbian American Music Award (GLAMA) winner for best comedy CD
“I’m Not Cindy Brady” (2000): GLAMA winner for best comedy CD
“Guaranteed Fresh” (2003) : GLAMA winner for best comedy CD
“Live from the Village” (2006)
“A Bottom on Top” (2007)

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Andrea Meyerson has been on a roll for the past fourteen years. From founding Women On A Roll (WOAR), the premier lesbian social club in Southern California in 1995, to receiving HRC’s Local Hero Award in March of last year, Andrea has sat squarely in the center of Southern California’s LGBT community. Now an award-winning film-maker, television producer, event producer, concert promoter and entrepreneur, Andrea’s vision has helped create an active, vibrant, and tightly-knit community of lesbians in Southern California and beyond.

Andrea’s entrepreneurial sprit has translated into three separate businesses that each serve the LGBT community in different, but complementary, ways. The team behind Women On A Roll creates opportunities for lesbians to connect, socialize, travel and be active with each other. StandOut Productions, the live concert and event production company Andrea founded in 1997, ensures that LGBT and LGBT-friendly entertainers – both up-and-coming and iconic – are able to play in the best possible venues and have access to the widest possible audiences. All Out Films, the film and television production company Andrea founded in 2002 to produce her Laughing Matters series, allows her and her team to continue to document the work of LGBT comics on film so that audiences everywhere can experience the power of laughter.

A tireless advocate for the LGBT community and for women, Andrea received the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s L.A.C.E. (Lesbians Active in Community Empowerment) Award in 2002. PowerUp honored her as one of the Ten Amazing Women in Showbiz in 2004. In 2006, she received the WIN Outstanding Women Award from the Women’s Image Network and was also named a finalist for PlanetOut’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Andrea made history in 2007 when she became the first out lesbian to receive the YWCA’s Women of Achievement Award. In March of 2008, Andrea was honored with the prestigious HRC Local Hero Award.

Cambria Women’s Weekend is Andrea’s latest venture. Now in its second year, the weekend offers women the chance to gather, relax, play, mix and mingle amongst hundreds of other women in the quaint artists’ town of Cambria on California’s Central Coast.

Without a doubt, this woman who’s dedicated her life to finding new ways to bring the LGBT community together, is still on a roll.

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.

In this sexy, lesbian romp, a talented, but distracted photographer, Lola, on the verge of success in both love and work, could lose it all if she doesn’t make it to a crucial meeting on time. But, as usual, Lola is late.

With her job and girlfriend on the line, she has three chances to make it right. In a desperate race through the streets and backrooms of San Francisco, time grows short–will Lola make it? Will she come at all?

With a pop sensibility that mixes live action, animation and still photography AND THEN CAME LOLA explores love’s age old question in a fresh new way; “If we try, try again, will we finally get it right?”

Stars: Ashleigh Sumner as Lola; Cathy DeBuono as Danielle; and Jill Bennett as Casey.

Film Premiere on board the Sweet Caribbean Cruise, Nov. 9 from 7.30-9.30pm. With director Megan Siler and stars Jill Bennett and Cathy DeBuono in the Stardust Theatre. Film followed by Q&A.

Heather Gold is the turkey baster child of Sarah Silverman and Rachel Maddow. She’s a lesbian comic who tours North American and is best known for her quick wit, warmth and ability to involve the audience in her hilarious shows. She’s made over 24,000 chocolate chip cookies in her hit solo debut “I Look Like An Egg, but I Identify As A Cookie” which was named Best of the Bay, showed at Ars Nova in NY and often included guests like Elizabeth Falkner and Jamie Lauren (Top Chef). Heather won Curve’s National Lesbian Theatre Award for Cookie and also for The C Word with Jen Kober.

Heather has appeared with performers like Maria Bamford, Margaret Cho, Sabrina Matthews, BETTY, Adrianne, Patrice Pike, and Michelle Tea.

Heather’s also hosted Austin Gay Pride, spoken at major Prop 8 rallies in SF and NY, written for Jen Coolidge and for Alan Cumming for the Webbys. She’s appeared in Wired, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, Tech TV, CBC radio, Air America, the San Jose Mercury News, Salon.com, Curve and a LOGO pilot presentation. She will soon be the host of two shows on one of the largest online networks This Week in Tech (2.6 million / month).

Heather performs and speaks about LGBT issues at colleges like UCLA, Scripps College, Kenyon and SUNY Stony Brook. She also helps other people “come out” as themselves in business keynotes at places like Google and Web 2.0.
Much to her parents’ delight, she has degrees from Yale and Northwestern Law.

Her recent marriage was recognized by California and, more enduringly, by Marie Claire.

Jennifer Corday has just released a new CD, Superhero: Wonder Woman Edition, hitting streets in November of 2009.  The new collection includes the ten beautifully crafted previously released hit songs from her album Superhero, as well as three brand new bonus tracks: The Superhero Solar City Remixes produced by Scott Anderson will dare you to dance and are being distributed to DJs across the nation. Contact Envy Records for your copy!  Superhero is featured in the new lesbian film starring Jill Bennett and Cathy DeBuono, And Then Came Lola, playing at film festivals around the world.  The Superhero music video airs on MTV’s LOGO, was named one of the Top 15 in the Star Radio 98.7 Rockstar Competition and has won numerous other awards at indie film fests across the nation.  As a bonus last track, Corday wrote and recorded Wonder Woman as a heartfelt tribute to her mother, Judy, whom she lost almost three years ago to breast cancer.   Corday celebrates the CD Release on board a Sweet Cruise to the Caribbean in November where she will be performing.  The CD will also be available in November on her site, and through all digital distributions outlets.

Corday is currently recording a new collection of songs at her home studio, Envy Records, and will mix her tenth studio album at Flying Pig Productions in Orange County to be released in early 2010.  It’s a raw and real, passionate and empowering rock & roll rumble full of heartache and celebration.  Songs like “The More You’re Into Me The Less I’m Into You,” “My Evil Twin,” “Take Me,” and “Rock & Roll Jet” are fresh and fun hooky anthems, while “Fish Out Of Water,” “Lemon Seed,” and “Broken Hearted” will leave you breathless and stunned at Corday’s crux between courage and vulnerability. The new record promises to present Corday in a new blue-green place, full of risks and surprises.  The underwater photography and CD art and will amaze you as much as the sounds inside.  

In between recording dates, Corday performs live on the local circuit and travels throughout the U.S to play notable venues and events. She rocks the house with her band, but also performs solo, with an amazing acoustic performance that will take you from a whisper to a scream.  She also has a special side project, an all-girl band (Corday & The G Strings), featuring top-notch female musicians and a wild all-girl rock and roll show.  Either way you slice it, Corday is a frontwoman and an entertainer with an incredible show! She is an accomplished guitarist, bassist, and cellist, as well as a captivating vocalist and skilled songwriter.  She also produces “Girl Rock,” a monthly video vlog she shoots and edits for posting on SheWired.com.  The vlog features live music from some of the best female musicians in the nation, candid interviews with Corday, and reality-style, behind-the-scenes footage.  She also writes for Curve Magazine, gaining loyal readers and fans across the nation.

Corday has a large and loyal following in Los Angeles and Orange County and is also nationally known by all fans of women who rock, having toured and performed at numerous notable venues and huge festivals and events where she has opened for Cher, Joan Jett, Sugar Ray, The Dave Matthews Band, Pat Benatar, Joan Osborne, The B-52′s, Macy Gray, The Indigo Girls, Meredith Brooks, Cyndi Lauper, Berlin, Jonatha Brooke, Sophie B. Hawkins, Chaka Khan, Sheena Easton, Taylor Dayne, Melissa Ferrick, Catie Curtis, and many more. Corday wrote, recorded, and produced Superhero in her home studio before delivering the final tracks to mix-master Gavin MacKillop (Goo Goo Dolls, Sarah McLachlan, Melissa Ferrick, Toad the Wet Sprocket) and is packaged in a very impressive double disc Digipack which includes a CD and DVD with special behind the scenes footage.  Her music can be heard regularly on film and TV, and can also be heard playing in the background of numerous MTV shows including Made, Making Of The Band, and My Sweet Sixteen while her ring tones are available for download through Verizon and Samsung.  As the first ever three-time winner of Best Live Band, Best Alternative Band, and Best Live Female Performer at the Orange County Music Awards, Corday is clearly making everyone sit up and take notice! Corday’s numerous awards, which include nominations for Outstanding New Recording at the Outmusic Awards, Best Song and Best Acoustic Group at the OCMAs, Best Pop Rock Band at the Southern California Music Awards, Outstanding Orange County Artist at the L.A. Music Awards, and Video of The Year at both the LA Music Awards and the GLAMA Awards, are a testimony to her talent.  Corday’s previous albums, Naked, Driven, Welcome To My Past, Kick Ash, Spiderwebs, and Superhero sold thousands of copies and are still selling strong. Her hit song “Pie” has been described by critics as “a radio’s dream,” and was included on the MTV Undressed soundtrack and in numerous independent films.  She has also performed at schools everywhere presenting powerful anti-drug concerts with the full band.  She has toured overseas to perform for the troops and is always proud to make a difference with her music.  She is currently sponsored by Daisy Rock Guitars, Larrivee Guitars, Levy’s Leathers, SKB Cases, Dunlop, D’Addario, Audio Technica, and Peavey. Check out the website at www.corday.net for live pictures, blogs, videos, free MP3 downloads, and more!

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That’s What She Said is a mad musical bouquet of imaginative, comic songs about lesbians. Amy Turner, vocalist, and Kathryn Lounsbery, pianist and vocalist, effortlessly take their audiences on a whirlwind tour through music: jazz, rap, folk, disco, light opera, and power ballads, to name a few, are presented on an eco-friendly silver platter. Their musical versatility and impeccable comic timing have quickly garnered rave reviews and a world-wide following. Recently named “Best Comedy Show to Make You Pee Your Pants” by Jane and Jane Magazine, Amy and Kathryn have taken their show across the country, to Mexico, and are recent darlings of the Film Festival circuit with their hard-core rap homage to the oldest Lesbian joke: U-Haul: The Music Video.

www.thatswhatshesaidshow.com

Tania Katan is an author, playwright and performer. Her memoir My One-Night Stand With Cancer is the winner of the 2006 Judy Grahn Award in Nonfiction, an honoree of the 2006 American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award in Non-Fiction, and a finalist for the 2006 Lambda Literary Award. Rock-n-Roller Melissa Etheridge said of Tania’s memoir, “This book rocks! It’s passionate, playful, and downright beautiful,” and the Library Journal gave the book a Star Review. Since the success of her first book, Tania has been performing her one-woman show, Saving Tania’s Privates (adapted from My One Night Stand With Cancer), which made its European premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2008 where it was a critical success! In the U.S. Saving Tania’s Privates has been seen at such prestigious venues as ACT in Seattle and The Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia. Katan is a regular contributor to The Advocate, Compete Magazine, Stand Up To Cancer’s online magazine, and others. And because of her unique ability to write and perform she has become a regular performer at the Comedy Central Stage with Sit-n-Spin. As a public speaker and teacher, Tania is invited to teach writing workshops and give performance-style lectures around the world. Most recently Katan was in Iceland teaching a “Performing for the Camera” workshop as part of the Iceland 700.is Experimental Film and Video Festival. She is a regular on the university circuit speaking at Loyola Marymount, UC Berkeley, University of Connecticut, California College of Arts, Arizona State University, and others. At writing conferences she is seen on panels with Brett Paesel, Bernard Cooper, Laurie Notaro, Steve Almond, and other amazing writers. Her work has been written about in The New York Times, Bust, Library Journal, Curve, Running Times, DIVA, GCN Ireland, The Scotsman, and other national and international publications.

For more information please visit: www.taniakatan.com