The improv theater that launched the careers of Amy Poehler and Tina Fey wants to showcase female performers in Los Angeles next month. iO West is hosting Cake Batter’s Funny Women Festival, which is still accepting submissions for its storytelling competition, stand up competition and video short competition. “We have a lot of submissions for the other stuff. We’re trying to work everyone in, if possible,” James Grace, artistic director of the Chicago theater’s L.A. outpost, told Backstage. The event is the brainchild of the comedy troupe Cake Batter, which is made up of Lauren Frost, Angela Rysk and Erin Miller Williams. Grace said they approached iO to host the event, which runs Dec. 4-6, after noticing there were no female-only comedy festivals in L.A. “The idea behind it is that it’s going to be a celebration of the surge of women in comedy,...
- 11/26/2014
- backstage.com
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