Becky Bays

Before becoming an Event Manager, Becky Bays worked as a professional actor for 8 years, following a BA in Drama and an after-degree program at the Actor’s Centre in London, England.

Some favourite credits include: Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding (Hoarse Raven Theatre, Vancouver), Talking With… (Gastown Theatre, Vancouver), Beauty and The Beast (Globe Theatre, Regina) and the one woman show See Bob Run (Globe Theatre, Regina/25th St Theatre, Saskatoon/The Warren, London, UK).

She is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory program in Improvisation and was a cast member of Theatresports at the Bad Dog Theatre (2006). Becky started stand-up comedy in the summer of 2008 and has performed at stages in and around Toronto, including Eton House, Spirits, AltDot Comedy and at Absolute Comedy featuring headliner Steve Levine.

Shelley Kidwell

Shelley has made people laugh her whole life. She grew up in Houston,Texas and got her BA in theatre/communications. In Canada, Shelley has been seen on the Slice Network’s show Party Mamas. She has also been seen performing with The Oakville Players, The Hamilton Player’s Guild, and Theatre Burlington. She will soon be a graduate of Second City’s conservatory program and looks forward to making as many people laugh as possible. Laughter is what brings people together in love! So laugh and love!

Lianne Mauladin

Lianne is an Aquarius who loves rock stars and old people. Although a relative newcomer to the stand-up scene, she has performed at the Diesel Playhouse, Second City, Yuk Yuk’s, Absolute Comedy, The Rivoli and several other comedy clubs in and around the City. She has also performed in Tampa, San Francisco, Monterey, Santa Cruz and at the Comedy Store in West Hollywood. Lianne came second in both Hamilton and Barrie in the Great Canadian Laugh off and held the title of Stand up Show down champion at the Comedy Bar. Her performance has also been recorded for broadcast on XM Satellite Radio’s Laugh Attack and also televised on Bite TV. Lianne has studied Improv and Stand-up at the Second City Training Centre under the instruction of such comics as Dawn Whitwell, and Elvira Kurt.

Heidi Mole

Heidi’s largest accomplishment in life thus far has been acquiring self-esteem and “Brady Bunch” memorabilia.

After surviving life in a small village with a highly dysfunctional family Heidi turned to stand-up comedy as a form of therapy.

When not performing, Heidi enjoys swing dance, hula-hooping, and judging people.

Muniza Rauf

In 2008, Muniza took a standup class and unknowingly got herself mixed up with some pretty die hard broads!  She doesn’t regret a thing and thanks her standup sisters for all the encouragement and support while she travels down the funny road.

Daniela Saioni

Daniela has an eclectic series of accomplishments for someone who’s never held a permanent job. Before beginning her career in comedy, she worked as a script supervisor on films & tv series in nine countries. She currently writes for television and directs corporate videos in between temp gigs. As an actor, she trained in New York City and has shared the screen with some of her favourite performers, including Harvey Keitel and Marcia Gay Harden.

She began doing stand-up in the summer of 2008 and has since performed in four provinces. She was recorded for XM radio and produces this and other female-centered comedy events, including a monthly stand-up room in Toronto called West End Girls.

Laura Salvas

Laura Salvas is pretty effing wonderful so please read carefully. Laura’s been doing standup for, like, a year now. So far, career highlights include her spot as a finalist in the 2009 Toronto Comedy Brawl and this thing you’re at tonight. Laura also does lots of sketch comedy as part of her troupe Warm Summer Hotness and is currently training as part of The Second City conservatory program and through Impatient Theatre Co. Laura has been part of various improv show casts, including (currently) Vanguard School of Comedy’s Jenkins Syndrome and (previously) Kingston’s Saturday Night at the Improv and The Improv Show. She directed the improv troupe at Ryerson University, where she earned her journalism degree, and has been involved with the Canadian Improv Games national high school tournament for more than a decade as a player, trainer and judge. Don’t let the third person fool you – Laura wrote this bio herself. Thank my $40,000 Ryerson journalism degree for the impeccable grammar.

Marilla Wex

Marilla Wex has been doing stand-up for over a year and is apparently getting quite good at it since she seems to have graduated to hosting some shows which is even harder than just doing stand-up. She’s even got paid for doing it, which is nice.

When she’s not writing jokes she builds websites for other people that write jokes. And other actors (she’s also quite good at acting and gets paid for that too).

You can see what else she gets up to (writing, voice work, movie appearances) on her personal website.

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