From the organizer:
Need a laugh to end your week on a high note?
Cleveland's "secret" comedy club is popping up in Akron for a one-night comedy event with headliner Kristen Becker. Buy your tickets, give the password at the door, get dinner and drinks, then end your week laughing along with one of the best-kept Secrets in stand-up comedy as you feel like part of a Secret Society.
Doors open at 6:00 PM
About Kristen:
Onstage and off, performer/producer/activist Kristen Becker’s role is that of instigator. Raised in conservative Shreveport, Louisiana, the Dykes of Hazard creator has opened for Ani DiFranco, contributed to The Advocate, and – between founding Nietzsche’s legendary Doin’ Time Comedy open mic and serving as first general manager of Helium Comedy Club – been featured on the cover of Buffalo News’ entertainment section as “Buffalo’s Queen of Comedy.”
Becker’s stand-up topics range from fisting to humanitarianism. With Pastor Jay Bakker (son of one Tammy Faye), in 2015 Becker embarked on an ideological exploration of the Deep South. Their Loosen the Bible Belt variety tour emphasized humanity over hypocrisy, offering unifying voices to bridge the gap between religious groups and LGBTQ communities.
2016 saw her founding the Summer of Sass, a nonprofit collective freeing young LGBTQ adults from damaging religious climates to live, work, and personally thrive in the liberal haven of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Vice called the experiment “the kind of formative experience that can change—or save—lives.” The Boston Globe agreed, lauding the environment as one where “gender is not an issue, where the specter of being bullied is not a daily fear.”
2019 included producing the inaugural End of the Earth Comedy Festival. (“The theme is everything’s going to shit. Let’s laugh about it, but also how can we also make it better?”)
The middle ground is where Becker feels most at home… and most useful. Her background, life experiences, and insight into seemingly disparate societies allow her to act as an open-minded translator. If she can identify as a bleeding-heart liberal as readily as she concedes a Right-leaning stance on firearms, then the Women’s Studies majors and rednecks of the world can also find common ground, for the good of the world. If she can help them share a few laughs in the process, even better.
Featuring Zach Pugh:
Zach Pugh is a comedian and writer in Los Angeles. He has spent the last decade touring the country as a headliner as well as opening for a number of comedians including James Austin Johnson, Beth Stelling, Roy Wood Jr, Jo Koy and many more. He is a host of the long running standup show Rod Stewart Live in Los Angeles and co-hosted the podcast What Things are What Things with James Austin Johnson. He has also written for and appeared on Adult Swim.
Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door.
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Your purchase can be refunded up to 24 hours before the listed show time. Secret Society Comedy will allow you to transfer your order for another future event of equal cost, as available, if you are unable to make the event or if your order is not eligible for a refund.
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