Please join us for Funny Jewish Women on Wednesday, February 4th, at 6:00 PM in the Fairfax district. In this panel discussion, L.A.-based Jewish comedians Fielding Edlow, Cathy Ladman, Shawn Pelofsky, and Kira Soltanovich will come together for a timely conversation moderated by comedian Wendy Liebman about how being female and Jewish informs their craft.

Who: JFEDLA’s EMC Network
What: Funny Jewish Women: Gender, Jokes, and Jewish Identity
When: Wednesday, February 4th, at 6:00 PM
Where: Fairfax district — Specific location provided upon registration
Cost: $50

See you on Feb. 4th!

 

 

Fielding Edlow is a writer-actor and comedian. Her debut special is streaming now on Prime Video and she regularly hosts at the Hollywood Improv. She recently finished a U.K. tour of her solo show, Gaslighting is her Love Language, which won best comedy at the United Solo Festival. She will be performing her show at The Broadwater this April in Los Angeles.

 

As one of the country's top comedians, Cathy Ladman presents herself as the self-probing, anxiety-venting person that she is. She has appeared on The Tonight Show 10 times and was also featured on the last two of Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show Anniversary shows. She’s been on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson five times, has had her own HBO comedy special (One Night Stand), and was awarded the American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand-Up Comic. Her TV and film credits include: I’m Dying Up Here, Pretty Little Liars, Modern Family, Scandal, How to Get Away With Murder, NCIS: Los Angeles, Mad Men, Brothers and Sisters, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Caroline in the City (recurring), Everybody Loves Raymond, Politically Incorrect, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Charlie Wilson’s War, The Aristocrats, White Oleander, What Planet Are You From?, My Fellow Americans, and Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead. She performed her solo show, Does This Show Make Me Look Fat?, in New York and Los Angeles over the past two years.

 

Born as one out of only 10 Jews in Oklahoma, Shawn Pelofsky is an accomplished stand-up comedian, producer, actress, and writer (NBC, E!, ABC, TBS, LOGO, Prime Video, Showtime, SIRIUS). On top of all of her accolades, she’s also the founder of the new company, Divorce Parade. In addition to performing comedy internationally, Shawn is a paid regular in Los Angeles at The Comedy Store, The Laugh Factory, and the Improv. She has opened for such legends as Bill Maher, Richard Lewis, Robert Klein, America’s Got Talent's Vicki Barbolak, and Huey Lewis and the News. Her writing resume includes creating material for Joan Rivers on Fashion Police. She’s written for Feeding America Comedy Festival, and worked as a Producer on the syndicated comedy game show Funny You Should Ask. Some of her TV appearances include Community, Chelsea Lately, The Dark Side of Comedy, Comics Unleashed, and her one-hour comedy special Stretch It Out! on Prime Video.

 

Kira Soltanovich is a comedian, actress, and writer best known for her correspondent work on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for almost nine years. She was the Phony Photo Booth, which turned into the show’s longest running comedy piece. Currently, Kira is going into Season 3 of production for the game show You Bet Your Life with Jay Leno, where she is a writer, announcer, and sketch player alongside Jay. Kira has a half hour stand up special on Showtime called Here Comes Trouble and a one-hour stand up special on Prime Video called You Did This To Me. She’s the sidekick to host Donald Faison on the Netflix game show Winsanity, and she’s been a recurring comedian on several FOX television shows, including Punchline and The Drama. One of her greatest achievements in showbiz was writing jokes for Joan Rivers on the television series How’d You Get So Rich? on TV Land. Currently, Kira is working producing her own talk show that takes place inside of a sauna, called Let’s Get Sweat!

 

Wendy Liebman took a class called How to Be a Stand-Up Comedian at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education in 1985. She has since appeared on The Tonight Show, Late Show, and Late Night with Carson, Letterman, Leno, Fallon, Kimmel, Ferguson, and Rosie, and won the American Comedy Award for Best Female Comedian. She has recorded specials for HBO, Comedy Central, and Showtime, was a semifinalist on NBC’s America’s Got Talent. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two rescued Jindo dogs, who are each as trainable as a carrot. Her special Wendy Liebman: Taller on TV is available on Amazon.

 

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