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Women Comedy Writers?Fierce, Funny and Gainfully Employed
Join NYWIFT and The Hysterical Festival for Women Comedy Writers?Fierce, Funny and Gainfully Employed, a panel on what it takes for women to break into comedy writing and performance, then build and maintain a successful career.
The Hysterical Festival is a celebration of female humor which aims to both entertain and break new ground for women in the comedic arts. Launching this fall, it will showcase the ways women are hilarious, including stand-up, sketch & improv, film, multimedia, music, writing, solo performance and burlesque.
The festival runs October 15 -18 in New York City, with shows at Comix Comedy Club, The Zipper Theater and The Tank.
For more information go to: http://www.thehystericalfestival.com/
Dana Offenbach is the President of Nehst Creations - Production Group. Her credits include feature films, shorts, television commercials, awards show segments, public service announcements, documentaries and music videos. She has held both Director of Broadcast Business Affairs and Director of Broadcast Production positions at major advertising agencies. Offenbach co-produced the indie hit Hav Plenty, which premiered at Sundance. In 1999, she produced her second independent feature, Box Marley, for writer/director Christopher Scott Cherot. Offenbach wrote, produced, and directed Love & Orgasms which screened in several festivals. In 2005, she produced The Memsahib, an 1850s period feature shot in India.
Linda Kaplan Thaler (picutred above) founded Kaplan Thaler Group in 1997. She has been responsible for numerous commercials during her 24 years in the advertising business, including her work on Clairol Herbal Essences, which plays on Meg Ryan?s famous faux-gasm scene in When Harry Met Sally (Yes, yes, yes!). Kaplan-Thaler Group is responsible for the Aflac duck, and Kaplan-Thaler herself wrote the Toys-R-Us jingle, ?I don?t want to grow up?? Under her creative leadership, KTG has been ranked by industry publications as the fastest-growing agency in the United States. She has won numerous awards for creativity and leadership.
Tracy Grandstaff, Vice President, On Air Creative at Comedy Central, is a writer and former voice actor best known to the general public for her work portraying Daria Morgendorffer of the MTV animated series Daria. This role was spun off from another MTV series, Beavis and Butt-head, for which Grandstaff provided the voices of Daria and other characters. Grandstaff has written for various series on MTV, including The Tom Green Show and the annual Video Music Awards, and for other Viacom-owned networks, including VH1, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon. Grandstaff is responsible for show launches and the on-going promotion of The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Live At Gotham, and Comedy Central Presents. Tracy is a member of the WGA East.
Produced By Desiree Addison and Savanna Washington
Oct 14, 2008 
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