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Women Who Kick Comedy Butt

WOMEN
WHO KICK
COMEDY BUTT

About Me

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OCTOBER 21, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO NIKE MARATHON
WOMEN WHO KICK COMEDY BUTT
WILL BE PERFORMING
GRACE WHITE, GAYLA JOHNSON
GRACE FRAGA, BETH SCHUMANN



WOMEN WHO KICK COMEDY BUTT
PRODUCER & HEADLINER
COMEDIAN GRACE WHITE
Photo (shot at SF Fillmore)
Dan Dion
Woman Who Kicks Comedy Butt
Funny Business Magazine
Pat Katzmann
She may bill herself as That Old Hippie Chick, but she looks more country club than commune. Classy, blonde, and caffeinated, Grace White is in constant movement. A perpetual motion machine, she blazes through North Beach and takes some cell phone calls while giving a walking tour of local landmarks on her way to her favorite spot, Caffe Trieste, for a cappuccino. Even when shes walking, shes on the road. Its no wonder she calls herself a transient with an act. Shes no slacker, thats for sure.
For someone who only started performing stand-up seven years ago at age 49, when she became an empty-nester, White has come a very long way in a short time. Shes opened concerts for 3 Doors Down, Jefferson Starship, and Jethro Tull. Shes shared the stage with Father Guido Sarducci, Kevin Pollak, and Will Durst. Shes performed at Comedy Celebration Day before thousands of Bay Area fans, appeared on The Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon and ABCs Good Morning America, and played a role in The Independent, a film starring Jerry Stiller and Janeane Garofalo. Last year, she created a revue called Women Who Kick Comedy Butt (WWKCB), featuring funny females from all over the Bay Area. WWKCBs proliferation and popularity means White spends more and more time producing the show in comedy clubs, casinos, and wineries all over northern California.
Responding to what she and fellow women comics saw as a need to generate more gigs, since women still arent perceived to be as funny as men, White thought a PG-13 showcase with a revolving lineup would be welcome at variety of venues seeking an alternative to lounge singers. She was right. Because the discrimination that all women experience also predominates in comedy, I find myself even more committed to proactive change rather than just getting pissed off, says White. Simply, I am a comedian that wants to perform. Being very scrappy, I have found ways to do just that by working outside the comedy box. Thats how her WWKCB brainchild was born, and her persistence is why its become a favorite of comedy fans from Larkspurs Caf.. Theatre to Lockefords Vino Piazza.
I dont see myself as a female comedy leader, or a prophet, or a smarty pants purporting that I know everything on or off stage. I am old enough to be smarter than that. I see WWKCB as a win, win, win, win, win for myself and other females, no matter what direction it takes. More good female comics (which more stage time produces) means more good comedy shows, which means more for all female comics and more for comedy as a whole. My dream is to have a full-blown concert tour where comics can have their own careers while also participating in WWKCB shows when convenient to them. Can a network show based on this boomers life be far behind?
Life may be a continuous caf.. crawl interrupted by periodic stand-up sets, but always punctuated by punch lines. After a quick breakfast and latte at Oaklands Coffee Mill, White spies a bookstore across the street that she has to hit. Walking into Walden Pond, she notices a remaindered Ed Rosenthal calendar featuring some pricey California flora. Upon hearing that the marijuana maven was angling to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show, she flatly states: Oprah would never allow that. Because shes anti-drug, of course. No, shed be afraid of getting the munchies. And without breaking stride, as the booksellers behind the counter crack up, she hurries to the childrens section, finds a copy of Curious George and the Dinosaur for her 4-year-old grandson Brandon, and heads back to the counter where the booksellers are still chuckling. Always leave em laughing.
Some comedians who have performed in
WWKCB productions.
Jackie Kashian, Maria Bamford, Rebecca Arthur, Jen Kober, Maryellen Hooper, Helen Keaney, Joanie Fagan, Vickie Barbalok, Diane Amos, Kira Soltanovich, Reannie Roads, Beth Schumann, Karen Rontowski, Henrietta, Tina Allen, Laura Hayden, Joni Rodgers, Maura Lake, Chantal Carerre, Betsy Salkind, Aundre The Wonderwoman, Gail Jones, Cynthia Levin, Christian Shirm, Lang Parker, Maggie Newcomb, Christine Gelat, Tessie Chua, Nora Lavelle, Gayla Johnson, Grace Fraga, Rosie Tran, Dava Krause, Amy Anderson, Kat Simmons, Sandy Stec, Lynn Gold, Melanie Miller, Dattner, Robin Reiser, Natalie Gray, Courtney Cronin, Jovelyn Richards, Lynn Epstein, Jennifer Hahamian, Debbie Lockhart, Megan Houndhell, Julie Kidd, Cindy Burns, Laurie McDermott, Dina Vacarri, Jojeana Marie, Carol Metcalf, Gail Jones, Candice Churilla, Lori Chapman, Melissa Gans, Julie Anderson, Lizette Mizelle
Cheryl Anderson, Joanie Coyote
Cheryl Anderson, Joanie Coyote Alycia Cooper, Karyn Smyth
Susan Maletta
PARTIAL LIST
Look left, and CHECK OUT WWKCBs TRIBUTE TO HEROES.

My Interests

WWKCB provides
stage time
for female comics

I'd like to meet:

You, at our next show!

Heroes:

CLICK ON PICTURES OF HEROES FOR THEIR STORY
WOMEN HONORED AND AWARDED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
1905: Bertha Sophie von Suttner (Austria) - Author of influential book Lay Down Your Arms, and President of the International Peace Bureau.
1931: Jane Addams (US) - won jointly with Nicholas Murray Butler (US)- Addams was President of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and founder of Hull-House, a U.S. settlement house for immigrants families.
1946: Emily Greene Balch (US) - won jointly with John Raleigh Mott (US)- Balch worked with Jane Addams and also was President of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
1976: Betty Williams (Britain) and Mairead Corrigan (Northern Ireland)- Both founded the Northern Ireland Peace Movement, (later called the Community of Peace People) dedicated to ending the violence in Northern Ireland.
1979: Mother Teresa (Albania)- A nun in the Orders of the Missionaries which helped the poorest of the poor in India.
1982: Alva Myrdal (Sweden) won jointly with Alfonso Garcia Robles (Mexico)- Myrdal, a writer and diplomat, worked for many years to promote disarmament and world peace.
1991: Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma/Myanmar)- Human rights advocate, often a political prisoner, for her efforts to peacefully bring democracy to Myanmar.
1992: Rigoberta Menchu (Guatemala)- For her efforts to bring enduring reconciliation among all sectors of Guatemalan society, and for defense of indigenous rights worldwide.
1997: Jody Williams (US)- won jointly with the group she coordinates, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, for work promoting the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.
2003: Shirin Ebadi (Iran)- lawyer and human rights activist, notably in defense of the rights of women and children in her society.
2004: Wangari Maathai (Kenya)- Founder of Green Belt Movement which promotes awareness of the need to protect of natural resources as a prerequisite to a sustainable and peaceful world.
MORE WOMEN HEROES
Chipeta, a Ute Indian worked all her life to promote better relations between her tribe and whites.
UNs Special Ambassador for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation, she works for the rights of women.
Susan B. Anthony led the early Women's Suffrage Movement.
Sojourner Truth, born a slave, she worked all her life for the rights of women and blacks. She is well known for her 1851 speech at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.
Alice Paul Known for: one of the leading figures responsible for the passage of the 19th Amendment (woman suffrage) to the U.S. Constitution.
Sacajawea guided Lewis and Clark across the northwestern territories.
Ruby Bridges bravely led the way to desegregation of schools as a child.
Rosa Parks made history when she refused to sit in the back of the bus.
Ada Aharoni works for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Adi Roche took responsibility for helping orphans of nuclear disaster.
Alicia O'Brien, at age 11 with inoperable brain cancer, was the inspiration for Cherie Bennett's novel, Zink.
Amy Biehl gave her life to end apartheid in South Africa.
Ann Armstrong-Dailey founded Children's Hospice International.
Anna Akhmatova is considered one of Russia's best poets.
Anne Frank 'When I write, I can shake off all my cares.'
Annie Mansfield Sullivan Macy developed new methods for teaching blind and deaf students.
Augusta Ada Byron developed the world's first computer program.
Aung San Suu Kyi seeks democracy for Burma.
Bella Abzug was a New York Congresswoman who fought for women's rights.
Cathy Freeman won races and respect for the plight of native Australian people.
Chiaki Mukai is the first female Japanese astronaut.
Chief Wilma Mankiller was the first woman to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
Christine de Pisan was a 15th century French poet.
Claire Lalanne founded the Center for Nutritional Recovery.
Clara Barton was known as the 'Angel of the Battlefield in the Civil War and among other things she started the Red Cross.
Clara Hale helped hundreds of children in Harlem and started the Hale House.
Clara Shortridge Foltz was the first woman to practice law in California.
Connie Samaras has created media archives for deep space voyages.
Corrie Ten Boom helped hundreds recover from the trauma of WWII.
Daphna Ziman is the founder of an organization that helps children around the world.
Diane Fossey worked to protect the endangered Mountain Gorilla
Dorothea Lange created photographs of great power and beauty, most famous for her photograph, Migrant Mother, 1936.
Dr. Caldicott has been a lifelong anti-nuclear activist.
Dr. Elizabeth Kalko and the Jason Project studies bats in the Panamanian rainforest.
Dr. France Cordova is a renowned astrophysicist who has broken genderand cultural barriers.
Dr. Rosalie Bertell Anti-Nuclear Nun is a renowned scientist, eco-feminist and peace activist.
Dr. Shirley McGreal founded the International Primate Protection League.
Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh is a scientist dedicated to the study and conservation of bonobos.
Edith Cavell was a nurse who risked her own safety to help others during WWI
Edmonia Lewis was a 19th century sculptor.
Edna St. Vincent Millay 's poetry was both popular and critically acclaimed.
Eleanor of Aquitainewas a powerful and independant woman in the Middle Ages.
Eleanor Roosevelt was a champion for freedom.
Elizabeth Blackwell opened the first medical school for women.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a pioneer in the movement for womens rights.
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Zohra Ben Lakhdar is a physicist from Africa who does research on atomic spectroscopy.
Robyn Van En worked to save organic farming businesses in North America.
RAWA promotes women's rights through non-violent action
Raja Weksler helped her daughter survive in a concentration camp.
Rachel Carson was the mother of the environmental movement.
Oseola McCarty donated her life savings so others could go to college.
Maya Angelou is a writer and poet.
Mary Lyon established the U.S.'s first college for women.
Mary Harris Jones worked to free children from industrial slavery.
Marian Wright Edelman is one of the country's leading advocates for children.
Maria Montessori developed a new approach to education.
Madame Curie received the Nobel Prize for her discovery of Radium.
Madam C.J. Walker used her business success to oppose racial discrimination.
Lucy Stone was a pioneer for womens rights.
Lillie Hitchcock-Coit was a turn of the century firefighting hero.
Joan of Arc died for her beliefs.
Jessie Daniel Ames worked openly and actively on behalf of racial justice.
Helene Gayle is one of the leading authorities on AIDS research.
Hattie Elizabeth Alexander saved the lives of thousands of children through her work.
Harriet Tubman organized the Underground Railroad.
Frida Kahlo was an artist and survivor.
Frances Ellen Watkins devoted her life to speaking out against slavery.
Florence Nightingale revolutionized nursing.
Florence Ngobeni urges African leaders to work for AIDS prevention.
Florence Kelley was an outspoken leader against child labor.
Ellen MacArthur has broken numerous records with her courageous solo sailing adventures.
Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 2,000 poems in her lifetime.
Emma Lazarus wrote the poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.
Erin Gruwell teaches freedom through reading and writing.
Kelly Perkins climbs mountains to raise support for organ donation.
Judy Warner worked to create a public technology high school.
Effa Manley: The First Woman to enter Baseball Hall of Fame

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