Event
The Disabled List Presents: Live Comedy (Jun. 2023) [In-Person Only]
Fri Jun 9: 7.00pm PDT
$14 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
** This event features automated captioning with voice recognition projected on the screen! When you register, please let us know if you have any accessibility needs. With enough advance notice, we will do our best to accommodate and if for any reason we are unable, we will reach out prior to showtime. **
*** Public safety notice ***
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Series - The Disabled List
Visiting Artist
** The Disabled List presents bi-monthly live standup at NWFF! Featured comedians in this edition: Marcus Moreno, Blake Kiltoff, Andy Iwancio, Crystal Liston, and Forest Ember **
About
Kayla Brown and Dan Hurwitz, fresh off eleven straight rejections at both national and international film festivals for their debut short, the award-eligible This Is Spinal Injury, will return to their rootsstand-up comedy. This live comedy show features Brown, Hurwitz, and an ever-changing cast of fellow local comedians!
FEATURING:
- Forest Ember
Forest Ember (she/her) is a queer, neurodivergent Producer of Pun Intended Punslam a Clowntrepeneur who swims and splashes through life living with a swarm of diagnoses and danger. She plays washboard, trombone, drums, and tambourine in several local brass bands but her main instrument shell show and tell you is the audiences heartstrings.
- Andy Iwancio
Andy Iwancio (she/her) is a trans gal comedian from Seattle (by way of Baltimore). With her ten years of comedy she brings a witty, sardonic and slightly profane style to her jokes about navigating marriage, having a disability, and, most importantly, boob puns. She has opened for Kyle Kinane, Whitmer Thomas, James Adomian, Gareth Reynolds and Cameron Epsosito. Festival-wise, she has done Bumbershoot, SF Sketchfest, Women in Comedy NW, Upper Left Festival, Altercation, and All-Jane. She also appeared in the HUMP! film-festival award-winning film Queer Safari and the Emmy award-winning movie Star Wars Uncut. She was also a past Comic of the Week on Jackie & Laurie. You also may have heard her as a guest on many podcasts including: The Sarah Silverman Podcast, Bananas with Kurt Braunholer & Scotty Landes, Improv4Humans with Matt Besser, and Lady 2 Lady with Brandie Posey, Tess Barker and Barbara Gray.
- Blake Kiltoff
Blake Kiltoff (he/him) has been a professional entertainer since 2008 and a comedian his entire life. Born in the Seattle area, Blake started performing at Giggles Comedy Club in 2008 and has worked nearly every comedy club and room in the PNW. He produces and hosts popular standup shows and appears regularly at Washingtons biggest comedy venues.
When hes not working on comedy, Blake enjoys spending time in Louisiana with his children, hanging out at bookstores and coffeeshops, and dancing at nightclubs.
- Crystal Liston
Crystal Liston (she/her) is a PNW native and has been in the disability game for 32 yrs. She has decided to throw her hat into the comedy arena in hopes that the fame will help out her political career.
- Kayla Brown
Kayla Brown (she/her) is a disabled activist and amature comedian from Seattle. She believes that art and other media forms are a way to break down stereotypes, build community, and transform peoples worlds. When not at work or school, Kayla co-produces the comedy show The Disabled List, plays video games, reads fanfiction, and eats snacks.
- Dan Hurwitz
Dan Hurwitz is a disabled, Black, and Jewish writer, comedian, and filmmaker. In 2018, he co-founded The Disabled List, an ever-growing group of disabled comedians from the Pacific Northwest. Dan was a semi-finalist in both the Laughs Comedy Competition (2019) and the Stand-Up NBC comedy competition (2019). During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dan co-wrote, co-directed, and co-starred in This Is Spinal Injury (2021), a mockumentary about the trials of disabled artists during quarantine, which premiered at Northwest Film Forums Local Sightings Film Festival in September, 2021.
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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Accessibility
Ticketing, concessions, cinemas, restrooms, and our public edit lab are located on Northwest Film Forum's ground floor, which is wheelchair accessible. We have a limited number of assistive listening devices available for programs hosted in our larger theater, Cinema 1. These devices are maintained by the Technical Director, and can be requested at the ticketing and concessions counter.
The Forum does NOT have assistive devices for the visually impaired, and is not (yet) a scent-free venue. Our commitment to increasing access for our audiences is ongoing, and we welcome all public input on the subject!
If you have additional specific questions about accessibility at our venue, please contact our Patron Services Manager at maria@nwfilmforum.org
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