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Let’s Get Silly Live at the Hollywood Fringe Festival Program
Host
Dr. Dashia Magee is an educator, writer, and clown based in Los Angeles. She started performing at the age of 4, gracing the stage as a, “Strawberry” at the local community theatre in Tacoma, Washington. She hosts the podcast, “Let's Get Silly”. She also co-wrote and starred in the award winning web-series, "Staying Together” all about the joys of marriage. Her one-woman clown show, “Donkey: A Cultural Biography of a Public School Teacher” has played at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre - Los Angeles and also the Black Woman in Comedy Festival. She also wrote, produced, and starred in a series of clown shorts entitled, "Dr. Magee: Clown Shorts". You can find her performing live (Improv, Sketch, and Clown) at various theaters in Los Angeles. Check out www.dashiamagee.com for more info on all things Dashia!
MC & Producer
Cj Merriman is a member of Sacred Fools Theatre and has produced and been in a bunch of Serial Killers as well as Mary Watson in Watson, Marsha in The Magic Bullet Theory, Whitey the Chicken in The Behavior of Broadus and Dull in Skullduggery. She has also been in many beloved productions at the Hollywood Fringe Festival: Night Witches, Poe Show, and Toddler Bangs America.
Stage Manager
Rebecca Schoenberg
Clown Night
Bonnie He is an actor, improvisor and clown. She was in the short film The New Empress with Maggie Gyllenhaal and is on a Second City Hollywood house improv team. Her award-winning live show A Terrible Show for Terrible People won the Craziest Solo Show award at the inaugural Crazy Woke Asians Solo Performance Festival and has toured nationally in festivals such as Second City Hollywood's Diversity in Comedy Festival and The Brick's NY Clown Theatre Festival. A Terrible Show for Terrible People will be at the Hollywood Fringe Festival this June. It won the 2022 Hollywood Fringe Festival Scholarship. Bonnie He is also the resident clowning instructor at Company of Angels, the oldest non-profit professional equity waiver theater in Los Angeles.
Sacred Fools
Amanda Blake Davis is an LA based writer and actor. She is an alum of The Second City in Chicago, where she won a Jeff Award for Best Actor in a Revue for Studs Terkel's Not Working. She can be seen in Three Guys, One Groupon (Hollywood Fringe) and performing improv with Heyday (Westside Comedy Theater). Follow her on instagram for sizzling yoga content @missamandablake
Natalie Nicole Dressel is a transgender writer and actress. In 2019 she attained her MFA in writing for the Stage and Screen from Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA, and in 2013 she earned her BFA in Theater from Michigan State University. She is a graduate of the UCB LA improv program, and her play There is Evil in This House (that she wrote and also starred in) was a Second Rounder at AFF and a 2019 O'Neill NPC finalist. She did various voices on the English language dub of the currently available to watch Veneno and dubbed the lead on Todo Lo Otro (or Dafne and the Rest) both on HBO Max. Recently wrapped a movie on the East Coast and had a grant show of her work put on and funded by the City of West Hollywood. Has written on-the-spot love poetry for strangers passing by at Pride in Los Angeles and Denver on an old fashioned typewriter. @nataliendressel on Twitter and natalienicole24601 on Instagram.
Leigh Wulff who you can find doing a couple shows at the Fringe this year, is an LA based performer and creator who's been seen on stages around town for years. She's a loud laugher who loves quality time with her cat- Mrs. Garrett, Dad jokes, and writing. If you wanna catch her in action you can see her in Three Guys One Groupon- on the Mainstage here at the Broadwater, and Who's Afraid of David Lynch- over at Three Clubs.
Black Brunch
Simonton is a writer, actor, and improvisor. He’s the founder of Outcast Comedy Festival, where his mission to give everyone a platform to shine. He’s a resident Picture Pennsylvania. In 2019, he Graduated from the University of Riverside California with a degree in political science and international affair in a minor in Theatre. In 2020 ,he received a certificate program from the University of Los Angeles California screen writing mentorship program. His IG page is the_great_simonton.
Marian Adewunmi Yesufu is a Nigerian-American Comedian. She is the founder of Black Women in Comedy Festival and Soul Sista Comedy. She is the Organizer of the Afro Civilization Fair. She’s produced Comedy Shows at UCB, The Pack Theater, and Tao Comedy Studio. She is an alumni of the CBS Diversity Showcase and Maude Writer at the Upright Citizens Brigade. She has taught Improv workshops at whohaha and Impro Theater. Visit: www.marianyesufu.com