Emma Willmann, Ashley Austin Morris, Dan LaMorte, Vannessa Jackson, Ahri Findling

Featuring
Emma Willmann
Ashley Austin Morris
Dan LaMorte
Vannessa Jackson
Ahri Findling

Vannessa Jackson is a stand-up comedian who performs all over NYC. She currently works as a writer for Saturday Night Live and recently wrote for Season 2 of A Little Late With Lilly Singh.

In 2014, Emma Willmann was featured on the Cover of TimeOutNY, as one of the top ten funniest females in New York City, beat out hundreds of comics to be a top ten finalist in New YORK’S Funniest at Caroline’s on Broadway, headlined her own sold out show in The New York Comedy Festival at Stand Up New York, started to tour the college market nationally, appeared on the TV shows “Deadly Affairs,” “My Crazy Love,” and “True Crime,” and made her national stand up comedy television debut on AxisTV’s Live at Gotham hosted with Louie Anderson. She performs comedy every night of the week and has been doing so for the past four years. Extremely unique, you don’t want to miss this one of a kind act.

Dan LaMorte is a unique stand-up comedian and human being. His career started young, at 19 years old, after suffering a career-ending injury as a college baseball player. As his star rose in comedy, so did his weight. He appeared on Fox’s Red Eye, AXS TV’s Gotham Comedy Live, Getting Doug with High, and almost every drive-thru in the Tri-state area. He released two albums, Not Enough Pieces & Infect Me Once, both are still popular plays on SiriusXM and have amassed over a million streams on Pandora. By the time he was 23 years old, Dan had built an impressive resume, unfortunately, he had also built a 354-pound body. But that year everything changed. After a doctor told him he had fatty liver disease, Dan decided to ditch the fat life and find the athletic drive again. Over the course of the next three years, he would go on to lose over 185 pounds, become an ultra runner (races longer than marathon distance), and inspire many of his fans to pursue their own weight loss journeys along the way. In his first race ever, like in his entire life, he ran 41 miles through the woods of Pennsylvania. His next race is November 6th when he runs the entire 55-mile length of the Batona Trail in New Jersey. His story and transformation have been featured on FOX, Runner’s World, and Muscle and Fitness. He may have lost the weight but his sense of humor is still fully intact. He is the Forrest Gump of Comedy. When not on the road, Dan can regularly be seen at The Stand in New York City.

Ashley Austin Morris is an American comedian, playwright, and stage, television, and film actress. She is best known for her role as Francine Carruthers in the revival of the PBS Kids children's series The Electric Company, which ran from 2009 to 2011.

Ahri Findling is a writer and comedian living in New York City. He has written for Nikki Glaser is Obsessed on E!, The MTV TV Awards, and is currently writing, directing, and acting on the new Nickelodeon sketch show, Nick Shorts. He was named an emerging comedian alongside Tim Dillon, Meg Stalter, and Andrew Schulz by the NY Post in 2020. He performs standup in clubs and colleges all over the country and has opened for Nikki Glaser, Kyle Kinane and Bret Ernst just to name a few. Ahri has performed in festivals including New York Comedy Festival, Trial by laughter, Devil Cup, Laughing Devil Comedy Festival, Brooklyn Comedy Festival, and the Pittsburgh Comedy Festival. He has been featured on Bravo and Comedy Central Digital and will make his Standup TV debut on Amazon in 2022.