Brittany (she/her) is an up and coming comic in the Pittsburgh comedy scene. Even though she’s fairly new in the comedy game, she has performed on stages across the city including Burning Bridges Comedy Club, the Improv, and the Byham Theater. She has opened for the likes of Franqi French. Her comedy has been described as so relatable it hurts. She's got a lot going on and she's coming to talk to you about it. She is so excited to be a part of this show, she’s coming up with a new catch phrase- come share a laugh! Which is leagues better than her last one, “Please laugh, my mom is here.”

Michael Hodges (they/them) moved from Pittsburgh to Seattle a couple of months before the pandemic started, and has been mostly in their room ever since. They represented Pittsburgh at the 2018 National Poetry Slam, where they performed poems about sadness, mental health, and taxidermied squirrels. They work at a cannabis factory and listen to a lot of podcasts.

Tyler (he/him) is an actor & comedian who was born in Indiana PA and raised in Jamestown NY. He has been performing for the last several years in Pittsburgh, New York City, and Los Angeles. His dream is to star in a marvel cinematic universe movie and to star in a movie alongside Tracy Morgan.

Lena Kinney (she/her) is a Pittsburgh native and began doing stand up over a year ago at Hambones in Lawrenceville. She has always had a love for stand up comedy and when I turned 25 I decided to pursue it, and what started as a hobby became my passion. When she’s not doing stand up I am in a band called Dopamine, I run a skincare business called Floods of Flora, and I am a freelance website designer.

Shooooz (she/her) is a product of a capitalist, colonialist enterprise designed to portray bare feet as barbaric. She has been deployed all over the world to perpetuate the myth of the superiority of pale cobblers. Fortunately, she has attained sentience, and now spends her time writing poetry to raise awareness of the fact that the little sticker on her sole says "Made in India."

Torrey Shineman (she/her) is a genre-blending writer and performance artist. Her spoken word mixes clever social commentary with personal narrative, engaging the audience through a dynamic mix of rhythm, rhyme, wordplay, wit, body movement, humor, and soul. Torrey was a featured performer at the 2014 Glastonbury Festival in the UK (the largest green-field festival in the world) – where she shared a lineup with Metallica and regrettably set-clashed with Dolly Parton. She is a two-time winner of the Jam Cruise Gong Show, a three-time winner of The Moth Storytelling Slam, and she has competed in the Individual World Poetry Slam, US National Poetry Slam, and the UK National Slam Finals.

Vanessa St. Clair (she/her) is a Los Angeles based actress, improviser, and stand up comedian. She’s worked with theater companies such as Vigilance Theater Group, Throughline Theatre Company, and Uncumber Theatrics. She has been featured in the La Jolla Comedy Store, Tiger! Tiger!, Green Bay Improv Festival and Pittsburgh Comedy Festival twice, and for national headliners, Eddie Brill, Kevin James Doyle, and Aaron Kleiber. 

As well as being named “2019’s 2nd Best Comedian” and “3rd Best Rising Superstar'' in the Pittsburgh City Paper’s Reader Poll, she was recently on The Deuce and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. She can be seen regularly in “Talking Tunes With These Few Goons'' on Arcade Comedy’s “Arcade at Home” programming or heard weekly in her own segment, The Bright Side, on Q92.9 FM PGH. 

Check out her Instagram and Facebook! @vanessastclair and if you’re so inclined, the fabulous website she built herself,

It’s your girl Arla White (she/her) from the depths of the indoors, with the fake air and artificial lights. No stranger to a mic to draw a laugh, or a tune, Arla likes to move a little, too. She has competed as a semi finalist in the 2018 March Madness Standup Comedy Competition at the Pittsburgh Improv, in the Pittsburgh Comedy Festival Amateur Stand Up competition, in Burlypicks for Master of Comedy 2020, and is one of the top 100 voices in Pittsburgh for American Idol in 2011. She has style, grace, and resting bitch face - give it up for the comedy of Arla White!

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Maya Wright (she/her) is the youngest girl of fifteen siblings. Her favorite colors are pink, purple, and periwinkle. The triple P reminds her to be polite, positive, and productive.

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Rachel Greene (she/her) is a writer, performer, educator and spoken word poet who uses the power of personal stories and creative group process to foster social transformation.

She was a founding member of Old Growth Poetry Collective in Olympia, WA and represented Olympia People's Mic at the National Poetry Slam and Women of the World Poetry Slam. She spent a season with the Poetic Justice Theatre Ensemble in Port Townsend, WA, practicing Theatre of the Oppressed and Playback Theatre. Rachel is pleased to be collaborating with folkLAB and making art happen back in her hometown of Pittsburgh!

Jalina McClarin (she/her) is a Pittsburgh-based actor, artist, fierce community advocate, and folkLAB alum ( you may recognize her from 2018’s OTHER: multiracial folklore)
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Lori Beth (she/her) is a Pittsburgh-based poet and performer, and one of the founders and organizers for the Pittsburgh Poetry Collective
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