Nantucket Comedy Festival Presents Stand Up & Learn
Thursday, Friday & Saturday, April 6–8, the Nantucket Comedy
Festival presents our popular Stand Up & Learn Winter Workshop and
Professional Comedy Series. Executive Director Kevin Flynn and will be on
island to conduct the workshops for Stand Up & Learn, a comedy education
program for young people ages 8–18. An initiative of the Nantucket Comedy
Festival, Stand Up & Learn enables island children to build self-confidence
while learning to create and perform original stand-up comedy. Children can
choose to perform in a special kids’ show on Saturday evening at the Dreamland,
and even return in the summer for Stand Up & Learn’s Kids’ Night on
Wednesday, July 12.
Workshops
for this session will take place in the Dreamland Studio Theater, 17 South
Water Street, on Thursday and Friday, April 6–7 from 3:30–5 p.m. and on
Saturday, April 8 from 10 a.m.–12 p.m., followed by a children’s performance at
5 p.m. put on by the workshop participants. Please sign up soon, as this class
will be limited to a maximum of fifteen children. All children’s workshops are
free to participants. Saturday evening at 7:00, a professional stand up comedy
show (for ages 18 and over) in the Dreamland’s main theater will feature Karen
Morgan and Jim Colliton.
To sign up
for Stand Up & Learn workshops, or for more information, please email
Alyssa Corry, info@nantucketcomedyfestival.org
Kids’
Performance Time: Saturday, April 8 at 5:00 p.m.—FREE, but please reserve your
tickets online at www.nantucketdreamland.org
or at the Nantucket Dreamland Box Office.