UPDATED COMIC INFO:

Due to a schedule change, Ken Rogerson will not be performing at the Winter Series Comedy show on March 17th.  We are pleased and lucky to announce that the hilarious Kelly Macfarland will be headlining that evening at the Dreamland Theatre.  Kelly, a Nantucket Comedy Festival favorite, was part of the Top 100 Comedians of Last Comic Standing Season 9, has appeared on AXS Gotham Comedy LIVE, and won first in the professional category of the Ladies of Laughter 2016 competition.  We look forward to an evening of laughter to support Stand Up & Learn on Saturday, March 17th at the Dreamland.

Kelly Macfarland Bio:

As an experienced stand-up comedian, Kelly has an extensive and well-rounded resume including comedy clubs, theaters, colleges and several television appearances.  Kelly is currently touring clubs and colleges across the country and has entertained our US troops overseas.  Kelly headlined the 2009 Boston Women in Comedy Festival, was first runner up in the 2009 Boston Comedy Festival, voted Best of the Fest 2010 Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival, appeared in the Oddball Festival 2015 and performed at Boston Calling 2016 and 2017. Kelly has also appeared on Stand Up in Stilettos on the TV Guide Channel, Comedy Central’s Premium Blend and is the host of the web series, Fit or Fad for Scripps Network. Most recently, Kelly was part of the Top 100 Comedians of Last Comic Standing Season 9, appeared on AXS Gotham Comedy LIVE and won first in the professional category of the Ladies of Laughter 2016 competition.  Kelly has been hosting events in and around New England as well as across the country for over 10 years. She has done extensive work with the American Heart Association and Kelly hosted the 2017 MITX Technology Awards.  She just released her second album, You Woke Up Today, available on iTunes and Amazon.

Nantucket Comedy Festival Presents Stand Up & Learn

Thursday, Friday & Saturday, March 15–17, the Nantucket Comedy Festival presents our popular Stand Up & Learn Winter Workshop and Professional Comedy Series.  Executive Director Kevin Flynn 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 11. 

Workshops for this session will take place in the Dreamland Studio Theater, 17 South Water Street, on Thursday and Friday, March 15–17 from 3:30–5 p.m. and on Saturday, March 17 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 Kelly MacFarland.

To sign up for Stand Up & Learn workshops, or for more information, please email Alyssa Corry, info@nantucketcomedyfestival.org

Kids’ Performance Time: Saturday, March 17 at 5:00 p.m.—FREE, but please reserve your tickets online at www.nantucketdreamland.org or at the Nantucket Dreamland Box Office.