Nantucket Comedy Festival Brings Funny Guys to
Nantucket Christmas Stroll
Night time
performance follows workshop for kids
Nantucket Comedy Festival brings
four funny guys to Nantucket during
the island’s annual Christmas Stroll
Weekend to perform at Nantucket
Dreamland, after three days of a comedy workshop for kids.
Comic
Jackie Flynn joins Kevin Flynn on Saturday December 1, at
6:30 p.m. at Nantucket Dreamland. Their appearance, A Little Nantucket Comedy Stroll, is part of the pair’s Brothers from Another Mother Tour and
also features Nantucket comics Brian
Glowacki and David Hayes.
Jackie Flynn, originally from
the Boston area, is an actor and comedian with prominent standup appearances
and extensive film, television, and commercial advertising credits. He has
recently appeared in “Loudermilk,” the DirectTV series co-created by Peter
Farrelly, and was a winner of the San Francisco Comedy Festival.
Kevin Flynn has entertained audiences for years with his stand-up comedy
performances, headlining at clubs and colleges around the world. He has
appeared on television and in films, including the series “Sex and the City”
and the movies “The Heartbreak Kid” and “Me, Myself and Irene.” Flynn has also
hosted several series on cable television and on radio. He unveiled his one-man
play “Fear of Heights” on Nantucket in September. He is the founder and
executive director of Nantucket Comedy Festival.
Nantucket
native Brian Glowacki has been developing wider audiences for his comedy
through in night clubs and on stages across the country. David Hayes emerged
recently from his appearances at Nantucket Comedy Festival and other Nantucket
venues.
The
four will work with young would-be comics during the week, at Nantucket Boys & Girls Club, as
part of Nantucket Comedy Festival’s innovative Stand Up & Learn program.
For
the past decade, Flynn and the festival have spotlighted dozens of young people
and their silly, sometimes poignant stories about their friends, brothers and
sisters, or moms and dads. In year-round workshops and performances, kids from
eight to eighteen write their own stories and jokes then deliver them in front
of live audiences to help build self-confidence through learning to write and
perform original stand-up comedy. “Have fun, create, and be confident,” Flynn
urges kids.
The
kids’ workshop runs Wednesday through Friday at Nantucket Boys & Girls Club
and ends with them performing at the club on Sparks Avenue on Friday, November
30 at 5:30 p.m. The event is free to the public. For tickets to the adult show
on Saturday with the foursome of comics, check the Dreamland website nantucketdreamland.org for tickets. For
more on Nantucket Comedy Festival and future Stand Up & Learn workshops
through next year, see nantucketcomedyfestival.org
or call 508-901-9281.