Who Are These People? is the first show in Baltimore dedicated to hilarious character monologues. This show is a product of the Character Monologue class I taught for the Baltimore Improv Group. Performers learn how to write a fully realized character monologue, rewrite work, select costumes and props and perform a full-length sketch show on the Baltimore Improv Group stage. Our writers meet weekly to pitch ideas and share drafts before putting up a show on the last Friday of every month. Each show ends with a Q&A with the featured characters, where the audience can ask questions à la Inside The Actors Studio. As the director and producer, I am responsible for casting, organizing and promoting our show, which has steadily grown in cast and audience size over the last several shows.

This clip features a Q&A with Dracula who runs an AirBnB (Ziti Parilla), the kid benched for Air Bud (Kyle Hobstetter), The Giving Tree to an iPad kid (Cory Cone), a white lady who just tried lotion for the

When I started stand up in 2022, the open mics I went to were dominated by dudes trying out vaguely to outright racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic material that cracked up their buddies. I kept waiting for somebody to recognize this problem and start a show for women and queer people to workshop material and build community without sitting through material that cut us down. The straight dudes all had each other, but comics I knew who weren’t straight dudes were going out less and less because of the state of the scene. 

Eventually, I stopped taking spots on shows where I’d be the only woman and decided to create the space I was looking for. In March 2024, we started The REALLY COOL Open Mic at Peabody Heights Brewery,a purposefully supportive show where the stage is reserved for women and queer folks. Every second Friday of the month since, we feature a local comedian as a special guest, and host They/Them Ty leads the often standing room only audience through a full list of talent. In roughly two years, we’ve featured more than 20 comics and introduced scores of new comics to the scene.

Unfortunately, the one-girl-per-show tendency is still alive and well in Baltimore. But our show is proof that there are incredible amounts of talent in our women and queer comics, and AUDIENCES WANT THAT. What started as a small open mic in 2024 has turned into much more: a place to connect, practice the craft and diversify the Baltimore comedy scene just by showing up and doing our thing. 

Part clown piece, part performance art, part guilting you into donating to an organization fighting climate change! The Lorax runs around with that disturbingly lumpy belly and reminds you that there is much to be done in terms of saving our planet. 

Though incredibly silly, the idea of this character is to remind the audience that climate change is very much still a thing, and it is up to us to reverse its effects (which is possible!) In this clip, please enjoy the hit single Trees Are Really Important by TayLorax Swift. 

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My solo show Hannah LIVE: The One-Han Show is dependent upon crowd work, but I’m not allowed to talk to anyone I’ve met before. These audience interactions determine the trajectory of the pieces that follow. I started this show online in 2020 in the midst of the pandemic, when I was feeling creatively stifled and bored. Since then, the show has delighted audiences across America with characters, games and mango White Claw. 

In this clip, I meet a very nice gentleman James, who shares what he knows about wine as a surprise guest on The Drew Barrymore Show.

AS SEEN IN…

Baltimore Improv Festival (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)

PackFest, Los Angeles (2024)

Countdown Improv Festival (2024, 2025)

Highwire Improv (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)

Nicest review I ever got: "She has me and the rest of the audience in stitches, and continued on with another half-hour of off-the-wall surprises."