Aparna Nancherla
Bula Banerjee
Aparna Nancherla is an American comedian. She appeared on Inside Amy Schumer and has written for Late Night with Seth Meyers and Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. Nancherla released her debut comedy album Just Putting It Out There through Tig Notaro's Bentzen Ball Records on July 8, 2016.
Nancherla has appeared on Conan and Comedy Central's The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail. Variety named her to its list of "Top 10 Comics to Watch for 2016" and The New York Times described the way Nancherla "has become a comic in demand for her quirky, relatable and punchy humor." She is also the co-host of Blue Woman Group, which the Daily Beast calls "a hilarious podcast about depression." In 2016, Comedy Central announced Nancherla will record a half-hour special for the network.
Nancherla grew up outside Washington, DC, attending Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology and then Amherst College. She returned to Washington, DC, where she began her standup career.
Cast
Caissie Levy
Lydia Cheney
Most recently, Caissie played Patti Davis and Julie Nixon in the Off-Broadway world premiere of Michael John LaChiusa's First Daughter Suite at The Public Theater. She starred as Fantine in the acclaimed 2014 revival of Les Misérables on Broadway, and is best known to Broadway & West End audiences for originating the roles of Molly in Ghost, and Sheila in the Tony winning revival of Hair. Her voice can be heard on both shows' cast albums. Other credits include Elphaba in Wicked (Broadway & Los Angeles), Penny in Hairspray (Broadway, 1st National Tour & Toronto), Maureen in Rent (National Tour) and Sara in Murder Ballad (Off-Broadway). Her debut solo album, With You, is available on iTunes. https://goo.gl/N7bGPy
Jeffrey Joseph
Dan Kuritzky
A formidable actor in his own right, Joseph has made appearances on The Sopranos, Law & Order and NYPD Blue, in addition to stand-up sets on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Comedy Central. The years he spent studying theater have certainly informed his comedy, in that the personas he embodies live and breathe with vivid immediacy. His indulgence in these identities is keenly tempered with out-of-character moments, where he chronicles teaching playwriting to incarcerated youth, or how his parents’ sending him to boarding school in England “completely fucked up my ghetto.” While character-driven humor runs the risk of alienating the audience by delving too deeply into the fictional, Joseph artfully balances the latter with tangible recounting of his experience. - via Splitsider
