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LIT's Annual Comedy Festival

Make Your Summer LIT!
Festival Dates:  June 1 - 16, 2018
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Every summer since 2012, LIT hosts a summer comedy festival featuring all types of comedy acts from across the country and locally.  This summer our seventh annual festival features over 60 acts, workshops and 7 headliners from June 1 - 16 at four different venues:  Bier Baron, 1523 22nd St NW, in Dupont Circle, The Fridge, 516 8th St SE, in Barracks Row, The Forum at Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F St NW, and Melton Rehearsal Hall at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, 641 D St NW, both located in the heart of DC in PennQuarter/Chinatown.  You can see performers from noteworthy comedy clubs and theaters in DC, Chicago, LA, NYC and more.    

This year's festival features comedy acts of all types:

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  • improv teams (long-form, short-form, musical)

  • sketch teams

  • musical comedy acts

  • stand-ups/storytellers

  • podcast/films

  • other types of comedy acts

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LIT Fest 2018 is held in multiple venues.  Please double check the venue address when you purchase online.
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  Shows at BIER BARON                                                                                        

Friday, June 1 @ 8 pm

Jarret Berenstein (NYC Stand-up)

Friends With 401(k) Benefits (Chicago Stand-ups)

Julian M. Stern (LA Stand-up)

Friday, June 1 @ 10 pm

Julian Humphrey (LIT House Comic)

Champagne Jerry (NYC Music Artist)

Saturday, June 9 at 10 pm

Marlénas McMahon-Purk (LIT House Comic)

Erin Dohony (PA Stand-Up)

Yearbook Photo Roast (PA Sketch)

Boots 'N Cats (NYC Hip Hop Improv)

Saturday, June 9 @ 11:59 pm

Shit Show!  (Laugh Index Players)

 

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  Shows at THE FRIDGE                                                                                         

Saturday, June 2 @ 8 pm

Trudy Carmichael  (NYC Musical Improv)

Just And (NYC Duoprov)

Cloaking Device  (LIT Harold Team)

Saturday, June 2 @ 10 pm

Hot & Sweaty (LIT Duoprov)
Fight Club Sandwich (NYC Long-Form Improv)

Huggy Smalls: The Notorious H.U.G. (DC Long-Form Improv)
The Lodge (DC Long-Form Improv)

Sunday, June 3 @ 6 pm

It’s The New (PA Sketch)

Community Sauna (LIT Short-Form Improv)

Sunday, June 3 @ 8 pm

Hedi Sandberg (LIT House Comic & Host)

Memphis Worley (VA Stand-Up)

Vera Averina (VA Stand-Up)

Lily Kerrigan (VA Stand-Up)

Tim Trueheart (DC Stand-Up)

Tom Myers (MD Stand-Up)

Jeena Bloom (NYC Stand-Up)

Monday, June 4 @ 8 pm

Door #3  (DC Musical Improv)
Where’s My Ukulele? (DC Musical Improv)
Wonderball  (LIT Musical Improv)

Tuesday, June 5 @ 8 pm

Kara Kinsey  (LIT House Comic)
37 Puppies  (DC Long-Form Improv)
Women’s Almanac (DC Duoprov)
Double Stuff (DC Duoprov)
Thermal Runaway (LIT Long-Form Improv)

Wednesday, June 6 @ 8 pm

Hot & Sweaty  (LIT Musical Sketch)
Cassandra Whitby (LIT Musical Sketch)
Planet Of The Apes - The Rock Musical Parody (DC Musical)

Thursday, June 7 @ 8 pm

Blair Postman (NC Stand-Up)
Thankzgiving 2007 (DC Long-Form Improv)
The Carmichaels (DC Long-Form Improv)
Press Play (DC Long-Form Improv)

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  Shows at THE FORUM                                                                                          

Friday, June 8 @ 8 pm

Cloaking Device  (LIT Harold Team) 
Hot & Sweaty  (LIT Musical Improv)
Handsome Naked (Chicago Hip Hop Musical)

Friday, June 8 @ 10 pm

Jennifer Amo  (LIT House Comic)
Hot & Sweaty (LIT Sketch)

Rob Asero (NYC/LA Storyteller)

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  Shows at WOOLLY                                                                                                 

Sunday, June 10 @ 8 pm

Remote Possibilities (MD Long-Form Improv)
301 Views (NYC Sketch)
Community Sauna (LIT Short-Form Improv)

Monday, June 11 @ 8 pm

Katie McKelvie (LIT House Comic)
Nicole Berckes (DC Stand-Up)
Wonderball  (LIT Musical Improv House Team)
Hot & Sweaty (LIT Musical Improv)

Tuesday, June 12 @ 8 pm

One Final Scare (DC Podcast)
Separate Beds (LIT Sketch House Team)

Wednesday, June 13 @ 8 pm

Matt Gregory (LIT House Comic)
The Quitters (DC Long-Form Improv)
Rat King (DC Duoprov)
Please and Thank You (DC Long-Form Improv)
Thermal Runaway (LIT Improv House Team)

Thursday, June 14 @ 8 pm

Allan Sidley (DC Stand-Up)
Bad Medicine (DC Sketch)

Chinese Menu (DC Improv)

Friday, June 15 @ 8 pm

Hitch*Cocktails  (Chicago Improv Show)
Happy Karaoke Fun Time (NYC Musical Improv)

Friday, June 15 @ 10 pm

Hitch*Cocktails (Chicago Improv Show)
Happy Karaoke Fun Time (NYC Musical Improv)

Saturday, June 16 @ 8 pm

Hitch*Cocktails (Chicago Improv Show)
Fluffy  (NYC UCB Harold Team)

Saturday, June 16 @ 10 pm

Doug Francken (LIT House Comic)
Hot & Sweaty (LIT Long-Form Improv)
Fluffy (NYC UCB Harold Team)

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