Disciples Callbacks (August 2017)
Thank you to everyone who came out tonight. This was a great round of auditions. For those of you who did not receive callbacks KEEP PERFORMING! Please audition again and come to our workshops. If you are specifically interested in standup, Chapel Hilarity is another resource on campus that offers workshops and open mics for standup.
If you did not receive a callback and would like the notes on what you could improve on, please don’t hesitate to message our Facebook Page or email us at FalseProfitsComedy@gmail.com.
We would like to call back the following people tomorrow at 7PM in Hanes 121 (in no particular order) –
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Joseph Hattan
Joseph Hattan really wants to hear about your day. No, she really does. She won’t stop giving you her full attention. It’s perplexing and a little uncomfortable for you.
Ashley Siano
Ashley Siano has been in a committed relationship with her bangs for a year. It’s a big deal, so be sure to congratulate her.
Not That Type of Funny Bone: Being a Woman in Comedy at UNC
By Ellie Rodriguez
Hannah Jones’ dream for women in comedy is to one day be able to go up on stage and pretend to masturbate as a cisgender woman actually would, rather than the typical fake cis male jerking off on stage.
Jones is the treasurer of False Profits—an improv, standup and sketch comedy group on campus— as well as one of the directors of Instruction for the Disciples, its incubator team.
Women in mainstream comedy are becoming more noticeable. Amy Schumer’s “Trainwreck” was a huge summer hit, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the Golden Globes three times, and Mindy Kaling created her own critically acclaimed show after having written at least 22 episodes of the much beloved series, The Office.
Still, as Jones pointed out Read More
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