Aimee LeCours is a Florida based stand-up comedian, improvisor, mom, and licensed mental health counselor. You may have seen her at the Orlando Improv, Don't Tell Comedy, and on the Second City stage and Lincoln Lodge in Chicago. She produces and hosts Psych! A Stand-Up Therapy Comedy Show, which was most recently at The Caveat in New York City and sold out at The Den Theatre in Chicago. She was a 2023 semi-finalist in the Florida's Funniest Comedian Competition. She currently co-hosts the podcast Pillow Fort with Roo and Aimee.
Andre Medrano is a comic, writer, and producer based in New York. He has performed at SF Sketchfest, UCB, New York Comedy Club, Madison Comedy Week, Flyover Comedy Festival and more clubs and festivals around the country. Andre's on screen credits include ViceTV's "While the Rest of Us Die", Discovery's "A Crime to Remember", and the independent film "Women and Somtimes Men". Alongside Maggie Maxwell, Andre co-hosts and produces the popular show "Would You Rather w/Andre & Maggie" which happens monthly at Friends & Lovers in Brooklyn. During the pandemic they successfully launched a streaming version of the show on twitch which continues to happen on occasion. Maggie and Andre have taken the show to festivals around the country as well as produced it in cities including Chicago, Philadelphia, and Denver. Andre also produces a biweekly stand up show called Landline Comedy at Wild East Brewing in Gowanus. Andre enjoys skiing, soccer, hiking, dogs, books and more. He grew up in New Jersey and has spent time in South America, Vermont, and Colorado since then. He remains a fan of all of these places.
Ellen Doyle has toured all over the United States at clubs, festivals, bars, coffee shops, open fields (Thanks Covid), living rooms, and public bathrooms across America’s heartland. She has been in The SLO Comedy Festival, The World Series of Comedy top 50, North Carolina Comedy Festival, Sno Jam Comedy Festival, Mutiny Radio Comedy Festival, Paul Bunyon Comedy Festival, The Hollywood, Scranton, and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. Ellen’s comedy ride is one not to miss. Her humor is autobiographical and told with the lovable bitterness of an east coaster. With topics ranging from her family to being jealous of the wrong things as a child, she tells jokes with a take no prisoners approach. Sarcastic, dark, unapologetic, yet insanely charming, Ellen says what she thinks although most of those thoughts should probably be kept to herself. Ellen’s Comedy has been described as: “A special kind of twisted”- Drunk Patron in Michigan
Emily Flake is a cartoonist and a writer for the New Yorker, a sex columnist for the AARP’S site for Gen X men (yes, really!), an illustrator, a performer, and the founder of St. Nell’s Humor Residency here in Williamsport. She is the author of several books, including Joke in a Box, a gag-cartooning creativity deck (October 2023, Andrews McMeel). She also wrote on Steven Soderbergh’s web series Command Z, released in 2023. She makes her primary home in Brooklyn but is in Williamsport as much as possible.
Emmett O'Neill is a comedian and writer currently based in Williamsport, PA. He first took the stage in 2004 at the age of 12 to perform at a local talent show, before taking a brief 15-year break from stand-up. Originally from Washington State, Emmett recently moved to Pennsylvania from New Orleans, Louisiana. He has performed all over the country, earning lavish praise ranging from "fine, I guess" from local comedians to "a disappointment" from his father.
Gastor Almonte is a comedian and storyteller from Brooklyn, NY where he lives with his wife and two teenage children. He has twice appeared on Comedy Central’s This Is Not Happening, Comedy Central’s Featuring, Vice Live, and the PBS featured Stories From The Stage. His appearance on Stories From The Stage won the 2020 Webby People’s Voice award for Best Individual Performance. Timeout Magazine named him “One of your new comedy obsessions.” His debut album, Immigrant Made, debuted at #1 on multiple platforms.
Hollie Harper is the creator/co-exec-producer of Hella Late! with Hollie Harper on BRIC TV. She was a semi-finalist in the NBC Standup Competition and has been featured on NY1, Black Enterprise Magazine, Black SD Magazine and the highly lauded "Motherly" podcast, and the Oprah Winfrey-approved "Friends Like Us" podcast. She is a proud team member of the Black Women In Comedy Laff Fest for the fifth year, has a monthly live comedy show “FDK” with Emily Flake, and produces "Walk With Me" on her very active “Hella Hollie” YouTube channel.
Liz Glazer is a standup comedian who recently recorded a set with Don’t Tell Comedy where clips have been seen over a million times, and it hasn’t even been online a week yet (as of the writing of this bio). She is also a recent winner of the Boston Comedy Festival and Ladies of Laughter Contest, and her forthcoming special, recorded at a sold out South Orange Performing Arts Center, comes out soon. Her debut album — recorded at a sold out show at New York Comedy Festival — was #1 on iTunes the week of its release, and stayed at #1 for 6 consecutive days.
Maggie Maxwell is a comedy writer, actor, and host. Host of what...you ask? Super helpful Q, thanks! Maggie co-hosts the long-running show, Would You Rather with Andre and Maggie, which she's thrilled to be doing at Nell's Fest! Maggie has performed at San Francisco Sketchfest, New York Comedy Festival, Flyover Comedy Festival, Austin Sketch Fest, Madison Comedy Week, Portland Sketch Comedy Festival, Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, and Charleston Comedy Festival. Maggie is a member of GOLD Comedy, writing and acting for team No Worries If Not, appeared on NBC's Bring the Funny, and has contributed to Reductress, Cracked, and Funny or Die. She can be found on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok (yes, she has to do a Chappell Roan impersonation, she knows, she knows) at @maggiemxwell
Manny Santiago is a Harrisburg Pennsylvania based comic and regular at the Harrisburg Comedy Zone. Makes audiences laugh with a unique mix of crowd work, observational humor, and real life experiences with a twist.
Born in New Jersey in 1972, Grammy-award-winning artist Mikael Jorgensen has been touring and recording with the band Wilco since 2002 and cultivates many parallel projects, including Quindar, Expandards, and Lizard Music. Mikael moved from New Jersey to Chicago in 1998 and was pivotal in establishing John McEntire's SOMA Electronic Music Studios. Jorgensen has lived in Ojai, CA since 2012 and continues to record and tour while pursuing music production, performing, photography, writing, and filmmaking.
Tracy McClendon is a Brooklyn based comedian with 13 years in the game. Her comedy has been described as "too much information", "there's no way that actually happened" and "I wish my daughter would keep my name out of her mouth." She is a St. Nell’s alum, using her time there to write her first hour of comedy, Sexy Lil Goober, which she debuted last November.
Teresa Roberts Logan is an award-winning comic and cartoonist, who has been a featured on HBO, A&E, The Comedy Channel, and even The Food Network! She recently headlined at the Laugh Riot Grrrl Festival in LA. Her cartoon work has appeared in MAD Magazine, and was chosen by Francoise Mouly and Nadja Spiegelman to be featured in RESIST! for the Women’s March, as well as in the grief paper The Cartoon Crier from the Center For Cartoon Studies. She is a regular at cartoon and comics fests including New York ComicCon, SPX, TCAF, the upcoming Non-Fiction Comics Festival. She is the author of four books from Andrews McMeel Publishing, including a book of her cartoons entitled THE OLDER I GET, THE LESS I CARE. Her regular cartoons on GoComics can be seen at GoComics.com/Laughing-Redhead-Comics.
Zack Hammond is a nationally touring comedian who performs in theaters, clubs, fire halls, pizza shops...anywhere that wants his brand of intelligent and dark humor. Zack has participated in several comedy festivals, including the cinder block comedy festival in Brooklyn, Baltimore comedy festival and the Meadowlands comedy festival. He was part of the Devil Cup comedy competition on long island and was the 1st place winner of NEPA scenes got talent's inaugural competition. He has produced four comedy albums, "sorrow tree" "Appalling" ,"utilitarian" and “…Because I’m Considerate. His first comedy special, “Welfare in Disguise” was released in 2023.
Billy Kelly observes the world with his 5 (five!) senses and shares his observations by saying funny things into a microphone in front of people; an art form he calls “Stand-Up Comedy.” National Public Radio has praised his “endearingly oddball sense of humor” while people who know him well call that same sense of humor “tiresome after a while.” Oh, and he has opened for Barack Obama, duetted with Davy Jones from The Monkees and been nominated for a Grammy Award — in that order!