The Torch

Issue date: 11/13/08 Section: Arts

Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant is performing at Actors Cabaret in Eugene on Nov. 14-15 as part of the Grrrlz Rock-sponsored Pacific Northwest Women's Comedy Festival. Photo courtesy of LEIGH ANNE JASHEWAY-BRYANT

The Grrrlz Rock Concert Series provides a fistful of laughs with the Pacific Northwest Women's Comedy Festival Nov. 14-15 at Actors Cabaret in Eugene.

"There are 18 performers in 16 acts performing various stand up comedy acts … seven of them are coming from Seattle, which makes this not just comedians from Eugene, but the Pacific Northwest," performer Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant said. She will be one of the featured comics Nov. 14 at the Actors Cabaret.

Jasheway-Bryant is a Eugene native of 14 years, a corporate comedian and a comedy instructor at LCC. She was the 2003 Erma Bombeck Humor Writing winner, a former radio host and a performer at clubs and conventions all across the United States.

Jasheway-Bryant is one of around 2,000 comedians associated with the Association for Applied Therapeutic Humor and has performed in 40-60 conferences this year.

Jasheway-Bryant has a master's degree in public health, which is abbreviated "MPH," or what she refers to as a "mistress of public humor."

LCC graduate, Sarah Ulerick and former students Melody Dodd and Ashley Reiss will perform alongside Jasheway-Bryant at the comedy show.

Jasheway-Bryant said the Grrrlz Rock Concert Series is "a fantastic thing … and [I'm] proud that LCC is a great sponsor of the event."

The festival is at the Actors Cabaret of Eugene, 996 Willamette St., Nov. 14-15, from 7-10 p.m. Tickets are $25 for each performance and $25 for a backstage pass. Call (541) 683-4368 or visit http://www.actorscabaret.org/tickets.php.

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