The Disabled List Presents: Live Comedy (June 2024) [In-Person Only]
6:30pm doors
7:00pm showtime!
$14 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
** This event features automated captioning with voice recognition projected on the screen! When you register, please let us know if you have any accessibility needs. With enough advance notice, we will do our best to accommodate and if for any reason we are unable, we will reach out prior to showtime. **
Visiting Artist
** The Disabled List presents bi-monthly live standup at NWFF! Featured artists in this edition: Heather Goldberg, Saira Barbaric, Michael Bellevue, and Crystal Liston! We’re super excited to have Heather Goldberg coming all the way from Portland, and a special dance performance from Saira Barbaric. **
About
The Disabled List, produced and hosted by local comedians Dan Hurwitz and Kayla Brown, takes place bimonthly at Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, WA.
The Disabled List is a collective of disabled comedians that has been performing in and around Seattle since 2018. In 2021, we produced a short film, the award-eligible This Is Spinal Injury, that debuted at Northwest Film Forum’s Local Sightings Film Festival and was screened at several other film festivals throughout the state.
This live comedy show features Brown, Hurwitz, and an ever-changing cast of fellow local comedians!
June 2024 Lineup:
Heather Goldberg
Heather Goldberg (she/her), the Philly transplant stationed in Portland, is like a cheesesteak dipped in artisan coffee – a quirky mix of East Coast sass and West Coast chill. Her comedy is a reflection of her awkward encounters and experiences, topped off with hilarious facial expressions. Heather produces and hosts The Gold Standard, a comedy show that holds up to its name. She has featured for Carmen Lagala from NYC and Joe Gorga from The Real Housewives of New Jersey. Catch Heather’s Mitch McConnell impression before the inevitable!
Saira Barbaric
Saira Barbaric is a gender- and genre-blending hedonist creature in a thicc, Black, disabled human suit making porn, performances and parties in the Coast Salish territory since 2015.
Michael Bellevue
Michael Bellevue (he/him) is an avid sailor, reader and writer of Russian, standup producer, avid volunteer who’s produced several fundraisers for nonprofits, comedian, chess player since age 5, linguistics fan, and, self-evidently, Black. He volunteered at a food bank for 15 months during the pandemic.
Crystal Liston
Crystal Liston (she/her) is a PNW native and has been in the disability game for 32 yrs. She has decided to throw her hat into the comedy arena in hopes that the fame will help out her political career.
Your Hosts:
Kayla Brown
Kayla Brown (she/her) is a disabled activist and amateur comedian from Seattle. She believes that art and other media forms are a way to break down stereotypes, build community, and transform people’s worlds. When not at work or school, Kayla co-produces the comedy show The Disabled List, plays video games, reads fanfiction, and eats snacks.
Dan Hurwitz
Dan Hurwitz is a disabled, Black, and Jewish writer, comedian, and filmmaker. In 2018, he co-founded The Disabled List, an ever-growing group of disabled comedians from the Pacific Northwest. Dan was a semi-finalist in both the Laughs Comedy Competition (2019) and the Stand-Up NBC comedy competition (2019). During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dan co-wrote, co-directed, and co-starred in This Is Spinal Injury (2021), a mockumentary about the trials of disabled artists during quarantine, which premiered at Northwest Film Forum’s Local Sightings Film Festival in September, 2021.