The Disabled List Comedy Festival 2025 [In-Person Only]
About
Jan. 24, 2025 – from 7:00–9:00pm at NWFF
Individual tickets are $0–25, sliding scale, but additional donations are encouraged! PURCHASE TICKETS HERE
Disabled List Fest 2025 will continue on Saturday 1/25 and Sunday 1/26 at Theatre Off Jackson. Click here for tickets!
(Note: Not ticketed by NWFF!)
Ticketing, concessions, cinemas, restrooms, and our public edit lab are located on Northwest Film Forum’s ground floor, which is wheelchair accessible. All doors in Northwest Film Forum are non-motorized, and may require staff assistance to open. Our upstairs workshop room is not wheelchair accessible.
The majority of seats in our main cinema are 21″ wide from armrest to armrest; some seats are 19″ wide. We are working on creating the option of removable armrests!
We have a limited number of assistive listening devices available for programs hosted in our larger theater, Cinema 1 (where The Disabled List is hosted). These devices are maintained by the Technical Director, and can be requested at the ticketing and concessions counter. Also available at the front desk is a Sensory Kit you can borrow, which includes a Communication Card, noise-reducing headphones, and fidget toys.
The Forum does NOT have assistive devices for the visually impaired, and is not (yet) a scent-free venue. Our commitment to increasing access for our audiences is ongoing, and we welcome all public input on the subject!
If you have additional specific questions about accessibility at our venue, please contact our Patron Services Manager at maria@nwfilmforum.org. Our phone number (206-329-2629) is voicemail-only, but we check it often.
Made possible due to a grant from Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, in partnership with Sensory Access, our Sensory Access document presents a visual and descriptive walk-through of the NWFF space. View it in advance of attending an in-person event at bit.ly/nwffsocialnarrativepdf, in order to prepare yourself for the experience.
NWFF patrons will be strongly encouraged to wear masks that cover both nose and mouth while in the building. Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them. We are not currently checking vaccination cards. Recent variants of COVID-19 readily infect and spread between individuals regardless of vaccination status.
Read more about NWFF’s policies regarding cleaning, masks, and capacity limitations here.
The Disabled List Comedy Festival is the Pacific Northwest’s first-ever disability-focused comedy festival. Produced and hosted by local comedians Dan Hurwitz and Kayla Brown, it will take place on Jan. 24 at 7:00pm at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, WA, at Theatre Off Jackson on Jan. 25 and 26.
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 that debuted at Northwest Film Forum’s Local Sightings Film Festival and was screened at several other film festivals throughout the state. The Disabled List Comedy Festival will feature filmed sketch and live stand-up by comedians with disabilities, including a couple special guests that are still under wraps.
We are super excited to announce that the 2025 Festival will be headlined by the hilarious Hayden Kristal and Gibran Saleem
Hayden Kristal
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Hayden Kristal is a Colorado-based Deaf queer activist and stand-up comedian. Their quick wit and cheerful self-deprecation has earned them a semifinalist spot on America’s Got Talent, roles on Netflix & Adult Swim’s Tuca and Bertie, and over a million followers on social media.
Gibran Saleem
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Gibran Saleem was born in North Carolina and raised in Virginia in a Pakistani household. He started comedy while attending graduate school at New York University for Psychology. While attending school he was individually handpicked as an MVP nominee on the national TBS Rooftop Comedy College Competition and was a two-time recipient of the UCB diversity scholarship.
Gibran is the only comedian to ever be selected as a finalist for both the Stand-Up NBC and NBC’s Late Night program; where he was one of six individuals hand-selected from over 1,000 submissions.
Gibran has been featured on MTV, TV Land, Popcorn Flix, PBS, CUNY TV, VOA, Elite Daily, and Cosmopolitan and performed his stand-up television debut on Gotham Comedy Live for AXS TV. He was the focus of an international documentary on NHK TV called Asian Dreamers: Brown is Funny and has been featured in festivals nationally across the states as well as winning 1st place in the Hoboken comedy festival. Gibran is a staple among college campuses and travels throughout the year. He can be seen on Pamela Adlon’s Better Things on FX.
FULL LINEUP
FRIDAY, 7:00PM
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ARTIST BIOS:
Meet the hosts:
Kayla Brown
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Dan Hurwitz
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