Play Cousins
a new comedy variety show hosted by Sonia Denis & Rebecca O'Nealwith headliner Jaboukie Young-White!
Play Cousins is Ethel's Club's first comedy variety show hosted by stand up comedians Sonia Denis and Rebecca O'Neal.
A night of community, chosen family, and joy featuring live comedy and entertainment from your new favorite multidisciplinary performers of color. Jokes, songs, drinks, dance, laughs - all among - and by - people who look like you.
Meet your Play Cousins November 15th at 7pm.
Friday, November 15, 2019Doors & FREE DRINKS & BITES - 7pShow @ 7:30
@
Ethel's Club315 Meserole East Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Free for Ethel's Club members$20 online (includes free drinks & bites)$25 at the door (includes free drinks & bites)limited comps available via email
Hosted by Sonia Denis & Rebecca O'NealÂ
Featuring Eudora Peterson (HBO)Yedoye Travis (Viceland)Larry Owens (A Strange Loop)& Jaboukie Young White (Netflix, Comedy Central's The Daily Show)
Music by Mamoudou N'Diaye
More info online here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/play-cousins-comedy-night-feat-jaboukie-young-white-tickets-79044493207Â Â
 About your hosts:
Sonia Denis is a New York-based comedian. She was recently named one of Vulture's Comics to Watch is featured on The New Negroes on Comedy Central. Sonia co-starred in the Emmy nominated web series Brown Girls and has appeared on HBO's High Maintenance and in the Netflix movie Set It Up. She also hosted the Refinery 29's late-night show After After Party. Sonia's writing has been featured in The New Yorker and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. She was a writer and performer in Second City's critically acclaimed Black Side of the Moon.
Rebecca O'Neal is a comedian, writer, and former host of the stand up television show WCIU's One Night Stand Up in her hometown of Chicago, IL. She now resides in Brooklyn where she was named among TBS's 2018 Comics To Watch, has performed at Bridgetown, RIOT, Brooklyn Comedy Fest, and New York Comedy festivals, on 2 Dope Queens, written for Vanity Fair, Gawker.tv, Buzzfeed, and Splitsider.com, and has appeared on the season 2 of Netflix's Easy, on Refinery 29"²s After After Party, Buzzfeed's Did You See This?, and in several sketches for Comedy Central digital. Rebecca has been featured in Elle Magazine, Vice, Vulture, Paper Magazine, Bitch Magazine, & NPR. In Chicago, NYC, and around the country, Rebecca has opened for Maria Bamford, Janeane Garofalo, Arsenio Hall, Hannibal Buress, Michael Che, Roy Wood Jr, Ron Funches, Michelle Wolf, Sasheer Zamata, Jaboukie Young-White, Jena Friedman, Al Madrigal, and more. Â
About Ethel's Club:
We believe that people of color are long overdue for a space that centers the whole of their identity and experiences. Our intention is to recognize and give power to your presence, voice and needs. When marginalized communities are empowered, everyone benefits. Â
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https://medium.com/on-color/roxane-gay-invested-in-ethels-club-heres-why-53e69160af9b Â