10pm at The Underground Collaborative

This Mid-West showcase of talent will feature Brittany Tilander (Host) from Madison, U Name It Improv, Chicago, and stand up from Carly Malison, Milwaukee and Andrew Frank, St. Louis.

About the Comics:

Brittany Tilander (Host)
Stand Up, Madison
Brittany Tilander doesn’t give one good god damn what you think and this confidence is carrying her everywhere she wants to go. Her sharp humor and biting stories tend to toe the line between chaste and bawdy but leave you cackling and begging for more. She hosts a Strip-Storytelling Showcase, “Body Language” and is a writer and performer in the sketch comedy group The Late Early Show. She has performed at The Comedy Club on State opening for Ian Bagg, Noah Gardenswartz and Brent Morin.

UnameIt
Improv, Chicago
UnameIT combines the comedic talents of Rob Wilson and Sherman Edwards. They both were apart of Second City’s Diversity & Outreach program, Mission Improvable. They have been seen on FOX’s “Empire” and have performed on almost every comedy stage in Chicago and beyond. They’ve been performing comedy at clubs and colleges all over America and they can’t wait to perform for you.

Carly Malison
Stand Up, Milwaukee
Carly Malison is a comedian based out Milwaukee, WI. Where her comedy tackles the tough issues in life like her mother, and living in the drunkest city in the world. With three years of comedy under her belt Carly has already earned a few credits. Along with featuring and emceeing shows all over Wisconsin and Illinois, she is the reigning champion of the Caste of Killers’ Snark Madness comedy competition. She has performed at Turner Hall, the Gilda Radner Laughfest in Grand Rapids, MI and The Lady Laughs Festival in Madison, WI.

Andrew Frank (Headliner)
Stand Up, St. Louis
Andrew Frank is a comedian based out of St. Louis. His cerebral, imaginative style and relentless ethic have resulted in six nationwide tours spanning a total of 144 cities. His love of language, philosophy, sociology, biology, psychology, anthropology, and cosmology are on full display each time he takes the stage. He was the Winner of Make Me Laugh 2015, The Winner of Go Bananas Comedy Clubs Funniest in Cincinnati 2016, and the Runner Up in Trial By Laughter 2015. He was one of 32 comedians selected to participate in the 38th Annual Seattle International Comedy Competition.

He will be competing in the Laughing Devil Festival in New York City this year, as well as performing his one hour show at the Pittsburgh Fringe Festival, Edmonton International Fringe Festival, and various venues in France, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Estonia. His first independently filmed hour special entitled Macrocosm was released in February 2017.