Conference Details
The Funny Femmes Women in Comedy Conference is a day-long event topped off with a final showcase designed to bring together women comedians for a day of community building, learning, and sharing ideas about the issues we face as women in a male-dominated field. The conference will include workshops with professional comedians, a panel discussion, and opportunities for attendees to perform in the conference showcase.
Workshops, Specials, and Panel Q&A
All attendees will participate in Joke Writing & Performance Skills with Jessica It's All Good, Improvisation with Jessica Mickey, and the Panel Q&A with Jessica It's All Good, Jessica Mickey, and Trish Smart. Attendees will select one "Specials" workshop: Marketing & Promotion with Trish Smart OR Comedic Puppetry with Julianne Merit.
End of Conference Showcase
To conclude the conference, we'll have a showcase of performances by Jessica It's All Good, Jessica Mickey, Trish Smart, Nancy Heiges, Angel Clade, Libbaloops, as well as select attendees from the conference.
Schedule Overview
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Morning Meet & Greet
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Workshops Round 1:
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Group 1: Joke Writing & Performance Skills with Jessica It's All Good
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Group 2: Improvisation with Jessica Mickey
11:30-12:45 PM Lunch Break
1:00-2:30 PM Specials:
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Marketing & Promotion with Trish Smart
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Comedic Puppetry with Julianne Merit
2:45-4:15 PM Workshops Round 2:
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Group 2: Joke Writing & Performance Skills with Jessica It's All Good
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Group 1: Improvisation with Jessica Mickey
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Panel Discussions with Guest Instructors
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Dinner Break
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Live Comedy Show at the Marigold Auditorium (at Winterville Cultural Center)
All attendees will have the opportunity to perform and receive a recording of their performance.
Jessica It’s All Good
Jessica It's All Good is a clean comedian and public speaker known for her quick wit and relatable humor. She has rocked out places like Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club, The Comedy Zone, Laughing Skull Lounge, Uptown Comedy Club, Helium Comedy Club and The Punchline. She has performed for colleges and universities, including Truman State University, Spartanburg Methodist College, State University of New York College at Geneseo, Emory University, and many more. Some of her past corporate clients include Comcast, CapitalOne, EY and Insperity.
Jessica has been entertaining and publicly speaking for 30 years. In 1997, she began studying and performing in theatre. She received her Associates in Arts from Spartanburg Methodist College and her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from The College Charleston. After graduating in 2008, she moved to Atlanta, GA to work on her career in acting and modeling. In 2009 Jessica started teaching theatre and Drama classes in the state of GA with several different extracurricular programs. In 2010, she joined CHW Productions, and began directing the play Life On Campus at colleges and universities around the country. During this time she would work with students who had mostly never been on stage. She would teach them how to act and perform the play within three days. Jessica used her experiences to write and publish the book, The Cure For Stage Fright. Currently, Jessica is teaching stand-up comedy classes in Georgia and will soon be teaching throughout the country.
Jessica Mickey
Jessica Mickey has about 25 years of experience in improv as an original company member of Theatre 99 in Charleston, SC and performs anytime she is in town with their ensembles, her two-person group Little Miss Codependent, and Mary Kay Has a Posse, celebrating over 20 years of performances with all four original members. On top of her work with T99, she has studied with UCB NY, Annoyance Theater, Dad’s Garage, as well as shared the improv stage with cast members of Saturday Night Live, Kids in the Hall, Mad TV, and UCB.
Jessica has conducted workshops for national corporations on the elements of improv for team building, strengthening communication, brainstorming and marketing, and customer engagement. She co-edited the book Improv for Everyone by Theatre 99 co-founder Greg Tavares and has performed in the Charleston Comedy Festival, Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Savannah Comedy Festival, and Annapolis Comedy Festival. Jessica is currently overseeing the education curriculum at Flying Squid Comedy in Athens, GA.
Julianne Merit
Julianne Merritt's life has always been steeped in arts, crafts, and The Muppets. It was no surprise that when she dipped into comedy at an improv competition in high school, her passions began to align.
Julianne co-wrote her first puppet show in 2024, and after directing it at Town & Gown, she realized there was a lack of a puppetry community in Athens. She and her co-director, Jon Hobus, started the Greater Athens Puppetry Club. Since then, the club has been commissioned to build puppets for multiple shows, and to perform puppet improv at comedy shows!
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Trish Smart
Trish Smart is a nomadic stand-up comic that flies under the radar and into your watering hole. Right now she’s living in a van down by a walmart parking lot painting a toilet selfie to sell at a show near you. She is an edgy comic that pushes the envelope of what women should be allowed to say out loud.
Amidst her renditions of her quixotic lifestyle choices, Trish has smooth transitions and unexpected punch lines; she makes everyone want her to keep speaking slightly louder than everyone else. Trish will ease you into uncomfortable situations you didn’t know you wanted to be in, and give you a night you will not soon forget.
Trish has performed comedy shows in Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Hungary, Germany, Austria, and all over the United States and the United Kingdom.
Top credits include Black Rock City Radio, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Sziget festival.