The well-known star of PopCultured with Elvira Kurt, which ran for 78 episodes on The Comedy Network, Elvira is also co-producer of Girl School and the recipient of the Canadian Comedy Award for Funniest Female Comic and Now Magazine’s 1 Stand-Up Comic. Featured in CBC’s 50th Anniversary Special, Elvira has also made special guest appearances on Air Farce and DeGrassi: The Next Generation. Starring in three of her own specials on Comedy Central in the US, HBO and Showtime, and has hosted two series on LOGO. On stage, Elvira starred in The Vagina Monologues, and The Second City. And as well as being nominated for a Gemini, she has also written for Ellen DeGeneres and opened for Melissa Etheridge. Elvira is a regular on CBC Radio’s As It Happens and The Debaters and is currently being featured in two documentaries on comedy.
Dawn Whitwell is a Toronto comedian best known for her “subversive, slacker-next-door wit”. A regular on the Toronto standup scene, Dawn has performed standup throughout the UK, including the Edinburgh Festival. She has also appeared at Gotham and Comic Strip Live in New York.
Dawn is also co-producer of Girl School, voted Top Ten Comedy Show of 2006 by NOW Magazine, and Dragons of Comedy, a weekly comedy revue in Toronto’s Kensington market. To see where Dawn will be performing next, visit www.dawnwhitwell.com
Most recently Laurie wrote for and performed on The Comedy Network’s series Popcultured with Elvira Kurt, appeared in a Movie Of The Week for Lifetime along side Sarah Chalke, is a recurring panelist for Much Music’s highest rated series Video on Trial and also married Red Green’s nephew Harold on the final episode of The Red Green Show.
Laurie Elliott has made a name for herself as one of the most versatile and fun to watch entertainers in Canada. She is a winner of the Tim Sims Encouragement Award and received the 2004 and 2006 Canadian Comedy Award for Best Female Stand Up.
Her stand up credits include the Toronto Just For Laughs Festival, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, the Vancouver Comedy Festival, the Moncton Comedy Festival, the Comedy Factory in Rotterdam, and has just finished a gala run at the 2007 Cape Town International Comedy Festival in South Africa.
Laurie is a recurring panelist on Global’s Out of Bounds with John Oakley and Men TV’s Real Men. As well, Laurie has extensive voice experience, having worked on a number of animated series including Bob and Margaret, Medabots, Braceface, Timothy Goes to School, Moville Mysteries, Atomic Betty, Jacob Two Two, Meteor, Time Warp Trio and more.
Katie Crown is a comedian, writer and dinosaur enthusiast. She is the recipient of the 2004 Tim Sims Encouragement Award and since then has gone on to entertain people in New York, Los Angeles, and Montreal at the Just For Laughs Festival’s Alternative Show. Katie is also a part of the critically acclaimed duo The Remainders, along with Ryan V. Hays; member the award-nominated troupe Knock, Knock. (Who's There?) Comedy!; and one of the founding fathers of Laugh Sabbath Sundays at the Rivoli in downtown Toronto. Katie has also been a guest writer for CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes and is the voice of “Izzy” on Teletoon’s latest series, Total Drama Island.
Actor, improvisor, producer, instructor, corporate facilitator, Lisa Merchant has been improvising/performing over 20 years and teaching for over 16. She is a three time Canadian Comedy Award winner. Creator and producer of Toronto’s longest running comedy festival, March of Dames. Some of Lisa’s television credits include: Train 48, Listen Missy, Go Girl!, Just For Laughs. Lisa was a founding member of the comedy troupe, The Chumps, who improvised weekly on CBC radio for 2 seasons. Currently, Lisa is a core faculty member at The Second City and teaches specialty improvisation courses at The Bad Dog Theatre in Toronto. She performs bi-weekly in Monkey Toast at the Gladstone Hotel and various improvised shows at Bad Dog Theatre, The Supermarket in and around Toronto.
Receiving wide recognition for the line "Welcome to girl world" as the character of Emma Gerber in Tina Fey's 2004 hit movie Mean Girls, Jan Caruana has been acting, writing and directing for over 10 years, but improvising is what she loves best. She is a producer and performer in the critically acclaimed hit Sass and The City, one half of the hot-girl-improv duo Me Likey and a cast member of the much lauded real-time improv show About An Hour. She is also very proud to be a member of the Canadian Comedy Award winning show Monkey Toast. This year, Jan was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award for Best Female Improviser. She is thrilled to share the stage with such amazingly talented ladies!
About me: About Us: Girl School is an all-girl comedy movement. Comedians Dawn Whitwell and Elvira Kurt got the idea that if we build an all-girl comedy tour across Canada, they will come.
Why? Research has found that girls in girls schools perform better than girls in co-ed schools. And that when girls go to GIRL SCHOOL, they stop being the audience and become the players. Girl's schools are a notorious training ground for agitators, mavericks and hellions. GIRL SCHOOL is all about the 3 Rs: Revelry, Revolution and Rentertainment.
Who I'd like to meet: behind the scenes satisfACTION
Hey! Check out Now Magazine's Year in Review just out today, GIRLS SCHOOL is 3rd in the year's top 10 Comedy Shows!! Congratulations ladies. No one makes funny like my honey :)
Hey there! Lisa Brooke here, I just spent the day with Dawn Whitwell. We went to see 'The Devil Wears Prada' b/c we like to stay current. I would like to thank everyone who came out to see Girls School last Friday. You can count yourself the best audience I have ever experienced in this city. And I wanted you to know it. Yes you. Go on, look how cute you are right now. Are you blushing? You're blushing! THAT'S ADORABLE! If I could come right through this screen you are looking at right now I'd really pinch you hard! xoxo
112 Friends already! You girls must have been the popular kids in school. Your empire is growing...It is only a matter of time before you achieve world domination. Looking forward to kickin' it 'girls school' :)
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The well-known star of PopCultured with Elvira Kurt, which ran for 78 episodes on The Comedy Network, Elvira is also co-producer of Girl School and the recipient of the Canadian Comedy Award for Funniest Female Comic and Now Magazine’s 1 Stand-Up Comic. Featured in CBC’s 50th Anniversary Special, Elvira has also made special guest appearances on Air Farce and DeGrassi: The Next Generation. Starring in three of her own specials on Comedy Central in the US, HBO and Showtime, and has hosted two series on LOGO. On stage, Elvira starred in The Vagina Monologues, and The Second City. And as well as being nominated for a Gemini, she has also written for Ellen DeGeneres and opened for Melissa Etheridge. Elvira is a regular on CBC Radio’s As It Happens and The Debaters and is currently being featured in two documentaries on comedy.
Dawn Whitwell is a Toronto comedian best known for her “subversive, slacker-next-door wit”. A regular on the Toronto standup scene, Dawn has performed standup throughout the UK, including the Edinburgh Festival. She has also appeared at Gotham and Comic Strip Live in New York.
Dawn is also co-producer of Girl School, voted Top Ten Comedy Show of 2006 by NOW Magazine, and Dragons of Comedy, a weekly comedy revue in Toronto’s Kensington market. To see where Dawn will be performing next, visit www.dawnwhitwell.com
Most recently Laurie wrote for and performed on The Comedy Network’s series Popcultured with Elvira Kurt, appeared in a Movie Of The Week for Lifetime along side Sarah Chalke, is a recurring panelist for Much Music’s highest rated series Video on Trial and also married Red Green’s nephew Harold on the final episode of The Red Green Show.
Laurie Elliott has made a name for herself as one of the most versatile and fun to watch entertainers in Canada. She is a winner of the Tim Sims Encouragement Award and received the 2004 and 2006 Canadian Comedy Award for Best Female Stand Up.
Her stand up credits include the Toronto Just For Laughs Festival, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, the Vancouver Comedy Festival, the Moncton Comedy Festival, the Comedy Factory in Rotterdam, and has just finished a gala run at the 2007 Cape Town International Comedy Festival in South Africa.
Laurie is a recurring panelist on Global’s Out of Bounds with John Oakley and Men TV’s Real Men. As well, Laurie has extensive voice experience, having worked on a number of animated series including Bob and Margaret, Medabots, Braceface, Timothy Goes to School, Moville Mysteries, Atomic Betty, Jacob Two Two, Meteor, Time Warp Trio and more.
Katie Crown is a comedian, writer and dinosaur enthusiast. She is the recipient of the 2004 Tim Sims Encouragement Award and since then has gone on to entertain people in New York, Los Angeles, and Montreal at the Just For Laughs Festival’s Alternative Show. Katie is also a part of the critically acclaimed duo The Remainders, along with Ryan V. Hays; member the award-nominated troupe Knock, Knock. (Who's There?) Comedy!; and one of the founding fathers of Laugh Sabbath Sundays at the Rivoli in downtown Toronto. Katie has also been a guest writer for CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes and is the voice of “Izzy” on Teletoon’s latest series, Total Drama Island.
Actor, improvisor, producer, instructor, corporate facilitator, Lisa Merchant has been improvising/performing over 20 years and teaching for over 16. She is a three time Canadian Comedy Award winner. Creator and producer of Toronto’s longest running comedy festival, March of Dames. Some of Lisa’s television credits include: Train 48, Listen Missy, Go Girl!, Just For Laughs. Lisa was a founding member of the comedy troupe, The Chumps, who improvised weekly on CBC radio for 2 seasons. Currently, Lisa is a core faculty member at The Second City and teaches specialty improvisation courses at The Bad Dog Theatre in Toronto. She performs bi-weekly in Monkey Toast at the Gladstone Hotel and various improvised shows at Bad Dog Theatre, The Supermarket in and around Toronto.
Receiving wide recognition for the line "Welcome to girl world" as the character of Emma Gerber in Tina Fey's 2004 hit movie Mean Girls, Jan Caruana has been acting, writing and directing for over 10 years, but improvising is what she loves best. She is a producer and performer in the critically acclaimed hit Sass and The City, one half of the hot-girl-improv duo Me Likey and a cast member of the much lauded real-time improv show About An Hour. She is also very proud to be a member of the Canadian Comedy Award winning show Monkey Toast. This year, Jan was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award for Best Female Improviser. She is thrilled to share the stage with such amazingly talented ladies!
