Paul Hutcheson (Host) has performed and produced three solo comedies (The First Time, On SecondThought, Third Time Lucky) at more than 25 theatre festivals.  These shows have won multiple awards, glowingreviews and sold-out houses.  Hutcheson conceivedand produces Canuck Cabaret, a theatre experience of all things Canadian.  The cabaret has traveled to eight cities andhas become a staple in New York City at the Frigid Theater Festival.  Canuck Cabaret will be returning to NYC forthe 4^th year running in 2013. The cabaret was a #1 pick TimeOut NewYork Magazine.  Hutcheson has produced over 100 comedy nightsin Toronto as well as producing shows in Hamilton, London, Manchester, Ottawa,Calgary & Montana.

Jillian Thomas (Co-host) has charmed audiences across Canada, New York and England with her high energy,wit and sarcasm.  Jillian has appeared onThe Toronto Show, The Buzz, MTV Live, MTV Impact, Out for Laugh’s (opening forBruce Vilanch) and Much Music’s, Love Court.

Mike Albo is a writer and performer who livesand loves in Brooklyn. He's the author of Hornito, The Underminer (co-writtenwith Virginia Heffernan) and the novella The Junket. Check out his spacey blog:mikealbo.com. Twitter: @albomike, and his Facebookfanpage. 

In her first year doing stand up, Diana was a finalist in the TorontoComedy Brawl and opened for Maria Bamford as part of the Dark Comedy Festival.When she isn’t performing, she goes to advertising school. This is her firsttime in New York City.                      

A steampunk collaborationof prohibitionistic proportions that sneaks you into a world of slapstick,stand-up, and vaudeville. Follow Jersey's finest speakeasy hoodlum and hercurmudgeonly ex-con husband as they stay one step ahead of the cops, whilebacking up their escapades with instrumentation including accordion, ukulele,spoons, and trumpet.

Toronto-born Amanda Day has been plying herbrand of smart, silly, and very dirty comedy stylings for six years. She hasopened for such acts as Maria Bamford, Jason Rouse, and Craig Gass; toured aspart of the all-female Mary Janes of Comedy show; and recorded and guest hostedfor XM Radio. She also co-produces and headlines a popular weekly show at HotBox Cafe with new material every week, and runs a monthly show, Comedy Machine.

Killy is a Mock$tar comedic performance artistand musician.  Named "Top 10 Women Who Rock Comedy" funnynotslutty.com and winner of "Most MagicalMoment Of The Festival" NY Funny Songs Fest '12, she has an album out(Mock Bottom) with her band KILL THE BAND available on ITunes or at www.KILLYTHEKID.com Also, please check out MyBoX, Killy's  newest experiment in sound, comedy and performanceart in this year's NY Frigid Festival - tickets available now on Smarttix.com

A dynamic andoriginal performer, Rachelle Elie has been developing her unique vision ofcontemporary society for the last 15 years. This award winning comedienne hasbeen showcased on The Comedy Network and The Women’s Television Network.Rachelle has toured 4 original one-woman shows across Canada and has performedstand up in the U.S and Australia. Recently she won an Oustanding Comedy Awardat The Ottawa Fringe Festival for her performance in JOE: The Perfect Man heroriginal one woman show.

 “Elieis an exquisite performer…" - SEE Magazine?

 “Elieis always fully in the moment, and her exuberance is infectious.” - GeorgiaStraight

D’yanForest (actor, comedian, singer, musician,playwright) (AEA, SAG-AFTRA) 78 years young, has been lighting up audiences forover seven decades.  Her music took heron global performances in Paris, Israel and Greece.  She’s branched into a new career as aukulele-playing comedian appearing at the Gotham, Comix, Carolines on Broadway,the Duplex, and the Metropolitan Room.  In 2011,D’yan’s solo show I Married A Nun has been performed at the Emerging ArtistsTheatre Festival, the 2012 Frigid Festival (New York, NY), PHX Fringe Festival(Phoenix, AZ) and the 2012 Orlando International Fringe Festival and the 2012New York International Fringe Festival. Her second solo show titled My Pussy’sPurrin’ Again, will premiere at the 2013 Frigid Festival.

Silvia Glammichele is the hostess of ItalianSexy Dance Party and former captain of the Udinese Women’s Gelato ScoopingTeam. Her global legion of adoring fans live by her motto, “It’s very importantto find your sexy to share with the world. But it is also important to showerevery day, or people think you are French.” Silvia will answer any question youhave about make-up, the international history of sexy and ideal furnitureplacement. Silvia’s alter ego is Candice Gregoris, a Second City Trained andCanadian Comedy Award nominated comic from Toronto.

John Grady is an actor and a writer from New York City. He starred offBroadway in Spalding Gray: StoriesLeft To Tell and asa member of Blue Man Group.John has performed on The Moth Mainstage and his stories have aired on The Moth RadioHour on NPR, on CBC Radio's DNTO, and KCRW's The Business. Hismultiple award-winning solo show, FearFactor: Canine Edition, hasplayed to sold out audiences across the US and Canada, and was chosen bythe LAWeekly as one of the top theatrical productions of 2011. www.thejohngrady.com On the twitters: @thejohngrady

When not proofreading signs at strip clubsor teaching teenage boys how to read, Candice Gregoris does stand-upcomedy.  She is an oft-requested regular on stages in Toronto and ishappy to be returning to New York and the Frigid Festival with her passiveaggressive style of comedy.  She brings her love of sketchand improv to her stand-up having trained at The Second City Toronto in boththe Conservatory Program and their Writers' Program. Candice was nominated fora Canadian Comedy Award for CAMARO: On Her Majesty’s Secret Cervix.

Katie Hood is a theatre performer/story tellerfrom Toronto who is inspired by physical comedy, comedic timing, and lots ofsugar. A believer of theatre in nontraditional spaces, Katie has performedplays and told stories across Canada in stairwells, bathrooms, gardens,and prisons.

Garrett Jamieson: This Winnipegger who once worked at a dirt factory, funeral home andpornography store left the nest (Winnipeg) to set the comedy wheels inmotion.  He graduated from The HumberSchool of Comedy and is one of the founding members of the Award Winning sketchtroupe The BOOM (www.boomcomedy.com) in which he workedwith dynamo Canadian comedians: Scott Thompson, Dave Merheje, Nikki Payne andColin Mochrie.  Garrett is also currently part of the Comedy Recordsfamily which is Canada's first and only comedy record Label (www.ComedyRecords.ca).  Most recently, he helped openup the newest Toronto Stand Up Club (Stand Up @ The LOT www.facebook.com/lotstandup) and was named as Runner Up inToronto's "NOW Magazine's 2012 Best Stand Up Comic."  Garretthas been featured on the Ron James Show, XM Radio's Laugh Attack, MTV, ComedyNetwork, Etalk Canada and CBC Radio.  

Originally from the East Coast of Canada, DianaLove now calls Toronto home. In her short but mighty career she has beenfeatured on OUTtv’s 'Out For Laughs', Much Music's 'Video on Trial', iChannel's'No Kidding', and even more Canadian TV you yanks have never heard of. She'sperformed at clubs and colleges across Canada, played NXNE fest, and has openedfor Maria Bamford and Bruce Vilanch. 2012 saw the premier of her own nationalcomedy special 'Comedy Now!' on The Comedy Network. She will woo NYC FrigidFest with her simultaneously dorky and dirty jokes.

Lianne Mauladin is known for her laid back,Rock n’ Roll style of comedy. She performs regularly at comedy clubs in andaround Toronto and has performed in Florida, California,  New York Cityand Texas. Lianne performed at the Durham Region Comedy Festival, the Out ofBounds Festival in Austin, Texas, the Frigid Festival in NYC and will be in theWomen in Comedy Festival this March in Boston. Lianne has competed in many comedy contests including the ‘NYC ComedyContest’, Bite TVs ‘Stand Up and Bite Me’ and Yuk Yuks ‘Great Canadian LaughOff’. Her comedy has been recorded and televised on Bite TV, iChannel andRogers TV.

Keelan Miller is a talented youngcomedian, a charming dinner guest, and an over all decent human being.  Heis well known for dressing with style and having a devious sense ofhumour.  It has been said that Keelan Miller is either 50 years ahead ofhis time or 100 years too late.

Shoshinz is Japanese for"shy timid people," but this surreal Tokyo comedian issubservient to nothing and no one. Her delicate silences and coy demeanor willlure you in, and then she will bend your mind with brilliant physicaltheater, dance, absurd music and song.  Shoshinz is one of the mostrenowned comedy acts in Japan, regularly performing in Tokyo, Canada, and the UnitedStates. Thelatest Shoshinz piece, 'A Day in theLife of Miss Hiccup', won awards across the continent, including 'Director's Award' at Capital Fringe, 'Bestof Fest' at The Winnipeg Fringe.

A founding member of Toronto's notoriousmusical sketch company THE SPECIALS, Christopher co-created 7 productions over2 years. He's studied physical theatre with notables Mike Kennard, Adam Lazarus& Dean Gilmour. Mr. Sawchyn has appeared on many Toronto stages incl. ComedyBar, The Rivoli and The Underground Comedy Club. This is his first appearanceonstage in NYC. Special love to Rambo.

Like a King Kong, THESWIMMINGPOOLSbreak the chains of conventional musical performance and unleash a uniquetheatrical vision everywhere they go. Starting in New York City in 2004, THESWIMMINGPOOLS have produced threefull length albums, ‘I Fall In Love 100 Times A Day’, ‘When You Don't Know WhatYou Want’, and ‘At the Edge of the World’.  They have performed throughoutEurope, Canada, and The United States.  

THESWIMMINGPOOLS make electronicmusic that is hard and soft and soon hard again.  

"TheSwimmingPools specialize indreamy, nostalgia-tinged synth-pop that’s quite unlike anything else being madetoday".

- Out Magazine

"Lush, denseelectropop"  -TimeOut NY

Joe Yoga is an artist and songwriterbased in NYC. His band Downward Dogs (www.downwarddogs.com)plays all over the city and released their album, Familiar Techniques. He alsoplays bass in Killy Dwyer's punk performance-art comedy rock supergroup Killthe Band, who just released their first full-length. His most recent solorecord, Life Out East, is available on iTunes and Amazon. His website is www.mrjoeyoga.com

Sharon Nowlan (Co-host) has been performing for North American audiences for the past 13years. In 2006, she debuted on the Canadian Fringe Festival circuit with thehit Caberlesque! (Bside Productions),and thus began her life of touring!

Since then, shehas created, performed, produced, collaborated on, and toured many shows. Hermost recent solo effort, the acclaimed BurlesqueUnzipped, has been enjoyed in 12 cities across Canada and the USA.  Her production company (Prairie FirePresents) was also proud to produce New York City’s The Screw You Revue in three cities this past summer.

However, thebest times come when she is performing with Paul Hutcheson (Wog Productions).Together they have performed on a variety of small stages in odd rooms aroundToronto and beyond, as well as fabulous theatre spaces like Buddies in BadTimes, and the Gladstone Theatre in Ottawa. She is also proud to be a part of Canuck Cabaret, now being presented in its4^th year at the New York Frigid Festival! Thank you Horse TradeTheatre!

Gregory Levine:  A NYC native, Gregory is complex,swashbuckling and boyishly raffish. He created,  writes and performs ascharmingly pathological, laudinum-addicted Weimar-Vaudevillian nightclubentertainer/storyteller Gregor of Berlin. In this guise, he won (by audiencevote) the miniFRIDGE Theater Festival Contest and secured his own show,"Nietzsche, Whores and Knock-Knock Jokes," in Horse Trade’s June 2013miniFRIDGE Festival. He has written and performed in revues including the 2012Canuck Cabaret (thanks, Paul!); Alter Ego Vaudeville Surreal; Carnivale; TheTrachtenburg Variety Show; and Gemini & Scorpio's Masquerade Macabre. Onthe verge of being typecast, he appeared as the charmingly embittered, drunken,egomaniacal failed 18^th-century reformer Valentine Hauy in Dr. M.Leona Godin’s “The Spectator & the Blind Man” (2013 Frigid Festival). Heco-produced, co-wrote and co-hosted with Dr. Godin the massive variety/cabaret"Lord Gregory and Mademoiselle Godin's Mini Xmas Spectacular" for the2012 miniFRIDGE Theater Festival. He played the roles of Baker in "PhilipGlass Buys a Loaf of Bread" and Milton the Literary Chimp in "Words,Words, Words" (both in "A Random Evening of David Ives"); andSatan in "Genghis Khan vs. a Velociraptor."  Other theatricaltriumphs include 18th century fop Lord Sebastian: the Original 1% at"Occupy Comedy" and Santa Claus in the satire "To Catch a Predator:Christmas Special." And if these accolades aren't enough, Gregory directsthe monthly news-and-politics comedy show, "The Skinny with PeterDeGiglio." Gregory is pleased as punch to be working with the saucy PaulHutcheson and his gaggle of Canucks again.

 Moe & Mary are originally from Canada, but arenow gritty locals. They continue to amaze with their commitment to existence.You can bear witness every Friday at 6pm at www.mnn.org, channel 56: The Moe & MaryShow", now in its 10th year!

Entertainer and vocal cartoonist, Zero Boy is anEast Village icon who uses a unique blend of sound and mime, the results beingsomething akin to a performed comic book. He can be seen on the upcomingNickelodeon show Alien Dawn as the evil Dr. Drago. He recently appearedOff-Broadway in the Yllana Production of 666 at the Minetta Lane Theater ZeroBoy performed regularly on NPR’s The Next Big Thing in a special ‘Stump Zero Boy’ segment. He hasbeen seen on the television shows Fox and Friends and Good Day New York and MTV’s M2 network hasfeatured his unique comedy. He is currently working in his solo show about theSam Adams and the Boston revolution. Revolt! Death and Taxes!

www.zeroboy.com

Rob Salerno is a Toronto-born writer and performerwho’s been labeled a “theatrical rabble rouser” by The Globe and Mail’sKelly Nestruck. In 2007, Rob founded Ten Foot Pole Theatre, a company dedicatedto subjects that polite people wouldn't touch. TFP produced Salerno’s fiveoriginal plays, Balls, Fucking Stephen Harper, Big in Germany,RAW, and First Day Back, which have all been successful on thefestival circuit. They’ve collectively been performed at more than 30 festivalsacross Canada and overseas, winning rave reviews, awards, and audience praise.Salerno’s other theatre writing includes the creation of a new translation ofJean Genet’s Deathwatch, which was commissioned as a dramaturgical toolfor lemonTree Theatre Creations. He is an accomplished journalist whose workhas appeared in several national magazines – most notably in the Xtrachain of papers, where he has worked as a news reporter and columnist. He hasalso been published in The Toronto Star, Eye, Fab, The Guide and othermagazines.

Writer,Actress, Host of Penny's Open Mic. Edinburgh Fringe, Winnipeg Fringe and somestuff in NYC.

www.Pennypollak.com

Ben Lerman is an award-winning comedy musician andsongwriter. Ben plays colleges, clubs and festivals as a solo comedy musician.He’s a recurring guest on radio shows and podcasts, and he has appeared on LogoTV and Here TV. His debut music video was featured on Comedy Central'sAtom.com. Ben was nominated for an Excellence in Comedy in New York Award forBest Musical Comedy Act in 2011. He won the award for Best Male Comedy Musicianat the 2012 New York Funny Songs Festival.

Tanya O’Debra isa writer/performer/funny lady. One half of the ECNY Award nominated comicsister duo, The O'Debra Twins, Miss O’Debra has spread mirth and filth all overNYC. Their annual O’Debbie Awards garnered a Best of NewYork Award from The Village Voice. Her play Fuck You won TheExcellence Award in Overall Production at Fringe NYC. Published by OriginalWorks, her play Radio Star has been produced all over theworld, receiving numerous awards and accolades. Winner of the Miss Fag HagPageant, other theater credits include Patrice O’Debra in Straight UpVampire (Joe’s Pub), The Evil Queen in Snow White (TheNew Acting Company) and Amanda McCloud in The Ultimate Stimulus (DixonPlace). Her newest Play, Shut Up, Emily Dickinson, is currentlyin development. “There can be no doubting O’Debra’s talent: she has avocal arsenal that puts Saturday Night Live’s Kristin Wiig to shame.” – NYPress

www.tanyaodebra.com

Diane Destiny O’Debra and Tanya Tammy Tina TinyDancer Hyphen O’Debra are asthmatic Irish twins who were born out of cabbagesin a McDonald’s bathroom in Dublin. They have no blood or guts. They areinstead filled with confetti. Part Cocker Spaniel, The O’Debra Twins both holdAssociate Degrees from the Rosie Perez School of Braiding. www.facebook.com/odebratwins

Mikaela Dyke is a performer from St. John's, who has beenworking in theatre and improvisation for over 10 years. She has workshoppedwith performers from many of North America's top improv troupes including4Track, The Sunday Service, Just for Laughs, projectPROJECT, and the SecondCity. She has appeared at comedy cabarets in New York, Ottawa, Victoria,Winnipeg and Toronto. Her dramatic work has brought her to stages across boththe United States and Canada, and her acting has been called 'intense','honest', and 'shattering'. Recently, she has been touring her solo shows, DyingHard and Epic Pitch, which have won multiple critical and audienceawards. She loves collecting stories and watching terrible horror movies. 

Actor, dancer, producer, writer, clown, teacher andcomedian, Christel Bartelse can be seen performing all over Toronto includingshowcases such as Lunacy Cabaret, SHINE, The Foolish Cabaret, TorontoFestival of Clowns, Clown Chowder, March of Dames, Cheap Queers, Buskerfest,and the Hysteria Festival. She has wowed Fringe audiences with her firstone-woman show CHAOTICA, which toured, London, ON (winning theBest-in-Venue Impresario Award and nominated for the Brickenden Award forOutstanding Touring Production) Ottawa, Wakefield, and Saskatoon &Edmonton. It has played Toronto three times & in 2010 it wasnominated in the solo performance category for the Canadian Comedy Award. Christel’s second solo show, ONEymoon premiered in London, ONin 2010 and has played Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary,Edmonton, Victoria, Minnesota, Frigid Festival, NYC, Orlando, &DivaFest in Indianapolis. It too was nominated for a Canadian Comedy awardin the One Person show category. Recently Christel created her third soloshow "Significant Me" which has played, London, ON, Hamilton, ON,Edmonton & Vicotoria.  A graduate of both the Randolph Academyfor the Performing Arts and The Second City Conservatory Program, Christel hasalso studied clown extensively with Michael Kennard, John Turner, Sue Morrison,Francine Cote and Philippe Gaulier. Christel is currently in rehearsalsfor the play "CIRCLE" written by NYC playwright Suzanne Bachner andwill be performing it with Bob Brader (John Montgomery TheatreCompany) March 2013. 

Aformer member of The Dance Theater of Harlem, Minnie Dee has toured the worldas a professional ballet dancer and, as an actress, worked in film and TV withacclaimed directors Spike Lee and James Toback.  Amazingly, she is evenmore accomplished as a singer and songwriter and recently released her debutalbum "Time To Shine", with great reception.  Her single"Believe", and the video, is receiving a lot of attention and haslead to thousands of new believers.  Influenced equally by  StevieWonder, Josephine Baker, Joni Mitchell and retro pop art fashion. Minnie's music combines super-fun, up-tempo party grooves with positive-messagelyrics and sassy soulful vocals.  She has found away to create her ownsound and stay true to herself while, using her performance background to deliverpowerful live shows.