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Berkshire Mountain Comedy Arts Festival Presents National Touring Comedy Act
LENOX, Mass. – Berkshire Mountain Comedy Arts Festival and Shakespeare & Company present Funny Women of a Certain Age® Saturday, May 13 at 7 p.m., at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, featuring comedians Missy Hall, Vanessa Hollingshead, and series creator Carole Montgomery.
Funny Women of a Certain Age® is a show straight from the unfettered mouths and uninhibited minds of the funniest, most daring, most experienced people in comedy: the women who have seen it all. Since 2017, it has staged some of the most respected names in comedy.
Carole Montgomery
Creator of Funny Women of a Certain Age®, Montgomery has more than two dozen television credits as a respected veteran of the standup comedy scene nationwide. In addition to her numerous television appearances, she has headlined clubs and colleges across the U.S. and has starred in two different Las Vegas production shows. In her 10 years as a Las Vegas performer, it’s estimated that she has been seen by more than five million audience members.
Missy Hall
Missy Hall is the 2013 winner of the Laugh Out Loud Competition, has worked as a warm-up comic for Harry Connick, Jr. at CBS Television, and her freshman comedy album Miss Representation was a first-round Grammy nominee in 2012 for funniest comedy album. A seasoned actress/singer, Missy was featured in Road Spill on TruTV and in the feature film Days of Power with Eric Roberts, released in 2018. Hall was also a finalist in the professional category of the 2018 Ladies Out Loud competition, a finalist at the 2018 Big Sky Comedy Festival, a performer at HBO’s Women in Comedy Festival, a headliner at the 2019 San Diego Comedy Festival, and made Best of the Fest in the 2019 Burbank Comedy Festival. In 2020, she performed virtually in the Big Pine Comedy Festival and once again in the Burbank Comedy Festival. She has recently appeared in an AMC commercial on Jezebel for the new show Kevin Can F*&k Himself and has come to realize none of her pants fit.
Vanessa Hollingshead
Vanessa Hollingshead appeared in the Showtime Special Funny Women of a Certain Age hosted by Fran Drescher in 2019, and has appeared on Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast, with a listenership of six million. She is a regular on John Fugelsang’s Tell Me Everything podcast on Sirius, and was featured at the 2019 New York Comedy Festival. She taped her fourth stand-up album at New York Comedy Club, performed at Gotham Live, had a special on Comedy Central, for which she’s performed Internationally Hollingshead was listed on Oxygen’s TV Special Fifty of the Funniest Women Alive, and has had 23 TV appearances, and throughout her career has worked with comedians including Jerry Seinfeld, Dane Cook, George Carlin, Ray Romano, and Brad Garett, among others.
This evening of comedy is the latest installment of shows presented by Berkshire Mountain Comedy Arts Festival, created by Berkshire natives Kevin Bartini, a comedian, host, and actor, and Chief Operating Officer David Rice – an accomplished lawyer and litigator.
Tickets are $42; for more information or to purchase, visit shakespeare.org or call the Box Office at (413) 637-3353.
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About the Berkshire Mountain Comedy Arts Festival
The Berkshire Mountain Comedy Festival is the collaboration of two childhood friends: Artistic Director Kevin Bartini, a comedian, host, and actor, and Chief Operating Officer David Rice – an accomplished lawyer and litigator who has worked to recover billions of dollars for victims of Bernie Madoff. Although raised in Lee, Mass., both men live and work in New York, N.Y. Drunk and sentimental at a midtown bar, Kevin and David realized that both had a desire to give back to their hometown. As a comedian and a lawyer, they were in a unique position to do just that, and created the Berkshire Mountain Comedy Arts Festival to give back to communities in the Berkshires as well as come home more often.
About Shakespeare & Company
Shakespeare & Company was founded in 1978 by Tina Packer and a group of founding theater professionals. Located in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, the Company offers performance, education, and actor-training opportunities year-round, and attracts more than 40,000 patrons annually with a core of more than 150 Company Artists.
