By Nick A. Zaino III Globe Correspondent,April 25, 2019
The Women In Comedy Festival kicks off Thursday with an impressive array of talent from around the country. Phoebe Robinson and Nikki Glaser are among the big names. “The Onion,” HBO, and the Just For Laughs Festival are curating showcases. There will be comedy of every stripe — improv, storytelling, political satire, musical comedy, a film program, and a slate of panels and workshops. And a lot of homegrown headliners, too.
In its 10th year, the festival has now been around long enough that performers who were just starting out in some of its earlier incarnations are coming back as accomplished comedians to topline their own shows. Jamie Loftus, co-host of Thursday’s “The Bechdel Cast” podcast, was a producer with ImprovBoston who had been doing stand-up for around a year when she first performed at the festival in 2015. Seeing comedians like Maria Bamford, Jackie Kashian, and Aparna Nancherla inspired Loftus to be as strange and daring as she wanted to be in her comedy.
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How the Women In Comedy Festival inspired a new wave of talent
