By Nick A. Zaino III Globe correspondent, Updated July 31, 2024
The Boston comedy scene is forever expanding and contracting, and it’s about to lose a couple of talented staples. Danya Trommer, who headlines Nick’s Comedy Stop Friday and Saturday, is leaving for Philadelphia at the end of the summer. Angela Sawyer, who has already packed up and moved to Brooklyn, opens the shows.
Sometimes comedians leave for New York or Los Angeles to be closer to the centers of the entertainment industry. For Trommer and Sawyer, moving is more about jump-starting creativity with a change of scenery.
“I’ve kind of hit a wall, not just comedy, but just like, you know, emotionally with how I am with the city,” says Trommer. “I think I’m kind of itching to get somewhere new.”
Originally from South Jersey, Trommer moved to the Hub to attend Boston University and graduated in 2021. She dipped her toes in comedy in the Philly scene when she was still in high school. She’s still getting a sense of what that scene is like in the City of Brotherly Love, but feels it’s a bit grittier than Boston.
“There’s a lot more weird stuff happening there, I’ll say, or at least [an] opportunity for weird stuff,” Trommer says. “I feel like a lot of the venues that weird stuff was happening here, they all closed.”