Karen Ripley

• Official website:  karenripley.com

Karen Ripley will be performing and hosting the OUToberfest main event, Saturday October 13th, at Hal & Mal's. While most recently appearing on Logo's comedy show "Wisecracks", Karen has been performing stand up comedy for two decades and is going stronger than ever before. She has also been a featured performer with OUTLaugh!, a queer comedy festival, since 2005. With impeccable timing and deadpan delivery, Karen is a headliner that must not be missed. As a founding member of the improvisation group Over Our Heads, spontaneity is a large part of her performance. Her more serious material is based upon her experience with substance abuse and sobriety. If you ask why she performs gay and lesbian humor, it’s “because I don’t want my career to go anywhere”; however, “queer humor may change the world and that’s really what it’s all about”.

Her current theater project is "Waiting for FEMA". Catch a glimpse into your future ... will it be an earthquake or tsunami that forces you to scream "HELP! FEMA!" Molly and Edna face chaos in this comic/musical Red Alert. By comic writer-performers Karen Ripley and Annie Larson, with live musical back-up by Jack "Applejack" Walroth. Ripley and Larson have toured nationally and have been performing together for over 20 years. Their last play, Show Me Where It Hurts, won “Best of Fringe” at the 2005 San Francisco Fringe Festival. Waiting for FEMA is currently under going a face lift. Stay tuned...