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How to Put on a Successful House Concert, Part 4

Ok, here are my final tips. Need help with any of this? (Believe me. this is the easy part. The part you really need help with is the show itself. That’s my specialty. Book a consult with me to see if it’s a fit for us to work together to Read more…

By Alicia Dattner, 4 monthsDecember 2, 2022 ago
Standup Comedy

How to Put on a Successful House Concert, Part 3

Stay tuned for Part 4!

By Alicia Dattner, 4 monthsNovember 29, 2022 ago
Standup Comedy

How to Put On a Successful Comedy House Concert: Part 2

Part 1 of this blog introduces the idea of having a house concert for comedy. Here are the nuts and bolts. Here we go. Did you read Part 1?And check out Part 3! And Part 4!

By Alicia Dattner, 4 monthsNovember 22, 2022 ago
Standup Comedy

How to Put On a Successful Comedy House Concert: Part 1

Sunday we did a private comedy house concert in a gorgeous home in Malibu. It was at a newly rebuilt home of some friends whose place burned down in the fires a couple years ago. My boyfriend learned several pre-show songs that I asked him to play and opened for Read more…

By Alicia Dattner, 4 monthsNovember 16, 2022 ago
Solo Performance & Storytelling

Standup Comedy and Inner Confidence in the face of the Outer Critic

Sold out the first show tonight in Berkeley!!! And I have to say I felt SO GOOD on stage.    I have to admit, it hasn’t always been that way. Sometimes, for years on end, as a performer, I had that need to get on stage – and yet simultaneously Read more…

By Alicia Dattner, 5 yearsAugust 21, 2018 ago
Standup Comedy

5 reasons your “hilarious” new dick joke bores me. (And what to do about it.)

We all have to start somewhere. In comedy, you start right where you are. And in a way, every time we get on stage, we’re starting again, because we’re in front of a new audience. And it is the bravest thing in the world do get on that stage, for Read more…

By Alicia Dattner, 6 yearsApril 6, 2017 ago
Solo Performance & Storytelling

Carving Your Own Laugh: Comedy Career Q & A, PART EIGHT: Stay Grounded and Magical

Comedy Career Q & A, Part 8: Stay Grounded and Magical Alicia: And if you can quit your job and enjoy that for a while and have it be building toward you creating the next level of your performance and who you are on stage, amazing, do it. If it’s Read more…

By Alicia Dattner, 6 yearsApril 4, 2017 ago
Solo Performance & Storytelling

Carving Your Own Laugh: Comedy Career Q & A, PART SEVEN: Grow Big or Grow Home

Comedy Career Q & A, Part 7: Grow Big or Grow Home Alicia: I think doing what you love should be the goal and if doing the other things to pay the rent make it easier to be creative then that’s beautiful. If they make it harder and they drain  Read more…

By Alicia Dattner, 6 yearsMarch 30, 2017 ago
Solo Performance & Storytelling

Carving Your Own Laugh: Comedy Career Q & A, PART SIX: Slow & Steady Meteoric Rise

Comedy Career Q & A, Part 6: Slow & Steady Meteoric Rise Alicia: Yeah, you can’t have a viral video if you don’t have any videos. Able: That’s true. Yeah. So you’ve done that yourself? Alicia: No. Able: Okay. Alicia: Why do you think I’m still talking to you? I’m Read more…

By Alicia Dattner, 6 yearsMarch 28, 2017 ago
Solo Performance & Storytelling

Carving Your Own Laugh: Comedy Career Q & A, PART FIVE: Hone Your Voice

Comedy Career Q & A, Part 5: Hone Your Voice Alicia: Creating a show was the thing that gave me a commodity rather than a specific thing that people could latch on and say that is for me and that could be for me whereas just having comedy as a Read more…

By Alicia Dattner, 6 yearsMarch 23, 2017 ago

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