Frumprov to Debut All Woman Comedy Show Sunday
For the first time, a group of Frum women will be performing a comedy show for women live on YouTube.
The group includes experienced comics as well as newcomers who are trying their hand at stand up comedy for the first time. The performance is scheduled to begin on Sunday at 2:30 pm EST and is expected to last an hour and a half.
The host of the first women’s Frumprov is comedian Sarah Kornbleuth. Jessica Schechter will be headlining.
Frumprov hosts a weekly comedy show live on YouTube (every Wednesday at 8:00 pm EST) with male performers, and this will mark the first time a group of females perform original, Frum, kosher comedy.
If anyone is interested in joining a future performance to explore stand up comedy or perfect a set, please reach out to Frumprov on social media or email frumprovcomedy@gmail.com.
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
Hilla Benzaken made Aliyah five years ago from Jew York City. An environmentalist by profession, this is her first time performing stand up comedy, and she couldn’t be more excited to start off on zoom.
Miriam Leah Gamliel studied musical theater under Kenneth Gargaro, the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts, Carnegie Mellon pre-college, and Penn State University musical theater BFA program, and performed leading roles throughout high school and college. After reconnecting with Judaism, she directed and performed in numerous musicals. She is the founder of ATARA, and ran the ASHIRA after school program at Shulamith School for Girls for several years. She currently lives in Montreal.
Yael Hanover is a homeschool (the on-purpose kind) mom from Florida. In addition to being professionally hilarious, she teaches Kallahs and has been doing so online since before online classes were cool.
Nechama Hordiner originally hails from Toronto where she studied dance and art, jewerly design and photography, all extremely useful and lucrative endeavours. One fine morning she packed up her things and moved to Crown Heights. Next thing she knew she had seven kids and a really nice husband. She now lives in Pittsburgh with those same 7 kids and said husband, B”H! Nechama likes to tell the truth. Well, her version of it anyway, and people seem to laugh with her! She’s done stand up a total of two times. It was equally useful and lucrative!
Sarah Kornbleuth is originally from Michigan. She made aliyah to Israel 9 months ago. Sarah works in accounting by day, and does standup comedy by night. She has performed in various bars and venues in New York, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. She loves making people laugh, and hosting big Jerusalem Shabbat meals.
Yael Meisels is a 7 year comic best known for her work on her Jewish Spirituality talk show Hopeful Wisdom. Yael lives in Detroit, Michigan.
Zehavit Rosenbloom was born in Israel. She is a wife and mother, as well as a university student in human relations. She became observant in her teenage years, and lives in Montreal, Canada. Zehavit has done comedy events for women and creates funny videos that can be found on her YouTube channel as well as Facebook and Instagram.
Jessica Schechter has been doing comedy for the last 10 years and has performed all over including Stand Up NY, The Broadway Comedy Club, Caroline’s, YU’s Last Comic Standing and various private events throughout the city. Jessica’s comedy career began while pursuing her Bachelors in Educational Theatre at New York University and she has been performing ever since. Jessica has written many comedy sketches and Purim Shpiels over the years and performed for several years with the improv troupe Imrpovodox. She came in 2nd place in the 2013 Jewish Week’s Funniest Jewish Comic Competition. She is currently a producer and actor on the hit web series “Soon By You.”
Hani Skutch‘s warm, friendly style makes her an audience favorite at clubs in Israel, where she has been performing since taking a comedy class from Jerusalem comedian David Kilimnick in the spring of 2007. Hani registered for the course hoping to get over her fear of public speaking. It worked, and she hasn’t stopped talking since. Hailing from Toledo, Ohio, Hani made stops in Philadelphia and Cherry Hill, New Jersey, before making Rehovot, Israel, her home. Hani enjoys performing to audiences of all types: religious affiliation, political affinity, and frequent flyer status make no difference. Hani has performed in a number of venues in the United States and Israel, and she headlines regularly at Jerusalem’s Off the Wall Comedy Basement. When not embarrassing her children, Hani can be found sleeping.
Joan Weiner Levin‘s unique style of clean Jewishly-themed humor has made her a much in-demand performer. She previously won the title of The Jewish Week’s Funniest Amateur Comedian in New York. Since moving to Israel with her husband and two children in 2014, she continues to perform regularly at clubs and at private events throughout Israel. In Summer 2019, she was a featured performer for the Keep Olim in Israel stand-up comedy tour. In early 2020 she returned briefly to the US on tour.
