Headliners of the OR - Melissa Villasenor, Taylor Williamson, Lara Beitz +more!

Upon discovering stand-up comedy, Lara Beitz proved to be a natural, winning Milwaukee's Funniest Comic in 2012. Earlier this year, she made her national TV debut on Fox's Laughs. She has performed at every comedy club in Chicago, is a regular at The Comedy Bar, and has performed sketch comedy with world famous The Second City. She has participated in SketchFest, The Milwaukee Comedy Festival, the Memphis Comedy Festival, and The Chicago Women's Funny Festival, and will be featured in the Laughing Devil Comedy Festival in New York City this May and Midwest Fest in June. Lara is also a producer of Stand Up Stand Up and her stand-up is featured on RooftopComedy.com, Pandora, Spotify, and Amazon.

Dave Helem is a stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from Chicago, Illinois. He attributes his sense of humor to the fact that he believes there is something funny in every facet of human life. He has headlined numerous venues and has performed on tour in numerous cities with Hannibal Buress and Tony Rock. He has also toured with Doug Stanhope and Tracy Morgan. Dave successfully completed a two-month residency at the Woolly Mammoth Theater in Washington D.C. for Second City’s Black Side of the Moon, where he helped create and write the most successful selling show in the history of that theater. He was a writer for Comedy Central’s Hood Adjacent. Dave recently taped Laff Tracks (Tru TV) that will air in the fall of 2018. He is currently living in Los Angeles as a staff writer for the FOX sitcom REL.

Zack’s distinctly original stories, filled with colorful characters and unexpected punchlines, have resonated with audiences of all backgrounds. As a storyteller, Zack shared one of his Moroccan family adventures on MTV’s Greatest Party Story Ever. As an actor, Zack has appeared in the Showtime series Shameless, as well as Night of the Living Karens, a viral comedy-horror series he created with comedian Richard Sarvate. Zack has performed standup comedy all over the country, and opened for some legendary names in the industry, including Tiffany Haddish, Dave Attell and the late great Norm Macdonald. You can catch Zack every week on Hesby Street, a comedy podcast he co-hosts with comedian Torio Van Grol.