Maysoon Zayid: Shiny Misfits Comedy Show!
Date and Time
Apr 19, 2024 9:00 pm
Location
450K
450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001
Apr 19, 2024 9:00 pm
450K
Maysoon Zayid in DC!
Join us to the SHINY MISFITS COMEDY SHOW where we celebrate the launch of
Shiny Misfits, by Maysoon Zayid and Shadia Amin.
830 PM: Doors Open
9PM: Comedy Show
Headliner - Maysoon Zayid
Featured Comedians - Rola Z, Jenni Lawson
Maysoon Zayid is a comedian, actress, writer, and disability advocate. She is a graduate of Arizona State University and a Princeton Fellow. Maysoon is the co-founder/co-executive producer of the New York Arab American Comedy Festival and The Muslim Funny Fest. She was a full-time On Air Contributor to Countdown with Keith Olbermann and a columnist for The Daily Beast. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, CNN, ABC News, and Oprah Winfrey Networks. Maysoon had the most viewed TED Talk of 2014 and was thrilled to collaborate with Huda Beauty.As a professional comedian, Maysoon has sold out top New York clubs and has toured extensively at home and abroad. She was a headliner on the Arabs Gone Wild Comedy Tour and The Together Live Tour. Maysoon appeared alongside Adam Sandler in You Don’t Mess With the Zohan and has written for Glamour magazine. She limped in New York Fashion Week and is a recurring character on General Hospital. She is the author of the best-selling memoir Find Another Dream and is collaborating with Scholastic on her debut comic book Shiny Misfits.
About Shiny Misfits:
'You can fit in, or you can stand out. Bay Ann, our star in this graphic novel, is the ultimate misfit. Bay Ann’s life is far from perfect, but she glows through it anyway with a lot of help from her friends. May Bay Ann inspire you to shine as sparkly as she does. Not because she is disabled, but because she is exactly who she wants to be'
You can ore-order the book at www.shinymisfits.com and attend book talks www.maysoon.com.
