Orillia Comedy Festival

Comedy on the Town on Friday, February 29th features Live Stand Up Comedy! Don't miss the opportunity to vote for your favourite act. Grab your friends and settle in to one of these four participating locations for a night of comedy. Brewery Bay, Tux II Nightclub, La Mezzaluna and McCabes at Highwayman Inn. You pick your favourite to win the opportunity to open for The Arrogant Worms at the Orillia Opera House on Saturday, March 1st.

	Andrew Evans Life outside of Nova Scotia is difficult for Andrew to understand. From the silly to the socially relevant, nothing escapes this sarcastic Maritimer’s look at big city and pop culture absurdities. After making an appearance on Open Mic with Mike Bullard, Mike likened him to “Don Harron”. Ben Guyatt of Comedy at Club 54 fame says, “Andrew has a fresh approach to comedy-combining the absurd with the cerebral, always resulting in a great solid set… After winning the Laugh Resort’s funniest person with a day job competition in Toronto, Andrew was invited to perform for the first time at the prestigious Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. He has since performed at the Halifax Comedy Fest and the Prince Edward Island Comedy Fest, appeared on Much Music’s hit show, Video on Trial, been recorded for CBC radio's "So you think you're funny?" and can be heard often on XM Radio's Laugh Attack. Andrew will leave you laughing at him, yourself and the world around you.
	Jessica Williams was born and raised in Barrie ON. After graduating from Humber school of Comedy in 2004, she planted her roots in the Big Smoke. She has performed stand up and improv comedy from New York City to Washago, ON. Her comedy is a mix of innocence, vulgarity and silliness. Enjoy!
	Justin Renwick's stage career began behind the drum kit in the suburbs of Toronto. However, the lure of the microphone proved too hard to resist, and he's been honing his stand-up chops ever since on the stages of Toronto's Laugh Resort and Yuk Yuk's comedy clubs. With material skewing toward the observational and brief stops to his painfully awkward true life misadventures, Justin's act has a little something for everybody -- if, as he is convinced, what everybody wants is a little Justin.
	Todd Van Allen A veteran stand-up comic, Todd Van Allen draws on very relatable material that touches on current events, life at the office, and the hilarious differences between the big city and the small towns in which he grew up. Extremely quick-witted, Todd is an expert at making on-the-spot, astute and very funny observations. Todd has performed at The Laugh Resort in Toronto, Absolute Comedy in Ottawa, The Improv in Hollywood, the Comix Café in Buffalo, The Cotton Club in Chicago, and House of Comedy in Hamilton. He has also been seen at Alt.dot COMedy Lounge at The Rivoli, Spirits, Club 54, and many other clubs across Southern Ontario, and Quebec. Todd placed 1st in the first ever Funniest New Comedian in Canada competition in 1991 and proceeded to become a regular at various Yuk Yuk’s across Ontario. Todd is a successful playwright, trained actor, improviser and sketch comedian and a graduate of Toronto’s The Second City Conservatory Program.