Second Helping

Found Voice Communications

LOCATION: Brooklyn, New York

SYNOPSIS: Kelli Dunham grew up the youngest child in a large Germanic midwestern farm family that taught self-reliance as a religion.. When Kelli lost not one but two partners in a row to cancer, she was forced to start making different choices. Second Helping is part stand-up comedy, part sit down tragedy with love and body fluids in the cracks in between.

GENRE: Theatre, Comedy, Storytelling

CONTENT RATING: FF - Fairly Fringe-y (PG-13)

ARTIST BIO: Kelli Dunham is the typical ex-nun nonbinary storytelling nerd comic so common in modern Brooklyn. Kelli has appeared on Showtime and the Discovery Channel, the Cinderblock Comedy Festival, the Moth Mainstage, the CinderBlock Comedy Festival, the Rochester Fringe Festival, the Orlando Fringe Festival and nationwide at colleges, prides, fundraisers and even the occasional livestock auction. Kelli is the author of seven books including the best-selling Boy's Body Book and a collection of tragic-comic essays, Freak of Nurture.

Kelli's latest comic storytelling album, Not the Gym Teacher, was directed by Gastor Almonte and has been called "hilarious" (Comedy Cake) "honest and generous" (The Serious Comedy Site) and "hilariously honest" (The Advocate). Apparently, it's pretty honest?

Kelli's HuffPost account of her covid experience "Finding Connection In the Covid ICU" was a hilarious and consoling viral piece that was shared more than 500,000 times and referenced on hundreds of websites/blogs. Kelli later shared this piece on the first virtual version of PBS/WGBH's Stories from the Stage.

New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio once called Kelli a show off. To her face.

WEBSITE: http://www.kellidunham.com/