ColdTowne Theater

Have you noticed the world is on fire? Do you have an opinion about that? Something you want to shout to the heavens but no one to say it to. Well, that’s why you go to therapy or a comedy club (or both). Think of comedy as a vehicle for your societal critiques and observations. All the greats do it - Dave Chappelle, Wanda Sykes, George Carlin - the list goes on! Being able to look at the world’s biggest messes and boil it down to digestible bites for an audience is a skill worth its price in gold - and drink tickets (which is what you’ll be paid with when you first start your comedy journey). So let’s come together and dissect how the greats do it and work together to construct our own sets that take on the hot topics of the day.

Warning: This class is suitable for people who can discuss complex subjects with levity and heart. We're about discourse and healing. We're not about punching down and foolishness. If you come with that, you’ll be shown the door. (With love.)

ROCHELLE MCCONICO is the founder and CEO of MoonCricket Productions a live entertainment company specializing in interactive, multisensory comedic events. She is a visionary, writer, producer, and performer. In June 2020, Rochelle launched the Amuse-Bouche Comedy Festival to showcase the many great improvisers, comedy podcasters and stand-ups in New Orleans and performed as all three. In 2022, she followed up by co-founding, programming, performing and co-headlining the Lysistrata Comedy Festival, an all femme comedy festival, in New Orleans.

Additionally, Rochelle performs standup, improv, and sketch around the country both individually and with the groups: Black Improv Alliance’s Wakanda Vs. Everybody, Black As Phuck, Switchblade, Edge Control, and No Lye Comedy. 

Notably she has performed improv at the New York Comic Con (2022), Black and Funny Ocean City Festival (2022), and Baton Rouge Improv Festival (2022); sketch in the Dallas Comedy Festival (2018) and the Los Angeles Diversity in Comedy Showcase (2019), and stand-up in the the Black Girl Giggles Festival (2018) and Tower City Comedy Festival (2022). Rochelle also hosted during the Austin Sketchfest (2022) and will be appearing in the Moontower Comedy Festival in April 2023.

Rochelle also wrote, directed, and starred in three plays centering her alter ego character, billionaire media heiress Stangela Angela Hemsworth Kingsley Winthrop Farouk Adams III: I’m Only Here for the Snacks, and Stangela for President, and Stangela’s Swamp Thing. The first two plays were both featured at Infringe Fest in New Orleans (2018 & 2019).