Don Valley Girls

60 min | Sketch Comedy | April - July '22

Writer | Actor | Producer

We’ve aged out of being the Main Character, and it kinda really sucks. So we wrote a sketch show about it because why cry when you can cry while you laugh! …on stage, in front of everyone. We're a mashup of Somali/Korean/Palestinian/Pakistani Canadian perspectives from women and non-binary folks, and boy, our sketches don't hold back any punches. You may even experience a punch or two to the gut… with laughter! Come for the snarky blurb, stay for the weird (sometimes heartfelt) sketches, songs, and occasional video interlude. This is NOT your auntie's sketch show. (Or maybe it is.)

Funding, Development & Performances

2022 Toronto Fringe Festival*

2022 Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Queer Pride Festival

2022 Why Not Theatre's RISER Toronto

2022 Canada Council for the Arts - Concept to Realization Grant

2019 Sketch Comedy Project Fund (Toronto Sketchfest/Pat & Tony Adams Freedom Fund for the Arts)

*Toronto Fringe Patron's Pick; David Seguin Memorial Award

DON VALLEY GIRLS is presented as part of Why Not Theatre's RISER Toronto, a collaborative producing model supported by the Government of Canada, RBC Foundation, the Ontario Triullium Foundation, and a community of Senior Partners. The first three years of RISER Project were made possible by Toronto Arts Council’s Open Door program.

This project was made possible in part due to the support of Canada Council for the Arts and the Sketch Comedy Fund, a special project of the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival and The Pat and Tony Adams Freedom Fund for the Arts.

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