Using Comedy for Creative Communication

Featuring Nicole Blaine

Monday, April 17

5:00 p.m. Registration

5:30 p.m. Program

7:00 p.m. Mixer

RAND Santa Monica Forum

1776 Main St
Santa Monica, CA 90401

Program

The best way to reach and truly connect with an audience is to make them feel. Using the art of storytelling is a superpower when it comes to really engaging with a crowd. Humor helps to enhance the effectiveness of your public speech, presentation, debate, and office party prowess. Nicole Blaine, owner of The Crow comedy club and comedy educator, breaks down the rules of comedy and explains how joke structure is crafted and presented to help amplify your point of view. Learn the structural science behind a premise and a punchline and apply these tactics to your presentations to take your work to the next level.

Featured Speaker

Nicole Blaine is the owner and founder of The Crow, a comedy club and education center that is a safe space for all to laugh, learn, and evolve as humans using comedy, writing, music and the performing arts. The Crow's mission is to use storytelling to forward social justice and create more opportunities for all ages, abilities, genders, BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+ humans performing, studying, and watching. As a stand-up comedian, writer, producer, and mom, she loves curating comedy and elevated shows at The Crow! Nicole’s stand-up special, Life’s a Bit, is streaming on Amazon Prime. Nicole has been seen on NBC’s The Today Show, E’s That Morning Show, SFSketchfest, Big Sky Comedy Festival, The International FringeNYC Festival, Laughing Skull Comedy Festival and HBO’s Women in Comedy Festival. Nicole and her producing partner/husband/personal assistant, Mickey Blaine, executive produced and directed the stand-up special Burning the Light on HBO. She lives a few minutes away from The Crow in Santa Monica with her husband and two kids. They all suck so she has great material.

Register for this Program

Please register online by April 12, 2023. Questions? Email careerservices@pardeerand.edu. There is no charge to attend, but advance registration is required and this invitation is nontransferable.

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