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Grace McDaniels

Grace McDaniels
Grace believes the human voice is the best tool people have to make positive change. She does what she can to give comedians a gentle go at saving the world together. Grace is passionate about expanding public access to free speech through comedy everywhere. You can reach out to her via her Contact page. She first began her career nearly decades ago as a teacher in Philadelphia. In 2018, after dreaming of comedy writing for years and years, she opted to take up digital nomadding and perform around the country. She went on to apply the creative principles she'd taught children to craft a global media conglomerate. And here we are. Any questions? How did she get here? Here are some tidbits from her life story~ Grace was born a double Aquarian on Lake Pontchartrain. Her parents were two sporty hotties from Ohio who had muddled together since middle school. By the time she was five... weeks(!) Grace was riding a white mare down Bourbon Street. Thems is facts. Some would say she peaked here... They'd be right! A proper Drew Barrymore meets E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, stuffed senseless on Twinkie cream. (It's where she gets her big forehead.) She, our young grasshopper, enjoyed a pogo-sticking around the master-planned oil suburbs of The Woodlands, Texas, in the early nineties. She played and learned sex ed from the drawings on pogs. She invited her crushes to eat bark sandwiches in the woods. If there had been Instagram, she'd never have come close to scraping the simulacrum of reality as she did back then. Namaste. Her family eventually defected from the globalist petrochemical stranglehold. They opted to move up north and burrow down in Amish-adjacent Chocolatetown, USA, where she allegedly suffered severe, Wild Mouse rollercoaster-induced scoliosis. But that wasn't until, whilst dressed as Ghoulardi, she lip-synched "Bird is the Word" by the Butthole Surfers for the whole third grade. Wild. Meanwhile, her first and future husband was 23 and working in a timber mill. Details like these lend to her rousing stage performances. You might want to check out her tour dates. As a girl in Central Pennsylvania, she enjoyed watching the Simpsons whilst gazing out her own bedroom window at the smokestacks of the nearby Three Mile Island nuclear facility. After cross-dressing her haunted Howdy Doody puppet as Aunt Jemima, she wore its clothes in her breakout role as the smallest tap-dancing country singer in the world (1996,) with a rendition of Patsy Cline's "Crazy," The thesis statement here is that she's always been hellbent about bringing idiosyncratic performance to the public. Why? Because it seemed obligatory at the time. She began producing comedy in middle school. It began with spoof commercials on her camcorder, followed by, among other things, a sock puppet interview with George Washington Carver. Later, in high school, she was voted Young Woman of the Year by her town, yet somehow never learned to take care of her car. That's life before YouTube, kids! To note: Her 8mm tapes were all lost in a Travis County police auction... Or were they? ;) Again... Are we seeing how such circumstances make for good comedy? Would you like to see one of her shows sometime? She inevitably bee-lined to art school in the City of Brotherly Love, thus beginning summers teaching aesthetics, public art and museum studies in New Haven, Connecticut. Just one taste and she starkly disavowed the archaic pedantry of various teacher training programs, instead fashioning her own fringe pedagogies into enrichment curricula for children near and far. A handful of years later, in 2011, after scoring 12 points against the Harlem Wizards,she wrote her first sitcom. It had a lot to do with driving jet bridges at the Philadelphia International Airport in an overnight blizzard It wasn't long before she hit the stand-up stage on South Street as the only woman on the list at the now defunct Lickety Split. In 2014, she promptly tabled her stand-up to be wed, but she soon took up improv and sketch-writing at the Philly Improv Theater and ComedySportz and later studied red nose clown and devised theater at the Pig Iron School under Emmanuelle Delpech. She went on to enjoy a career as an art museum educator; an instructor and advisor of curricula in public arts, aesthetics, and theater; an elementary, middle, and high school art teacher; and a director of interdisciplinary arts- and theater-integrated camps and enrichment programs for Philadelphia school children. In 2018, she became a full-fledged digital nomad, moving first to Austin, Texas, where she started her first company and resumed her study of stand-up comedy. The next few years, she traversed the country to all corners in every which way, including taking nearly every Amtrak line coast to coast, driving from Austin to Fairbanks, and living in Austin, Eugene, Los Angeles, California, and Oberlin, Ohio, where she produced more than 600 underground comedy shows from 2020-2022. Grace is now back in Philly, where you can find her voice acting, storytelling, and producing comedy as the World Comedy Foundation, the Rampantly comedy network, and the Laugh Social network. She would like to thank her friends and mentors who fostered her creative and qualitatively philanthropic ambitions, her co-producers, talent and volunteers for their contributions to the common good. laughter to the people. :) (;

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Grace McDaniels
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Grace McDaniels
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