Comedy Convos with Ambi

Martin Phillips is a stand-up comedian primarily based in Washington DC, but still travels all over the country and has even performed in Alaska! While in college Martin was named the funniest college student in DC and hasn't stopped since; from performing at festivals, like The LA Diversity in Comedy Festival to the Cleveland Comedy Festival, and performing at colleges, appearing on the Kill Tony podcast multiple times, corporate gigs, apartment shows - Martin does it all!

To contact Martin: 

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @flymartyphilly

Twitter: @PhunnyFillips

Nikita Redkar is a comedian, screenwriter, and actress originally from Texas and now based in London. Like all great comedians, Nikita started standup comedy on a dare but stuck with it for five years after the $6 she was promised. Nikita has performed all over the country, including opening for Sean Patton, Jermaine Fowler, and more. She has also performed at the Moontower Comedy Festival. Nikita is currently completing a master's in screenwriting in London and has a web series called Paranormal Disruption that you should check out if you hate capitalism! 

To contact: 

Twitter: @Nikitaredwoman

Instagram: @nikitaredgirl

Peter Mehlman is an American television writer, comedian, and producer, best known for serving as a writer and producer on the TV series Seinfeld through nearly all of the show's nine-year run from 1989–98. Before his Seinfeld fame,  he was a sportswriter for the Washington Post and then became a freelance magazine writer in New York.  

To learn more about Peter, check out his episode!

Social media:

Twitter: @PeterMehlman

Disclaimer: This episode is published on Both "Comedy Convos with Ambi" and "On the Record with Ambi" 

Jenny Cavallero is a DC-based comedian, filmmaker, librarian, and disabled person. She is the Writer, Director, and star of the dramatic short film “The Bottle,” which premiered on August 12, 2020.   She started doing stand-up in spring 2018. She has performed on the Underground Comedy Festival and at The Miracle Theater for the Las Culturistas Live “I Don’t Think So, Honey” show with Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers. She co-hosted Underground Comedy's Thursday show at Reliable Tavern and was a frequent performer at the DC Drafthouse, Big Hunt, and DC Comedy Loft.  With Comedian Blaire Postman, she also started a monthly meet-up called "Shoulder Pads" for women-identifying and non-binary comics in the DMV to discuss the business of stand-up and share skills and resources. 

Follow Jenny on social media

Instagram: @jennyandthelibrarians

Twitter: @jennycavallero

Dan Perlman is a comedian, writer, and director from New York City. He was named one of the 2018 New Faces in stand-up at the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival. Currently, Dan is the co-creator, executive producer, writer, star of the upcoming Showtime series, Flatbush Misdemeanors. He co-created the award-winning digital series of the same name, which became Oscar-qualified after winning the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short at the 2018 Florida Film Festival.

Yamini Nambimadom is a performer, writer, and recent college grad who has spent the last eight years doing comedy in and around Chicago and LA. In high school, Yamini performed improv with the youth ComedySportz league. After moving to Chicago for college, she joined the University of Chicago's storied Off-Off Campus, the country's oldest collegiate sketch & improv group, and began writing and performing sketch & stand-up in addition to improv. While in Chicago, Yamini also studied at The Second City. In quarantine, she is adapting to the digital world by making character videos, performing at Zoom showcases, and hosting Pillow Fight, a comedy and culture podcast!

Check out Yamini's social media:

Instagram: @yaminidoescomedy 

Tik tok: @whatstheyamz 

Elliot Bromberg is a 23-year-old comedian based in Washington, D.C. Elliot dipped his toes into comedy as an undergrad at the University of Maryland where he wrote sketches and performed for The Bureau (UMD's co-ed and all-purpose comedy group) and also edited for a satirical news source: The Rival UMD. After graduating in 2019, Elliot moved to the Capitol and began performing standup comedy. He was a finalist in the DC Comedy Loft’s Best New Comic competition and has performed at venues all over the DC, with the occasional trips to New York City. Currently, Elliot is co-hosting a weekly online Zoom Comedy show: Witty Wednesday with fellow D.C. comedian, Elani Nichelle.

Elizabeth Norman is a Baltimore based Comedian.  She started her comedy journey by joining her college's sketch comedy group, Beyond Therapy at Kenyon College in Ohio.  The summer after her junior year, 2015, she decided to try her hand at stand-up comedy, performing at a handful of open-mics in her hometown of Baltimore. Returning to Ohio for her senior year, she successfully joined the campus stand-up comedy group and the satirical newspaper. After graduating in 2016, she started performing regularly in Baltimore. In 2017, she took over producing Club “Out-of-Town,” a monthly showcase for women and LGBTQ+ performers. She’s performed in over 15 comedy festivals and used to run several successful showcases in Baltimore. She was the judge of the Magooby’s New Comedian of the Year competition in 2019 and was on the selection panel for the 2020 District Queer Comedy Festival.

Follow Elizabeth on social media 

Twitter: @lizzynormal

Instagram: @elizabethdangernorman