In this all day, all female workshop, participants of all levels will learn the fundamentals of joke-writing through honing their personal narratives to create performance material. Registration for Comedy Girl includes a FREE hardcover Comedy Bar branded notebook.

Born and raised in Hamilton, Dawn Whitwell has taught standup comedy since 2002, and since then has honed her own style of shaping students' personal narratives into jokes. Ever since serving as a juror for a comedy award in 2006, Dawn has actively advocated for an increased presence of women in Toronto's Standup community. Dawn is excited and inspired to bring Comedy Girl back to the Hammer this winter.

Some things Dawn's students have said :

"Wow!!! What a feeling. People laughed!!!"

"I just wanted to say that your course is truly awesome, and that you have a great talent for helping us find our own angle on jokes, and for seeing how to polish the stones into gems:)"