Canadian
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stand-up comedian, whose performances centre on her experiences as a congenital triple amputee. She is most noted as the joint winner with D.J. Mausner of the annual Homegrown Comics competition for emerging Canadian comedians at the 2017 Just for Laughs festival.
Born in
Sarnia
Sarnia is a city in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada. It had a Canada 2021 Census, 2021 population of 72,047, and is the largest city on Lake Huron. Sarnia is located on the eastern bank of the junction between the Upper and Lower Great Lakes w ...
,
Ontario
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University of Windsor
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Following her Homegrown Comics win, she performed in 2018 at the
Winnipeg Comedy Festival
The Winnipeg Comedy Festival is an annual comedy festival, held in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Created by the Osborne Village Cultural Centre in collaboration with CBC Radio, performances from the festival are also broadcast as a radio series on CBC Radio ...
and the Halifax Comedy Festival. In 2019 she premiered the one-woman stage show ''Congratulations'' at the
Toronto Fringe Festival
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.
In 2021 she appeared as herself in an episode of
Jon Dore
Jonathan David Dore (born November 2, 1975) is a Canadian comedian and actor currently based in Juneau, Alaska.
Education
Dore attended Brookfield High School and studied broadcasting at Algonquin College in Ottawa.
Career
Jon Dore was forme ...
Canada's Got Talent
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As with other series in the franchise, the show is a competition i ...
'', and was announced on April 26, 2022, as advancing to the semi-final round, and winning the judges vote to the finale. She also appeared in two episodes of the second season of ''
Roast Battle Canada
''Roast Battle Canada'' is a Canadian television comedy series, which premiered on CTV Comedy Channel in October 2021. An adaptation of the American series '' Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle'', the series presents battles in which pairs of comedi ...