Dalia Malek's Work-in-Progress: an evening of stand-up comedy

With Dalia Malek, enlightenment can be silly and the gallows can be fun. She playfully loathes humanity, and that includes herself. Pay attention to her, but don't make eye contact. She invites you to join her journey through chronic personal failures, career blunders, health woes, carefree childlessness, avoidance of strangers and finding love as she realizes that, just like the Mario Bros' quest to save the princess, her hopes and dreams are in another castle.

Watch her work in progress as she prepares her solo hour "Another Castle" for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2022 in Scotland, knowing full well what a spectacular failure that was in 2020. Good thing she's intimately acquainted with spectacular failure.

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DALIA MALEK is an Egyptian-American comedian who started comedy in London, UK and tours internationally, performing at major clubs, theaters, and festivals all over the world. Her stand-up was broadcast on BBC, and she has performed at festivals including the Brighton Fringe Festival, Reading Comedy Festival, and Live Nation's Latitude Festival in England, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, Live Nation's Electric Picnic in Ireland, and Egypt's first ever Cairo Comedy Festival.

Back home in the US, she has appeared in the Desi Comedy Fest, QueenFest, Second City Diversity in Comedy Festival, Sacramento FemmeFest, All Jane Comedy Festival, Ha Ha Harvest Comedy Festival, Big Pine Comedy Festival, and SF Sketchfest. Her media-acclaimed Twitter feed has been featured in lists and round-ups all over the Internet. She also produces Interruption Show, Ground Floor, and Comedy in English in LA. She will be bringing her solo hour to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022, returning to Electric Picnic in Ireland in 2022, and to SF Sketchfest in 2023. She can be seen performing previews and works in progress around the US in the months leading up to the summer festivals.

“Made an instant impact…Distinctive, knowing content.” –Chortle

“A very promising writer.” –Chortle

“Funny, funny fucker.” –Toby Morton (South Park)

“Confident, with a unique voice.” –Paul Kerensa (BBC’s Miranda)

“Sense of humor is out of this world.” –The Frisky

“Welcoming, natural, and very funny, delivering her sharp, at times dark material based on the struggles of being an Egyptian American with excellent timing.” –Funny Women

Twitter: @DALIA

Instagram: @daliamalek

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DANIEL ZAMBRANO started comedy after a break-up in 2017, jumping from one toxic relationship to another.

He is the stand-up comedian and curator behind @OrangeCountyStandUp, a social media platform created to help open micers just starting out, give road dogs and comics who just moved to Southern California an idea of where to look for spots, to nurture the local comedy scene in Orange County and Long Beach, and to help comedy fans find places to watch local shows.

He was a twice featured comic at the Chicano-Con Cultural Festival in San Diego, and can be seen performing at clubs all over LA and San Diego.

orangecountystandup.com

Twitter: @dani3lzambrano

Instagram: @dani3lzambrano

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is a history museum and cultural center, offering history tours. Founded in order to propagate the cultural, immigrant, working-class history of the community of Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles.

Boyle Heights History Studios is also the proud home to THE BOYLE HEIGHTS CHAVURAH - the grassroots Jewish fellowship of East Los Angeles; we are proud to host the last remaining Jewish congregation of our neighborhood.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Boyle Heights History Studios (& Tours), 2026 1st Street, Los Angeles, United States