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Janae Burris (Just For Laughs/NBC First Look) is a comedian and actor in Denver, CO. She is a South Central Los Angeles native and a CalArts Alumna.Janae has been featured at Portland’s Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Limestone Comedy Festival, Telluride Blues Fest and High Plains Comedy Festival in Denver as well as headlining at Ha Ha Harvest in Portland, JokeChella in Fort Collins and Aspen Laugh Fest. Janae was named a 2019 Just For Laughs New Face in Montrral. She has showcased at NACA West, Midwest and Central.
The actor, who earned a BFA in avant-garde theater (brag), has performed with Local Theater Co., The Catamounts Theater, Colorado Shakespeare Fest, The Denver Center for Performing Arts and Off Center where she helped launch the world premier immersive show Theater of The Mind. Janae is a 2021 True West Award recipient for her work in the one woman show Queen’s Girl In The World at Aurora Fox Theater. She is a member of Actors Equity.
Janae is a proud camp counselor for Athena Project where she teaches stand up comedy to teenage girls. This summer Janae was tapped to be the first woman to host Film on The Rocks at Red Rocks Amphitheater. Her new special “MomBod” was released by Open Bar Media on YouTube earlier this fall. Catch her touring with Josh Blue and Moms Unhinged at your favorite clubs and theaters all over the country.
Oh, almost forgot, Janae recently became mother to a real live human child (she can’t believe it either) who is currently in the “take off my diaper and pee in random places” phase of toddlerdom. When she isn’t joking about this new love of her life on stage, she’s working as the new coordinator of New Talent at her home club Comedy Works Denver.
Find out where to see Janae live at janaeburris.com and follow her on IG @negativenegro…”it’s not racist, if you spell it correctly”.
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