Stand Up Comedy Showcase at Waterfront Park (FREE)

Stand Up Comedy Showcase at Waterfront Park (FREE)

Saturday, July 13

8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Bring your lawn chairs and join us under the stars at Dobbs Ferry Waterfront Park’s Concert Stage for our 16th FREE Stand Up Comedy Showcase (intended for 18+)Please register with reference@dobbsferrylibrary.org to sign up so we can verify program attendance • show starts promptly at 8pm EST • open lawn seating area

featuring: Host Tim Deery, Anne Stesney, Ted, An Impressionist, Geordan Mallas, Tanya Cooper, Jay Servedio, Headliner Alex Kollar, and live music from Nathaniel Johnston!

FURTHER INFO…
weather
update 7/13/24 – despite some early morning showers, we are looking clear for tonight 🙂

transportation
address: the stage is located across the parking lot from Hudson Social Restaurant 11 Station Plaza Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
via car: parking regulations have been suspended between 7pm to 10pm at the Waterfront Park lot thanks to our Dobbs Ferry Police Department
via rail: the park and stage is located right across from the Dobbs Ferry Metro North (Hudson Line) train stop

seating
We recommend bringing lawn chairs.  You are welcome to bring a picnic blanket, but the ground could be cold or wet and view obstructed by those in lawn chairs.  We will not be providing seating.  The show will begin promptly at 8pm and run til roughly 9:30pm.  As it is an open lawn seating area with no assigned spaces, we recommended arriving no later than 7:45pm.

food + drink
Hudson Social has some great food & beverage options and is located right across the parking lot.  Seating can get tight on weekends, so reservations are recommend (914) 478-3634.

restrooms
There are public restrooms located a short walk north of the concert stage.

DONATION$
While the event is FREE, we will gladly accept ca$h donations for the performers on behalf of the Friends of the Dobbs Ferry Public Library.

BIO’S
HOST – TIM DEERY
Our resident Performer/Producer, Tim has run 15 Stand Up Comedy Showcases, 81 Comedy Open Mic’s, 4 FerryCon‘s, 3 Local Filmmakers Spotlight‘s, and 97 Cult Classic Movie Night‘s for DFPL, which, if you’re keeping count, requires a lot of fingers & toes.  His latest on screen work includes a starring role as a vampire, who sucks, in the music video “Owen Is A Dracula” from Wolf Face.
find him on IG: @MummiesOnMainStreet

ANNE STESNEY
Anne Stesney has performed all over NYC, including StandUp NY, Broadway Comedy Club and too many Brooklyn bars to name. She placed 3rd out of 60 comics in the 2024 Comedy Mob Festival, and was a top 12 finalist in the Laughing Buddha Comedy Festival.
find her on IG: @AStezComedy

TED, AN IMPRESSIONIST
Ted is an unique comic who serves up an absurdist and silly string of brain-twisty characters and bits.  He has performed at Good Karma Comedy Festival 2024; Hudson Valley Comedy Festival 2024; Uptown Comedy Festival 2023; Rochester Fringe Festival 2020, 2022; Finger Lakes/Ithaca Comedy Festivals 2016-2023; Portland Comedy Festival 2022. Colorado Comedy Shows’ “Apocalips Comedy”; produces/performs own feature show “Kook Comedy”; NYC clubs: Comic Strip, St. Marks Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club.
find him on Facebook: @EdSmythKookComedy

GEORDAN MALLAS
Good guy.  Local guy.
find him on IG: @GeordanMallasComedy

TANYA COOPER
Tanya Cooper has performed all over NYC,/TriState area, including:Levity Live, EastVille Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club, The Metropolitan Room, The Top Secret Comedy Club, (London), The Howling Wolf (Nola), She is the Producer & Host of a world wide podcast “On The Town With Tanya” Sundays at 4pm on Spotify and YouTube.
find her on IG: @HostTanyaCooper

JAY SERVEDIO
Jay Servedio is a Rockland County based comic who has performed all over New York City and the Hudson Valley. In addition to stand up he is a member of the sketch group ‘The Nth Degree’ and a co-host of the “Guinnea Pigs” podcast.
find him on IG: @TheRealJayServedio

HEADLINER –ALEX KOLLAR
A Westchester-by-way-of-Queens comic, Alex began acting in 2009 and made a transition to standup in 2018.  In late 2019 he was runner up at the Empire State Comedy Competition, and has since been performing in the tri-state area, including at Levity Live, Laugh It Up Comedy Club, and Comic Strip Live, where he appears monthly.
find him on IG: @AlexKollar

+ the LIVE music from Nathaniel Johnston

*This event may be filmed.  Being as such, there is a chance that you could wind up in the recording at any given point.  If this is an issue for you, we recommend that you not attend, as we will not be able edit around individual preferences.

*In the case of inclement weather, the show would take place in our Library Community Room (sits 75), right up the hill from the park at: 55 Main Street Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522.  If so, there are Village Lots and street parking with payment enforced until 8pm via the Park Mobile App.

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These showcases are part of our Comedy on the Hudson Programming.