Brick City Comedy Revue (Newark Arts Festival Edition)

Newark’s premier comedy showcase presents a competition to crown Newark’s funniest up-and-coming comedian featuring Jason Thompson, Josh Tinley, Jourdan Campbell, Becky, Joe Markz, Big Lyric, Solley Sellers, Francesca Castro, and Amani Abdul-Majeed.

Headliner

Chanel Ali is a standup comedian, writer, and actress living in New York City. She hosted the Food Network digital series Food Debate! and was a cast member on MTV’s Girl Code. Chanel was honored as a “New Face” at the 2019 Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, and she can be seen on the Starz series Night Train with Wyatt Cenac and Laff Mobb’s Laff Tracks on TruTV. In 2020, Chanel appeared in the CC Stand-Up/Refinery 29 series Taking the Stage and Speak Up and on the Netflix series Dash & Lily.

Musical Guest

DEVONNE is a Haitian-Jamaican-American actress, writer, performance artist, producer and flower child based in the United States. Her mission is to entertain, enlighten, inform, empower, and reconnect humanity to its humanity. Her stages include: Sample-McDougal House Preservation(2023), Destination Sistrunk Art Center (2023), North 2 Shore Festival (2023), Marco Hall Boutique MH302 (2023), the Newark Museum of Art (2022), The One World Observatory (2021), CSTM HAUS NYC(2020), Melrose Ballroom (2019), and the Newark Arts Festival (2018).