Comedy Writing Workshops for Women*
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Comedy Writing Workshops for Women*
14.06.2025, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
21.06.2025, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
DSCHUNGEL WIEN
OPEN MIC PERFORMANCE28.06.2025, 7:00 PM
DSCHUNGEL WIEN
Your Story, Your Stage – Comedy Writing Workshops for Women* Are you ready to tell your story, make people laugh, and claim the mic?
We are looking for 12 participants for a unique comedy writing workshop series for women*. Led by Afrah Najm aka FLONA – comedian, law student and activist – and guest comedians Alex Wanderer and Claire Lefevre this workshop will guide you through the basics of comedy writing and storytelling. You’ll explore humor as a tool for empowerment and, if you like, perform your own material at an open mic night!
Open to women* (cis, trans, non-binary people who identify with the term), we especially encourage BIPOC women with or without migration refugee background to join us. No stage experience needed. The workshops are free of charge.Let’s laugh together. Your story, your stage.
Workshop Dates: 14.06.2025, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM 21.06.2025, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Optional Open Mic Performance: 5-Min gig each 28.06.2025, 7:00 PM
The workshops and the open mic will take place at Dschungel Wien.
What to expect:– Comedy writing & storytelling techniques– A supportive, safe space for creative expression– Community, courage, and laughter– Optional stage time at the open mic
Comedy Writing Workshops for Women* is organized by Afrah Najm at Dschungel Wien and takes place as part of the D—Arts Open Call Practices of Resistance. With the kind support and in cooperation with Dschungel Wien.
Participation is free of charge. To register, please send a short motivation letter (max. 200 words) and a brief biography by June 12 to najmfarah0@gmail.com
Fotocredits: Ayman Al Husseen
Claire Lefevre is a femme choreographer, insomniac writer, and reality TV enthusiast currently based in Vienna, Austria. She likes to think of herself as a hostess, welcoming collaborators and audience members into kitsch landscapes where politics and poetics are gently interwoven.
Claire’s work with text spans from poetry to grant applications, at times flirting with performance criticism, stand-up comedy or queer feminist theory. Occasionally she works as a ghost writer, but mostly because of the spectral appeal of the job title. Claire teaches writing workshops, and is a contributing writer for several performance art publications, online and in print. She co-created the holiday poets society together with Ari Ban and Kenneth Constance Loe, a series of intimate gatherings where they read texts to friends and friends of friends.
Alexandra Wanderer, born in Romania, is a stand-up performer who uses comedy and storytelling to explore questions of class, prevailing cultural habitus, and power relations. She studied fine arts because she believed in the idealism of art. Now that she graduated, the art world has become a source of material for comedy. She has been on stage in comedy clubs and art spaces. Venues include: Secession, Theater am Werk, Volkstheater