Join us for LIVE COMEDY on Saturday August 20th featuring host Derek Minto, headliner Shannon Norman, and supporting acts from Amanda Averell, Chris Scriva, and Zivan Vasquez! Tickets are $15+ presale on Eventbrite and $20+ at the door. We’ll start checking guests in at 7pm, if you’d like to join us at the distillery early, grab a cocktail and find your seat before the show starts at 8pm. Check out the comedian bios below and secure your tickets now for an evening sure to be filled with laughs, great drinks, and fun!
Tickets are sold by the table. If you have any additional seating requests, you must email events@kingflyspirits.com in advance and we will do our best to accommodate.
https://Comedy-Aug20.eventbrite.com
COMIC BIOS:
Shannon Norman, Headliner
Shannon Norman's humor can best be described as “words spoken into a microphone.” Best known for his role as Gus Crackers in the Lifetime original movie “Trouble in the Tropics 2” He is the author of the children’s book “Gridlocked: the monetization of modern crosswalks. His 2018 debut album “Human Racoon” hit the top ten on Itunes. Check out his monthly Thursday night show at Bryant Street Barbershop set in…you guessed it…a barbershop.
Chris Scrivia, Comedian
Chris Scriva is a stand-up comedian and improviser from Chicago, IL. He has performed twice at the Burning Bridges Festival in Pittsburgh and the Mutiny Radio Comedy Festival in San Francisco. Chris has also played multiple venues throughout the Northeast and Midwest, including The Lincoln Lodge Theater in Chicago, The Tiny Cupboard in NYC, and Rocky Gap Casino's Bonkerz Comedy Club in Maryland as a featured act. Chris has trained at many notable comedy theaters such as The iO Theater, The Annoyance, The Magnet, and The Second City Training Center and is a graduate of the exclusive Second City Conservatory Program. He currently runs a successful, monthly hybrid stand-up and improv showcase in Chicago at The Lincoln Lodge Theater called Big Schtick Energy.
Amanda Averell, Comedian
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Amanda Averell is a stand-up comedian, writer, producer, podcast host, co-owner of the Burning Bridges Comedy Club, actor, educator, coach & improviser. Her quick wit, unique perspective & self-deprecating sense of humor have made Amanda a rising comic to watch and a festival favorite across the country. Amanda has opened for Todd Barry, Mick Foley, Nic Nemeth (WWE’s Dolph Ziggler), Todd Glass, Dave Ross, Brandie Posey, Shane Torres & more!
Zivan Vasquez, Comedian
Zivan Vasquez is originally from Houston and has been doing comedy in PGH for two and a half quarantines. He’s a scientist by day and radioactive comedian by night You can catch him Thursday nights hosting the open mic at Mario's Saloon in Oakland.
Derek Minto, Host
A stand-up comedian currently residing on the top of a mountain in Pittsburgh, PA, Derek has been a featured comic for the WDVE comedy festival and voted best comic in the City Paper Best of the Burgh in 2016. In 2020, Derek recorded his first comedy album, ‘Live from Lawerenceville’s Finest Ham Themed Bar’ inside Hambone’s during the Covid lockdown. Derek has opened for Hannibal Burgess, Todd Glass, John Heffron, and Amy Schumer once drunkenly told him he was very funny. Derek has traveled the United States doing comedy but still finds any city without fries on their salad gross.