Southbury Women's Club Presents "'Hilarity for Charity'"

The Southbury Women's Club will host a Hilarity for Charity fundraiser Friday, March 31, 2017 from 7:30 – 10:30pm at the Heritage Hotel & Conference Center, Southbury, CT.

Tickets are $50 and majority of fundraiser proceeds will go to Make A Wish, Connecticut Chapter.

Buy tickets online today!

The fundraiser will feature three comedians including headliner Adam Oliensis.

Adam has been working in comedy for longer than he cares to admit. Not just as a Stand-Up Comedian but also in acting, writing, directing, and producing for TV, theatre, film, and commercials.

In his stand-up, Adam explores the lessons in humility he's learning from his wife and especially from his children, along with the adjustments being forced on him by genuine adulthood. Having lived as a child in East Africa, studied martial arts in India, and languished spiritually in New Jersey, Adam is attuned to the absurdities that arise in the everyday, mining both the ironies and silliness that exist in the most humbling situations (with which he continues to gain vast experience).

Adam has been named Rockland's King of Comedy by the The Journal News, and the #1 Comedian for Hire by Thumbtack.com for three years running. He has recently opened for such comedy legends and luminaries as Robert Klein, Colin Quinn, Gilbert Gottfried, and Larry Miller.

Adam performs at comedy clubs all over New York City and the surrounding area, including regularly at Gotham Comedy Club and Levity Live, as well as at Comic Strip Live, Dangerfield's, Broadway Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club, The Laugh Lounge, CB's Comedy Club, Greenwich Village Comedy Club, and Treehouse Comedy. Also at colleges, corporate & private events, synagogues, theatres, and JCCs throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania.

As a writer, Adam co-authored the movie, The Pompatus of Love, with Jon Cryer (Best Comedy, Worldfest-Houston), which he also co-produced and in which he stars along with Mr. Cryer and Kristen Scott Thomas.
Adam's plays have been produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre, among other companies in New York, as well as in Los Angeles and regionally, and his work has been published by Dramatists Play Service. He has also penned several TV pilots, which have been produced for Cable TV.

As an actor, Adam has appeared on Broadway, Off Broadway, in Regional Theatre, in the movies, on episodic TV, and in hundreds of TV and radio commercials.

As Producing Director of Willow Cabin Theatre Co. for 12 years in New York City, Adam brought to the stage works by the likes of William Shakespeare, Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, and David Rabe. He produced, Wilder, Wilder, Wilder, the only show in history to go from off-off Broadway to off-Broadway to Broadway in a single season.

He has been nominated for a Clio Award (the Oscars of commercials) for Best Performance. He's also been nominated as a producer for both Tony & Drama Desk Awards for Best Revival. (And, no, it's not an honor just to be nominated. Just being nominated sucks.)

Also featuring:

Regina DeCicco, You will often hear Regina long before you see her. Before taking the plunge into stand-up comedy, Regina DeCicco worked for many years at Saturday Night Live and then Whoopi, Whoopi Goldberg's NBC sitcom. Regina made her television debut on AXS-TV's "Gotham Comedy Live." Her stand-up has been featured numerous times on FOX TV's "Laughs." She's performed at colleges all over the United States, and she's even done comedy in Shanghai, China! She's been a part of the Nantucket Comedy Festival, the Laughing Skull Comedy Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, the She-Devil Comedy Festival held in NYC, and Boston's Women in Comedy Festival. In 2012, Regina became The New Winner in the Ladies of Laughter competition which was held at various clubs all over NYC, with participants from all over the country. You can also find her performing all over the country with The Italian Chicks.

Akash Bhasin has entertained crowds in China, India and now the United States. His unique wit and no holds bared sense of humor has helped him garner a fan a fan base across the globe. Akash has been featured in the second season of the critically acclaimed series "Its A Chucked Up Life." He can also been seen in a number of on line sketches with the acclaimed Cult Comedy Picture Show. Many of their sketches have been featured on CNN and the Huffington Post. Akash recieved 1st place in the Catch a Rising Star competition & 2nd place in Gilda's Laugh off competition. No matter what country he's in Akash's honest and hilarious perspective on life, cultures and religion keep audiences wanting more.

Special thank you to all our sponsors, including our Platinum sponsor, Vein Clinics of America as well as our Gold Sponsors; Jack Zazzaro D.M.D, Premier Wine & Spirits, Respond if you please & Woodbridge Estate Care Tree & Landscaping & Verizon Southbury.

$50 / ticket, Includes: 3 comedians, Pre-show light fare – sliders bar, mashed potato bar, imported cheese table & dessert - Cash Bar

Tickets can be purchased on the Southbury Women's Club website.

Event questions?
Contact:
hilarityforcharity@southburywomensclub.orgor call Nancy (C#203-706-0724)

*NOTE: Friends joining you from out of town for our Hilarity for Charity event or perhaps you want to make it a little "staycation"? The Heritage Hotel is working with Southbury Women's Club to offer a friends and family discounted rate for this event. Just mention SWC's Hilarity for Charity event when booking and you can get a night rate of $99 (excluding tax & service charge).