Jarrett Campbell w/ Zabrina Douglas, Lisa Baker & Leif Oleson-Cormack

The Grindstone Comedy Fest presents a one hour performance of Stand Up comedy featuring headliner Jarrett Campbell, with Zabrina Douglas and Lisa Baker, hosted by Leif Oleson-Cormack!

Jarrett Campbell

Jarrett Campbell is one of the fastest rising talent in Canadian comedy. His work has been featured on MTV, Comedy Network, CBC, SiriusXM and his debut comedy album, ‘Straight White Fail’, was nominated for Comedy Album of the Year at the 2020 Junos. Recently he recorded his second television set on the Jim Jeffries Gala at Just for Laughs in Montreal, appeared on Jeff Ross’s Roast Battle at JFL, can currently be seen on season one of Roast Battle Canada on CraveTV, recorded a set for CBC’s New Wave of Standup and was featured at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival. In 2019, Jarrett was nominated as the Breakout Artist of the Year at the Canadian Comedy Awards and as a writer, he has previously been nominated for Best Writing in a Comedy Series. From New York to Vancouver, Jarrett has been on stages across North America and toured regularly with Yuk Yuk’s. He has opened for the likes of Chris D’Elia, Theo Von, Andrew Schulz, Mark Normand, Andrew Santino and many more.

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Zabrina Douglas

Zabrina Douglas is a Canadian stand-up comedian. Her comedy album Things Black Girls Say: The Album received a Juno Award nomination for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2023.

Douglas, a registered nurse, performed occasional stand-up comedy sets at Kenny Robinson's Nubian Disciples nights for Black Canadian comedians in the 2000s, and was a nominee for the Tim Sims Award in 2008.

She broke through to wider success in 2020 as the headliner of Laughter from the Frontlines, a virtual comedy show organized by Daniel Woodrow's Unknown Comedy Club featuring frontline health care workers performing comedy and storytelling about coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. She subsequently organized Things Black Girls Say, a regular show at Toronto's Comedy Bar, and recorded her sets at the April 15 and 16, 2022, shows for release as an album.

Born and raised in Brampton, Zabrina Douglas is a comedian that draws from her experience as a Nurse, a mother, and the daughter of 2 Jamaican parents. "She's one of the most exuberant and cheerful stand-ups working in the city. She can turn a whole show around by kicking up the energy in the room." Steve Fisher of Torontoist.com. Zabrina has been a regular and headlined Kenny Robinson's legendary "Nubian Disciples All Black Comedy Revue". She Created and Produces her Critically acclaimed show "Things Black Girls Say". She has performed in well known festivals like Just For Laughs Toronto, The Toronto Fringe Festival, Slo Comedy Festival in California and The women's Comedy festival in Boston. Her work can be seen on Teletoons, The Comedy Network and CBC. She has shared the stage with well known comedians Gilbert Godfrey, Cocoa Brown and Luenell.

Article about her album
https://www.goaheadsumi.com/the-top-10-canadian-comedy-albums-of-2022/

Lisa Baker

Born and raised in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Lisa developed a sharp wit and sense of humor that Newfoundlanders are known for. Since moving to Alberta, Lisa has appeared on CBC's LOL and The Debaters multiple times, she has performed at several comedy festivals across Canada including Just For Laughs NW and the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and has self-produced 3 national tours. Lisa is currently burning up TikTok and has recorded 2 albums, "To Completion" and "Super Newfie", which are featured on SiriusXM. She has also just filmed her first TV series, The Canoe Project, and will back in season 2 as an actor and a writer for the series.

Leif Oleson-Cormack

Before entering the world of stand-up comedy, Leif Oleson-Cormack was an award-winning Juilliard-trained playwright who designed video games for a living. Since them, he’s been performing his tightly written, storytelling-driven style of comedy for audiences all across North America. He was the winner of the 2019 Calgary FunnyFest Comedy Competition and has been featured in the Park Slope Comedy Festival, The Edmonton Fringe Festival, and the District Queer Comedy Festival. His play Dead Peasants was the winner of 2012 Samuel French Canadian Playwriting Award and he is a two-time recipient of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize from Lincoln Center.