Making Waves Week 1B: Disabled List
Saturday and Sunday, October 23-24
Disabled List
This is Spinal Injury
Film/Comedy – This Is Spinal Injury is a mockumentary comedy featuring Dan Hurwitz and Kayla Brown as they attempt to put on the greatest, most accessible, yet simultaneously least commercially-viable comedy show featuring comedians with disabilities in the history of the Pacific Northwest.
ID: a black movie poster with the words “This is Spinal Injury” in a heavy metal font.
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Performer Bios
Kayla Brown
Kayla Brown (she/her) is a Seattle-based disability activist who sometimes tells jokes on stage. She is a co-producer of The Disabled List, a comedy show series featuring local comedians with disabilities. Kayla also co-produced This Is Spinal Injury, a documentary comedy about planning a comedy show during the pandemic. In her free time, Kayla likes to take down the patriarchy and walk her corgi, sometimes simultaneously.
Dan Hurwitz
Dan Hurwitz is a stand-up comedian who has been performing in Seattle since 2017. In 2018, he began co-producing The Disabled List, a monthly comedy show featuring local comedians with disabilities. He co-produced a film, This Is Spinal Injury, which just finished screening at Northwest Film Forum’s Local Sightings Film Festival . Dan was a semifinalist for the Standup NBC national comedy competition in 2018.
Also performing this week are Porscha Shaw, Parmida Ziaei, and Crip Riot. See their program here.
Return to the full Fall Festival: Making Waves lineup.
This event is sponsored by Crip Riot.