LITERARY ARTISTS

  • Clare Belford is a comedian and a very nice person. Born and raised in the most blue-collar parts of oil-country Alberta, she cut her teeth early on by forcibly telling deeply personal jokes about womanhood to drunk tradesmen.

    Clare currently writes for CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and her debut album, The Entire Cabbage was named one of the Best of 2021 by Bullseye on NPR.

  • Pat Dussault is an award-winning comedy writer whose credits include Just for Laughs, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, The Beaverton, The MMVAs and The Canadian Screen Awards. 

    He has written jokes, sketches, and monologues for comics and celebrities including Jay Baruchel, Seth Rogen, Chevy Chase, Jim Gaffigan, Nikki Glaser, Jimmy Carr, Iliza Schlesinger, Caroline Rhea, Anthony Jeselnik, Anthony Anderson and Lily Singh.

  • Courtney Gilmour is a JUNO nominated comedian, writer and finalist on Canada’s Got Talent. She's written forThis Hour Has 22 Minutes, CBC’s The Debaters, Roast Battles Canada and Humour Resources alongside Jon Dore and Sarah Silverman.

  • Bria Hiebert is a Toronto-based writer, actor and comedian. She’s performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Just for Laughs Toronto and New York Comedy Festival.

     Bria Hiebert was the 2018 recipient of the Brian Linehan Comedy Writing and Performance Award for Outstanding Artistic Promise and received the Tim Sims Encouragement Award in 2019.

  • Originally from Scarborough, Ontario, Dena Jackson’s writing has been featured on the CBC and the Beaverton. She holds certifications in both yoga and mindfulness instruction and has taken a comedic approach for multiple national print campaigns on mindfulness.

  • Jay Wells L’Ecuyer is an award-winning comedian who’s optioned two full-length screenplays and written for network television. His short films were selected at The New York Short Film Festival and won the Audience Choice Award at the New York No Limits Fest.

  • Eytan Millstone is an award-winning writer and comedian. In 2004 he was a runner up in the Toronto Star Short Story Contest and published in a Star that summer. He was the 2011 Toronto Poetry Slam Grand Champion and represented Toronto in National Poetry Slams in Canada and the US.

    In 2014 he gave a TED Talk at The Crescent School on the African word “Sankofa”. He has multiple projects in development, including several TV show and movie scripts, as well as a memoir being shopped around to publishers. He currently resides in Brooklyn.

  • Forrest became a stand-up comic after a decade of life as a marine biologist. He’s performed on Conan and Live at Gotham as well as numerous festivals including Netflix Is A Joke, Just For Laughs Montreal, Comedy Central's Clusterfest, Bridgetown, The Boston Comedy Festival, Comedy Central's South Beach Comedy Festival and the Moontower Comedy Festival.

    In 2018 his debut stand-up special ‘Poor Decisions’ was released on Amazon Prime.