Eunji Kim - Known Mother

What's better than a 5-7 minute stand up set from
Eunji Kim
?.. 30 minutes of Eunji Eunji! The Storefront is excited to welcome Eunji Kim to perform a long set at the historic space with her new special
Known Mother
.
The night will include featured sets from
Megan Brennan
,
Jessica Hong
, and hosted by
Sonal Aggarwal
!
Eunji Kim
is a comedian and writer based in Chicago. She is currently a Mercenary Writer for Cards Against Humanity and can be seen performing improv at iO Chicago (Lou Malnati's Presents: The Harold) and with her independent team Manny Mora at various theaters. You can also see her doing stand-up/solo sketch at Zanies, Paper Machete and Laugh Factory. She has been invited to perform at comedy festivals all over the Midwest, including The Chicago Improv Festival, The Chicago Women's Funny Festival, Chicago Sketchfest and the Detroit Improv Festival. She is a graduate of The Second City Conservatory and iO Chicago's Training Center. She was a 2017 Bob Curry Fellow at Second City and a featured performer in the 2017 NBC Universal Break Out Festival. KIM KONG:A Comedy Monster, her solo show at the Annoyance Theater was Reader Recommended and described by her mom as, "Oh, gawd." She also co-hosts The Ajumma Podcast (@AjummaShow) with fellow Chicago comedian/Korean, Peter Kim (@Peterkz). To learn other reasons she feels great about herself, follow her @TheBestEunji.
Megan Brennan
is a Chicago-based, queer comedian here to convince you that she is still the good Catholic girl she was raised to be. She has opened for DeAnne Smith (Netflix), regularly performs at Chicago Underground Comedy and the Laugh Factory and is a co-producer for The Kiki: Queer Comedy with Variety. Her comedy is always heartfelt and sincere with a touch of absurdity.
Jessica Hong
is a Seattle native and semi-recent Chicago transplant by way of New Orleans. She’s performed improv, sketch, musical comedy and stand-up at festivals like Limestone Comedy Festival (Bloomington), FunFunFun Fest (Austin), Let’s Fest (Ft.Wayne), and Memphis Comedy Festival. She’s about to start her third season as a cast member of the legendary Lincoln Lodge, the longest-running independent stand-up showcase in the nation, soon to be starting up its 20th season.
Sonal Aggarwal
is a stand up comedian, actor, writer and producer. Based in Chicago, she performs regularly at independently run shows, the Laugh Factory, Zanies, The Comedy Bar, and Second City. She was a semi-finalist in the NBC Break Out Comedy Fest. She is a producer of the comedy show, Congrats on Your Success, featured on the Netflix series ‘Easy.’ Her one woman show, ‘The Alchemy of Bliss,’ played for a sold out weekend at the Steppenwolf Theater. And she is a regular host of The Moth. Sonal is multi-lingual. She has toured in Mexico and Guatemala, performing comedy in Spanish. Before ever considering a career in comedy, Sonal was traveling the world as a fire dancer, an emcee, and a massage therapist. You can hear about the unexpected series of events that brought her to the world of stand up on her podcast, Rani Rage Radio.
What is
Live at The Storefront
?

Live at The Storefront
is a new series of stand up showcases produced and organized by The Storefront to give rising stand ups an opportunity to perform a longer set of their material in front of an energetic crowd and have the entire performance filmed as a special with creative input from the artists.
Who is The Storefront?
The Storefront is an exciting and growing comedy troupe established out of an abandoned storefront in the West Town neighborhood of Chicago, IL. We slowly built a repertoire along with our own fast-paced style, initially through shows produced out of the 50 seat underground theater and stage we built ourselves in what became known as “The Storefront”, and then cultivated that style with shows in many of Chicago’s premiere comedy theatre spaces. We became known to be like a “pickup basketball game of comedy” - hosting, featuring, and working with a variety of troupes and individuals throughout Chicago. We began developing unique shows and reviews in house such as our sketch review "Storefront Gets Sketchy", full-length shows of only blackouts, and our unique writing competition "Writer's Block".