Molly Gaebe (she/her) is a comedian living in the not-dead New York City. She was a 2019 finalist and 2020 winner of The Laughter Lab, a competitive incubation lab and pitch program. She performs regularly in Ten Bones Theater Company’s ‘Entirely From Memory’ improvised movie series. She has coached many groups and performed on the Upright Citizens Brigade’s weekend improv team Women and Men. She is the co-host of the women’s history podcast, Nevertheless She Existed.
Molly is a writer and performer at Abortion Access Front (AAF), a reproductive rights organization that uses comedy to expose anti-choice extremist d-bags. With AAF, she goes on tour in the US putting on comedy shows for cities with independent abortion clinics. She been called many names by anti-abortion trolls, but her favorite had to be “nasty queer with no maternal instinct” because it was very very true and very very awesome. For the past 10 years, she has been an abortion doula to the stars. (Everyone who gets an abortion is a star in her book).
A bold comic powerhouse and dynamic comedy writer, Molly has performed her work all over the country. Molly has studied mime and commedia dell’arte in Italy and has trained at Second City, The iO Theater, Improv Asylum, Tisch School of the Arts, and has a BA in Theater and History from Wesleyan University.
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