Dana Goldberg
″I was the youngest child in a single-parent household run by a Jewish mother in which two out of the three kids are gay. I´m not sure I had much of a choice but to go into comedy,″ laughs Dana Goldberg. Since 2003, she´s been mining her rich trove of familial experience to get audiences giggling from Albuquerque to New York to Edinburgh. Goldberg performed as part of the U.S. Comedy Invasion at the world-famous Fringe Festival in Scotland; closer to home, she was a finalist at the Wendy´s Good Taste Comedy Challenge produced by HBO and TBS, and performed at the exclusive San Francisco International Comedy Competition. More recently, Goldberg starred in her comedy special, One Night Stand Up: Episode 4 on LOGO, and began headlining at clubs like the Laugh Factory and L.A. Improv. Perhaps most importantly, Goldberg uses her talent for great causes. ″I´m grateful to be able to have a voice in our community to reach mass audiences through my humor. Over the last four years I´ve helped to raise almost two million dollars for the Human Rights Campaign,″ Goldberg says proudly. ″It feels good to be part of that change, and my comedy has given me an avenue to do so.″ -KL
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