(Courtesy of Black Box Studios) J-Sketch, in association with Black Box Studios, presents the first installment of StandUp in the Suburbs featuring six New Jersey- and New New York-based comedians on Wednesday, January 31 at 8 p.m. at Debonair Music Hall, 1409 Queen Anne Road, Teaneck NJ 07666. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and tickets, $36 plus $12 per-person bar minimum, are available now at www.debonairmusichall.com.
Liz Glazer is a comedian who used to be a tenured law professor. She won the Boston Comedy Festival and Ladies of Laughter competitions. She’s been on “The Blacklist” on NBC, “BULL” on CBS, and “For Life” on ABC. She grew up in Bergen County and went to Moriah and Ramaz, and probably knows someone you went to camp with.
Mikey Greenblatt has performed all over the country. He is one third of the popular Jewish comedy group J-Sketch and won the New York City Shenanigans comedy competition, and recently completed a European tour. He uses a mix of religious and secular humor to form a unique brand of comedy.
Ami Kozak is a comedian, musician and impressionist. His online videos have taken social media by storm, amassing millions of views on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter. He has been featured on Sky News and The Daily Wire, as well as numerous high-profile news segments and podcasts. His live show combines standup, hilarious impressions, songs and live looping. Today, you can catch Kozak entertaining across the country, performing at clubs, festivals and special events.
Eli Lebowicz is a very Jewish comedian who started performing while he was a student at Yeshiva University. Since then, he has performed standup in communities all over the U.S., telling jokes to Jews at synagogue dinners, Passover programs and other times they’re eating. He opens for Elon Gold regularly and was featured in The Chosen Comedy Festival in 2023.
Ashley Austin Morris is an actor, comedian and writer. Ashley currently plays Roxanne Hertz opposite Jesse Eisenberg and Claire Danes in FX’s “Fleishman Is In Trouble” and can be seen as Nicole in the hit Shonda Rhimes series “Inventing Anna” and Debbie in Peacock’s “Perfect Match” opposite Natasha Lyonne. Morris’ comedy album “Slightly Off” debuted at No. 1 on the iTunes Charts and continues to perform well. She can be seen regularly at New York Comedy Club, Gotham Comedy Club, Stand Up NY, and many more clubs and theaters across the country. Her standup has been featured on AXS TV’s “Gotham Comedy Live.”
Dovi Neuburger is a New York City- based comic and producer. He plays at many of the top comedy clubs in Manhattan and produces live comedy shows tailored to Jewish audiences around the country. Neuburger founded and produces the StandUp for Israel Comedy Tour, which brings Jewish and pro-Israel comedians into various communities to promote Jewish unity and raise money for Israeli families suffering from the October 7 massacre. He is the co-host of the popular podcast “Mislaibeled” and a dropout of the formerly popular NYU School of Law.
Now in residence at Debonair Music Hall, Black Box Studios has provided collaborative performing arts education and live events—often of special interest to Jewish communities—in Teaneck, Englewood, and NYC for many years. BBS works in tandem with The Black Box PAC, also at Debonair, which incubates new and under-produced theater and film from world-class artists including Eric Bogosian, Craig Lucas, Daniel Handler, Ken Levine, Paul Schrader, Beth Henley, Neil LaBute, and The Estates of Sam Shepard, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Edward Albee. For further information, please call (201) 569-2070 or email [email protected].
