About Alicia Dattner
Alicia Dattner's favorite thing to do is use humor to inspire people to see things in new light. She graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in filmmaking and screenwriting. She subsequently studied for four years in an intensive Method Acting and Diamond Heart Approach group with the Rob Reece Actors' Workshop.
In 2003, she had a weekly radio show on Pirate Cat Radio and hosted a weekly night of costumed karaoke at the Odeon Bar in San Francisco. In 2004, she started a circus called The Latest Show on Earth and toured the country. In 2006, she wrote the book, Getting Shit Done a poignant and existential parody of David Allen's time-management book Getting Things Done.
Alicia has been performing standup comedy for over ten years, sharing the stage with many funny, talented comics including Bill Santiago, Eugene Mirman, Arj Barker, Mary Van Note, Brent Weinbach, W. Kamau Bell, Vanda Mikoloski, Amy Stiller. Her first solo show, The Punchline won "Best of the Fringe" and in the San Francisco Fringe Festival 2008. Alicia's second solo comedy show, Eat, Pray, Laugh! is playing to sold out audiences in San Francisco, London, and Bombay.
She has performed at Cobb's Comedy Club and The Punch Line The Improv in San Francisco as well as the Knitting Factory in Hollywood, Gotham Comedy Club, and Ha Comedy Club in New York. Click here to see a full list of venues where she's performed.
In 2009, Alicia graduated from the year-long life coaching and courseleader training program, Transformational Courseleader Training, taught by Arete co-founder Guy Sengstock and Alexis Shepard. She is also graduate of The Arete Experience, The Spirit of Life Institute, and Authentic SF courses. Alicia has been a member of the professional Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor and the Creativity Coaching Association. She has a thriving coaching business and works mostly by Skype. Alicia lives in San Francisco, California and travels to India frequently. She practices, imperfectly, vipassana meditation, an experiential method of "seeing things as they really are."
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San Francisco stand up comedian Alicia Dattner creates humor that is edgy and confessional. Irreverent insight into the human condition is her specialty. Her outrageous stories and characters are packed with punchlines, and intersect themes of love, politics, truth, and modern culture. You can experience Alicia's insightful human comedy in Bay Area and San Francisco comedy clubs and across the country.
"Alicia Dattner is more exciting than your run-of-the-mill stand up comedian. She's likable and funny and very inventive on stage, but she doesn't stop there. Aside from being a hilarious comic, she's a successful filmmaker, a circus ringmaster, and a witty (and inspirational) writer, all wrapped up in a bundle of energy." -Robert Mac
Comedian, Winner of Comedy Central's Laugh Riots and 67th Funniest Comic in the US (according to a silly industry poll)
Alicia's got an endearingly subversive charm about her. Plus not only does she have it going on, she's got so much going on... the movie directing, the book writing, and she brings it all to that microphone. What I love about her stand up comedy is the way she takes you into her world and makes you see what's so hilarious about yours." -Bill Santiago
Comedian, Comedy Central Presents