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Kelli Dunham to Bring LEAK OF FAITH to Sparks Arts This May

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Brooklyn's favorite ex-nun genderqueer nurse author nerd comic is in town for one night only (5.6 at 7 pm) and has hella stories to tell about the Lord's Boot Camp, an exploding knee replacement and the neverending search for a gender friendly bathroom. New York podcast superstar Katrina Goodlet and Bay Area favorite Red Durkin open!

The venue-- Sparks Arts--is located at 4229 18th Street, San Francisco, tickets available exclusively through Eventbrite.

Kelli Dunham has appeared on Showtime and the Discovery Channel and nationwide at colleges, prides, fundraisers, and even the occasional livestock auction. Kelli's comedy CDs (including "I am NOT a 12 Year Old Boy,"" Why Is the Fat Always One Angry" and "Almost Pretty") are on regular rotation on Sirius Satellite Radio's Rawdog Comedy Station. Kelli is the founder and producer of ORGAN RECITAL an annual week long festival of stories about bodies health and healthcare and was a 2015 White House Champion of Change nominee for her work as the co-founder of the very earnest storytelling series Queer Memoir.

Kelli is an RN and has written seven books of humorous non-fiction, including two children's books being used by Sonlight conservative home schooling association in their science curriculum. You may have also seen Kellis unique humorously concerned voice in articles on XOJane, Refinery29, The New Republic, Thought Catalog, Autostraddle and the NPR Health Blog. She has also appeared at the Cinder Block Comedy Festival and this year's Women in Comedy National Festival. Kelli debuted a show called CAT Talks: Ideas Worth Shedding, a feline based TED talk parody at last year's Solocom. No one was quite sure whether to laugh or cry.

Kitty Bella has performed her firebrand style of comedy at Nuyorican Poets cafe, QED, The University of Albany and BAAD (Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance). She has also been featured and or appeared in Huffington Post, Mtv.com, Pix 11 morning news and more. Katrina is the creator and host of the Kitty Bella podcast on Blog Talk Radio where she has interviewed many notable Trans people including Laverne Cox and TS Madison.

Red Durkin has toured extensively as part of the T- Roadshow, performed at Camp Trans and the Transgender Leadership Summit and was a member of the Fully Functional Cabaret. She has written 9 zines, was featured in the final issue of Punk Planet magazine and Topside Press's The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard.Her work on Youtube has reach over 100,000 views and has appeared in classrooms and boardrooms nationwide.

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