Pig Minds Brewing Comedy Night

Saturday, June 25th, 2022
#FREE
Show starts at 7:30pm
Suggested to get there Early for Good Seating for the show.

Host: Michael Palmenderi
Guest Feature: Eric Fretty
Main Feature: Kathryn Gongaware
Headliner: Zako Ryan

Bio’s for the night:

Host Michael Palmenderi is a Rockford native. He’s a regular with Fats Productions Presents and has performed all over the Midwest, including Tom Foolery Fun Club, On the Fox Comedy Festival, and the Great Spirit Comedy Festival.

Guest Feature Eric Fretty ( Bio to come ),…

Main Feature Kathryn Gongaware is a standup comedian, actress, writer, and menace, sometimes in reverse order. She’s known for her sharp observational insight, dry delivery, and uniquely wild stories, many of which spring from her work teaching yoga in jail. Kathryn splits time between Los Angeles, Chicago, and the road, where she’s shared the stage with national headliners including Bill Dawes and Neel Nanda. Catch her locally at The Laugh Factory, Zanies and Comedy Bar. Follow her on IG / Twitter @kathryngong, where her mother suggests she is “undoing the work of generations of women before her”. (Alright, Diane.)

Headliner Zako Ryan is a world-traveling actor, and stand-up comedian born in Beaufort, South Carolina, bred in Toledo, Ohio, and resides in Chicago, Illinois. After military service and college, he thought, “what better way to exercise my Engineering degree than to dip my toes into stand-up comedy?”. Since then, he’s made people laugh in over 30 states and 4 countries, including stages of comedy royalty such as Laugh Factory, Improv, and Zanies Comedy Club. You’ll often find him overstepping to shed light on common daily occurrences. This southern charmer never asks for forgiveness while exposing his versions of the truth. Zako Ryan puts on a show appealing to any demographic setting aside cultural differences and finding common ground through laughter.