About Us
We are passionate about creating, elevating, and celebrating the joyful, diverse, and progressive spirit of the DC area and use humor as a tool for truth-telling, joy-making, and resistance.
Just Kidding Comedy Collective (JKCC) is the brainchild of Dana Fleitman and Reem Seliem, two DC-area comedians/producers by night and professional do-gooders by day. Reem has moved on to other projects while Dana works with Incubator alumns to keep growing JKCC!
Our goal is to create spaces for community and laughter that both delight actual locals and make the MAGA crowd so deeply uncomfortable that they leave.
This is a new initiative that we hope will evolve - so stay tuned! At this time, we plan to focus on:
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Very funny shows with a (non-exclusive) focus on gender diversity.
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Classes to empower people who are not cis men to pick up the mic.
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Raising funds, resources, and/or awareness for local organizations doing great work.
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Collaborating (rather than competing) with the incredible comedy and arts scene that already makes the DMV so beautiful.
Meet Dana
Dana Fleitman is a Washington, D.C. area comedienne who brings laughter to the joyless masses of our nation’s capital through her imaginative over-analysis of everyday life. Clever and sarcastic, Dana will merrily pontificate on groundbreaking and original topics like her pug, driving, and eating. Dana comes from a nonprofit background and is excited to lend her voice to less important issues.
Dana is the regular host of PUN DMV (the DC Improv's quarterly pun contest) and created the Standup Comedy Incubator for Underrepresented Genders, an original program empowering new and aspiring non-male comedians to pick up the mic. She's opened for touring comedians including Paul Virzi and Bengt Washburn, joined Zach Sherwin on The Crossword Show, and has performed at the Comedy Loft, Howard Theatre, Arch City Comedy Festival, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Word Museum, and She Devil Comedy Festival.
