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Kendra Cunningham

Kendra Cunningham

Boston bred and Brooklyn based, Kendra Cunningham has been named as a
comic to watch by Time Out New York and has been compared to Groucho Marx
and Mae West by the UK’s Chortle. A regular on the New York and Boston
comedy scene, she has previously been in the Montreal Just for Laughs
Festival, The Glasgow Comedy Festival, and was a finalist in the Boston
Comedy Festival for two years in a row. She has twice appeared on NBC’s
Last Comic Standing gaining two spots in the top 100 jokes of the season.
Here solo show “This Could be You” had a 7 show sold out run at Don’t Tell
Mama. She founded Malarkey Pictures along with her sketch partner, Vicky
Kuperman and went on to produce dozens of short films including the
AwardWinning short “LonelyGirl48”, which they turned into a web series
that went on to win festivals along with the web series “Why Is Everybody
Always Hitting On Me”. Their festival wins and screenings include Boston
Comedy Festival, Palm Beach International, SENE, St Louis Film Festivaland
Boston Film Festival.  Kendra’s latest solo projects include a pilot
“Swagger” ,an unscripted show “I’m Not Buying It” and a mock meditation
series “Spiteful Meditations”. Her collaborative short with Sean Cassels,
“Neighborhood Network” screened in the Nice International Film Festival in
2018. Her mock daytime TV talk show host series, Kitty, is screening in
the Broad Humor Film Festival August 2019 as well as The Dawns, which she
co wrote with fellow stand up comic, Leah Bonnema.

Her first comedy special “On My Best Behavior” was released by DryBar
comedy in 2018. Her debut album, Blonde Logic, was released in 2016 by
Rooftop Comedy and in 2017, Blonde Logic a book of comedic essays was
released on Kindle. Her second album “Less Bitter, More Glitter” will be
released in October 2019 through 800 Pound Gorilla. She recently started
an interview style podcast “How’s Your Mother?”

Kendra’s comedic goal is to get paid to write from her bed where she eats,
sleeps, and occasionally entertains.

www.kendracunningham.com
Twitter: @theotherkendra
Instagram: @theotherkendra

 

Kitty

Spiteful Meditations