Katie Halper

• Website: http://Katiehalper.com
• Biography: Raised on the mean streets of New York City's Upper West Side, Katie Halper is a comic, writer, blogger, satirist and filmmaker based in New York. Katie co-founded Laughing Liberally, a political comedy collective that performs around the country, and is an artistic director of The Tank, a non-profit performing and visual arts space in Manhattan. Katie performs comedy throughout the country and can be seen at venues including Town Hall, Symphony Space, and The Culture Project in New York, and at NetRoots Nation (the Convention formerly known as Yearly Kos). Katie has performed with Lizz Winstead, The Yes Men, and Jim Hightower. Katie's political satire appears regularly on the front pages of the Huffington Post, Alternet, Open Life, Working Life, Culture Kitchen, 23/6, and Participant Production's Social Action and media website Takepart.com. Most recently, Katie has started writing a humor column for the journal the Progressive Populist . Katie's comic essay on secular Judaism was published by J Books and Secular Culture & Ideas in their memoirs issue. Katie has been interviewed or featured in the LA Times, In These Times, Air America, The Sam Seder Show, The Mark Maron show, Laura Flanders' GritTV, WBAI, Sirius Radio, and XM radio POTUS (whose host hung up on Katie after she mentioned the media's silence over a certain McCain incident involving "the C word.") Katie's award-winning documentary, La memoria es vaga, about historical memory in Spain, has been screened throughout Spain and the U.S. Katie is currently editing her next documentary Another Camp is Possible a documentary about a social justice summer camp, Camp Kinderland, which she, along with her mother and grandmother, attended. The film focuses on The World Peace Olympics, the camp's version of Color Wars.
• Specialty: Politics

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