Katie Goodman, along with her husband Soren Kisiel (author of The Karens), are the co-authors and co-directors of Broad Comedy, an internationally touring, award-winning, all-women sketch comedy and political satire troupe headlined by Katie, which has garnered millions of views online, run Off-Broadway, been showcased at Caroline’s Comedy Club in Times Square, won the Pick-of-the-Fringe Award at the Vancouver Fringe Festival, and was listed as one of the top ten sketch troupes at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Broad Comedy has been touring the USA for the last 20 years, and has raised over $2,250,000 for progressive feminist causes through their comedy shows. Katie has been seen on Showtime’s The Green Room With Paul Provenza, and Impractical Jokers (and yes, she was in on the joke). Katie and Soren were nominated for the White House Project’s Emerging Artists Award, and for the MacArthur Foundation's Fellowship for their unique work in theater. www.katiegoodman.com

Soren Kisiel (writer) is the co-author/director of Broad Comedy, an internationally-touring all-women sketch comedy and musical satire troupe written with his wife comedian Katie Goodman, named a Time Out New York Critics’ Pick for their Off-Broadway run at New York City's SoHo Playhouse. He is the librettist of an original, non-Japan-based adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado which London’s Opera Now magazine called “ingenuously written and hilariously funny,” and the children’s books The Night Our Parents Went Out and Once Upon a Tree. Soren has a second-degree blackbelt in taekwondo, and is ordained in the Plum Village Zen Buddhist tradition, which means he could kick your butt if he wasn’t so darned peaceful. www.sorenkisiel.com