THURSDAY
JULY 10
PRIVATE EVENT
FRIDAY
JULY 11
RAY LAU
SOLD OUT
7:30 DOORS/ 8:00 SHOW
SECOND SHOW ADDED!
9:45 DOORS/ 10:00 SHOW
$25 ADV
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Ray Lau, an Asian-American stand up comedian from SoCal is headlining in Portland OR for the first time ever! Funny!!!!
Learn more about Ray HERE |
THURSDAY
JULY 17
**VISITING PRODUCTION**
ROY G BIV'S
QUEER COMEDY SHOW
7:30 DOORS/ 8:00 SHOW
$15 ADV
Visiting productions are non-Siren Theater productions and are original works created and produced by guest performers. These performances allow for complete creative freedom and the visiting producers have full control over all aspects of the event from ticketing to casting to show content . Any questions about these events should be sent to them directly.
FRIDAY
JULY 18
TOM HEARN- LIVE!
HOW FABULOUS IS THAT?!
7:30 DOORS/ 8:00 SHOW
$25 ADV/ $30 DOORS
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Tom brings his ICONIC impressions LIVE TO THE STAGE. Don’t miss Martha Stewart, Reba McEntire, Kody Brown, James Corden, and, of course, Ina & Jeffrey Garten—but How Fabulous is That?! has SO MUCH MORE! Packed with award-winning sketch comedy, cheeky innuendos, and show-stopping musical numbers! Over the last year Tom Hearn has dazzled audiences around the globe… Toronto, Chicago, Seattle, New York’s legendary Joe’s Pub, Montreal Sketchfest (winning the JFL Award), a 22-show run at the Edinburgh Fringe, earning 5-star reviews and now Portland!
With 565K+ followers and 150M views, Tom (@isthattomhearn) is redefining queer comedy. “Tom Hearn’s werk is the next chapter of Queer comedians who have always blazed a trail of mirror ball light into the ugliest of times” - (The Interrobang). “His own personal brand of camp” - (Mumble Comedy). |
SATURDAY
JULY 19
TIM MURRAY & MICHAEL HENRY
7:30 DOORS/ 8:00 SHOW
$20 ADV/ $25 DOORS
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Stand-up comedians, viral sketch comedy queens and internationally homosexual performers Tim Murray (The Other Two / HBO Max) and Michael Henry (60 million YouTube views / Queerty award-winner) bring their gay ass comedy show BACK to Portland for 1 night only! Having slayed it in front of sold-out audiences in Chicago, New York, Austin, Louisville (Louisville!), Columbus, DC, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and L.A.
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THURSDAY JULY 24
FRIDAY JULY 25
SATURDAY JULY 26
THE 7TH ANNUAL
PORTLAND SKETCH COMEDY FESTIVAL
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The Portland Sketch Comedy* Festival is BACK for its 7th year! Sketch comedy troupes and performers from all over North America descend on The Siren Theater for three glorious nights , and IT IS A BLAST. Featuring performances from Toronto (Canada!), NYC, Seattle, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Columbus, OH and of course Portland! This is the only Portland comedy festival dedicated solely to sketch comedy!
Single show tickets, night passes and festival passes available! *Sketch comedy: short, scripted scenes or "sketches" typically featuring anywhere from 1-12 people whose intention is to amuse. Think Saturday Night Live, Black Lady Sketch Show, I Think You Should Leave |
WEDNESDAY
JULY 30
KARI ASSAD &
ALEXIS BRADBY
7:30 DOORS/ 8:00 SHOW
$15 ADV/ $20 DOORS
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Comedians Kari Assad (Netflix is a Joke) & Alexis Bradby (LMAOF) are bringing their high energy comedy and loveable personalities to The Siren Theater for one night of unbridled co-headlining. Two BIPOC womxn with wild antics and even wilder stories. Buckle up for a hilarious, thought provoking and probably chaotic night with these human golden retrievers. They’ll see you there, assuming they can find the place.
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THURSDAY
JULY 31
KALEA MCNEILL
7:30 DOORS/ 8:00 SHOW
$25 ADV/ $30 DOORS
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Kalea McNeill is an actor/standup comedian from the Bay Area. She was named a JFL New Face in 2022, has appeared on Don't Tell Comedy, Comedy Central, Netflix is a Joke Festival, the LMAOF Comedy Series, and has headlined around the country in addition to opening for Punkie Johnson, Jessimae Peluso, Gina Yashere, George Wallace. Her Grammy-considered debut comedy special, Sma'am, is currently streaming on Amazon Prime.
As an actor, she is most known for her recurring character "Hanifa Downey" on CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, but has also been seen on The Prank Panel on ABC, S.W.A.T. on CBS, Baskets on FX, Criminal Minds on Paramount +, and Animal Kingdom on TNT and a major role in the current Geico football commercial. |
FRIDAY
AUGUST 1
DANIEL VAN KIRK
7:30 DOORS/ 8:00 SHOW
$20 ADV/ $25 DOORS
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Stand up comedian Daniel Van Kirk is coming to Portland!
You may have heard him as a voice on Bob’s Burgers, or know him from the shows Physical, and The Morning Show on Apple TV+, or maybe his hit podcasts, Dumb People Town and Pen Pals! Daniel Van Kirk's first comedy album “Thanks Diane” debuted at #1 on Apple Music and in 2024 he released his first comedy special, “Rose Gold”, which has over 100k views on YouTube. He has been named a “Comic To Watch” by Comedy Central and you may have seen him as the lead in the feature film, Wine Club (Prime). Daniel has performed and headlined at the top festivals in North America, including The Moontower Comedy Festival, 10,000 Laughs, JFL 42, and JFL Montreal. |
SATURDAY
AUGUST 16
ALI SULTAN
7:30 DOORS/ 8:00 SHOW
$20 ADV/ $25 DOORS
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Ali Sultan is a Yemeni-Ethiopian immigrant. His comedy can be seen on Comedy Central, Donttell and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He filmed his Half Hour comedy special in Dubai for Comedy Central Arabia and won the Best in The Midwest competition at Gildas LaughFest. His Drybar special has over 1.6 million views on YouTube. He can be seen on the new PBS Roots of Comedy series.
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SATURDAY
AUGUST 30
KIRAN DEOL
7:30 DOORS/ 8:00 SHOW
$25 ADV/ $30 DOORS
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ONE OF ELEVEN ASIAN AMERICAN COMICS WHO KILLED IT…AND NEED TO BE ON YOUR RADAR.” Entertainment Weekly
An Emmy nominated and Oscar shortlisted storyteller, Kiran Deol’s first special, Joysuck, can now be streamed on Amazon. She is a stand-up comedian who has headlined the New York Comedy Festival, the Kennedy Center, San Francisco Sketchfest, and is hot off a run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which the Guardian called "Engrossing...we get charisma and technical prowess from Deol.” She is the lead actor in Didn’t Die, an official 2025 Sundance Film Selection, starred on the NBC/Hulu comedy Sunnyside from Mike Schur and Kal Penn, in addition to other shows like How to Get Away with Murder and Modern Family.“ SEE HER BEFORE SHE GETS SO ASTONISHINGLY FAMOUS SHE’LL BE IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE.” -Bitch Media |
FRIDAY
SEPTEMBER 5
SOLOMON GEORGIO
7:30 DOORS/ 8:00 SHOW
$20 ADV
SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 6
LIZ BLANC
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RICCI ARMANI
7:30 DOORS/ 8:00 SHOW
$25 ADV
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RICCI ARMANI
Ricci Armani, is a stand up comedian, writer and show producer. Ricci is the creator and co-host of the monthly sold out show in Seattle and at The Comedy Store in LA “My Straight Friends”. He has performed all over the country headlining and opening for names like Joe Dombrowski and Natasha Leggero. He has featured in comedy festivals including New York Comedy Festival, Portland’s RIP City Fest, Seattle’s Upper Left and New Mexico’s Cloudtop Comedy Festival. Ricci Armani is quickly making his way up the comedy ladder and has a “Star Quality” according to the Seattle Stranger. LIZ BLANC Liz Blanc is a Los Angeles-based comedian known for relatable takes on her awkward experiences teaching high school, dating, and beyond. She has worked with many nationally touring headliners, including Sasheer Zamata, Taylor Tomlinson, and Joe List. Liz has also been featured in numerous comedy festivals and was named a 2023 Just for Laughs New Face of Comedy. Clips from her December 2022 Don’t Tell Comedy set have amassed millions of views across TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram. Liz can be heard on SiriusXM and her podcast, A Comedian and a Scholar. |
SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 13
NATO GREEN
7:30 DOORS/ 8:00 SHOW
$22 ADV
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Nato Green
In the Darkest Hour An evening of the most political standup comedy San Francisco-based Nato Green is the country's only semifunctional hybrid of standup comedian and union organizer. He will be bringing his new hour of political comedy to The Siren Theater! Nato starred along with W. Kamau Bell and Janine Brito in the streaming series Laughter Against the Machine on Means.tv, the first worker-owned post-capitalist streaming platform. He also appears regularly doing political comedy chat on the podcasts The Bugle and The Bitchuation Room. Nato Green released his second comedy album The Whiteness Album on Blonde Medicine Records, and appeared in the film Sorry to Bother You. The Whiteness Album was named by the NPR show Bullseye with Jesse Thorn one of the best comedy albums of 2018. Nato wrote for Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell on FX, the show that the New York Times called “five years ahead of its time." His standup clips on instagram have gotten millions of views. Nato’s writing has appeared in the LA Review of Books, the San Francisco Examiner, In These Times, VICE, Truthdig, Huffington Post, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Rumpus, and The Bold Italic. Nato has been named San Francisco’s Best Comedian by the SF Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, Huffington Post, SFist, and CBS. His comedy has been featured in Audible Comedy Originals including the Comedy Show Show, the Guest List, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Sounds Like America. He's also a union organizer and negotiator. One time the Episcopal Archbishop called him the antichrist. |
WEDNESDAY
OCTOBER 1
GEORGE CIVERIS
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SAM TAGGART
7:00 DOORS/ 7:30 SHOW
$20 ADV
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Join StraightioLab co-hosts and intellectual gay guys George Civeris and Sam Taggart as they return to the only true art form left: standup comedy. Yes, they're co-headlining a night of comedy that is sure to include astute observations, biting commentary, and perhaps even mild self-reflection (on your part - not theirs).
George Civeris is a standup comedian and writer based in New York. According to the American media apparatus, he is "known for his monster wit and broad palate" (Nylon) while his comedy "collapses the divide between high art and low" (Vulture). He was named one of the New Faces of Comedy by the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival and most recently one of Vulture's "Comedians You Should and Will Know in 2024." He has written for projects on Comedy Central, FOX, and the BBC, and recently spent two years as a senior editor at the reboot of Gawker. He co-hosts two iHeart podcasts: StraightioLab, which was named the #1 comedy podcast of 2022 by New York Magazine, and The United States of Kennedy, an upcoming pop-culture history show about our enduring obsession with the Kennedy family. Sam Taggart is currently based in LA. Originally a Brooklyn-based queer comedian, actor and writer, Sam is currently writing on After Midnight for CBS. Most recently, Sam was a writer on the critically acclaimed Showtime/A24 series ZIWE is co-host of the Big Money Players podcasts StraightioLab. He can be seen in the upcoming series FANTASMAS opposite Julio Torres, Los Espookys, Search Party, ZIWE, and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. He voiced and created an original animated feature MILLENNIAL HUNTER. Sam was selected as a member of the Comedy Central Digital Creators Program in 2020, he performed at Comedy Central's Clusterfest as part of their UpNext showcase, and was named one of Vulture’s Comics You Should and Will Know in 2021. |
SUNDAY
OCTOBER 5
JASON SALMON
7:00 DOORS/ 7:30 SHOW
$20 ADV
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Jason Salmon is a Texas born, NYC based standup whose comedy has been described as “…like getting the best advice you’ve ever gotten…from the dumbest guy you know.”
He’s headlined throughout the US & performed for the troops in Central America, Europe, Greenland and Afghanistan. His most recent comedy special BISCUITS and GRAVitY is now streaming on YouTube and his two albums are both available wherever you get music & comedy. He has been featured in Orange is the New Black, Red Dead Redemption 2, 30 Rock, Amy Sedaris, and on Comedy central. His Another Weird Week wrap ups have gained notoriety on all the social medias, but his unique brand of whimsical kindness is still most suited to a campfire. |
MONDAY
OCTOBER 6
ZACH ZIMMERMAN
7:00 DOORS/ 7:30 SHOW
$20 ADV
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Zach Zimmerman is a stand-up comedian, TV writer, author, and friend. Zach's first comedy special “Surprise Me" was named a Vulture Comedy Special You Should Definitely Watch, and their first book, “Is It Hot in Here? (Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?),” was named a Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2023. Zimmerman’s humor pieces and essays have been published by McSweeney’s, Vulture, The Washington Post and The New Yorker. Zimmerman has appeared on The Late Late Show (RIP), After Midnight (RIP), and wrote for Peacock’s Love Undercover (RIP).
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FRIDAY
NOVEMBER 7
THE DOSE:
A Psychedelic Comedy Experience
7:30 DOORS/8:00 SHOW
$22 ADV
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A mind-bending journey of experimentation, laughter, and healing. Set in a vibrant and surreal venue, THE DOSE is a fully immersive psychedelic experience featuring a carefully curated line-up of some of the best comedians in the country (seen on HBO, Comedy Central, Late Night, Netflix, Don't Tell, and more!)
At THE DOSE we facilitate the perfect set and setting for both the comedians and the audience to find the funny within their expanding minds. Our Master of Ceremonies and creator of THE DOSE is Steven Gillespie (CONAN, AMAZON PRIME), a nationally touring stand-up comedian and a psychedelic connoisseur. Take a trip with us as we transcend the ordinary, dance on the edges of perception, and explore the healing properties of our boundless imaginations. WE ALSO HAVE A HOUSE DJ THAT PLAYS BEFORE, DURING, and sometimes even AFTER THE SHOW! The pre-show DJ set is fire, come early and catch a vibe. |
SATURDAY
NOVEMBER 8
JACKIE KASHIAN
6:30 DOORS/ 7:00 SHOW
$25 GA/ $35 VIP
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Jackie Kashian films her new special at The Siren Theater!
Welcome to the filming and recording of the new hour of standup by Jackie Kashian (HBO, Late Shows, After Midnight). The first hour was called Stay-Kashian, released right after Covid lockdown. You probably get why it was called that. This one is called Alter-Kashian because she lives in the United States. |
GENERAL SHOW INFORMATION
The Siren is all ages but not all show content is. Please use your own discretion when bringing a younger audience member. Most shows are appropriate for those 18+.
Please refrain from taking pictures or video during performances, unless you have been asked to do so. It's distracting to the performers and we just want to be in the moment with you!
The Siren is a NO HECKLING ZONE. Please don't talk to any performer unless they address you first. Thanks!
Advanced online ticketing ends 1-2 hours before start of show, then tickets are sold at the box office beginning when doors open for shows that are not sold out online. Advanced tickets are typically cheaper than tickets purchased at the door.
Shows that are labeled "Visiting Productions" are not produced by The Siren Theater. These shows are from outside performers and producers who rent The Siren for their production. They have full control over ticketing, show content and production value. Questions about their shows should be directed to them.
Tickets are nontransferable and nonrefundable.
Doors open 30-45 minutes before start of show.
Please refrain from taking pictures or video during performances, unless you have been asked to do so. It's distracting to the performers and we just want to be in the moment with you!
The Siren is a NO HECKLING ZONE. Please don't talk to any performer unless they address you first. Thanks!
Advanced online ticketing ends 1-2 hours before start of show, then tickets are sold at the box office beginning when doors open for shows that are not sold out online. Advanced tickets are typically cheaper than tickets purchased at the door.
Shows that are labeled "Visiting Productions" are not produced by The Siren Theater. These shows are from outside performers and producers who rent The Siren for their production. They have full control over ticketing, show content and production value. Questions about their shows should be directed to them.
Tickets are nontransferable and nonrefundable.
Doors open 30-45 minutes before start of show.