Kambri Crews
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Kambri Crews is an American comedic storyteller and writer based in New York City. Crews has performed at most of NYC's top indie comedy venues, including the Comix Comedy Club, Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, The Peoples Improv Theater, Rififi, Ochi's Lounge, The Slipper Room, The Bitter End, and Lolita Bar; and at such shows at Seth Herzog's Sweet, UCBT's School Night, Liam McEneaney's Tell Your Friends, Speakeasy: Tales from the Back Room, The Moth, and the NY/LA comedy show Mortified.
In addition, Crews tells stories at the weekly Manhattan comedy show Family Hour hosted by MTV correspondent Sara Benincasa and held at comedy venue Ochi's Lounge.
Crews was spotlighted as a top comedy choice in the May 30, 2008 edition of Time Out New York, which called her an "emerging monologist." Crews has also been referred to as a "world class storyteller" by the website HyReviews.com, which covers NYC comedy and theatre.
Crews' tales typically focus on her childhood in the deep woods of Montgomery, Texas, where she grew up in poverty—living arrangments ranged from a tin shed to a trailer to a barn. Most prominent in the stories is her father, who was the seventh of 10 children of farmers, born completely deaf, and "quickly became the black sheep of his very strict Christian family." He was arrested for the attempted murder of his girlfriend.[1] ; an act for which he's currently serving a 20 year sentence in a Texas prison. Crews provides updates about her father in her blog LoveDaddy.org, and an essay about her childhood was published by Hillary Carlip on FreshYarn.com.
As a CODA, Crews' storytelling is notable for mixing conventional monologues with the use of American Sign Language; and for finding the humor in even the most hair-raising of childhood memories.
Crews is currently writing a book that includes prose versions of many of her performance pieces.
External links
- Crews' personal website
- Crews' website about her jailed deaf father
- MetroMix news report on The Family Hour
- FreshYarn.com essay by Crews
- ^ | title = Boyfriend Jailed in Knife Attack by Domingo Ramirez, Jr. | publisher = Ft. Worth Star Telegram | url = http://www.star-telegram.com | accessdate = 2002-06-29