Lisa Gopman grew up in Ohio and shortly after her 18th birthday, headed to CA to attend the USC School of Dramatic Arts. She developed her own humorous college magazine column called “Sketchy Girl” while attending USC and was encouraged by her professors and friends to take her wacky life onto the standup stage. She has performed on Comedy Central’s Premium Blend, previously won Comedy Central’s Laugh Riots, was a featured comedian on MTV’s The Mandy Show, performed in Just For Laughs “New Faces,” the Boston Comedy Festival, North Carolina Comedy Festival, and in Comedy Central’s Get Up, Stand Up in Jamaica. 11 years ago Lisa co-founded Oh My Ribs! Entertainment in Hollywood where she produced and hosted a weekly Friday night standup show. Lisa teaches standup comedy and solo show workshops throughout the U.S. and abroad to all levels and ages of students. Lisa is very proud to have officially become a published author with a monologue featured in “LGBTQ Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny” and to more recently have an essay published in the Madonna anthology “Madonna Fans Do It Better.” Lisa’s original screenplay The List was selected as the Grand Prize Winner of The Second City’s Comedy Screenplay Contest. She is thrilled to currently be working on a fun new podcast called “Superfan” with comedian bestie Jackie Monahan. Lisa is a cervical cancer survivor and is passionate about sharing her cervical cancer story through her one woman show “Lisa Gopman and the Deep Cervix of Doom.” She is proud to be an ambassador for the nonprofit Cervivor that works to empower, educate, and eradicate cervical cancer.