Martha Chaves
The Firecracker Department - The Blaze Sessions Season 02
English - February 23, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 77.6 MBTV & Film Arts actor conversation creative filmmaker interview women womeninfilm Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Our guest this week is Toronto based award-winning comedian, actor, activist, emerging playwright and podcaster - MARTHA CHAVES!
Martha describes herself as, “the most famous LGBTQ-Nicaraguan-Canadian stand-up comic in the world.”
Martha first came to Montreal to study at Concordia University and when her student VISA expired she couldn’t return to Nicaragua to reunite with her family because they had to flee during the Contra War. She had to claim refugee status in Montreal and has been in Canada since.
Martha has two national comedy specials: CBC’s COMICS! and SOMETHING ABOUT MARTHA on the Comedy Network. She makes regular appearances on: CBC’s LAUGH OUT LOUD, the Just For Laughs Festival, Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and CBC’s THE DEBATERS. She’s also a regular on the hit CBC show, BECAUSE NEWS.
You may also recognize Martha on the big screen with Denzel Washington in JOHN Q, with Chris Rock in DOWN TO EARTH and with Fifty Cent in GET RICH OR DIE TRYING.
As an emerging playwright, Martha has written and performed several successful One Woman Shows like STAYING ALIVE and IN TIMES OF TROUBLE, featured in the Soulo Festival and the Aluna Theatre Festival in Toronto. AND she took THE DIARIES OF A YOUNG LEZBO to New York City’s SOLOCOM. Martha won Stand-up Comic of the Year at the 2018 Canadian Comedy Awards. Her album, CHUNKY SALSA, was featured among the 11 Best Comedy Albums of 2019 in Interrobang Magazine.
WHEN FEMINIST RULE THE WORLD is Martha’s podcast series where she talks to international feminist guests about the future that they are creating.
Twitter: @TheMarthaChaves
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WHEN FEMINIST RULE THE WORLD
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/when-feminists-rule-the-world/id1485407600
https://www.feministsruletheworld.com/
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