Music
Press
Labeled the Comic Princess by Provincetown Magazine.
Michele a quick-witted, brash New Yorker, has enjoyed tremendous success over the years as a professional comedian. She has headlined with such performers as Nell Carter, Wynonna Judd, CeCe Penniston, Jennifer Holliday, Bruce Vilanch, Kathy Najimy and more! Michele performs for both straight & gay audiences. She refers to herself as “bi-comical”!
Other performances and credits include:
• Comedy Central, USA Network, Lifetime TV, LOGO
• Performed at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal
• Performs all over the country in Theaters and many premium comedy clubs (from Caroline’s On Broadway to The L.A. Improv)
• Recently released her DVD entitled LIVE! Just Barely...Recorded at the famous Joe’s Pub of the public theater in NYC
• Has a CD entitled “Neurotic by Nature” which was recorded at the LA Improv and includes her friend Nell Carter singing a song parody written by Michele
• Writes comedy for magazines and performers (recently for Leslie Gore’s 2005 show)
• Aspen Ski week (she headlined with Bruce Vilanch)
• Women’s Music Festivals (such as Michigan, National, Southern, Alaska, etc.)
• Cruises (RSVP, Womynfest, Aquafest, Olivia)
• AIDS fundraisers and other charity events
• A regular favorite in Provincetown
• Host of many Human Rights Campaign dinners and other prestigious fundraising events
• This bullet reserved for my sitcom “Everybody Loves Michele!”
- Redwood Entertainment
Discography
Neurotic By Nature-CD
Live! (Just Barely) from Joe's Pub-DVD
Photos
Bio
Michele Balan was one of the four finalists on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing,” and she is “The Last Women Comic….”
Voted one of the “Top 10 Comics” by Backstage Magazine in 2004, Michele Balan is a brash, New York Stand-up comedian who has performed on Comedy Central as well as in top comedy clubs, theatres, festivals and on cruises all over the country.
Often told she was naturally funny, the Brooklyn native left a high-paying executive position at a computer company to pursue comedy – even though comedy has never proved as lucrative – and she has been performing ever since.
She got her start as a “Female female-impersonator,” doing lip sync impressions of Bette Midler. Now people tell her she is like a “Female George Burns with many one-liners.” Michele’s career hast taken her from The Improv in Los Angeles to Caroline’s on Broadway in New York City, and from the Montreal “Just For Laughs Festival” to the “Dinah Shore Women’s Weekend.”
Michele has shared the stage with Kathy Najimy, Jennifer Holiday, Taylor Dayne, Harvey Fierstein, Bruce Vilanch and Nell Carter. In 1999 she recorded a CD at The Improv in Los Angeles which features Nell Carter singing a song parody that Michele wrote.
Michele recently recorded the critically acclaimed DVD entitled “LIVE, Just Barely” at the famed Joe’s Pub, home to the public theatre and performers like Joan Rivers, Eartha Kitt and Leslie Gore, for who she just wrote a comedy segment.
Links
