Comedy legend, language speaker, pot maker, FORMER pot smoker, skilled toka player – Teresa Choyguha has done it all. Winner of Best Actress at Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival for her role in the film, “More Than Frybread,” Teresa Choyguha is no stranger to comedy. After winning a joke contest hosted by Arizona Indian Tourism Association, Teresa has been an event planner’s blessing for decades. She’s earned her spot as a Native comedy legend, sharing stages with trailblazers like Drew Lacapa, the late Vincent Craig, and the late Charlie Hill. She is a citizen of the Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona.

What could be said of Deanna MAD? Equal parts mental illness, god complex, and body awkwardness, created a performer you’ll crave to gawk at. Born in “the table” of SoCal, Deanna MAD is one of the tallest Mexicans you’ll ever meet and a member of the Tonawanda Band of Seneca. A high-energy, powerful comic, Deanna MAD has performed stand-up comedy throughout the country since 2013. Some of her cleaner comedy can be seen on Amazon Prime’s FNX First Nations Comedy Experience.

Upon learning of the unrelenting sausage-fest that is the comedy world, Adrianne Chalepah became determined to form the first femme-powered Native stand-up comedy group, formerly the “Ladies of Native Comedy.” Her early days of stand-up can be traced to Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Upon graduating, she teamed up with mentors “49 Laughs Comedy,” and toured the US. Adrianne is a Native American boarding school graduate and a member of the Kiowa and Apache Tribes of Oklahoma. She is also an actress, screenwriter, and mother of four. A 2021Yes and Laughter Lab Finalist, and recipient of the inaugural TimeWarner Media IAIA Creative Writing Scholarship, she holds a BA in English Communications and an upcoming MFA in Screenwriting from the Institute of American Indian Arts.