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Recently named Best comedian in Louisville in the Louisville Eccentric Observer Reader's Choice Awards, Author/Comedienne Divinity Rose is the girl of every nerd's dreams. She transforms from geeky single mom and writer to multi-talented performer and comes with her own accessories. Divinity's playfully funny observational comedy has made her an audience favorite, winning her second place in Lima's Funniest Lady and placing her in the finals of Louisville's Funniest Person. The Louisville Eccentric Observer recently spotlighted her along with 11 other artists of different media in their 2013 Annual Arts and Entertainment Guide and she was featured in Today's Woman Magazine. The Kentucky native "wild ginger" found herself crushing on comedians from a young age, sneaking to watch SNL and Red Dwarf while babysitting. Divinity began her comedy career in 2002 when she performed on the Lisa Lampinelli Show at Caroline's in New York City, and she's since shared the stage or screen with Nora Dunn, Dinky Gowen and countless others. When she isn't telling jokes or slinging her books at venues around the country, Divinity acts and writes for both stage and screen. Her most recent role was portraying Tony award winner Tessie O' Shea in the sold out live recreation of the Ed Sullivan show the Beatles first aired on for the 50th anniversary. Divinity has been heard on NPR and seen on the Syfy program "Spooked," which may or may not be part of her master plan to compile the geekiest credits of all time.
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AWARDS
2013 LEO Reader's Choice Awards: Best Louisville comedian
2nd Place Lima's Funniest Lady
Finalist in Louisville's Funniest Person
PRESS/Media
1 of 12 Spotlighted artists/performers in Louisville Eccentric Observer's annual Arts & Entertainment Guide 2013
Featured in Today's Woman Magazine
Featured on Comedy Zone, Crescent Hill Radio
Great Day Live!
NPR
SCI FI Channel
Louisvillecomedy.com
Courier Journal
Louisville.com
Venues:
New York: Caroline's, Gramercy Comedy Club
Baltimore, MD: Wiseacre's Comedy Club, Laugh Factory
Indiana: Crash McLains, Bainbridge Tap, Steinert's
Kentucky: Louisville: Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, The Bard's Town theater, Comedy Caravan, Diamond's, Zazoo's, O'Shea's, Tequila Factory, Wicks, Alley Theater, Village 8 Theaters- Henderson: Double Dukes
Ohio: The Met
Shared Stage with:
Lisa Lampanelli
Dinky Gowen
Tom Mabe
Jacob Williams
Cyndi Snow
Shared Screen with
Nora Dunn
Esteban Powell
Morgan Nagler
Al Snow
Jason Lasater
“Divinity Rose on Louisville.am "Louisville arts and entertainment on the fringe" pocast with Danny O' Day”
Danny O' Day - Louisville.am
“Louisville based award winning writer and performer Divinity Rose has returned to her roots of Stand up comedy and has been selected to participate in an event to celebrate Phyllis Diller.”
Today's Woman
“Divinity Rose is no stranger to the arts community. She has hosted spoken-word shows, written poetry, acted in independent films and dabbled in other forms of performing arts, including burlesque. Yet it is in stand-up comedy where she blossoms...”
.Divinity Rose one of 12 spotlighted: annua LEO Arts and Entertainment Guide
“Host: You blush when someone says "poop". Divinity: Maybe when I was younger and we met..I've grown up! I'm a big girl! I can tell a sex joke!!"”
Listen to Divinity featured on Comedy Zone, Crescent Hill Radio
“Divinity: And that's when I felt nerd raped!! more information my brain was willing to take or could handle and my eyes glazed over.....Host: and you shunned nerd intimacy!”
Divinity Rose featured on Comedy Zone, Crescent Hill Radio 4-3-13
“The emcee for the evening, ... Divinity Rose, proved that you don’t have to be a size 0 to be sexy. In a sparkly, red, Jessica Rabbit-esque gown, her curves caught the interest of everyone in the room with her sultry singing and naughty humor.”
Sarah Hinds - Louisville.com
“Divinity Rose sums up her range of pursuits--writer, performer, producer, filmmaker--as a storyteller. She's not just telling her own story though; she's helping other people share theirs as well.
Through her regular open mic nights, website, and special events, Rose encourages other people to embark on the path that's most fulfilling to them.”
Zach Everson - Louisville.com
"The two space-pirate women are engaged in battle, twirling and jousting between the narrow corridor of RV-campers and their milling inhabitants, swinging oversized rubber swords with the might and finesse of a haphazardly choreographed B-grade action flick."
Jonathan Meador - Louisville Eccentric Observer
“Listen to Divinity Rose on NPR State of Affairs”
NPR
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"The Promise” tells the story of an artist who reaches back to her childhood to say, “One day art will be your salvation and destiny.” You know that feeling you get when you wake up in the morning and you try to remember a dream, but you can’t?
Divinity Rose does and she reminds the reader of it here. Basically, if M.C. Escher began producing briographic material, this first issue of DIARIES OF A GODLING is it. "”
Don Smith - Investcomics.com
“Divinity Rose appears in a Mini Documentary about a peace mural created in Louisville, Ky.”
MIni Documentary about Peace Mural
“Rose has truly made something wholly untraditional — nothing you can find in the world of comic books today. Her comic is made up of, well, most everything. From bits of paper with mysterious symbols to real childhood pictures, sculpture, scribbled poetry and diary fragments, this story is not going to come together in the traditional fashion. Yes, there is most definitely a tangible storyline, but to really follow, you have to fully immerse yourself in her world and find the path from there. Reading a bit like a graphic “Only Revolutions,” the dense prose and poetry that curls around the page and rests in the margins of this comic is wholly moving and deeply mysterious.”
Pawl Schwartz - Louisville Eccentric Observer
