Mona Mohammed Aburmishan About Mona 3 Mona’s Int’l Management Team & US Commercial Agency 5 PRESS: Frequently Asked Questions 7 Class Clowns® Comedy Workshops – By Mona 20 Groundbreaking Work 25 Digital Presence 26 Contact Information for Mona’s Team 27 For more information, or to get in contact with Mona Aburmishan, please contact: English – Judith “Judy” Nims – [email protected] Arabic – Mohammed “Hajj” Aburmishan – [email protected] Pangea Talent Management CHICAGO | CAPE TOWN | PRESTON | HEBRON PANGEA TALENT MANAGEMENT | MONA MOHAMMED ABURMISHAN About Mona About Mona INTRODUCTION United States Mona is an international comedian based in her hometown of Chicago. She has performed, emceed, and produced comedy shows, competitions and events in major clubs, theaters and universities around the world. In addition to comedy, Mona is a sought-after speaker for her experience using stand-up comedy to bring joy and affinity in various socio-political topics in the United States, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Mona has a Master’s in International Development and is fluent in English, German and Arabic and performs in these languages. Having lived and worked around the world, Mona uses her global insight and homegrown Chicago-style to offer a fresh look at shifting frustration into funny. Most notably, Mona became the first Arab and Muslim woman to perform stand-up comedy in the nation’s most prestigious institutions: Carnegie Hall in New York City as well as the MONA ABURMISHAN Kennedy Center in Washington, DC twice, and was the featured spotlight Comedian, Emcee, Writer headliner this past fall 2018! Contact [email protected] International Platform – MENA, Europe, UK & Sub Saharan Africa Religon - Practicing Muslim Currently, Mona is in the US, filling her schedule with teaching standup comedy during the week and touring the country on the weekend performing Languages at live events. Having just completed her annual Summer tour throughout the - English West Bank, Europe and the United Kingdom, Mona’s skillset allows her to - Arabic seamlessly juggle work as performer, producer, writer and instructor. As an - German international producer, host and headliner Mona in less than one week performed and produced 9 shows spanning Palestine, Switzerland, and the heart of London’s thriving comedy scene. Mona is the first Muslim American woman to host shows regularly in outside the United States. While in London, Mona was a special featured guest honoring her self-produced tour on “Islam Channel” as a thriving female Muslim in global entertainment which was broadcast to over 100 countries. When asked on air “What is next for Mona?” Mona replied; “InshAllah, you’re looking at Oprah 2.0!” The hosts didn’t skip a beat and remarked “Why yes we are!!!” In addition to regularly performing in the US, Canada, EU, UK and the Middle East, Mona is a sought- after headliner on the African continent. Becoming a regular in the South African market, Mona just recently headlined and was the first American to host one of the world’s top ten comedy establishments – The Cape Town Comedy Club; she’s been asked to mentor currently working Thank you for your interest in Mona, please CONTACT [email protected] for any additional questions not covered in this PRESS KIT. PANGEA TALENT MANAGEMENT | MONA MOHAMMED ABURMISHAN About Mona South African, Zimbabwean & South Sudanese comedians as well as comedy club management and returns to tour the entire Sub Sharan African region again in 2020. As for Northern Africa and the Middle East, Mona was a featured guest on “Al Bernameg” with host Dr. Bassem Youssef’s ground-breaking satirical news program (once considered North Africa’s version of “The Daily Show”); as well as headlined Comedy Central’s latest Season 2 and 3, Premier “Comedy Central Present: Standup Al Waggif” filmed on location in Dubai, UAE - featured throughout the Middle East and Africa. She was the first Palestinian female to headline this revolutionary series produced by Viacom. State side, Mona has been a regular throughout the Midwest, Northeast, South and West Coasts of US. While touring Mona always checks in with Chicago based media as a consistent featured guest on “Pretty Late with Patti Vasquez” Chicago’s #1 late-night radio show WGN 720 Radio as well as a regular feature on Chicago’s #1 daytime talk show, Windy City Live! Community Impact and Global Development: Class Clowns® Int’l Comedy Workshops Globally, Mona launched her truest love Class Clowns® a standup comedy, improv, spoken word & writing workshop for kids, war veterans, senior citizens and corporate leaders of all ages in all environments using the comedy club as a microcosm for leadership, self-expression and face- to-face empowerment. The workshop is currently running in the Chicago & Cape Town, South Africa. “Leadership isn’t just the person on stage talking into a microphone, it’s everyone around that person making sure the microphone is on and the person is seen & heard!” - Class Clowns For more information on Mona, international press, productions and her schedule, please visit monacomedy.com. Thank you for your interest in Mona, please CONTACT [email protected] for any additional questions not covered in this PRESS KIT. PANGEA TALENT MANAGEMENT | MONA MOHAMMED ABURMISHAN Mona’s Int’l Management Team & US Commercial Agency Mona’s Int’l Management Team & US Commercial Agency LEAD MANAGEMENT TEAM: US, UK, MENA & SUB AFRICA REGION Judith “Judy” Nims – Director of Talent Management [email protected] Judy draws from her 40+ years of business experience and her 20+ years of leadership to identify solutions that work. She knows how to create structures around an idea so that it becomes real. Judy took this passion for solving problems to her clients, when she was a CPA with a national CPA firm and a large Chicago CPA firm, and she takes this same passion to the many professional and charitable organizations she has served. Judith “Judy” Nims, After serving as a senior accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers for years, Judy became the CPA controller of a large Chicago real estate firm and later joined FGMK, LLC, a large Chicago- CO/CEO Pangea Talent based CPA firm, focused on the healthcare industry. She worked with her clients to build Contact creative tax plans and guided them to manage their practices so that they were more profitable. [email protected] She still consults on strategic planning, mergers acquisitions and business startups for entrepreneurial firms. Languages - English Judy also takes her passion for solving problems to the business organizations and charities she has served, providing guidance and leadership to Mona since birth. Judy is Mona’s mother and has been mentoring and shaping her career as well as supporting Mona’s advanced education. Judy has pushed Mona to be the best person for the job, never allowing her gender, religion or socio-economic status limit what Mona is clearly capable of achieving. Mona has extremely high standards for her work ethic as well as her compassionate leadership style; all thanks to Judy’s commitment to “never settle Mona; always dream bigger and be grateful for every gift along the journey; no matter how painful – God always has your back!’ Mohammed “Hajj” Aburmishan – Director of Talent Cultural & Community Affairs [email protected] Mohammed “Hajj” Aburmishan has spent over 40 years in community engagement, activism and public affairs. With a Masters in Non-Profit Management, Hajj has devoted his life to the Mohammed Palestinian-American diaspora as the director of the longest standing, most transparent and Aburmishan, most reputable Palestinian Non-profit organization globally, United Holy Land Fund [UHLF] MMNA/MBA has been officially certified by the United States government and has raised millions for Director Pangea Talent Palestinian orphans as well as scholarships to key universities in Palestine. Currently, UHLF Cultural & Community boasts 80% of their scholarship recipients are women!! Affairs With decades of community activism, Mohammed mentored Mona’s relationship with her Languages own identity by allowing for her to perform and grow as an Arab-American comedian often -Arabic -English using the UHLF platform – through hosting fundraisers and performing at charity events. Thank you for your interest in Mona, please CONTACT [email protected] for any additional questions not covered in this PRESS KIT. PANGEA TALENT MANAGEMENT | MONA MOHAMMED ABURMISHAN Mona’s Int’l Management Team & US Commercial Agency As Mona’s father, Mohammed has walked a fine line of giving Mona the access to the Palestinian and Muslim diaspora, in a pre 9/11 era; allowing her to both thrive within the community as well as gently push the envelope in areas that the community had never seen – such as a female standup comedian. With proper guidance and mentorship, Hajj has encouraged Mona to be an empowered American who happens to be Palestinian and a humble Muslim woman who knows and honors integrity and leadership for those that look up to her as a visionary. “You hold a great responsibility on that stage, honor that right and freedom of speech, not many around the world have!” Mohammed is a very prominent community leader with a vast reputation for integrity, generosity and compassionate intelligent in non-violent leadership within the United States, UK, Europe and throughout the Middle East. Working with Mona allows for a standard of mentorship not evident in the current boom of Muslim or larger female presence in global entertainment. It is clear, that reputation and integrity are a family value that has been clear in Mona’s work all thanks to standards established before birth. COMMERICAL AGENT: US REGION ONLY Lily Liu – President & Founder of Lily’s Talent Agency [email protected] Lily Liu, President and Founder of LTA (Lily's Talent Agency), with over 40 years of experience in the entertainment industry contributes her powerful entrepreneurial spirit and business cues from her mother.