The Spit Take Residency awards $2500 to comedy artists to support the development of new and innovative work.

We are excited to announce the first cohort of Spit Take Residency Artists and their projects:

• Christina Catherine Martinez: Christina will be researching and workshopping new material for a multimedia comedy show inspired by her love of movies and her love for America.

• Devohn Bland: Devohn Bland and His Keyboard: A Live Event mixes stand-up with music, building off of Devohn’s experiments with comedy during the pandemic, creating collective joy and making those in positions of power uncomfortable.

• Monica Coleslaw: Juniper is a multimedia storytelling show, blending photos, home videos, and various ephemera with stories about Monica shifting through personas to try to find something that fits.

• SuperGroup: Is collectivism crumbling all around us? Should SuperGroup stay here and keep making performances with a faith that us making for each other is what the making is all about? They won't exactly be staging a union meeting nor a community town hall, and they won't exactly be dancing those structures either, but maybe something somewhere in between.

Click on the artists’ names above to learn more about their projects!

More information on the Residency program is available at this link.

The Spit Take Residency is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.