Top L to R: Katy Lau, Patricia Dinglasan, Macy Kwok, Jamie Wang; (Bottom L-R) Soo Ra, Angel Rau, Natalie Lin.. Photos courtesy of Katy Lau

By Emily Davenport-Salcedo

Next week, The Broadway Comedy Club is hosting an all-women comedy show celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month.

Entitled “Rice & Spice,” the show will take place on May 19 and will feature women in the comedy space with AAPI heritage. Hosted and produced by comedian Katy Lau, this is the fourth iteration of the comedy show and the first time it’s coming to The Broadway Comedy Club stage.

The show aims to empower Asian women in comedy who may not have felt community in comedy before.

“Being an Asian comedian, just seeing very little of me even in all the shows that I did get booked, I was basically the only woman and definitely the only Asian woman. So I felt like it would be so empowering to have a comedy show that is all women and all Asian women,” said Lau. “That was something that I had not seen ever so far that I’ve been in the comedy scene.”

The lineup includes Natalie Lin, Patricia Dinglasan, Jamie Wang, Angel Yau, Soo Ra, and Macy Kwok. Lau says that everyone on the lineup will bring their own raw, hilarious experiences to the stage.

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