Chingona Comedy Hour – May 2025

CALLING ALL CHINGONAS!! Spring is in the air! We can feel that #summertimechi is around the corner so let’s get the party started with a noche of herlarious comedy! Bring your locas out for a night of jajajas from Chicagoland’s top Latina/e/x, BIPOC, and honorary loca comedians and special guests!

Every month, on the first Thursday of the month, Las Locas Comedy celebrates all the badass women in our lives with a hot night of all-loca comedy at Chingona Comedy Hour at Laugh Factory Chicago!

Date: THURSDAY 05/01/25

Doors: 6:00pm CDT

Show: 7:00pm CDT sharp

Location: Laugh Factory Chicago, 3175 N Broadway, Chicago 60657

Prices: $15-$20

Hosted by: Janice Rodriguez (Las Locas Comedy)

Your Chingonas:

Alecia Alstaetter (Comedysportz)

Antonia Arcely (Latina Comedy Festival)

Maria Acosta (Roast Battle)

Joy Gamby (Laugh Factory)

Headliner: Melissa Duprey (Laugh Factory, Hulu)

Melissa DuPrey is an AfroLatina actor, comic, producer, musician, and playwright from Humboldt Park, Chicago.She has created five critically acclaimed solo plays—SEXomedy, SUSHI-frito, Good Grief, SEXomedy 2.0, and RISE OF THUNDERDOME—that explore themes of diasporic Blackness, queerness, healing, liberation, and sexuality. In 2020, she launched The Good Grief Project to connect communities of color with accessible mental and spiritual wellness practitioners. Her full-length play, BRUJAJA, premiered as a theatrical film with UrbanTheater Company in 2021.

As a stand-up comedian, DuPrey has performed in major cities across the U.S., including Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.On television, she has portrayed Dr. Sara Ortiz on Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) and appeared in Empire (FOX), The Resident (FOX), Chicago PD (NBC), The Chi (Showtime) and the award winning How to Die Alone on Hulu. Her theater credits include performances with Teatro Vista, Court Theater, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and more. DuPrey is also an Ensemble Member at UrbanTheater Company and teaches performed narrative at institutions such as DePaul University and Randolph College’s MFA program. ?

Full bar and menu available. 2 drink minimum per person. 18+ to enter, 21+ to drink alcohol. *Buy your tickets in advance directly from Las Locas Comedy!* For more info about Las Locas Comedy please visit laslocascomedy.com and follow us on social media at @laslocascomedy. Please visit laslocascomedy.com/tickets for information about our other shows.

All ticket sales are final. Las Locas Comedy reserves the right to make changes to the comic lineup as needed.