Photo Coverage: FRIARS CLUB COMEDY FESTIVAL Plays Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center

BroadwayWorld brings you photots from the big event below!

The evening featured comics Michele Balan, Tom Cotter, Cory Kahane, and Dave Konig. Tom Cotter is currently a finalist in NBC's *America's Got Talent*. He recently filmed his own half-hour special on Comedy Central and he won the grand prize at the Boston Comedy Festival; he's also been featured on *The Tonight Show with Jay Leno*, *The Late Late Show*, and was voted Best Stand-Up at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival. Cory Kahaney has appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Bonnie Hunt Show, The Joy Behar Show, and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson; her off-Broadway hit The J.A.P. Show ran for six months in New York City and continues to tour the country under a new name, The Princesses of Comedy. Michele Balan was one of the finalists on NBC's Last Comic Standing and she has appeared on The Joy Behar Show, Byron Allen's Comics Unleashed, and the OUTlaugh festival on MTV's LOGO; she headlines all over the country at Comedy Clubs, corporate events, JCC's, country clubs, and cruises.

Comedian Dave Konig hosted HBO's infamous late night comedy series *Hardcore TV*, hosted and produced the cult hit talk show parody *The Dave Konig Show* for USA Network, and won three Emmy Awards as host of NY Metro TV's reality/comedy series. A giant get well card was signed by the Mahaiwe audience and sent to Freddie.

Beryl Jolly Executive Director

Stewie Stone

Stewie Stone

Stephen's life seems to have always revolved around a camera and a piano. He studied at Manhattan School of Music and performed in the "Borsht Belt" during college vacations, where in the true DIRTY DANCING tradition he met his wife Eda. Stephen was a Board Member of the First All Children's Theater and his wife, a classical pianist, is a Board Member of Barrington Stage Co. In between he made time to be CEO of a multi national machinery company and President of a domestic Textile Mfg. Co. In retirement, he now takes pictures of his 5 grandchildren and various other performers.