LIMMUD FSU Recharge Presenters 2022

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Rachel Creeger Comedian

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Rachel Creeger is a multi award-winning British stand up comedian, writer, director and broadcaster, and the only practising orthodox Jewish woman on the UK comedy circuit. She is co-host of chat show podcast "Jew Talkin' To Me?" and resident host for London comedy club "Upstairs at the Adam & Eve". As seen on BBC1 and NextUp Comedy, and heard on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio London, BBC 3 Counties Radio and Radio Essex, Rachel has also written for the Jewish Chronicle, the Independent, Jewish Renaissance, been featured in the Jewish Telegraph and Jewish News, and even quoted in the Guardian. Rachel has brought her unique brand of comedy to festivals around the world including the Edinburgh Fringe and Limmud, toured the UK and Israel, and during lockdown performed for events in the UK, USA, Israel, Australia, New Zealand and Finland.

Sessions

Oy, How We Laughed!

Professional stand-up comedian Rachel Creeger explores how Jewish people have used comedy throughout the centuries to combat oppression. From shtetls to suburbs, from ghettos to clubs full of drunken, racist audience members, through performance, writing and TV, we've “turned it and turned it” to feel empowered. Rachel looks at how her peers on the UK comedy circuit have responded to antisemitism and how it's become material. Part performance, part lecture, part discussion.