Facing Your Fears To Succeed

Dan Naturman is known to his fans as the "real winner" of NBC's Last Comic Standing season two a few years back where he was the favorite of celebrity "judges" Drew Carey and Brett Butler. Dan's charming combination of self-deprecation and outright grouchiness has earned him four appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The Tonight Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, his own "Comedy Central Presents..." Special, and a starring run on NBC's America's Got Talent. And now he’s written a book: Ira Spiro: Before Covid available now on Amazon and Barnes And Noble Robb Leigh Davis is an artist, activist and creative educator residing in Brooklyn, New York. His plays include SYNDROME, The Homosexual Agenda, Friends & Lovers, The Glam Factor, We The People,  and AMERICANBLACKOUT. He is the creator of the performance series Meditation on a Theme, co-host of the podcasts Takin U Back (with Jenn Wehrung),l and The Cookout Culture (with Kenya Claytor), and co-host of the live stream chat show Gray Matter, with David Maddalena, which can all be found on Instagram. He has performed as part of the National Network for Education Renewal Conference (NNER), was a selected playwright for the Tectonic Theater Project’s LGBT Theater Artists of Color Training Lab in NYC & was a featured performer for two performance art pieces commissioned by Brooklyn College, In the Eyes of God and Intolerable. He has worked as Director of Arts & Culture at the LGBT Center of NYC and as Grant Manager for the NYC Department of Education, overseeing arts education at a portfolio of NYC public schools and producer of the 21st Century Chronicles, a youth arts festival. He continues to record and create music at the intersection of gospel and soul, examine gender and masculinity through essays at The Good Men Project and develop artistic work at the crossroads of race, gender and sexuality Always hosted by Marina Franklin - One Hour Comedy Special: Single Black Female ( Amazon Prime, CW Network), Hysterical on FX, The Movie Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, HBO's Crashing, and The Breaks with Michelle Wolf