# SqueakyFest Seattle

Friday, July 22nd, 2026
6:30pm doors
7:00pm showtime!

$15 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member

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## Visiting Artist

### ** The Disabled List presents bi-monthly live standup at NWFF! Stay tuned: Featured artists in this edition TBA. **

## About

Get ready for a night of big laughs and bold perspectives as The Squeaky Wheel partners with The Disabled List to showcase some of Seattle’s funniest disabled comedians. Hosted by Dan Hurwitz and featuring stand-up from Derek Sheen, Allegra Keys, Gretta Gimp, Michael Bellevue and Cheri Hardman, this accessible comedy event celebrates disability, humor, and what it means to “be squeaky!”

SqueakyFest is the first-ever multi-city comedy festival for comedians with disabilities. Our unique approach finds local talent from across the globe to perform stand-up comedy, sketch comedy, improv, and more to unite the disability community and use humor as a tool for advocacy.

All proceeds from the festival go towards supporting comedy by and for people with disabilities through Squeaky Wheel Media.

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## July 2026 Lineup:

### Derek Sheen

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Derek Sheen is a cuddly mess of insecurities and a gifted, one-of-a-kind storyteller. His ability to mine humor from the dark, humid corners of the human condition has made him a cult favorite of comedy nerds around the globe.

He has amassed a pretty loyal fan base touring with comedy legends Brian Posehn, Patton Oswalt and Janeane Garofalo.

Derek Sheen has released four critically acclaimed albums on Minneapolis based Stand Up! Records, with Grammy Winning producer Dan Schlissel.

### Allegra Keys

Allegra Keys enjoys shaking up the world’s perception of her. Not quite a full-fledged disability advocate, not quite not one either. When she isn’t busy writing melodramatic poetry or writing stuff that will actually make her money, she likes trying on different hobbies every six to nine months. Her current hobby is attempting comedy. She’s a little bit funny and a lot of provocative.

### Gretta Gimp

Gretta Gimp has the disability Cerebral Palsy. She has been doing “stand up“ since 2016. Her humor is self-deprecating and cathartic. She finds humor to be the best way to educate people about disability topics and believes that having a disability is just an ordinary fact of life—not anything extraordinary or inspirational.

### Michael Bellevue

Michael Bellevue is an avid sailor, reader and writer of Russian, standup producer, avid volunteer who’s produced several fundraisers for nonprofits, comedian, chess player since age 5, linguistics fan, and, self-evidently, Black. He volunteered at a food bank for 15 months during the pandemic.

### Cheri Hardman

Cheri Hardman captivates audiences with hilarious tales about being a plus size, menopausal babe. She won Tacoma Comedy Club’s “The Comedy Voice,” was a finalist in Nate Jackson’s Super Funny Comedy Club’s “Funniest MF Out Here” and performed in Seattle International Comedy Competition. Her bawdy, sassy style makes her the perfect host for “Heavy Petting with Cheri Hardman.”

## Your Hosts:

### Kayla Brown

Kayla Brown (she/her) is a disabled activist and amateur comedian from Seattle. She believes that art and other media forms are a way to break down stereotypes, build community, and transform people’s worlds. When not at work or school, Kayla co-produces the comedy show The Disabled List, plays video games, reads fanfiction, and eats snacks.

### Dan Hurwitz

Dan Hurwitz is a disabled, Black, and Jewish writer, comedian, and filmmaker. In 2018, he co-founded The Disabled List, an ever-growing group of disabled comedians from the Pacific Northwest. Dan was a semi-finalist in both the Laughs Comedy Competition (2019) and the Stand-Up NBC comedy competition (2019). During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dan co-wrote, co-directed, and co-starred in This Is Spinal Injury (2021), a mockumentary about the trials of disabled artists during quarantine, which premiered at Northwest Film Forum’s Local Sightings Film Festival in September, 2021.

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