Special Events/Discounts

• Festival Passes available now
• Limited Pay-What-You-Will tickets available per performance
• If you require an attendant, aide, or companion, they are still required to have a ticket. Please contact coordinator@skirtsafire.com and we’ll book a ticket for the accompanying person at no extra cost.

Accessibility Measures for Comedy Night

Sensory Kits
Sensory Kits will be available to borrow for free at all shows including sunglasses, ear muffs and fidget spinners.

Content Warnings

• Coarse/mature language
• Sexual themes
• Religious content
• Clowns

If you need further clarification regarding these content warnings, please don’t hesitate to reach out to info@skirtsafire.com.

Dayna Lea Hoffmann & Katie Yoner
Hosts

Dayna Lea Hoffmann (she/her)  and Katie Yoner (she/her) are performers and co-founders of Batrabbit Collective and are based in amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ. Dayna is a multidisciplinary artist and actor. She is a graduate of the UofA’s BFA Acting Program and Douglas College’s Theatre Diploma. She currently works with Thou Art Here Theatre as the Artistic Leadership Mentee. Katie is a comedian, actor, and teacher. She is a graduate of the UofA’s BFA Acting Program and has performed stand-up across the country on stages such as Grindstone’s Comedy Festival and Santa Monica’s Comedy Festival. She is an improviser with Rapid Fire Theatre and the 11 O’ Clock Number.

Dayna and Katie produce and tour nationally with their company, performing as Fingers and Shrimp in Rat Academy and Rat Academy 2: Gnaw and Order, which are nationally acclaimed, award-winning clown shows. For their upcoming tour, both shows will return to Edmonton this Spring at Rapid Fire Theatre and Theatre Network.

Photo Credit: Marc Chalifoux

Artists Adopted by

Nat & Chrissy

Nat & Chrissy chase the ridiculous, the absurd, and the downright dumb. Based in Edmonton, the pair have been collaborating in various forms since 2019, and in 2025 found their voice, emerging as a dynamic sketch comedy duo. They have performed at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival and the Grindstone Comedy Festival.

Christine DeWitt has been writing and performing sketch comedy in Edmonton since 2013. Performance credits include the Edmonton International Fringe Festival, Rapid Fire Theatre’s Improvaganza, and the Grindstone Comedy Festival. Her writing credits include the CBC national radio sketch show The Irrelevant Show and the APTN sketch comedy series Caution: May Contain Nuts.

Nathalie is the creator, producer and co-host of Blue Halloo Comedy Cabaret, the knock-out comedy variety show at Edmonton’s Grindstone Theatre. She is a former Head of Stage and performer with The Sheffield Revue (UK). Performance credits include the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, the Edmonton International Fringe Festival, and the Grindstone Comedy Festival.

Spore’s Journey
A forest spirit encounters the brief, wondrous experience of having a human body

haley brown (she/her) is an illustrator, writer, and performer striving to be the Queer Disabled Fairy Godmother she’s always needed. She developed this piece as part of Play The Fool Festival’s ‘Rookie Cabaret’ some years ago under the direction of Christine Lesiak, and is delighted beyond words to bring it back to life. A full time student in the Bachelor of Design at the University of Alberta, haley’s visual art and design practice takes center-stage in her work-life these days, but her improv, clown, and theatre background is always waiting in the wings to come out and play. From working as a ‘professional fairy,’ to studying improv for a year on a Watson Fellowship, to training in clown with as many teachers and mentors as possible, haley loves performance– especially when it’s home to fractured fairytales, all-age entertainment (working with Sum Theatre for ‘Queen Seraphina’ was a highlight!) and quirky, thought-provoking, soulful storytelling. haley is honored to play a role in this year’s Skirts a Fire Festival.

Sonia Deleo
Musician – Comedian – Writer

Sonia Deleo is an award-winning songwriter, musician and comedian, based in Calgary, AB. A vibrant performer and natural storyteller, Deleo’s sets are an engaging, energetic blast of a time. Her one woman show Two Moons received five 2025 Betty Mitchell award nominations, and one win for Sound Design & Composition. Find her music on all streaming platforms and her performance calendar at soniadeleo.com ☀️

“If Joan Baez & Melissa McCarthy had a baby, you’d have Sonia Deleo.”
~Carolyn Russell-King, Theatre Critic

Celeste Lampa

Celeste Lampa is a stand-up comedian based in Edmonton, Alberta. By day, she’s a hard-working suburban mom. And by night, she’s still a hard-working suburban mom. She performs all over Canada, recorded with JFL Originals, and released 2 albums – titled ‘25%’ and ‘Sweet & Salty’ on Sirius XM.

The 11 O’Clock Number
An Improvised Musical

The 11 O’clock Number is Grindstone’s award winning improvised musical comedy! Based on suggestions from the audience the cast improvises a brand new musical comedy on the spot, complete with twisting plots and showstopping numbers. Laughs are guaranteed. You have to see it to believe it! Starring Sarah Dowling, Abby Vandenberghe, Erin Maxwell, and Katie Hudson!

Sister Hysteria

Hysteria Winthrop returns in this new turn by satirist and playwright Sophie May Healey, featuring Ben Healey as Sister Gertrude.

Set shortly after the events of “Hysteria’s House,” (the full length solo show that sold out its Nextfest run), Hysteria has decided to make a few changes to her life, and now she’s totally nunning it up. In “Sister Hysteria,” she will lead an interactive Sunday service in the hopes that it will be enough to earn her a spot in the hottest, most exclusive convent around.

If you have anything you’d like to confess, she would love to hear it…

Artist Adopted by