Author: Anjelica Scannura
Anjelica Scannura is a NY-based comic originally from Toronto. She's performed at prestigious venues such as Massey Hall and The Wilbur, and is the 2024 Winner of the Boston Comedy Festival and the 2025 Winner of the Jersey City Comedy Festival. She is the first Canadian woman to win both of those competitions. You can stream her EP with JFL Originals on all audio-streaming platforms and hear it on Sirius XM Comedy Club. She did viral woman-on-the-street content for Just For Laughs Toronto 2023. She is currently touring the US and Canada. She's done tapings for the Winnipeg Comedy Festival and Don't Tell and she’s opened for Shane Gillis, Joe List, Krystyna Hutchinson, Stavros Halkias, Rachel Feinstein, Colin Mochrie, Greg Morton and Jay Pharaoh. She’s appeared at: -Cleveland Comedy Festival (Winner, Best Overall Comedian 2022) -The Riot Comedy Festival 2022 (Houston, Texas) -Edmonton Comedy Festival ‘23 -Limestone Comedy Festival '23 (Bloomington, Indiana) -10,000 Laughs Festival (Minneapolis, Minnesota) -West End Comedy Festival '24 (Atlanta, Georgia) -Traverse City Comedy Festival '25 (Traverse City, Michigan) -Jersey City Comedy Festival '25 (Jersey City, New Jersey) Also an actress, her credits include Disney’s Camp Rock, APTN’s Renegade Press, CTV’s Satisfaction, PBS’s Frankie Drake Mysteries, TIFF feature Manson, My Name is Evil, and feature film Little Italy (supporting alongside Hayden Christensen and Emma Roberts).