Erin Terry speaks on growing and evolving Eyes Up Here to amplify the voices of North Carolina’s best women comics.
Erin Terry shares her journey to founding Eyes Up Here. In her talk, she shares how resilience is built into comedy and allows for the ability to grow and evolve. She continues to tell jokes and reminds us that the way that it has always been done is not the way that it will always be done.
About the speaker
Erin Terry is a standup comic based in Raleigh, N.C. whose collective, “Eyes Up Here Comedy,” produces shows featuring the region’s best standup comics—who just happen to be women. Erin also lends her talents as a co-producer to the annual Women in Comedy Festival in Boston. In 2018, Erin received an Indy Arts Award by INDY Week for her work with women in comedy in the Triangle.
Eyes Up Here Comedy flips the script on the longstanding boys club that is comedy, handing the mic to comics who are otherwise overlooked. With a goal of creating more room for marginalized voices in comedy, Eyes Up Here Comedy runs the premiere women-only open mic show in North Carolina: Everybody But You, Bro (EBYB). EBYB is an affirming comedy playground that consistently introduces new comics into the region’s comedy scene.
In her own comedy, Erin blends an easy rapport with too-honest accounts of her two failed marriages, cringe-worthy confessions, various job changes, and body image struggles. She accepts hugs, high fives and friend requests after every show.
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