{"id":988,"date":"2020-08-10T11:28:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T16:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/?page_id=988"},"modified":"2020-08-10T11:28:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T16:28:35","slug":"just-lisa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/?page_id=988","title":{"rendered":"Just Lisa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6061-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6061-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6061-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6061-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6061-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6061-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Wayne Lee-Sing\/ FemComTT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018 I did an observer\/participant piece on the emerging stand-up comedy scene in Trinidad for the T&amp;T Newsday. The piece introduced me to a community of mostly young black men, with one woman. I did a piece that didn&#8217;t quite bomb. I didn&#8217;t die on stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast-forward to July of that year, when I did the Mentoring by the Masters course under actor\/director Wendell Manwarren. There, I reignited my friendship with Louris Martin Lee-Sing, a very funny woman, and chained her up to be my comedy partner. We worked out some routines and debuted our stand-up comedy in October at the Kaiso Blues Cafe in a show hosted by the only other woman on the circuit, Simmy the Trini. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then I&#8217;ve been performing with Louris as Just Lisa to her Lyrix. We perform feminist comedy, which might seen ironic but it&#8217;s not. We&#8217;re funny women, period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/femcomtt\">You can see our work here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018 I did an observer\/participant piece on the emerging stand-up comedy scene in Trinidad for the T&amp;T Newsday. The piece introduced me to a community of mostly young black men, with one woman. I did a piece that didn&#8217;t quite bomb. I didn&#8217;t die on stage. Fast-forward to July of that year, when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-988","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/988\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}