Returning To The Stage

A Stand-up Re-enters Comedy

Photo of the Author taken by Taylor Steele during her first performance post lock-down

I am, among other things, a stand up comic. The pandemic shut down live performance in New York City and I didn’t realize how much I’d miss it until I wasn’t having it. I’d been performing in front of an audience my whole life. I started off in church, like so many black performers. I grew up in southeast Virginia and attended, along with most of my relatives, a Black Baptist…