Make America Laugh Again

Avi has been a part time on-air sports commentator at KTLA TV Channel 5 since 2011, and a part time (10-30 hours a week) on-air personality at Stevie Wonder’s KJLH 102.3fm in Los Angeles since 2009 . He has made appearances in HBO’s TRUE DETECTIVE, TNT’s MURDER IN THE FIRST, SCORPION on CBS, and will be co-starring in an episode of the new HBO Show, BARRY. Avi wrote and produced a short called CAN YOU NOT? which screened at the Independent Film Quarterly Film Festival in 2014 and played the lead in LOTUS which won first place at Shortlands Film Competition in 2017. He has studied acting at Diana Castle’s The Imagined Life since 2012. Avi has served as the Owner, Manager, and Producer of Make America Laugh again since inception in October 2015 (part time, around 30 hours a week.)

Christopher Durang is known for works of absurd comedy. His play VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE featuring Sigourney Weaver, won the Tony Award® for Best Play in 2013. This play also won Best Play from the New York Drama Critics Circle, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle, the Drama League Award and the Off-Broadway Alliance Award. In a distinguished writing career in the theatre he has won Obie Awards, grants from The Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, a CBS Playwriting Fellowship and was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for MISS WITHERSPOON. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2012. His work also spans across film and television in shows such as COMEDY ZONE (on CBS), CAROL CARL WHOOPI AND ROBIN, for which Robin Williams won an Emmy®, THE VISIT, starring Jeff Daniels and directed by Alan Arkin and SISTER MARY EXPLAINS IT ALL starring Diane Keaton. Durang is a member of the Writers Guild and Dramatists Guild’s Council.

Nikit was born in Kenya and lived in Australia before moving to Los Angeles and graduating from the Producing program at The American Film Institute. He has worked with Oscar® nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo on two Indian films OM SHANTI OM (with Shahrukh Khan) and SORRY BHAI (with Sharman Joshi). Nikit has held positions at Captivate Entertainment (THE JASON BOURNE TRILOGY), MGM Studios (SKYFALL, THE HOBBIT) and on Season 7 of AMC’s MAD MEN. He then founded Alpas Entertainment, one of the financiers of THE JOURNEY IS THE DESTINATION, produced by Martin Katz (HOTEL RWANDA) and written by Jan Sardi (THE NOTEBOOK). The film had a Gala Premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.

Sheila Bernard is an activist, investor, and retired teacher. She has fought for equal rights for all people since the 1960's, when she dropped out of UCLA to protest the Vietnam War (she later returned to UCLA and graduated with a BA in Public Service). Since retiring over ten years ago, Sheila spends much of her time volunteering in the areas of voting rights, education and housing. She has a passion for movies, especially those that uplift, inform and motivate. She serves as a part time Manager of Make America Laugh Again (approximately 5-10 hours a week.)