Dhaya Lakshminarayanan

Dhaya Lakshminarayanan is an American comedian, performance artist, TV host, and storyteller. She has performed at venues such as San Francisco's Asian Art Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Siren Theater, San Francisco's Punchline Comedy Club and Cobb's Comedy Club, the Brava Theatre, Throckmorton Theatre, and others. She has also performed at comedy festivals such as SF Sketchfest 2015 and SF Sketchfest 2020; the Desi Comedy Fest, America's only South Asian comedy festival; and the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival. In 2019, Lakshminarayanan, Will Durst, and W. Kamau Bell appeared as guests on KQED in regard to the controversial proposed closure of the historic San Francisco Punchline Comedy Club. The same year, she regularly opened for Greg Proops at the Punchline.

Lakshminarayanan has appeared on radio shows such as NPR's ''Snap Judgment'', on which she has appeared seven times, and been featured on CBS's ''Bay Sunday'' with Tracy Humphrey. She is the former host of ''High School Quiz Show'', a public television program created at Boston’s WGBH, which premiered in March 2010. In 2016, KQED named her one of their 20 Women to Watch. In 2019, SFist named her as one of their 13 San Francisco Standup Comedians to Go See Now. Provided by Wikipedia