Comedian Heather Gold is best known for her geek roots, her ability scale useful conversations and help people get real in public. She's made over 50,000 cookies in her hit solo show "I Look Like An Egg, but I Identify As A Cookie," named Best of the Bay and recognized with Curve's National Lesbian Theatre Award.

Heather has appeared with Maria Bamford, Bill Irwin and Margaret Cho.  She's headlined MacWorld and hosted Austin Gay Pride. She's written for actor Alan Cumming and appeared in Wired, NPR, and CBC (Spark, Sounds Like Canada, DNTO). 

Driven to comedy by law school, nationally-touring comedian Heather Gold continues to mix mind with matter, never doing the same set twice. She’s garnering praise from critics and audiences for her witty standup, interactive style and hit one-woman show “I Look Like An Egg,but I Identify As A Cookie.”

Heather’s unique style is a reflection of her unorthodox artistic path, reflecting her studies at Yale, Northwestern Law, The Groundlings and and years working in Hollywood and the geek culture of Silicon Valley. Heather now practices a new kind of comedy based on intelligence, authenticity and the unique ability to make connections between the most unlikely things: from politics and family to sex and the US Constitution. Genuine and warmhearted, Heather never makes fun of her audience but brings out their best as she involves them in an unique experience that leaves them laughing and thinking.

Heather contributes to many publications, including the Toronto Globe and Mail, THIS magazine, the San Jose Mercury News and her own popular subvert.com. Heather’s played countless LGBT events, bringing queer generations together with Lucie Blue Tremblay and sharing the stage with folks like BETTY, Elvira Kurt, Lynnee Breedlove and Sabrina Matthews.

Heather brings her intelligent and “remarkable improvisational skills” (SFWeekly) to venues, colleges and conferences across the continent. She's hosted Austin Gay Pride, written for Alan Cumming, shared the stage with Tony-winner Bill Irwin and has baked over 19,000 chocolate chip cookies with audiences in “Cookie.” which ran for over a year in San Francisco. Curve Magazine honored “Cookie” with its National Lesbian Theatre Award

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Mary Hughes

Emcee and Owner of Mary's Futons Your Host & Emcee is the owner of   Mary's Futons. She first worked out of her garage, hand stitching each futon. She opened her first store in 1983 and has been in business for almost 29 years.

Mary was recently featured in a New York Times article about how small businesses are surviving the recession. Mary's idea... ...putting on comedy shows in her futon store as a way to bring people into her store and raise money for local organizations.