Lucia Whalen

Her clever, feminist perspective paired with a shameless storytelling style makes her a favorite to audiences all over the country. She has opened for some of the biggest comics working today, including Dave Attell, Janeane Garofalo, Atsuko Okatsuka, Chad Daniels, Langston Kerman, and Stavros Halkias among others, and has performed at clubs and venues all over the midwest, including Steppenwolf, Comedy on State, The Den Theater, The Green Mill, the Chicago Laugh Factory, and Zanies. Lucia is a cast member at the Lincoln Lodge and host at Cole’s Bar in Chicago every Wednesday. She's been featured at Limestone Comedy Festival, Asheville Comedy Festival, 10,000 Laughs, Flyover Comedy Festival, and more. Lucia has contributed to The New Yorker and is a cohost of the environmental history podcast What a Waste.

Just to be clear, she is not the Lucia Whalen who called the cops on Henry Louis Gates in 2009

What a Waste Podcast

Red alert! Comedians Lucia Whalen and Tyler Horvath have solved the climate crisis with their new podcast, What a Waste! Every week, Lucia teaches Tyler about an environmental issue that he previously pretended to know about. Go follow @whatawastepod on Instagram and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. If you leave a positive review the climate will stop changing and Al Gore can finally rest! Art by Elsie Howe and music by Steve Malden.

Shows:

(In Chicago unless otherwise stated)
Host of Cole’s Bar Open Mic every Wednesday @ 8 PM

March 2024:

3/1 Hosting @ Lincoln Lodge 8 pm
3/2 Laugh Factory 7 and 9:15 pm
3/6 Amber Autry + Friends @ Zanies Chicago 7 pm
3/8 Laugh Factory 7 pm
3/9 Laugh Factory 7 and 9 pm
3/11 Headlining @ Laugh Factory 8 pm
3/14-16 Don’t Tell Columbus
3/29-30 Headlining Comedy Corner Underground in Minneapolis

April 2024:

4/11 House of Blues Chicago 7 pm
4/12 Hosting Lincoln Lodge 8 pm
4/13 Laugh Factory 7 pm + 9:15 pm
4/19 Laugh Factory 7 pm + 9:15 pm
4/20 Lincoln Lodge 8 pm
4/20 Laugh Factory 9:15 pm
4/26 Laugh Factory 9:15 pm
4/27 Lincoln Lodge 8 pm

Sorry, you missed it (past shows):

February 2024:

2/16-17 Featuring for Irene Tu @ The Comedy Attic in Bloomington, IN
2/18 Hosting for Jenny Zigrino @ Lincoln Lodge 6 pm
2/22 50 First Jokes @ Laugh Factory 7 pm
2/24 Lincoln Lodge 8 pm

January 2024:

1/5 Lincoln Lodge 8 pm
1/9 Headlining Laugh Factory 8 pm
1/11 Color Club Chicago @ 9 pm
1/18 House of Blues 8 pm
1/20 Lincoln Lodge 8 pm
1/25 Netflix is a Joke @ Laugh Factory 8 pm

December:

12/5 Tiny Cupboard Brooklyn @ 8 pm
12/6 End Times Brooklyn @ 8 pm
12/6 Comedians You Should Know NYC @ Gutter Bar 8 pm
12/8 Comedians You Should Know NYC @ Gutter Bar 8 pm
12/16 Lincoln Lodge Chicago @ 8 pm
12/16 Sábado Night Laughs @ Reggies 8 pm
12/19 Soho House 7 pm
12/22 Best of the Midwest @ Comedy on State Madison 8 pm
12/23 Opening for Tyler Horvath @ Lincoln Lodge 8 pm
12/23 Lincoln Lodge Chicago @ 8 pm

November:

11/17-18 Headlining Front Street Taproom Fargo with Ali Drapos

October:

10/1 Opening for Michael Ian Black @ The Den Theater 7:15 pm
10/13 Laugh Factory Open Books 7:30 pm
10/13 Lincoln Lodge 8 pm
10/14 Iowa City with Elsie Howe
10/15 Lincoln Lodge 8 pm
10/22 Lincoln Lodge 8 pm
10/26 Trash People of Comedy (Trash People of Logan Square fundraiser) 8 pm

September:

9/14-16 Featuring for Jay Jurden @ Dr. Grin’s Grand Rapids
9/20 Comedians You Should Know 8 pm
9/28 Opening for Irene Tu @ The Den Theater
9/29 Lincoln Lodge 10 pm
9/30 Manlike @ Lincoln Lodge 8 pm (Ladylike Fundraiser)

August:

8/5 Laugh Factory @ 7:30 and 9:30 pm
8/10 Tight Ship @ Half Sour 8 pm
8/11 Laugh Factory 7:30 pm
8/11 Don’t Tell Comedy 8 pm
8/12 Limelight @ Lincoln Lodge 7:30 pm
8/14 Feature for Meg Indurti and Sohrab Fohrouzesh @ Zanie’s 8 pm
8/16 Laugh Factory @ 8 pm
8/18 Laugh Factory @ 7:30 pm
8/19 Laugh Factory @ 7:30 pm
8/25 Don’t Tell Columbus featuring for Sean Patton 8 pm
8/26 Don’t Tell Columbus featuring for Sean Patton 8 pm

June:

6/2 Lincoln Lodge Mainstage @ 8 pm
6/9 Don’t Tell Comedy @ 8 pm
6/11 Lincoln Lodge @ 8 pm
6/16 Run the Light Comedy Show @ Catalyst Ranch 8 pm
6/16 West of Cali Comedy Show @ The Continental 9 pm
6/17 Laugh Factory @ 7 pm
6/22 RAD @ Graham Cracker Comics 8 pm
6/26 Laugh Factory @ 8 pm

May:

5/6 Uptown Taproom @ 8 pm
5/13 Laugh Factory @ 9 pm and 11 pm
5/14 Laugh Factory @ 9 pm
5/23 Laugh Factory 7:30 pm
5/24 Comedians You Should Know @ Timothy O’Tooles 8 pm
5/27 Laugh Factory 9 pm
5/30 Second City 10 Dollar Comedy 8:30 pm
5/30 Headlining Chicago Underground Comedy 9 pm
5/31 Laugh Factory 8 pm

April:

4/1 Green Mill 3 pm
4/3 Hosting for Alex Dragicevich at Zanie’s Chicago 8 pm
4/12 JFL audition at Comedians You Should Know @ Timothy O’Toole’s 8 pm
4/19 Hosting for Tommy Brennan at Zanie’s Chicago 8 pm
4/22 Hosting Elise Fernandez + Kenya Elan @ Color Club 8 pm
4/26 Humboldt Jungle 8 pm
4/28 Opening for Andrew Collin 10 pm @ iO Theater