ESTHER CROW has performed in numerous improv and sketch comedy groups in San Francisco and New York, including Killing My Lobster, which won “Best of Fringe” in the 1999 San Francisco Fringe Festival. Her solo show, People Like Us, premiered in the 2001 New York Fringe Festival, and received acclaim in the Village Voice: “…[Crow] writes and performs with charm and compassion.” She is the lead singer of the local garage band, The Electric Mess (www.theelectricmess.com), portraying one of her many characters, Chip Fontaine. Most recently she played multiple roles in two of Trav S.D.’s plays: Willy Nilly, which sold out its 2009 NY Fringe Festival run at Dixon Place, and was part of the Fringe Encore Series at The Actors Playhouse, and Kitsch which ran in November, 2009, at Theater For The New City. “A Toast to Memo”, a short film she wrote and acted in [directed by Mai La Thai], received “Official Honoree” status for the 2010 Webby Awards. In June 2010, she will be premiering her one-woman variety show [directed by Rabeah Ghaffari], “Death is a Scream” at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg.