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Zainab Johnson

Feb 20, 2025

07:30 PM

Hancher Auditorium, Strauss Hall / Cabaret

141 Park Road, Iowa City, IA 52242

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Zainab Johnson sitting backwards in a chair with her arms crossed across the top. Club Hancher text treatment in upper left corner

TICKETS
Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m.
Adults $20
Students & Youth $10

Part of Hancher's 52nd Season

Part of Club Hancher

A regular at the comedy clubs of Los Angeles and New York City, a comic adds Club Hancher to her list.

Zainab Johnson’s comedy is based on her unique point-of-view, which was shaped as she was growing up in Harlem as one of 13 siblings in a black Muslim family. Johnson’s first special, Hijabs Off, premiered on Amazon Prime Video. She debuted on late night on NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers and has had breakout appearances on HBO’s All Def Comedy, NBC’s Last Comic Standing, NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! and was one of  "Variety's Top 10 Comics to Watch for 2019."

“Her performance is a throwback to standup’s Golden Age, free of the cynicism that homogenizes so many modern acts into identical smoothies of low-hanging fruit.”  The New York Sun

HANCHER EVENT PARTNERS
Vernon Hein Fund

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