Katie Halper's admittedly 3rd person biography

Raised on the mean streets of New York City's Upper West Side, Katie Halper is a comic, writer, blogger, satirist and filmmaker based in New York. Katie co-founded Laughing Liberally, a political comedy group and is an artistic director of The Tank, a non-profit performing and visual arts space in Tribeca. Katie performs comedy throughout the country and can be seen at venues including Town Hall, Symphony Space, and The Culture Project in New York, and at the Net Roots Nation (the Convention formerly known as Yearly Kos) in Chicago and Las Vegas.

Katie's political satire appears regularly on the Huffington Post, Alternet, Nerve.com's Scanner, Working Life, Culture Kitchen, the political comedy site 23/6, and Participant Production's Social Action and media website Takepart.com.Katie's award-winning documentary, La memoria es vaga, about historical memory in Spain, has been screened throughout Spain and the U.S. Katie is currently editing her next documentary, Another Camp Is Possible, about Camp Kinderland and their "Peace Olympics," the camp's non-violent and socially conscious alternative to Color Wars.