Dhaya Lakshminarayanan

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Dhaya Lakshminarayanan is an American comedian, performance artist, TV host,^[1][2] and storyteller.^[3] She has performed at venues such as San Francisco's Asian Art Museum,^[4] the San Jose Museum of Art,^[5] the Siren Theater,^[6][7] San Francisco's Punchline Comedy Club and Cobb's Comedy Club, the Brava Theatre,^[8][9] Throckmorton Theatre,^[10] and others. She has also performed at comedy festivals such as SF Sketchfest 2015^[11] and SF Sketchfest 2020;^[12] the Desi Comedy Fest, America's only South Asian comedy festival;^[13][14] and the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival.^[15] In 2019, Lakshminarayanan, Will Durst, and W. Kamau Bell appeared as guests on KQED in regard to the controversial proposed closure of the historic San Francisco Punchline Comedy Club.^[16] The same year, she regularly opened for Greg Proops at the Punchline.

Lakshminarayanan has appeared on radio shows such as NPR's Snap Judgment,^{[17][18][19][20]} on which she has appeared seven times,^[21] and been featured on CBS's Bay Sunday with Tracy Humphrey.^[22] She is the former host of High School Quiz Show, a public television program created at Boston’s WGBH, which premiered in March 2010.^[23] In 2016, KQED named her one of their 20 Women to Watch.^[24] In 2019, SFist named her as one of their 13 San Francisco Standup Comedians to Go See Now.^[25]