Jill Benjamin:

Jill Benjamin is from Chicago and performs with Saturday Night Live’s Seth Meyers in their two-person show called Pick-ups & Hiccups at theaters and universities all over the country. Since 1999, they performed runs of their show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Singapore Comedy Festival, and on the West End in London. Benjamin also performed her one-woman show Playing Dumb with Jill Benjamin (a Second City Theatrical Production), which received "Critic’s Choice" from the Chicago Reader, at The Apollo Theater, Chicago, and at the Metropolis Theater, Arlington Heights. In 1998, Benjamin lived in Amsterdam, Holland, and performed with Boom Chicago, an American-based comedy theater. She is co-founder of the improv group Full Frontal Comedy at Indiana University and performed at both Improv Olympic and Second City in Chicago. She lives in Los Angeles now and continues to write and produce her own shows.