Ha Ha Ha’s for the Humor Therapy Fund

Friday, April 25
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Humor Therapy Fund

Comedian and Laugh to Live owner Jeannine Luby worked with SAF in 2005 while earning a master’s degree in communication arts at Marywood University to create the Humor Therapy Fund with the purpose of disbursing annual grants to area nonprofits with a plan for spreading healing laughter and humor in the region.

This year’s grant recipient is the Abington Community Library for their ‘Laughter Lab’ project that will help teens lower anxiety, connect and create through an imrov workshop and humor toolkits. Previous grant recipients include: Volunteers in Medicine, Goodwill Industries, VNA Hospice, Boys and Girls of NEPA, NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Northeast Region PA.


Jeannine Luby

Jeannine Luby is the producer and host of the weekly Uncorked with Funny Wine Girl podcast designed to amplify the voices of women, and the owner of Laugh to Live through which she delivers a message of hope and healing through interactive laughter yoga.


Kathryn Viau

Comedian and playwright Kathryn Viau has delivered her sassy brand of comedy from Georgia to California and now Pennsylvania. Kathryn is happy to brighten up the already electric city of Scranton.



Mary Rapach

Mary Rapach, voted one of NEPA’s funniest comedians as well as winner of the Big, Gay Storyslam, is a co-founder of Scranton Improv and Comedy who leads workshops on stand-up comedy writing and performance. They honed their skills at the Second City Training Center in Chicago and Theatre at Marymount Manhattan College in NYC.



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