Four to perform in Maine Comedy Event at Johnson Hall Nov. 11

GARDINER — Maine Event Comedy will present a showcase of New England comedians 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11 at Johnson Hall. Among those performing will be Maine’s Tuck Tucker and Colby Bradshaw, along with Boston’s Mariel Cabral and Janet McNamara.

Tucker is a founding member of Portland’s Running with Scissors improv group and was a finalist on HBO’s Lucky 21 Comedy Showcase. He’s performed at the Hartford Funny Bone, the Rhode Island Comedy Connection and the Comedy Nest in Montreal. Cabral is a New England native, who’s performed in the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, the Chicago Women’s Funny Festival and as a semi-finalist in the Boston Comedy Festival.

Bradshaw has worked at New York CIty’s Gotham Comedy Club. He took first place at Empire’s Comedy Winter Classic in Portland and will open for nationally touring comedian Juston McKinney in November. McNamara, who has appeared on NBC’s “American Idol,” won the 2014 BeanTown Comedy Riots and was featured in the Women in Comedy Festival, Boston Comedy Festival, and Burbank Comedy Festival.

Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center is at 280 Water St. For ticket information, visit www.johnsonhall.org or call 207-582-7144.