A fancier bio, for professional reasons:

Ely Kreimendahl is a Brooklyn-based queer writer, comedian and podcaster, with the unusual background of a long career as a psychotherapist.

Ely is the co-host and producer of Gay Shame Comedy Show (@gayshamecomedy,) a monthly queer stand up comedy show at Union Hall in Brooklyn, NY, and performs all over NYC at venues such as StandUp NY, Littlefield, Union Hall, Greenwich Village Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club, The Stand, Pete’s Candy Store, The Bellhouse & more. Ely was featured in The Knockouts Comedy Festival and SF Sketchfest in 2024. Ely is the host & creator of Shame Spiral Podcast (@podshamespiral,) a comedy +mental health hybrid concoction in which she casually exploits her therapy background to interview fellow comics, writers & artists about all things SHAME.  Ely was a 2022 Lambda Literary Screenwriting Fellow, and a 2021 Resident Comedy Artist at Ars Nova Theater in NYC. Ely currently has an optioned feature screenplay in development- a darkly comedic queer coming of age story set on the day of 9/11- and also has a television series in development with Fish Ladder Productions.

Ely is also a prolific content creator, for her own accounts and on a freelance basis for brands and publications. Her content has been featured on Funny Or Die, Romper, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, Cracked, Vulture, Thirty AF, Kveller, Time Out NY, and more. She regularly posts original jokes, stories and sketches on Twitter, Instagram, Threads and TikTok @elykreimendahl, exploring topics like mental health, parenting, queerness, sobriety, and existential angst, and goes viral more often than is good for her, to be honest.  

TV/Film Literary Management: Chris Bellant at Zero Gravity Management.

"As a New York-based writer with a background as a pyschotherapist, Ely Kriemendahl knows how to mine neuroses for comedy. With a background creating content for Funny or Die and going viral on Twitter on a semi-regular basis…Ely’s hilarious samples find levity in verboten elements of the human experience along with strong nuanced depictions of queer characters."

Tom Dever, Coverfly Sr. Development Executive