Check out this year’s crop of New Faces at Montreal’s Just For Laughs, as assembled before their first shows together Wednesday and Thursday, and photographed by Tristan Brand.
Group 1
Left to right: Dewayne Perkins, Matty Ryan, Dan Licata, Shane Gillis, Isabel Hagen, Tyree Elaine, Kevin Iso, Logan Guntzelman. Crouching: Punkie Johnson, Shapel Lacey
Group 2
Top, left to right: Anna Drezen, Jay Jurden, Chanel Ali, Tacarra Williams, Reggie Conquest, Joe Praino, Hannah Einbinder Bottom, left to right: Brad Silnutzer, Opey Olagbaju, Brendan Scannell, Tien Tran
Characters
Left to right: Taylor Ortega, Rachel Pegram, Haley Hepworth, Thomas Whittington, Michael Van Schoick, Alison Dunbar, Michael Churven, George Aivaliotis, Tristan Griffin, Shukri Abdi
Unrepped
Standing, left to right: Janae Burris, Sam Tallent, Sean Grant, Craig Conant, Lael O’Shaughnessy, Napoleon Emill, Jordan Jensen, Tina Friml, Drew Dunn Bottom, left to right: Andrew Stanley, Andrew Murphy
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