Annette Mullaney is a New York-based stand-up comic who got her start in the Bay Area, where she was named a “Comic to Catch” by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her sharp, personal comedy draws from being raised in the Midwest, living in Syria for several years, and work as a software engineer, translator, journalist, and former PhD candidate at Stanford. She has built a large online following with tens of millions of views across platforms, performs internationally across the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and creates comedy in both English and Arabic.