As of August 2022, the majority of shows at Comedy Café Berlin are booked by our Booking Committee. You can contact the Committee via email ([email protected]) or our Booking contact form for booking requests or questions.
The Booking Committee consists of:
- Noah Telson (CCB Owner/Programming Director and permanent committee member)
- Josh Telson (CCB Programming Director and permanent committee member)
- Belen Caeiro (2022/2023 committee member)
- Lisa Frischemeier (2022/2023 committee member)
- Rohit Bhatia (2022/2023 committee member)
What is the Booking Committee and how does it work?
The goal of the Booking Committee is to make programming more diverse and give interested people in the community the opportunity to be more engaged in the theatre.
The CCB Booking Committee is a 5-member team (permanent members Noah Telson & Josh Telson as owner/directors of CCB, and 3 rotating members of the community voted in for 1 year terms). The Committee meets regularly to book shows at the theatre. Our House Team shows are booked separately as these teams/shows are directed by Noah Telson and Josh Telson as part of the foundation of the theatre and Training School.
Anyone is eligible to become part of the Booking Committee if they are a member/former member of a CCB House Team OR have produced a show at CCB OR have completed at least Level 3 at The CCB Training School.
Eligible and interested community members are voted on by the CCB community once a year in late spring/early summer. We will post information on the next Booking Committee election in 2023.
For more information on the Booking Committee, you can refer to our info presentation created for the inaugural election. We fully expect the exact work and mandate of the committee to evolve organically as the inaugural 2022/2023 committee begins its work.
The Booking Committee Members
Noah Telson
CCB Programming Director and permanent committee member
Noah is a German American comedian/actor/improviser. In the fall of 2015, he opened Comedy Café Berlin, the city’s first international alternative comedy stage and improv school, an effort which has afforded him the title of “ye generous shepherd of improv teachers” by Will Hines himself. You can see him performing improv with GLB, Tatort auf Englisch, Action Jackson, and the occasional Lee White and the Noah Telsons. He currently teaches and co-directs at The CCB Training School.
Josh Telson
CCB Programming Director and permanent committee member
Josh is a comedian and filmmaker living in Berlin, Germany by way of New York City. He is a co-founder of The CCB Training School, together with his brother Noah, which they created as a way to bring their love of long form improv and sketch comedy to as many people as possible.
You can see Josh on stage every month at Comedy Café Berlin, performing with GLB, SNEAK PREVIEW (improvised movie), The Free Show and many others.
Belen Caeiro
2022/2023 committee member
Lisa Frischemeier
2022/2023 committee member
Lisa is a stand up comedian with a clowning habit, and a producer with a taste for the smart and weird. Lisa currently hosts Witch Hunt: Dangerous Comedy, a variety showcase of feminist comedy at CCB. Lisa is originally from Duisburg; her cookbook collection is definitely bigger than yours.
Rohit Bhatia
2022/2023 committee member
Before he arrived in Berlin, Rohit Bhatia played in a punk band called Kinky ski Munky, and worked as a crime reporter for daily newspapers in Bombay, India. Nowadays, he hosts, produces and performs English comedy shows, much to everyone’s delight.
Fluent in four languages, Rohit’s work as a journalist and writer has been published in three continents. Rohit is Berlin’s first Indian comedian, and currently the only one who performs stand up in German. More about him: www.thebhatia.com