Meet Nivedita Kulkarni, creator of the biggest listserv for women in comedy

Kulkarni in a 2013 interview. via screenshot As this train chugs ever closer and more miserably toward Trump’s America, Brokelyn’s cool jobs series is focusing its energies on NYC organizers whose work, whether directly or indirectly, is helping to prevent the president-elect’s rhetoric from becoming manifest. Today, in the entertainment biz corner of that effort, we bring you Nivedita Kulkarni. She’s a Chelsea-based performer and comedian, and the founder and CEO of Nuva Comedy, a seven-year-strong startup whose principal expression is an e-mail listserv, informally referred to as the “Nuva Ring,” that goes out to thousands of lady comics based in NYC, LA, Chicago, SF and beyond. The listserv is free and open to join. And as with any e-mail chain that connects industry professionals online, there’s a risk of overusing the reply-all button, especially since women of the Ring exchange e-notes about everything from industry contacts to extra Beyoncé tickets. But with Nuva, reply-all isn’t a pox — it’s… Read More

Meet Nivedita Kulkarni, creator of the biggest listserv for women in comedy : Brokelyn