A cathartic comedy experience

Generation Ex: Because we all need to break up with something. Delight Factory’s curated comedy show is asking you: What do you need to break up with? Your cell phone carrier, your codependent boss, your procrastination techniques? Bring it with you, and leave it in flames at the end of the night. 

What to expect:

Comedy! The show will be filled with hilarious comedians who will help us laugh at all the insanity. 

Fire Ritual: The show will end with a fire dancer in the yard, and an optional release ritual. You can burn a paper with what you want to release into the fire. In a way, you can throw your new “Ex” into the fire.

Chill Out Space: Stay after the show! Our cozy art installation Vibe Check will be open, and the bar area is perfect for more conversations and more laughter. 

Schedule

7:00 PM Doors
7:30 PM Opening ritual
7:45 PM Comedy show begins
9:10 PM Show ends with fire ritual
9:25 PM Reception
10:00 PM Close

It will be a memorable night, made better by your attendance!
Generation Ex is produced by comic/filmmaker Meghan Scibona, with Delight Factory.

Comics

Headliner: Gary Simons

Gary Simons is a comedian and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. He’s been on the road opening for Mike Birbiglia, Roy Wood Jr, Gary Gulman, and Sam Jay. In 2024, he was selected as a Comic to Watch in the New York Comedy Festival @garyfromconnecticut

Esther Chen

Esther Chen is a stand-up comedian and actor from Taiwan. She is seen on HBO, Hulu, Amazon, FX, NBC, Comedy Central, Buzzfeed, HBO Max and MTV. She is also the dialect coach for Mr. Robot Seasons 2&3 and contributed to the translations on the show. Most recently, Esther recurred on the new Sex and the City show-- And Just Like That, shot a promo for Jerry Seinfeld’s Netflix special “23 Hours to Kill,” and guest starred on Law and Order: Organized Crime. She has performed at the American Embassy in Taiwan, a bakery in Chinatown, and also a Jewish cemetery. @theestherchen

Maria DeCotis

Maria DeCotis is a NYC based comedian, actress, and writer from Fayetteville, Georgia where she famously Christmas caroled for Big Boi at age 12. She has been featured in New York Magazine, Vogue, Rolling Stone. You might know Maria from Comedy Central, or from opening for Mike Birbiglia on his show The New One. @mariadecotis

Carley Moore

This is Carley’s fourth appearance at Delight Factory. She’s new to stand up, but old to everything else. Carley is the author of Heart Less, Panpocalypse, The Not Wives, 16 Pills, and The Stalker Chronicles and just back from her European book tour that started and ended in Berlin. She’s also a professor at NYU and released an album called Tiny Techno with Jason Nunes. You can find her on Insta @fragmentedsky, blogging on Substack, and now on Spotify at Tiny Techno. Carley came from Berlin in January where she was trying to escape this country. @fragmentedsky 

Kiera Moran

Kiera is a writer, comedian, playwright, and actor from Rye, NY. Her play, LIKEWISE, went up at the New York Theater Festival in January 2025. She has trained at Stella Adler Studio and the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York, the British American Drama Academy in London, and Faust International Youth Theater in Hong Kong. Kiera has been performing stand-up in New York since 2022.  You can find her on Instagram @kieramoran. @kieramoran

Katie Schindelheim

Katie Schindelheim is a Los Angeles based stand up comedian, writer, and actress. She has performed all over the country at places like Stand Up NY, Caroline's on Broadway, the Comedy Store, and the Hollywood Improv. When she isn't making people laugh, she's aggressively playing trivia at her local bar. @theurbanneurotic

Meghan Scibona

Meghan Scibona produces this show, and is a comic, director, writer, producer. She has lived in Los Angeles for the past 3 years but can’t give up on New York, and pops in a lot. She recently performed at The Icehouse in Pasadena, Hollywood Improv, The Crow in Santa Monica, 3 Clubs in Hollywood and here at Delight Factory in Brooklyn. Also, in someone’s apartment and a romance bookstore! She is obsessed with seasonal produce and excited that rhubarb season has begun. @meghanscibona

Host: Gloria Alexander

Hailing (not Satan, relax) from Salem, Massachusetts, Gloria Alexander is a Los Angeles based standup comic that regularly performs all around the city and regularly overshares on Instagram. @gloriaisfunny

Fire Ritual

Elke Dehner

Elke recently left her job as the director of marketing and communications at the Rubin Museum of Art. She is the co-founder of Delight Factory, an art gallery, performance space and creative prototyping place of wonder and delight. @chaiselongue8