Marcela Onyango

Marcela is a Luo stand-up comedian and writer based in Brooklyn. Marcela is the founder of Feel the News, a news destination with a sense of humor and anarchy which has amassed over 77k followers on TikTok. Marcela is currently a columnist for Shado Mag and hosts a monthly show, Feel the News at Friends and Lovers in Brooklyn. 

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Marcela has performed at the Apollo, Black Women in Comedy Festival, Red Clay Comedy Festival, Laughing Devil Cup Festival, and Ladies of Laughter tour. 

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Marcela's pilot “Trying to Live” was a second rounder in the 2021 Sundance Episodic Lab, a semifinalist in the 2021 BlueCat screenplay competition and a quarterfinalist at the 2022 ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition. 

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Marcela's poetry has been published on Muchacha Fanzine!