Our Mission: Stand Up Comedy Productions LLC's brings the best in live standup comedy performances to a variety of ages and audiences. With its talented and top-notch staff of veteran stage directors, comedy show producers, and performers - Stand Up Comedy Productions LLC is your one-stop shop for memorable corporate events, successful live productions, and unique opportunities for reaching the general public with clever mass communication avenues.

Standup Comedy Productions LLC's newest Project is Old Sacramento Hysterical Walk - A comedy tour guided by comedic actors portraying Riverboat Gamblers and Prospectors Coming in April 2004.

We will walk every night.

To book a comedian for Private Parties or Corporate Events, please contact Paul Messier at paul@standupcomedyproductions.com.

Behind the Velvet Curtain:

Maureen Messier: Executive Producer

Maureen Messier received her college education at California State University Sacramento. She joined the Elk Grove Unified School District in 1976.

In 1980, Maureen was promoted to Theatre Arts Program Director at Valley High School. During her tenure, Maureen built an outstanding theatre program and garnered three national awards, as a Center of Excellence in Theatre Education given by the National Council Teachers of English (1987) and consecutive BRAVO CABLE Network National High School Theatre competitions in 1993 and 1994.

In 1988, Maureen served as Education Director for The Sacramento Theatre Company. During her residence, The Sacramento Theatre Company was awarded the California Educational Theatre Associations award for Professional Theatre commitment to Education in 1995.

In 1997, Maureen was hired by Sheldon High School to head the Visual and Performing Arts Department and serve as principal for the school's Theatre Arts program. In her seven years at Sheldon, the theatre program has won numerous festival awards and two national awards for the American High School Theatre Festival, with her students performing at The International Fringe In Edinburgh, Scotland in 2001 and 2004.

In 1997, Maureen was awarded the Outstanding Theatre Educator Award for the state of California.

Maureen has been a board member of the northern and state theatre associations. She has taught at American River College and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and is an adjunct faculty member at Oregon State College. She has been a teacher for the California Arts project, serving as a discipline team member for the Sierra North Arts Project. Maureen has also served on the California Arts Assessment Project and the National Arts Assessment Team.

In her personal world, Maureen is the mother of 4, grandmother of 2 and loves to travel. She has learned through the many hard lessons of life, that laughter is, inded, the best medicine and the best way to live life is by launching a new career that promotes laughter throughout the world.

Maureen can be reached at maureen@standupcomedyproductions.com

Paul J. Messier: Producer

Fresh out of high school in the 1970s, Paul signed a professional baseball contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers and spent four years as a pitcher in the minor leagues. After a career-ending shoulder injury, Paul took up the reins of a successful insurance sales management position generating a strong track record during an eight year run.

He decided in his late twenties to take up a new career path and founded the nightclub Tangents in Bakersfield during the early 1980s. Paul began producing comedy shows at Tangents - originally conceived as a teen dance club - after a strong stand-up comedy performance by David Straussman and his dummy Chuck Wood. Paul then began producing a series of comedy shows in Bakersfield with headliners like David Strassman, Billy Crystal, Howie Mandel, Brad Garret, Kevin Nealon, Fred Wolf, and other Southern California headliners including Michael Winslow, and Shirley Hemphill. After three years, Tangents closed its doors to open up new prospects for the rising show promoter.

HHis friendship with Rick Rockwell - a up and coming comic - lead to a meeting with Mark Anderson, owner of the San Diego Improv. A consulting position with the Improv organization evolved into a General Manager position with the San Diego chapter within a few short weeks. As General Manager of the Improv in San Diego - the club's grosses more than doubled in three years and Paul created many programs still enforced to this day. As general manager Paul had comedians including Dennis Miller, Robin Williams, Jonathan Winters, Larry Miller, Richard Belzer, Kevin Nealon, Richard Jeni, David Spade, Robert Townsend, Paul Riser, Kevin Pollack, Rosie O'Donnell, Keenan Wayans, Ellen DeGeneres and Rob Schnieder just to mention a few, to the San Diego stage during his three-year stint as acting General Manager.

After the Improv, Paul started his own club at the Bahia Resort in San Diego dubbed Comedy Isle and it's headlining act of the club's grand opening was Robert Wuhl. Established comedians including Richard Belzer, Brad Garrett, Michael Winslow, and Johnny Witherspoon graced this club's stage.

When the hotel's management switched gears in entertainment avenues - Paul brought his brother Don Messier into the fold and founded Messier Productions. The brother team of comedy show producers branched off into other areas of comedy show productions at local restaurants in the San Diego area including Croce's, the Sweetwater Restaurant chain in Northern California, Cask and Cleaver restaurant chain, regular venues in various Central Valley of California cities, and two cruise ship lines. Headliners of their shows included Mark Curry, Ellen DeGeneres, Robin Williams, Will Durst, Greg Poops, Bill Maher, Bobby Slayton. After a strong six-year run into the early 1990s - Paul and Don dismantled Messier Productions and Paul continued to produce special events and corporate shows.

With the new resurgence in comedy show attendance in the early 21st century and a new plethora of up and coming talent breaking new ground in stand-up comedy arena - Paul joined Stand Up Comedy Productions LLC to bring his own valued experience in booking the best known (and unknown) talent in the stand-up comedy ranks and generate exceptional and groundbreaking comedy shows to the general public.

Paul can be reached at paul@standupcomedyproductions.com

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