About Us

The Four Corners Comedy Festival Started in 2017 in Cortez, Colorado at the Historic Sunflower Theatre with 13 comics from Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. In 2018, we did two different events- one at our original location in Cortez and a new one at the Historic Henry H. Strater Theatre in Durango, Colorado. We had 31 comics from all over that year. In 2019, we had our 3rd Annual Fest in Durango with 71 COMICS! Covid-19 threw our plans for 2020 into reverse but we came back for 2021 and had two venues. We are going big this year and doing things theater style, featuring co-headliners Adam Dominguez and Irma Ruiz!

Jill Carlson is the creator and owner of the Four Corners Comedy Festival, LLC. Jill is a Colorado local and a graduate of Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO. She has been producing live entertainment for a variety of audiences since 2006. She is also the creator of The Drunken Comedy Spelling Bee, the Co-Creator of Comic Uprising and the Co-Creator of the Toxic Femininity Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. As usual, Jill will be there, being loud, bossing people around and making sure you all enjoy your time there.

David Oakley is the Co-Creator of Comic Uprising and the Co-Producer of the Four corners Comedy Festival. He is currently in Atlanta, GA, running Comic Uprising East but will be coming back to produce the 5th Annual Four Corners Comedy Festival!