Adam Schwartz Artistic Director/Executive Director
Adam Schwartz is a stand-up comedian. This gives him a unique perspective on the world and means he finds the funny in everyday life that others may miss. Adam is a finalist for Winnipeg’s Wackiest Comedian with a Day Job, Rumor’s Funniest Person with a Day Job and has appeared in the Winnipeg Comedy Festival. He is a regular on the Fringe Festival circuit and his show Aspergers: A Tale of a Social Misfit has sold out in many cities.
Adam is also an author of books about Autism for adults like I’ve Got Aspergers, so I’m better than you..: Shh. Don’t tell mom! as well as children’s books such as Ana and the Substitute Teacher about a young autistic girl saving her classmates.
Jenel Shaw Accessibility Consultant
Jenel is a self-taught visual artist who graduated with her masters in Disability Studies from the University of Manitoba. Her dissertation, An Autoethnological Study of Art as a Tool of Empowerment, examined her own experiences with mental illness and disability art. Jenel is a passionate advocate for the disability community, with a focus on accessibility in the arts. Jenel is the executive director of Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba, the Co-Chair of the Manitoba Artist-Run Centres Coalition and sits on various arts boards.
Belinda Ongaro Graphic Designer
Belinda Ongaro aka Arabella Le Rêve (she/her) is a multi-passionate artist and performer who has always enjoyed dabbling in graphic design.
She is honoured and grateful to be Neurohilarity’s go-to designer!
Hailing from Edmonton, Alberta, she is a bunny mom with a Master’s degree in Library Science and a chronically busy life fuelled by whimsy, late-diagnosed ADHD, and a profound inability to say “no. She spends much of her free time devising ways to get on stage, namely by training in heels dance, freestyle, gogo, burlesque, aerial hoop, and singing.