The geography of Sadie C’s August schedule says something about where she has been doing her real work. The Los Angeles-based actress and standup comedian takes the stage at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank on August 23 and at the San Gabriel Valley Comedy Festival in Arcadia on August 26, where she is featured in the 9PM showcase. Neither venue is the one most people picture first when they think of Los Angeles comedy.
She came to standup from acting, and the sequence matters. In a February 2026 profile published by ShoutoutLA, Sadie C described the path as unplanned: she was already working as an actress when people around her started remarking on how naturally funny she was, she began performing casually, and eventually the material started arriving on its own. Her professional profile lists screen credits going back to 2013, including Cobra Kai: Vietnam Vengeance, and her early casting drew heavily on her linguistic range, which covers Mandarin, Japanese, Taiwanese, and English. By her own account, April 2026 brought a commercial for Apple.
Her sets take on the friction of being an Asian American woman in rooms that have already made up their minds. A show she performed at the Ice House in Pasadena, titled “Do I Look Like A Duolingo Owl To You,” examined the pattern of men engaging with her ethnicity as a defining feature rather than engaging with her as a person, material she described in the ShoutoutLA interview as a gentle roast. The audience, as she noted, included a significant portion of the men the set was about. The set landed. It ran eight minutes.
The stage has kept pace with the standup. At the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival, Sadie C led the production of “Her Rage,” her first time carrying a theatrical work in the lead role. This year’s Fringe brought a different kind of challenge: a supporting role in “Two Sides of the Same Coin,” a world premiere drama following two teenage girls managing unexpected pregnancies with limited support. She also runs a podcast, “Ecobitch Actress,” covering acting, race, and the everyday mechanics of building a career in the entertainment industry. Her professional credits and standup reel are at her IMDB profile.
The August Shows
The San Gabriel Valley Comedy Festival returns for its second year August 23 through 29, hosted at Astronaut City Comedy Club & Karaoke Bar in Arcadia, a comedy and entertainment venue that opened in 2025. The 2026 edition pairs headliners with major network and streaming credits, including Aparna Nancherla, Brian Kiley, Ahmed Bharoocha, Erik Escobar, and Kiki Yeung, with nearly 60 selected comedians from Southern California and beyond performing across curated showcases during the week. Sadie C is among the featured performers, with a set on August 26 at 9PM. Full festival information and scheduling are at sangabrielvalleycomedyfest.com, and tickets for individual shows are through the San Gabriel Valley Comedy Festival Eventbrite page.
Her Flappers engagement puts her at a different kind of room. Flappers Comedy Club, at 102 East Magnolia Boulevard in downtown Burbank, has been part of the Los Angeles comedy scene since 2010, running nightly shows across its main room, Yoo Hoo Room, and bar stage. August at Flappers traditionally coincides with the annual Burbank Comedy Festival, which draws comedians from across the country to the venue each year for a week of showcases, panels, and headliner sets. Her show is on August 23; tickets and listings are available through the club’s website directly.
The circuit she has been building across, from the Ice House in Pasadena to Astronaut City in Arcadia to Flappers in Burbank, runs along a corridor of the Los Angeles comedy scene that does not attract the same coverage as the rooms that tend to come up in headline roundups. For a comedian whose material is largely about the experience of being sorted into someone else’s frame, the choice of stages feels consistent with the work itself.