Comedian Jen Kober, a small town girl who is big time funny, will bring her act to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College on Monday, Jan. 26, at 8 p.m. Kober’s performance, which will be held in the Sullivan Lounge of Le Fer Hall, is free and open to the public.

Originally from Lake Charles, La., Jen Kober has bounded onto the national stage bringing crowds to their feet with her original blend of stand-up, story telling, and improvised rock-n-roll comedy. Her hard-hitting hour of comedy is phenomenally funny as Kober commands the stage and dares you not to laugh.

Classically trained at The Theatre School of DePaul University in Chicago, Jen Kober is also an accomplished actress. Kober’s original one-woman show, “sUbcIty,” was the winner of The Director’s Choice Award at The Kennedy Center Theatre Festival. She has studied improvisation at both Second City and Improv Olympic, and she has toured successfully with her improvised one-woman shows, “JUNK IN MY TRUNK” and “MY BIG FAT COMEDY SHOW.“

Kober was the runner up in the MySpace “Stand Up/Sit Down Comedy Challenge,” which aired on both TBS and as part of Comic Relief 2006 on HBO. In 2007, she appeared on Showtime’s “White Boyz in the Hood,” Lifetime’s improvised sitcom “Love Spring International,” and “Comics Unleashed.” She was also the host of “Up For Laughs” on TBS, which was sponsored by Sierra Mist. In 2008, Kober appeared in Jamie Kennedy’s new comedy documentary “Heckler,“ she was a featured comedian on “Oxygen’s 25iest: Celebrity Bad Girls Gone Good,” and she headlined at more than 180 colleges across the country.

For more information about Jen Kober’s performance at SMWC, contact Jeff Malloy, director of campus life, at 812-535-5219, or Cveta Picarova, assistant director of campus life, at 812-535-5173. More information about Jen Kober is available online at www.JenKober.com or www.Myspace.com/jenkober.