An Evening with Emil Wakim
MENA Heritage Month Keynote
Event Details
The Middle Eastern North African Heritage Month Planning Collective presents stand-up comedian, actor, and writer Emil Wakim as the 2025 keynote. Emil was born and raised in Chicago before moving to Bloomington, Indiana for college where he began performing stand-up. This fall, he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live for its milestone 50th season as the first Lebanese-American cast member. Emil made his late-night television debut on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and is featured on Don't Tell Comedy as well as Comedy Central’s Stand-Up Featuring and was selected as a New Face of Comedy at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. Celebrate MENA Heritage Month as Emil performs a 30-minute stand-up routine followed by a moderated Q&A. This event is free and open to the public.
Doors Open at 5 PM.
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-265-2513 (voice only) or email msc@studentaffairs.wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Tuesday, March 4, 2025, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.