Mina Liccione

Mina Liccione (born Christina M. Liccione) is an American performing artist, stand-up comedian, writer, and arts educator. She is the co-founder of Dubomedy, a comedy training school and performance platform established in 2008.

Liccione was born in Rochester, New York, and later moved to New York City as a teenager. At the age of three, she was enrolled in dance classes and continued studying dance throughout her childhood and adolescence. She studied dance and theatre in college, attending Marymount Manhattan College on a dance scholarship, and later earned a master's degree in experimental performance from the New College of California. In October 1998, she was cast in the Off-Broadway show Stomp, performing with the New York cast and later touring, and while in San Francisco she attended the Clown Conservatory as part of the San Francisco School of Circus Arts.

Liccione also performed comedy throughout her career, starting with improv comedy as a teen before stumbling into stand-up comedy. In 2008, she moved to Dubai to cofound Dubomedy alongside comedian and producer Ali Al Sayed and pioneer a local comedy scene. She filmed her first one-hour stand-up comedy special entitled Araby by Nature in Dubai in 2017, becoming the first female comedian to do so in the MENA region. Her solo show Growing Up Ringside premiered at the Dubai Comedy Festival in 2021.