Dubomedy

Mina Liccione arrived in Dubai in 2007 and partnered with local comedian Ali Al Sayed to launch Dubomedy on April 1, 2008. The two founders envisioned the organization not merely as a performance company but as an infrastructure-building enterprise for comedy in the Gulf, offering training in stand-up, improv, and sketch comedy from its earliest days. Monday Night Funnies, the UAE's first weekly comedy night, debuted shortly after founding and became a regular platform for regional and resident comics. In 2010 Dubomedy founded Funny Girls MENA, the Middle East's first all-female comedy troupe and touring show. Through the Dubomedy Arts School, thousands of students have trained in comedy disciplines, and the Clowns Who Care Project extended the company's work into social impact programming at hospitals, senior centers, and organizations supporting people with special needs.

Dubomedy spans the full spectrum of live comedy, treating stand-up, improv, and sketch as equally legitimate forms within a single creative ecosystem. Its applied comedy orientation, expressed through the Arts School, Clowns Who Care, and corporate workshops, positions comedy as a vehicle for social connection and personal growth as much as entertainment. The company's bicultural founding, combining Liccione's American performance training with Al Sayed's position as Dubai's first local professional comedian, gave Dubomedy a culturally hybrid identity that speaks to both the expatriate and Emirati communities.

Dubomedy's 2010 founding of Funny Girls MENA, the Middle East's first all-female comedy troupe and tour, made the organization a pioneer for women in regional comedy. The Clowns Who Care Project and the Dubomedy Arts School established comedy as a vehicle for social impact, extending the company's influence well beyond the stage.