Comedienne, actress, singer, flutist and full-figured model, Crystal P., while growing up in Royal Oak Township, always knew she wanted to be a part of the entertainment industry. That thought wasn't too farfetched seeing that she was voted the Class Clown of her graduating class at Oak Park High School. In 2004, persuaded by her best friend, Crystal P. fled Michigan to Los Angeles for an audition and ultimately got her feet wet on the stage of the Laugh Factory and was bitten by the comedy bug. This was her confirmation that comedy was indeed her calling. She returned to Michigan and began hitting every stage imaginable.

A year later, Crystal P. was convinced to audition to be the opening act for the P. Diddy’s Bad Boys of Comedy at the Fox Theater in Detroit. Her test was to compete against five other comedians and make the listeners of FM 98 WJLB laugh via the radio airwaves. Crystal P. passed this test with flying colors taking 83% of the votes cast to be the opening act and taking the title Royal Crown’s Crowned Comedian.

A year after that, Crystal P. received numerous phone calls from her friends and even her mother advising her to compete to open for Steve Harvey at the Fox Theater in Detroit. Wrestling with the decision to compete, Crystal P. received a call from Mix 92.3’s radio personality, Ramona Prater, urging her to compete. Knocking off 75 of Detroit’s funniest and best, Crystal P. was given the title Detroit’s New Queen of Comedy and her first major paycheck. With the title, Crystal P. had enough credibility to be booked at all of the major comedy clubs, colleges, churches and private parties in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York and even Canada.

When Crystal P. isn’t performing as a comedienne, she’s on stage in other capacities….actress and model! Crystal P. was featured in the hit gospel stage play, Unequally Yoked followed by another hit gospel stage play, In My Father’s House and then The Night I Fell in Love. She was also in the comedy/murder mystery, A Killer Workout and was in Honor and Shame where she portrayed and delivered a stunning performance as Nina Simone taking her out of her comedic element. She’s been in several independent films and more recently appeared as an extra in George Clooney’s film, Up in the Air.

Crystal P. also strutted her stuff on New York’s catwalk for the Art of Curves Fashion show, which benefitted Mary Ida Vandross’ Divabetics Foundation and in Rodney Howell’s Hairshion Hair and Fashion show which benefitted the cause for AIDS. She has modeled for Thické Madam Boutique and has appeared in several ads for the store.

Crystal P. picked up another title recently….”radio show sidekick.” She’s known as the Cheap Trick Queen on the Kickin’ it wit Kelia Karson syndicated radio show.

Crystal P. has appeared on Showtime at the Apollo, NBC’s Last Comic Standing and will be featured on BET ’s A Time to Laugh with Vickie Winans. Other comedy credits include being part of the Two Jokers and A Queen Comedy Tour, The Hood Kings of Comedy and being chosen as the Washington DC Regional Finalist for the Gospel Superfest.

The motto she lives by is: The purpose of life is to have a life of purpose. And her favorite scripture is Proverbs 17:22 – A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.