Casey Jane Ellison (born March 29, 1988) is an American stand-up comedian, writer and multimedia artist.
Ellison was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, "across the street from the La Brea Tar Pits."
Her mother is a civil rights attorney and her father works in the financial services industry.
In addition to producing new episodes of Touching the Art on location at the New Museum and screening them for the duration of the Triennial, she also created a separate work entitled "It's So Important to Seem Wonderful, Part II," which was a continuation of a work she first screened at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 2012.
The podcast featured in-depth interviews with guests, Louie Anderson, Jessica Williams, Starlee Kine, Tierney Finster, Jordan Firstman, Michelle Badillo, and Chelsea Peretti, about a problem they are facing in their lives.