Katy Franco is a Puerto Rican actress, celebrity, and screamingly funny stand-up comic, an author, a certified laughter leader, and a unique inspirational speaker. Performing in English or Spanish, she has appeared throughout the USA and Puerto Rico as well as in Venezuela and Argentina. Her acting credits include dramatic and comedic roles in the theater, soap-operas, films and mini-series (with an award for "best supporting actress"). She has done stand-up comedy in Hollywood's most famous nightclubs, including the Laugh Factory on Sunset Strip, the Improv on Melrose and the Ice House in Pasadena. She was a recipient of the 2012 Golden Laughter Award (Rire D'Or) from the International School of Laughter in France for her promotion of laughter as an aid to the treatment of cancer.

As a breast cancer survivor, she has appeared on stage and in countless news programs, magazine articles and newspaper stories, for the purpose of teaching people how to deal with cancer. With her husband Ken Phillips, she co-wrote the book CHEMORELLA, a Cinderella story about beating cancer and seeing your dreams come true. Her offbeat experiences as a breast cancer patient became a one-woman show called The Breast Years of My Life (in English) aka Sacando Pecho (in Spanish). As a keynote speaker, she weaves stand-up comedy, laughter therapy, a narrated mime presentation of CHEMORELLA, and her own true story into a powerful, hysterical show that makes audiences laugh and cry.