Lauren Weedman
Santa Fe Armory for the Arts
(Tickets: General $18, Students & Seniors $12)
Keeping in the same trend as her award winning semi autobiographical theatre pieces Rash and Wreckage (featured in the 2005 Revolutions Festival), Bust finds the former correspondent of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart reporting from a new location: The LA County Penal system. As her life careens wildly between her (sometimes) paying work in Hollywood and her ongoing volunteer gig in the LA County Jail, so does this volatile one woman show move electrically between the bars of a women’s prison and the bars of Weedman’s psyche. “Lauren Weedman [is] the funniest woman alive.” - The Stranger (Seattle) “breathtaking … a female Robin Williams.” - LA Weekly About Lauren Weedman Lauren Weedman made her television debut on Comedy Central’s Emmy Award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in 2001 as a featured correspondent. It was at that same time that Lauren was a regular on NPR’s national political satire show Rewind, and appeared in her solo show Homecoming, off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre. She has been writing, producing, and performing her signature auto-biographical theatrical work for years, including Rash and Wreckage, which has brought her tremendous reviews and awards. This year, Lauren appeared as a lead character along with Eddie Griffin in Pryor Offenses, a half-hour pilot for Showtime based on Richard Pryor’s life. “Weedman… has seemingly swallowed a cast of hundreds.” - Seattle Weekly “… excels in its vivid prison segments and its soft-target but rib-tickling satirical snippets and is on track to be one of Weedman’s best shows.” - Seattle Times
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