LAUREN WEEDMAN

Lauren Weedman is a writer/performer who is best known for her solo theatre work. (and for her year as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart)
After studying, writing and performing in Amsterdam for five years, Lauren returned to the States with her first play HOMECOMING, which began as a 15-minute performance art piece at On The Boards, Seattle. HOMECOMING was featured at HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado, and went Off Broadway in 2001. HOMECOMING was published in Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2002 . Other solo shows include “Rash” (with music and lyrics by David Russell) “Amsterdam’ (with music and lyrics by James Palmer), “if Ornaments Had Lips’ , and Wreckage’. Her latest play-BUST-about her work as a volunteer at the Los Angeles County Jail, was named ‘best in the arts 2006’ by Seattle Magazine, Boise Weekly and was featured in a cover story by the LA Weekly. Lauren is recipient of a 2007 Alpert/Macdowell Fellowship.  Her first book –“A Woman Trapped in a Womans Body”” was published by Sasquatch Books in October 2007 and is currently being developed into a Pilot by Lauren for Imagine Entertainment and Fox.