Lauren Weedman: (Playwright and Performer) is a comedic actress, playwright and author. Her works include Rash, which premiered at The Empty Space Theater in Seattle and was awarded Best New Play and Best Solo Performance by The Seattle Times’ Footlight Awards; Wreckage, selected for the New Original Works Festival at REDCAT, The Disney Music Hall; and Homecoming, which began as a 15-minute performance art piece and grew into a full-length show that ultimately toured with Seattle Repertory Theatre and was featured at HBO’s U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado and later off-Broadway in New York City. Television credits include The Daily Show, True Blood, United States of Tara, Reno 911, VH1’s Best Week Ever, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Talk Show with Spike Feresten and as Horny Patty on HBO’s Hung. She also performed with Eddie Griffin in Pryor Offenses, a half-hour pilot for Showtime based on Richard Pryor’s life, and a pilot for Oxygen based on her web episodes Our Bodies, Myself. Film credits include Imagine That, Date Night and Judd Apatow’s The Five Year Engagement starring Jason Segal. Weedman’s first book A Woman Trapped in a Woman’s Body: (Tales from a Life of Cringe), is a collection of comedic essays recently adapted by Weedman into a pilot for the Fox Network. Bust was voted Best of the Arts by The Seattle Times, Seattle Magazine and Boise Weekly. For Bust she received the Alpert Award in the Arts for Playwriting. She continues to develop her show Family Values (aka NO…YOU SHUTUP), originially commissioned by Boise Contemporary Theater and later featured as a part of Los Angeles’s REDCAT NOW Festival. Weedman lives in Santa Monica by the Baja Fresh.  

The New York Times said of Weedman, “Like Bob Newhart in his early stand-up routines, she's particularly good at making her points – and making us feel clever. Most important, she's just plain funny, physically and verbally.” less is a comedic actress, playwright and author. Her works include Rash, which premiered at The Empty Space Theater in Seattle and was awarded Best New Play and Best Solo Performance by The Seattle Times’ Footlight Awards; Wreckage, selected for the New Original Works Festival at REDCAT, The Disney Music Hall;... more