Adrienne Truscott
Occupation(s)Choreographer, dancer, stand-up comedian
Websitewww.adriennetruscott.com

Adrienne Truscott is a choreographer, dancer, and stand-up comedian. She won the Edinburgh Comedy Awards Panel Prize[1] and Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe for her show Adrienne Truscott's Asking For It: A One Lady Rape About Comedy. Originally part of a burlesque duo, The Wau Wau Sisters, Asking For It was her first solo comedy show.[2] She also received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2017).[3]

Truscott's show …Too Freedom… premiered at The Kitchen in December 2012.[4]

In 2017, she was appointed as one of three Fringe Ambassadors for the Adelaide Fringe.[5]

Truscott is a 1994 graduate of Wesleyan University.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Edinburgh Comedy Awards Panel Prize". Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Retrieved 16 Jun 2015.
  2. ^ Spring, Alexandra (14 Jan 2015). "Adrienne Truscott: nudity is a very inexpensive and effective costume". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 16 Jun 2015.
  3. ^ "Adrienne Truscott :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts". www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
  4. ^ La Rocco, Claudia (December 10, 2012). "Ennobling Many Forms of Work and Creation". The New York Times.
  5. ^ Staff Writer, Arts Review (3 October 2016). "Adelaide Fringe Announces 2017 Ambassadors". Arts Review. Byte Media. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  6. ^ "Wesconnect - Wesleyan University Alumni - Truscott '94 performs show on rape discourse". Wesleyan University.


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