Announcing a new platform to take comedy writing classes!
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How to Say You're Afraid of Commitment in 140 Characters or Less Wins Best of Week
If you missed my performance of How to Say You’re Afraid of Commitment in 140 Characters or Less you still have at least 2 more chances to see it. I won FronteraFest’s Short Fringe Best of Week and will perform an encore show on Saturday, January 25th at the Hyde Park Theater. If you can’t make it to that one, I’ll be performing another show on February 29th at The Institution Theater.
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Debuting My First One-Woman Show!
On January 23, I’m debuting my first one-woman show: How To Say You’re Afraid of Commitment in 140 Characters Or Less, by Valerie Nies during FronteraFest’s Short Fringe.
Show Description:
A standup/one-woman hybrid performance that answers questions like: Do our wounded inner children make all of our relationships polyamorous? Writer and performer Valerie Nies (McSweeney's, Reductress, Out of Bounds Comedy Festival) explores the humor in breakups, relationship self-help, and all that she learned from finally finishing the book Attached. Buy Ticketst she learned from finally finishing the book Attached. Part of FronteraFest’s Short Fringe. Buy Tickets
Originally published in Skirt Magazine. A strange publication that paid.
7 Essentials to Pack on Your Spiritually Transformative Solo Trip
Those energy drink rebates you’ve ignored on your dining room table for the past month. If you simply fill them out, Redbull will send you $4.63 in 8 to 10 weeks. That’s like 1 night’s rent at a rice field bungalow in Ubud, Indonesia. Come on! You’ve got the time to kill! It’s a 25-hour flight to Bali, and SkyMall doesn’t exist anymore. Throw those bad boys in your carry-on.
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New McSweeneys! I, A WHITE FEMALE TRUMP VOTER, LOOK FORWARD TO THE UNITED STATES’ IMPENDING WAR WITH NORDSTROM
I wrote this monologue over a half hour lunch break, and it got picked up the same day, while the Nordstrom news was still fresh: I, A WHITE FEMALE TRUMP VOTER, LOOK FORWARD TO THE UNITED STATES’ IMPENDING WAR WITH NORDSTROM.