birthday mode
happy happy !!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!! hahahah! I’m laughing alone in my room. Greetings from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where I turned 22, 28, 31, 33, and now 34. Yes it’s my 5th fringe birthday, how special is that?? 5 beautiful birthdays in dreamy Scotland…
Each birthday is sooo vivid to me — I remember turning 22, having sex in a stairwell with a scottish guy, staying up til 7am drinking hard cider every night, passing out show flyers during the day. I had just graduated college and had no idea what was next. I had never even thought about trying standup comedy. I’d never even seen an uncircumcised dick but made sure to remedy that quickly! It was an extra special summer because I met the wickedly talented Mitra Jouhari, who became family and is still one of my besties to this day. I’ll never forget walking past the meadows with Mitra one night as she asked what I was going to do when I got to New York. I didn’t have a clue - my dreams felt so out of reach. 6 years later I returned to the fringe with my first show “The Twist? She’s Gorgeous,” turned 28 and took home the award for Best Newcomer.
We were getting ready to tape that show as a Netflix special when the world famous pandemic happened and I couldn’t imagine ever going to the fringe again!!! the small rooms, the sharing of microphones, the kissing!!! There had been so much kissing. Thankfully, in 2022, thanks to modern medicine, I was lucky enough to return to the fringe with a “work in progress” show, turn 31, and wrestle with the existential dread of feeling like I’d lost years of my life. That show became “Come For Me,” which I had planned to bring to the 2023 fringe when a freak medical incident derailed my plans. I took that summer off to get heart surgery following my stroke, and returned in 2024 to finish the run of “Come for Me” and turn 33.
And now I’m here in 2025, turning 34, performing my show BROAD STROKES, which is about that whole wild experience and feeling incredibly lucky to make art out of my life. i am crying ! getting older is the best thing that can happen to you!!!!!!!!!! BITCH. I’m ready for this next year and the next and the next and the next…thanks for being by my side <3 <3 <3
Tickets are almost gone for my run of Broad Strokes at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival— grab the last ones here ◡̈
