ABOUT LAUREN
Lauren LoGiudice is a comedian, actor, award-winning filmmaker, and author of Amazon Kindle Best Seller Inside Melania: What I Know About Melania Trump by Impersonating Her. Her work has been featured by The New York Times, BBC, Bust Magazine, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Hyperallergic, among others. Her writing has been called “criminal.” Her TV and film credits include Veep, Brave the Dark and Galaxy360. Moth StorySLAM Champ. You can listen to her comedy album, Misfits: A Comedy Album, as well as select tracks from Melania Trump’s Rockin’ Right-Wing Christmas Album, on all major streaming platforms.
Currently, Lauren continues to create comedy through the lens of her unique personal experience with stand up clips and deeply flawed and painfully idiosyncratic character videos on every platform that will let her, while producing her podcast Misfits Makin’ It on Radio Misfits Podcast Network.
She lives in New York City where she downplays every great thing that’s ever happened to her.
You + Laughter = Better World
If you feel like you’ll never fit in or find people who totally get you, then you've come to the right gal.
I've been an outsider for most of my life, never quite fitting into any of the communities that I frequent. I grew up in an Italian-American family, but looked like a Nordic princess. I walked into prestigious Wesleyan with a Queens swagger and accent. I was an oddball chemistry teacher more interested in social justice than experiments. And now as a matter of habit I continue to defy traditional labels in what I create.
I've spent my life being the odd one out. And I want to help you laugh about what's hard in this world.
Wanna join me?
You wouldn’t know by looking at me:
1) I did a brief stint as a high school Chemistry teacher in Oakland, CA and, as an unconscious homage to Fire Marshall Bill, almost blew up the classroom several times.
2) I’m the last person on earth who rents videos from both the New York Public Library and Netflix DVD. (I recommend the old movie reels at the Library for the Performing Arts.)
3) I routinely cut out articles from newspapers and magazines and MAIL to people who I think would be interested.
4) I speak on college campuses about Vintage Hollywood LGBTQ+ history.
5) I’m was raised in a 100% Italian American family and predominantly Italian-American neighborhood, so spent my formative years as Gulliver (I’m 5’10”) amongst the Lilliputians.
6) I've lived and worked in many different places around the world, gathering unique skills along the way, like dancing Bharatanatyam, speaking Swahili, and rolling my own pasta.
7) I worked at Restaurant Florent as an overnight host and to make it easier to wrangle the drunk late-night patrons, dressed as a different deranged character every night.
8) A few years ago I found out that I was a donor-conceived kid and that my genetic family is related (maybe) to Princess Diana.
9) I don’t have a text alert or any other notifications on my phone. The only thing the device does is ring!
10) I’m a queer dyke but married a cis-het dude.