Elena Azzoni has performed her written and comedic stage work at various venues throughout New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. In November 2007, her one-woman show, This Is the Way I Pray: Confessions of a Yearning Heart on a Sugar High, received standing ovations each night of its sold-out run at BAX Theater in Brooklyn, NY. She also appeared as a “Straight Coach” in a comedy sketch on the Logo Channel, and in the debut issue of the I Heart Brooklyn Girls calendar. Elena received an MFA from New College, and a BA in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies from UMASS, Amherst. She currently lives in Paris, France.
In other words…
I will fight you for food. I sleep through parties. I love my family and friends. I have a celebrity crush on Jeff Garlin. And Sofía Vergara, but who doesn’t? I love Scrabble, but I’m bad at it. I cat-sit. I make a mean chocolate chip cookie. I tried to go to the top of the Eiffel Tower but I panicked on the second level, swallowed my gum, turned back around and waited for my friend on the ground, where humans belong. I want to belong. I want everyone to like me. My mom said I would grow out of that. She lied. There is a Janet Jackson back-up dancer that lives inside of me. She cuts hair on the side.
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