Lauren Weedman—a theater performer who parlayed a 15-minute piece at On the Boards into an off-Broadway show in 2001, a comic whose credits include Arrested Development and The Daily Show, an actor who was one of the best things about the HBO series Looking—could sleep onstage, and I’d be riveted. She is intense, and a spaz, and unbelievably funny.
Lauren Weedman Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, her newest piece of writing brought to life at ACT, is a one-woman show described in press materials as a “Jungian fever dream” about heartbreak, betrayal, and being a mom who’s also an artist. It features an alter ego Weedman has developed in previous works, a variety-show host named Tammy Lisa (which longtime fans know is the name Weedman was given when she was born, before she was adopted and her name was changed).
