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September 27, 2024 at 7:30PM

This performance is 90 minutes including opening act with no intermission.

Experience comedian Maria Bamford live on stage in BroadStage’s first ever stand-up comedy presentation! Known for her deeply personal and experimental comedy about mental illness, Maria Bamford has appeared on late-night talk shows, Netflix, ABC, Comedy Central, and in various voiceover roles. She is the first female comic to have two half-hour Comedy Central Presents specials, and has earned praise from the likes of Stephen Colbert, who named her as his “favorite comedian on earth,” and Judd Apatow, who says she is “the funniest woman in the world.”

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Maria Bamford is revered for her deeply personal and experimental comedy about mental illness. She starred in the surreal, semi-autobiographical Netflix comedy series Lady Dynamite, about a comedian who suffers a nervous breakdown, and is the star of three unconventional hour-long stand-up specials: Weakness is the Brand, Old Baby and Maria Bamford, the special, special, special! Maria was the first female comic to have two half-hour Comedy Central Presents specials and starred alongside Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis and Brian Posehn in the Comedy Central series The Comedians of Comedy and Netflix’s Comedians of Comedy: The Movie. She also created and starred in the cult hit web series The Maria Bamford Show, in which she plays all the characters. Maria is often recognized for her prolific voiceover work, including characters on Big Mouth, BoJack Horseman, Summer Camp Island, Adventure Time, Talking Tom and Friends, Bob’s Burgers, Legend of Korra, Puss in Boots, CatDog and PBS’s Emmy-winning series Word Girl. She also stars as Tilly Mulch in Team Coco’s scripted podcast Frontier Tween. Maria played DeBrie Bardeaux on Netflix’s Arrested Development and recurred on the ABC hit series Fresh off the Boat. She is the 2014 winner of the American Comedy Award for Best Club Comic. Maria’s late night appearances include CONAN, The Tonight Show, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Late Night with Seth Meyers.

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