Kate Clinon at the Tralf Giveaway
Delightful lesbian comedianKate Clinton is going to be performing at the Tralf in Buffalo NY on Thursday, June 12 at 8 PM.
We have 2 free tickets to give to some lucky person to enjoy the show with someone special! Normally, admission is $20 in advance, or $22 at the door.
All that you have to do to enter the contest is to email info@eriegaynews.com with a subject of Kate Clinton at the Tralf contest by Sunday, June 9 and you will be entered in our drawing. You must be at least 21 to enter.
The Tralf has a number of exciting and nifty acts. Check out their website at www.tralf.com!
The Tralf is located at 622 Main Street, Buffalo NY. Their phone is (716) 851-8725.
Kate Clinton Bio
Kate Clinton is one of America's brightest political comedians. This
humorist/monologists agenda includes political material as fresh as
the daily news, savvy send-ups of modern family relationships and illuminating
perspectives on life as a gay American. Ballantine published Kate’s
first book, Don’t Get Me Started, in 1998. Based on
past and present monologues, it’s filled with thoughts both insightful
and riotous. The audio companion was named "One of 1998s Best
Audiobooks" by Publishers Weekly. In addition, she writes monthly
columns for The Progressive and The Advocate in which she waxes by
turns comical and philosophical about the state of our nation and those
who have put us in such a state. She has written pieces for the New
York Times and George magazine among others. Kate served as a writer
on The Rosie O’Donnell Show during its rollout period in 1996.
When The Rapture did not materialize in 2000, Kate gratefully opened her tour of Y2K8.comedy at The Public Theater in New York. In 1999, Correct Me If I'm Right premiered off-Broadway at the Westbeth Theatre Center. The New York Times called it a "terrific one-woman show." Throughout 1996, Kate's show, All Het Up, toured cities across the country. In 1993, Kate's Out Is In, debuted in Los Angeles to rave reviews, and then moved to New York where it enjoyed a 3-month run off-Broadway.
She has appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline, Entertainment Tonight, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, The Roseanne Show, The Arsenio Hall Show, Leeza and numerous news and talk shows on Comedy Central, Lifetime, Oxygen, MSNBC, CNN, and C-Span. She hosted In The Life, and The World According To Us.
Kate has six comedy albums to her credit including
Babes in Joyland, Comedy You Can Dance To and her most recent - Read
These Lips.
As an actor, humorist, panelist, and host, Kate has worked with some
of the great writers and performers of our time. Kate participated in
a staged reading of Tony Kushner's play, SLAVS with Olympia Dukakis,
Tracey Ullman, and Madeline Kahn at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York.
Kate was a panelist in a public discussion "Satire in America" and
hosted an evening at The Kennedy Center when Richard Pryor received the
first-ever Mark Twain Award. At New York's 92nd St. Y she interviewed
Calvin Trillin and Harry Shearer and took part in Leonard Locates Politics
is Funny Business.
She emceed the AMFAR Seasons of Hope event where Clive Davis, Michael Douglas, and Billy Crystal presented awards to Quincy Jones, Sharon Stone, and Robin Williams. At Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism she joined Dick Cavett, President Clinton's speechwriter Mark Katz and Moderator Ted Koppel for the Alfred I. DuPont Forum Money, Humor & Spin in Election 2000 broadcast on PBS. She performed at the 2001 V-Day celebration of "The Vagina Monologues" in a sold-out Madison Square Garden benefit to end violence against women.
A respected and sought after member of the Commentarial, Kate has been featured at comedy festivals including Just for Laughs in Montreal, the Toyota Comedy Festival in New York, and Marshall's Women in Comedy Festival.
In 1999, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Previous recipients included Coretta Scott King, Edward Kennedy, Janet Reno, Donna Shalala, Richard Gephardt, and Jocelyn Elders. She was listed in the New York Magazine's Year 2001 "Gay Power 101."
In 2001, Kate Clinton celebrates her 20th anniversary of performing. It was in March 1981, that the English teacher first took her act from the classroom to comedy clubs and theaters. She is currently at work on a second book, Kate Clinton: Collected Speeches [I Never Gave] (working title) Filmmaker Catherine Gund is currently filming a retrospective of Kate's first twenty years with a preview of what is to come in the next two decades.
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