heather gold

General Info

Genre:
Political Humor / Alternative / Gay/Lesbian
TV Shows
Tech TV's Silicon Spin, shift TV, Canadian History Channel
Films
Blip on the Screen
Albums
nosh (EP)
Website
subvert.com/
Bio
"brilliant...damn funny" boingboing.net
Heather Gold followed truth from law school to comedy. Since then she's contributed to Tech TV, The Learning Channel, written for Alan Cumming, and baked over 20,000 cookies with audiences in her award-winning debut show "I Look Like An Egg, but I Identify As A Cookie" which ran over a year in San Francisco and recently at Ars Nova in NY. Heather's unorthodox path which includes being raised in a tiny shtetl in Niagara Falls Canada, training at Groundlings and early geek web culture led to her innovative, free-form, interactive provocative style. She DJs people. Her live monthly talk show plays the JCCSF and online at www.heathergold.com. You can follow her work and blogging at subvert.com.
Influences
Mel Brooks, Uncabaret, Patton Oswalt, Lenny Bruce, Julia Sweeney, Janeane Garafalo, Oscar Wilde, Fran Lebowitz, Richard Pryor, Sandra Bernhard, Paul Mooney, Dave Allen at Large, SCTV, Alice Waters, the Internet

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Heather Gold followed her slapshot from Niagara Falls to Yale and truth from law school to comedy. Heather Gold continues to mix mind with matter, never doing the same set or show twice. Heather's unique style is a reflection of her unorthodox artistic path, reflecting her studies at Yale, Northwestern Law, Groundlings, improv legend Cynthis Szigeti and years in the geek and entrepreneurial culture of Silicon Valley. Heather has the unique ability to make connections between the most unlikely things, and create an immediate intimacy with any audience. Instead of berating audience members, she involves them in the show, often making them so comfortable that they are hysterically funny themselves. Her monologues and riffing stand-up performances fuse personal stories, social observation and conversation. "Canned comedy has been driving people out of clubs for years. I'm doing for comedy what Alice Waters did for food: making it organic, relevent and fresh. I'd rather create something substantive that involves the audience and brings them together, than hand out punchlines like twinkies." Heather's hosted Austin Gay Pride, written for actor Alan Cumming, opened for Tony-winner Bill Irwin and starred in her debut solo show --"I Look Like An Egg, but I Identify As A Cookie"-- in which she bakes chocolate chip cookies with the audience. "Cookie" ran for over a year in San Francisco and was named Best of the Bay by The Oakland Tribune. Heather has won Curve Magazine's National Theatre Award two years in a row, for "Cookie" and The C Word, which she co-wrote and starred in with comic Jen Kober. Heather emcees and performs for venues and clients across North America, and contributes to magazines and newspapers like The San Jose Mercury News and the Toronto Globe & Mail and her own popular www.subvert.com. "brilliant...damn funny!" - boingboing.net b/vlog at www.subvert.com/blog

Member Since:

December 12, 2005

Members:

Heather Gold

Influences:

Paul Mooney, Uncabaret, Sandra Bernhard's Without You I'm Nothing, Julia Sweeney, This American Life, Mel Brooks and countless other funny Jews, This American Life, Alice Waters, open source software and the Internet.

Sounds Like:

"the Fran Lebowitz of the digital era" - Alan Deutschman author of The Second Coming of Steve Jobs "If Sandra Bernhard and Nigella Lawson got elbow deep in butter and sugar together..."-Stephanie Rosenbaum, San Francisco Bay Guardian