Adrienne Truscott

Adrienne Truscott
Occupation(s)	Choreographer, dancer, stand-up comedian
Website	www.adriennetruscott.com

Adrienne Truscott is a choreographer, dancer, and stand-up comedian. She won the Edinburgh Comedy Awards Panel Prize ^[1] and Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe for her show Adrienne Truscott's Asking For It: A One Lady Rape About Comedy. Originally part of a burlesque duo, The Wau Wau Sisters, Asking For It was her first solo comedy show. ^[2] She also received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2017). ^[3]

Truscott's show …Too Freedom… premiered at The Kitchen in December 2012. ^[4]

In 2017, she was appointed as one of three Fringe Ambassadors for the Adelaide Fringe. ^[5]

Truscott is a 1994 graduate of Wesleyan University. ^[6]

References

1. "Edinburgh Comedy Awards Panel Prize". Edinburgh Comedy Awards . Retrieved 16 Jun 2015.
2. Spring, Alexandra (14 Jan 2015). "Adrienne Truscott: nudity is a very inexpensive and effective costume". The Guardian . London . Retrieved 16 Jun 2015.
3. "Adrienne Truscott :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts". www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
4. La Rocco, Claudia (December 10, 2012). "Ennobling Many Forms of Work and Creation". The New York Times.
5. Staff Writer, Arts Review (3 October 2016). "Adelaide Fringe Announces 2017 Ambassadors". Arts Review. Byte Media. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
6. "Wesconnect - Wesleyan University Alumni - Truscott '94 performs show on rape discourse". Wesleyan University.