Adrienne Truscott Explained

Adrienne Truscott
Occupation:	Choreographer, dancer, stand-up comedian

Adrienne Truscott is a choreographer, dancer, and stand-up comedian. She won the Edinburgh Comedy Awards Panel Prize 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. She also received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2017).^[1]

Truscott's show …Too Freedom… premiered at The Kitchen in December 2012.^[2]

In 2017, she was appointed as one of three Fringe Ambassadors for the Adelaide Fringe.^[3]

Truscott is a 1994 graduate of Wesleyan University.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Adrienne Truscott :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts. www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org. 2018-04-19.
2. News: La Rocco. Claudia. Ennobling Many Forms of Work and Creation. The New York Times. December 10, 2012.
3. Web site: Adelaide Fringe Announces 2017 Ambassadors. Staff Writer . Arts Review . 3 October 2016 . Arts Review . Byte Media . 4 October 2016.
4. Web site: Wesconnect - Wesleyan University Alumni - Truscott '94 performs show on rape discourse. Wesleyan University.