Bay Street Theater to Present Lisa Lampanelli in STUFFED, 6/25

Bay Street Theater is pleased to announce a one-night-only special staged reading of LISA LAMPANELLI in STUFFED, Saturday, June 25 at 8 pm.

Tickets now on sale! For tickets log on to www.baystreet.org or call the Box Office at 631-725-9500 Tuesday - Saturday 11 am - 5 pm. The Box Office will be open 7 days a week beginning Memorial Day weekend.This evening includes a special VIP ticket opportunity to mix and mingle with the artists at a cocktail party following the performance.

"Stuffed" is a play about food, fat, and fearlessness. It is written by, and stars Lisa Lampanelli. "Stuffed," a hilarious yet heartfelt new play by two-time Grammy-nominated comedian and author Lisa Lampanelli, tackles weight, body image, and food issues from the perspective of four very different women with four very different problems. Delivered both in monologues and as interactions between the characters, the stories the four women tell are full of humor, soul, and passion, and will resonate with everyone who has struggled with food issues---or indeed, an addiction or compulsion of any kind. "Stuffed" will do for weight and food issues what "The Vagina Monologues" did for women's nether-regions.

"Weight is a dominant issue in all of our lives, whether you can't lose it or can't keep it on," says Artistic Director Scott Schwartz, "Our love/hate relationship to food is as complex and passionate as that with our most intense lover. I can't wait to see the brilliant Lisa Lampanelli and her cast sink their teeth into this issue - pun definitely intended! - for a night of comedy, pathos, and empowerment."

Comedian/writer/actor Lisa Lampanelli is best-known as "Comedy's Lovable Queen of Mean." "Stuffed" is the first in a series of four plays she is penning about important issues to women. A regular on Sirius satellite radio's "The Howard Stern Show," Lampanelli has appeared on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Late Show with David Letterman," "Chelsea Lately," "Jimmy KimmelLive," "The Dr. Oz Show," and "Good Morning America." She was also a member of the cast of NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice," Season 5, raising $130,000 for her charity, the Gay Men's Health Crisis. Ms. Lampanelli has also been nominated twice for Grammy Awards for "Best Comedy Album," and has six, one-hour televised specials, including her HBO special, "Long Live The Queen."

The staged reading cast also includes Orlagh Cassidy, Jessica Luck and Zuzanna Szadkowski; and will be directed by Jackson Gay.

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is a year-round, not-for-profit professional theater and community cultural center which endeavors to innovate, educate, and entertain a diverse community through the practice of the performing arts. We serve as a social and cultural gathering place, an educational resource, and a home for a community of artists.