Vickie Shaw Set for I'M NOT YOUR ROLE MODEL Gala Evening at LA LGBT Center, 8/9

By: Jul. 21, 2014
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The Los Angeles LGBT Center's Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center and StandOut Productions present a gala evening celebrating the world premiere of Vickie Shaw's brand new comedy film, I'm Not Your Role Model, directed by StandOut's Andrea Meyerson A "comedy Q&A" featuring Ms. Shaw and her funniest friends, Roxana Ward and Lisa Koch, will follow the screening. The audience is then invited to an outdoor reception in the beautiful courtyard of the Center's The Village at Ed Gould Plaza. The party will take place on Saturday, August 9, starting at 8 p.m.

Vickie Shaw has been making people laugh until their faces hurt and ribs crack! She has traveled the entire U.S. and many overseas locations to make people laugh. She gets her comedy from her life with her partner Sargent Patch, their three children and three grandchildren. Shaw has appeared in movies (Laughing Matters More), television (Comedy Central), and four comedy specials on the LOGO Channel (Late in Life Lesbians, Comics Unleashed With Byron Allen), just to name a few. She headlines on Olivia Cruises and events produced by the Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal, GLAAD, and the list just gets bigger. For more information about Shaw, visit vickieshaw.com.

Roxana Ward is a multi-talented cabaret comic from Laguna Beach, California. A pianist, musical arranger, producer, and conductor (Milwaukee Symphony), Ward has worked with such legends as Dolly Parton, Laura Nyro, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Bea Arthur. She is also an accomplished songwriter. Her engaging blend of piano-bar comedy caused one reviewer to observe, "It's as if Bette Midler and Steve Allen had a love child." Ward is currently teaching and directing at Laguna Beach High School and is a favorite on Olivia Cruises. For more information about Ward, visit standuplive.com/comedian.cfm?id=6513.

Seattle singer/comedian Lisa Koch ("Coke") is a deliciously twisted mix of comedy, theater and demented songs. She has four solo recordings. She is an alumnae of cult quartet Venus Envy and performs as one-half of the hilarious sketch comedy duo Dos Fallopia. She has shared the stage with such artists as Steve Martin, Dave Brubeck, Janis Ian, The Indigo Girls, Holly Near, and Kate Clinton. Koch has been a featured act at the National and Michigan Women's Music Festivals, Bumbershoot, and the Vancouver Comedy Festival. An accomplished playwright and songwriter, she also finds time to work as an actor, appearing in The Vagina Monologues, Dirty Blonde, and as the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. She performs regularly on Olivia Cruises and has been seen on the LOGO Channel. Her CD, Tall Cool Drink, contains the viral hit, "I'm a Middle-Aged Woman." For more information about Koch, visit heylisa.com.

DETAILS:

WHAT: An Evening With VICKIE SHAW...and her funniest friends, Roxana Ward and Lisa Koch, featuring the world premiere of Shaw's new comedy film, I'm Not Your Role Model

WHERE: Renberg Theatre, Los Angeles LGBT Center's Village at Ed Gould Plaza, 1125 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles 90038 (one block east of Highland; just north of Santa Monica Blvd.)

WHEN: Saturday, August 9 at 8 p.m.

TICKETS: $30 General Admission; $55 VIP: preferred seating and autographed DVD

To purchase tickets, visit www.lalgbtcenter.org/theatre or call 323-860-7300.

Free parking.

About the Los Angeles LGBT Center - Since 1969 the Los Angeles LGBT Center has cared for, championed and celebrated LGBT individuals and families in Los Angeles and beyond. Today our health center, shelters, performance stages and classrooms serve more LGBT people than any other organization in the world. We are an unstoppable force in our community's fight against bigotry and the struggle to build a better world-a world in which LGBT people can be healthy, equal and complete members of society. Learn more at lalgbtcenter.org.

About Andrea Meyerson/StandOut Productions - Andrea Meyerson is an award-winning creator of film and television programming as well as a successful producer of concerts and live comedy shows. As founder and president of StandOut Productions she has produced and directed nearly 30 feature films, television specials and series episodes which have aired on Showtime, Viacom's Logo Network and several Canadian networks.

In 2002, Meyerson produced and directed the award-winning comedy documentary Laughing Matters. The success of the critically acclaimed film spawned three sequels. All are available on DVD and continue to be rebroadcast on TV.

Meyerson began creating original television programming in 2007. She produced and directed numerous standup comedy specials featuring popular comics such as Niecy Nash, Alec Mapa, Kate Clinton, Suzanne Westenhoefer, Jessica Kirson, and many others. She also created the One Night Stand Up series for Viacom's Logo Network, delivering 10 episodes, each showcasing a group of diverse comics.

In 2012 Meyerson completed the full-length documentary I Stand Corrected, which she produced and directed. The film premiered at the American Documentary Film Festival in April 2012 where it won the Audience Award for Best Film. Still playing at film festivals worldwide, I Stand Corrected has won a total of ten audience and/or jury awards and continues to receive outstanding reviews.

Meyerson is also a prolific producer of live comedy shows and concerts. Since founding StandOut Productions in 1997, she has staged live events featuring some of the country's best-known entertainers, including Wanda Sykes, Roseanne Barr, k.d. lang, Indigo Girls, Joan Armatrading, and Brandi Carlile.

Meyerson has just completed two documentaries: Letter to Anita and Vickie Shaw: I'm Not Your Role Model, which are scheduled to be released later this year. She is in production on a short documentary entitled The Taxman and Clambake, a feature-length documentary offering an insightful look into the 30-year history of Women's Week in Provincetown.



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