SNL Alum Julia Sweeney to Make Stand-Up Debut at The Second City

Saturday Night Live veteran, author, actor, and TED talk maestro Julia Sweeney will make her stand-up debut this January in a brand new workshop production staged in Judy's Beat Lounge at The Second City. In Julia Sweeney: Older and Wider, the Grammy-nominated comedian hilariously takes on parenting, religion, cancer, feminism and even her iconic androgynous character, SNL's "Pat," through a very modern 2018 lens. Audiences will get to see the creative process in action up close and personal for an evening of laughter from one of comedy's most indelible, indestructible voices.

Julia Sweeney: Older and Wider

Schedule: Fridays at 9pm Jan. 12th - Feb. 2nd; Sundays at 6pm Jan. 14th - March 18th

Running Time: Approx. 50 minutes (no intermission)

Location: Judy's Beat Lounge at The Second City, 230 W North Ave, 2rd Floor of Piper's Alley, Chicago

Tickets: Fridays $13 GA, $11 college ID, $7 Second City Training Center students/Sundays $10 GA, $8 college ID, $5 Second City Training Center students

Box Office: 230 W. North Ave, 1st Floor, Piper's Alley. By phone at 312-337-3992 or online at www.secondcity.com.

About Julia Sweeney

Called "a consummate storyteller with exquisite comic timing" by Variety, Julia Sweeney is a writer, actor, comedian, director, and monologist. Perhaps most recognized as a Saturday Night Live cast member from 1990 to 1995, she created and popularized the androgynous character "Pat." Sweeney is also adored for her comedic and dramatic (and usually both at the same time) monologues, including God Said Ha!, which she staged across the country, as well as on Broadway at the Lyceum Theater. The film version was produced by Quentin Tarantino and premiered at the 1998 South by Southwest Film Festival, and the accompanying comedy album was nominated for a Grammy. Sweeney's second monologue, In the Family Way, played in New York and LA and was ultimately developed into a memoir, If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother. Her third monologue, Letting Go of God, was adapted into a film that aired on Showtime. Sweeney is also a cancer survivor, an outspoken secular humanist, and the proud mother of a teenage daughter.

About The Second City

Since opening its doors 1959, The Second City has grown to become the world's premier Comedy Club, theater, and school of improvisation, entertaining 1 million theatergoers a year around the globe. Alumni of The Second City's resident stages, touring companies, and theatrical divisions include some of the biggest names in entertainment, and in addition to the sold-out shows playing nightly on resident stages in Chicago and Toronto, the comedy empire has staged productions with a wide range of illustrious creative partners and theater companies, including the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Goodman Theatre, Center Theater Group Los Angeles, Portland Center Stage, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, La Jolla Playhouse, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, and the Chicago Bulls.