Not Your Ordinary Comic
Frannie Sheridan’s comedy has been coined Femedy. She is seen as a more feminine version of a comic who appeals equally to
men and women. Although she doesn’t shy away from sexual references, Frannie keeps crowds laughing without cursing or attack humor and has woven a gentler touch into the normally masculine dominated craft of stand-up. Her act has been described as Rita Rudner meets Richard Lewis.
Her new show I TRIED TO BE NORMAL…but it was taken! is a stand-up comedy about Frannie’s comedic struggle to feel normal despite having to deal with members of her family, most notably her analysis obsessed father who studied under Sigmund Freud. But constant analysis can actually make you feel that something is wrong with you when it isn’t, and in her case, the nonstop diagnosis was so nerve wracking to everyone and everything that even her vibrator developed Parkinsons! Some of the other colorful characters and subjects in Frannie’s show include her controlling German mother who is obsessed with telling inappropriate secrets, her sister a Food Sculptor who got her family kicked out of church, her stripper cousin, her past boyfriends, plastic surgery and Martha Stewart woven together in Frannie’s uniquely funny and clever skewed look at the world.
Some of Frannie’s past comedic performances includes the recurring role of Nefertitti on ’THE UNPROFESSIONALS’ broadcast for two seasons on The Comedy Network, Host of ‘FRANNIE’S WACKY HEALTHY COOKING SHOW’ produced by Whole Foods, and she has written for and performed for oodles of television, film, live and talk shows and spent twelve years working with legendary film director Arthur Hiller(Love Story). In addition to spreading joy and laughter through performances at Yuk Yuks, The NY Comedy Club,Wellington Amphitheater, and dozens of local comedic venues, her live performances have been pivotal in raising substantial amount of money for a slew of nonprofits and foundations.
Her past dramatic shows, The Waltonsteins(published by Blizzard/IRT’96) broadcast internationally though NPR garnered her the prestigious GABRIEL award. Her most recent show Confessions of A Jewish Shiksa, produced at The Kravis Center, the Colony in Miami and by dozens of theaters internationally has been the recipient of numerous mayoral awards and rave reviews and headlined the Lipservice Festival in Miami which will be broadcast in October on WEXL(WPBT2). www.franniesheridan.com
I TRIED TO BE NORMAL…but it was taken!
Saturday October 15, 8:30 P.M.
Harolds Coffee Lounge
514 Northwood Rd., West Palm Beach
T: 561.833.6366
www.HAROLDSCOFFEE.com
Admission By Donation.