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American stand-up comedian

Adrienne Truscott
Occupation(s)	Choreographer, dancer, stand-up comedian
Website	www.adriennetruscott.com

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).

Truscott's show …Too Freedom… premiered at The Kitchen in December 2012.

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

Truscott is a 1994 graduate of Wesleyan University.

References

"Edinburgh Comedy Awards Panel Prize". Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Retrieved 16 Jun 2015.
Spring, Alexandra (14 Jan 2015). "Adrienne Truscott: nudity is a very inexpensive and effective costume". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 16 Jun 2015.
"Adrienne Truscott :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts". www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
La Rocco, Claudia (December 10, 2012). "Ennobling Many Forms of Work and Creation". The New York Times.
Staff Writer, Arts Review (3 October 2016). "Adelaide Fringe Announces 2017 Ambassadors". Arts Review. Byte Media. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
"Wesconnect - Wesleyan University Alumni - Truscott '94 performs show on rape discourse". Wesleyan University.

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Best Comedy Show 1981: Cambridge Footlights (Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery, Emma Thompson, Penny Dwyer and Paul Shearer) 1982: Writer's Inc (Gary Adams, Steve Brown, Vicki Pile, Trevor McCallum, Helen Murry, Jamie Rix, and Nick Wilton, with additional material by Kim Fuller) 1983: Los Trios Ringbarkus 1984: The Brass Band 1985: Theatre de Complicité 1986: Ben Keaton 1987: Brown Blues... (Arnold Brown with Barb Jungr and Michael Parker) 1988: Jeremy Hardy 1989: Simon Fanshawe 1990: Sean Hughes – A One Night Stand 1991: Frank Skinner 1992: Steve Coogan – In Character with John Thomson 1993: Lee Evans 1994: Lano and Woodley 1995: Jenny Eclair – Prozac & Tantrums 1996: Dylan Moran – Dylan Moran Is Indisposed 1997: The League of Gentlemen 1998: Tommy Tiernan – Undivine Comedy 1999: Al Murray as The Pub Landlord – And a Glass of White Wine for the Lady 2000: Rich Hall – Otis Lee Crenshaw 2001: Garth Marenghi's Netherhead (Matthew Holness, Richard Ayoade and Alice Lowe) 2002: Daniel Kitson – Something 2003: Demetri Martin – If I... 2004: Will Adamsdale – Jackson's Way 2005: Laura Solon – Kopfraper's Syndrome 2006: Phil Nichol – The Naked Racist 2007: Brendon Burns – So I Suppose THIS Is Offensive Now 2008: David O'Doherty – Let's Comedy 2009: Tim Key – The Slutcracker 2010: Russell Kane – Smokescreens and Castles 2011: Adam Riches – Bring Me the Head of Adam Riches 2012: Doctor Brown – Befrdfgth 2013: Bridget Christie – A Bic for Her 2014: John Kearns – Shtick 2015: Sam Simmons – Spaghetti for Breakfast 2016: Richard Gadd – Monkey See Monkey Do 2017: Hannah Gadsby – Nanette & John Robins – The Darkness of Robins 2018: Rose Matafeo – Horndog 2019: Jordan Brookes – I've Got Nothing 2022: Sam Campbell – Comedy Show 2023: Ahir Shah – Ends 2024: Amy Gledhill – Make Me Look Fit on the Poster
Best Newcomer 1992: Harry Hill – Flies! 1993: Dominic Holland – Red Hot Dutch with Dominic 1994: Scott Capurro – Risk Gay 1995: Tim Vine – The Tim Vine Fiasco 1996: Milton Jones – The Head 1997: Arj Barker – Arj Barker's Letter to America 1998: The Mighty Boosh (Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding and Rich Fulcher) 1999: Ben'n'Arn's Big Top (Ben Willbond and Arnold Widdowson) 2000: Noble and Silver 2001: Garth Cruickshank & Eddie McCabe – Let's Have a Right Royal Shambles 2002: The Consultants – Finger in the Wind 2003: Gary Le Strange – Polaroid Suitcase 2004: Wil Hodgson – The Passion of the Hodgson 2005: Tim Minchin – Dark Side 2006: Josie Long – Kindness & Exuberance 2007: Tom Basden – Won't Say Anything 2008: Sarah Millican – Sarah Millican's Not Nice 2009: Jonny Sweet – Mostly About Arthur 2010: Roisin Conaty – Hero, Warrior, Fireman, Liar 2011: Humphrey Ker – Humphrey Ker is Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher 2012: Daniel Simonsen – Champions 2013: John Kearns – Sight Gags For Perverts 2014: Alex Edelman – Millennial 2015: Sofie Hagen – Bubblewrap 2016: Scott Gibson – Life After Death 2017: Natalie Palamides – LAID 2018: Ciarán Dowd – Don Rodolfo 2019: Catherine Cohen – The Twist? She's Gorgeous 2022: Lara Ricote – GRL/LATNX/DEF 2023: Urooj Ashfaq – Oh No! 2024: Joe Kent-Walters – Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe: LIVE!!!
Panel Prize 2006: Mark Watson 2007: Arthur Smith – Arturart 2008: All the performers 2009: Peter Buckley Hill – Peter Buckley Hill Free Fringe 2010: Bo Burnham – Words Words Words 2011: Max & Ivan – The Wrestling 2012: The Boy With Tape On His Face – More Tape 2013: Adrienne Truscott – Adrienne Truscott's Asking For It: A One Lady Rape About Comedy 2014: Funz and Gamez 2015: Karen Koren 2016: Iraq Out & Loud – Heroes of Fringe 2018: Angela Barnes, Sameena Zehra and Pauline Eyre – Home Safe Collective 2019: Fringe of Colour 2022: Best in Class 2023: A Show for Gareth Richards 2024: Rob Copland: Gimme (One With Everything)

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