Thanks so much for everyone who has been supportive of this long long long long process of creating Second Helping including:
Beth Lapides (see producer info, below)
Everyone present on Pudding Day
All the folks who loved Heather and Cheryl
Bryn Kelly
Genne Murphy
Jill Uhlfelder
Caveat NYC (with a special thanks to Anne Houston for above and beyond call of duty)
Stacy Bias
Turan Ali
Queer Diary/Bechdel Theater
Gillian Wilson
Diva Magazine
Catherine Murray BBC4
Amraine Rasool, Carol Purcell & Sally Magnusson, Lynda-Marie at BBC Scotland
Barbara Carrellas and Kate Bornstein
Fringe festivals that hosted Second Helping virtually during lockdown: Pittsburgh, Bright Light
Barbara Buckley
Jude Treder-Wolff-Second Stage
Matilda Davis
Brian Snyder
CC Blooms
PBH Free Fringe
Justin Allardyce/ Friends at The End in Scotland
MSP Rona McKay
Rebecca Tulley
Robin Bady/Badyhouse
Michele Carlo/Word
Kevin Allison/Risk
Michele Jalowski and the Moth
ABOUT THE AMAZING PRODUCER-BETH LAPIDES
Beth Lapides is the creator, host and producer of the long running, critically acclaimed, genre shifting UnCabaret, Amazon, Comedy Central, Comedy World Radio etc. She’sthe creatrix of its spin-off shows Say The Word and The Other Network. Her original audiobook ”So You Need To Decide” was on Vulture’s Best Comedy Books of the Year. She hosted a daily show on Comedy World Radio. She’s been featured on Sex and The City, The History of Comedy on CNN, MTV, Time, NPR etc. Her latest solo show, It’s A Lot is in development. She is a comedy and creativity coach and speaker at places like The Erma Bombeck Institute, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and her own Infinite Creator coaching. She’s the recipient of several NEA grants and a graduate of Brown University.
ABOUT OUR AMAZING OPENER-BETH TONER
Beth Toner is a nurse, writer, erstwhile theatre major, and nerd who still hasn’t figured out what she wants to be when she grows up. She has spent the last 30 years of her life writing stuff for other people. For the last five, she’s been intermittently obsessed with returning to the stage in community theatre. Now, she’s writing — and performing — for herself. When she’s not working her day job or volunteering at the local free clinic, you can find her trying to decide which crochet project to start (and not finish) next or trekking doggedly up and down hills in a trail race while the younger, faster folks greet her with “good job!” and “on your left!” She’s currently writing Disaster Girl, her one-woman show, which is kind of about her obsession with the Titanic and tornadoes, but also about her family.