Multi-talented Dynamo Beth Lapides Guests on Eye on Entertainment

Dawna Lee Heising of Eye on Entertainment interviewed author, comedian, activist, radio and television personality and former First Lady candidate Beth Lapides at her one woman show “100% Happy 88% of the Time” at Mbar on May 20, 2011 in Hollywood, CA.   Lapides is best known for founding, hosting and producing  Un-Cabaret, the legendary live show that led the 'alternative comedy' revolution, but when strangers recognize her. it is usually from her brief but captivating appearance as the performance artist on "Sex and the City".

Lapides is an original thinker and her columns, essays an opinions have appeared in and on Politically Incorrect, NPR's "All Things Considered", the Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, Fit Yoga, Utne Reader, The Realist, LA Weekly, Premiere and freshyarn.com. She was the irreverently thoughtful self help correspondent for ABC Radio's Satellite Sisters and now writes a monthly column about yoga, "My Other Car Is A Yoga Mat", which is syndicated in LA Yoga and Yoga Chicago magazine. Her first book: "DID I WAKE YOU? Haikus for Modern Living" was published in 2006 by Soft Skull Press.  Lapides established herself as a host at the live Un-Cabaret alternative comedy show, bringing together top comedy talent in a format that required a lively guardian. She went on to host Un-Cab on Comedy Central as well as on Comedy World Radio where she also hosted the talk format daily Lapides Lapides Experience. Additionally she hosts the Un-Cabaret podcast on audible.com, Say The Word at The Skirball Cultural Center and The Other Network Writers Room, an audio interview series with top TV comedy writers and showrunners. Lapides also hosted and co-executive produced a talk show pilot, The Couch, for MTV.

Lapides likes to tell a story but she makes a good story too and has been featured on many TV & radio shows including The Today Show, The Treatment, This American Life, Dateline, E! True Hollywood Story, and Morning Edition.  Lapides and her producing and life partner Greg Miller run a workshop for writing, performing, creativity and living at The Comedian's Way. They've been teaching privately for over 10 years ad in addition have taught and/or lectured at UCLA Extension, Brown University, University of Iowa, Yoga Fit Convention, Humber College of the Arts, CalArts, the Skirball Center. Lapides created Say the Word, the first and longest-running of the new wave of storytelling shows (The Moth, Sit & Spin, Word Nerd, etc.), and The Other Network, a critically-acclaimed and wildly-popular festival of the greatest un-aired TV pilots ever made.  Lapides is also an accomplished visual artist. Her urban primitive drawings, paintings and books have always been part of her solo performance work.

Lapides is outspoken and politically-active. She has performed and produced benefits with dozens of organizations, including the ACLU/Court TV "Freedom Files", a benefit CD for the Drug Policy Alliance, shows and events for PEN, NOW, Feral Cat Alliance, Barbara Boxer, and many others. During the 1992 Presidential election, she ran a guerrilla campaign to make First Lady an elected position which was featured on CNN, in People and Interview Magazines. She got as many electoral votes as Ross Perot and spent millions less.  To see the EOE interview, please go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODI7EGv1_qI.  For more information on Beth Lapides, please visit:  http://bethlapides.com

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