Ellie Carlson will bring to life America’s first female stand-up comedienne, Phyllis Diller.
She was America’s first female stand-up comic in a previously male-dominated role. She paved the way for Joan Rivers, Lily Tomlin, Roseanne Barr, Paula Poundstone, Tig Notaro and so many other talented and funny women. Ellie will explain how Phyllis invented a rotten husband, Fang (he didn’t really exist, though she did have her share of trials and tribulations in the marriage department). She also made jokes about being ugly, when she was quite stunning without her stage costume, and she made endless references to poor housekeeping and bad cooking when, in reality, she was adept at both. Why? Ellie will give audiences a glimpse of the backstage Phyllis while delighting you with the onstage antics as well.
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Elizabeth Carlson, also known as Ellie, is a historian and a performer with concentration in the domestic arts. For over thirty years, she has worked as a curator in small to mid-sized museums. Ellie has a B.A. with honors from Roosevelt University (where renowned food-historian Dr. Bruce Kraig, was her major professor) and a Masters of Historical Administration and Museum Studies from the University of Kansas. She completed her professional internship at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in the Division of Costume in 1987. She is the recipient of over twenty-five Illinois Association of Museums, Illinois State Historical Society and American Association for State and Local History awards. She will proudly tell you that she is an international speaker having once earned 80€ for an appearance on RTE (Ireland’s public radio station) discussing American Thanksgiving traditions. Ellie has given scholarly papers at New York University’s Fales Library, presented many times at the Eisenhower Presidential Library, performed at several Frank Lloyd Wright properties and sits on the board of the Culinary Historians of Northern Illinois.
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