“Is it OK for me to show up and be like, ‘I had an abortion’ into a microphone? I don’t know if it is.”
I didn’t write anything out. I was like, “I don’t know what this’ll look like, I’m just gonna show up and start talking and see what comes outta my mouth.” It was similar to what I had said when I got onstage after the leak had happened, which was that I’ve been writing this show for three years. Of course over the three years, our rights have constantly been in the crossfire and the movement towards overturninghas been happening the whole time.
The moment that I address how frictionless my abortion experience was based on who I am has felt more intense, and even as a performer, that is something that always was a quiet moment to address privilege and the realities of equality of abortion.
Before this opened, earlier in April, I did three nights in Austin, Texas, just kind of workshopping it, and it was different to do it there. And I was like, “What is it about this? Is it just because I’m in a more conservative state and everybody is inherently a little bit more conservative?” And I was talking to someone after and they were like, “No, it’s that we don’t have this right here anymore.” It was still pretty raw. We’re still only months out from that six-week ban going into place.
I did not feel that. I am incredibly lucky to have a manager and a team of agents that all saw it and were like, “This is great. Let’s make this a thing. You’re doing something here.” There was never a question of like, “Can we put up the abortion show?” It was always just like, “What dates are gonna work for you?” I really never found along the way any gatekeeping around being able to talk about this.
When the leak happened, we were trying to get press when the show was about to open for previews. But it just felt like, “Oh, nobody’s really talking about it.” And then all of a sudden the leak happened and every newspaper, magazine, website, podcast, everybody wants to talk to you. I’ve been doing comedy for like 12 years. I’ve written for other people. I’ve written on TV shows. I’ve grinded out my entire 20s and 30s to have something of my own. And here it is.
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