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Cal Performances Presents Friday, April , , pm Zellerbach Hall David Sedaris © Robert Banks Robert © Cal Performances’ – season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. 26 CAL PERFORMANCES About the Artist David Sedaris “David Sedaris just may be the funniest man alive.”—Time Out New York David Sedaris may well be the closest thing Sedaris’s original radio pieces can often the literary world has these days to a rock be heard on Th is American Life, distributed star—his speaking engagements are now con- nationally by Public Radio International and sistently standing-room only, a far cry from produced by WBEZ in Chicago. In , his early days as a housecleaner in New York David Sedaris became the third recipient of City. Sedaris made his comic debut recount- the Th urber Prize for American Humor. He ing his strange-but-true experiences of his job was named by Time magazine as “Humorist as a Macy’s elf clad in green tights, reading of the Year” in . An anthology of stories, his “SantaLand Diaries” on National Public Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: Radio’s Morning Edition. His sardonic wit and An Anthology of Outstanding Stories, edited by incisive social critiques have since made him David Sedaris, was published in April . one of America’s pre-eminent humor writ- In , David Sedaris was nominated for ers. Th e great skill with which Sedaris slices two Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word through cultural euphemisms and political Album (Dress Your Family in Corduroy and correctness proves that he is a master of satire Denim) and Best Comedy Album (David and one of the most observant writers address- Sedaris: Live at Carnegie Hall). ing the human condition today. David Sedaris is the author of the bestsell- ers Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice, as well Management as collections of personal essays, Naked, Me Steven Barclay Agency Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Western Avenue Corduroy and Denim, each of which became Petaluma, California immediate bestsellers. His essays appear regu- tel. () - larly in Esquire and Th e New Yorker. Sedaris fax () - and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated www.barclayagency.com under the name “Th e Talent Family” and have written several plays which have been produced at La Mama, Lincoln Center and Drama Dept. in New York. Th ese plays in- clude Stump the Host, Stitches, One Woman Shoe (which received an Obie Award), Incident at Cobbler’s Knob and Th e Book of Liz, which was published in book form by Dramatist’s Play Service. CAL PERFORMANCES 27.