Arts and Entertainment

Maria Bamford

January 10 2025

7:30 PM
Attucks Theatre 1010 Church St. Norfolk, VA 23510 info@sevenvenues.com, 757-664-6464 Price: $26.50 - $56.50 plus applicable fees

Maria Bamford is revered for her deeply personal and experimental comedy about mental illness. She starred in the surreal, semi-autobiographical Netflix comedy series Lady Dynamite, about a comedian who suffers a nervous breakdown, and is the star of three unconventional hour-long stand-up specials: Weakness is the BrandOld Baby and Maria Bamford, the special, special, special! Maria was the first female comic to have two half-hour Comedy Central Presents specials and starred alongside Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis and Brian Posehn in the Comedy Central series The Comedians of Comedy and Netflix’s Comedians of Comedy: The Movie. She also created and starred in the cult hit web series The Maria Bamford Show, in which she plays all the characters.

Maria is often recognized for her prolific voiceover work, including characters on Big MouthBoJack HorsemanSummer Camp IslandAdventure TimeTalking Tom and FriendsBob’s BurgersLegend of KorraPuss in BootsCatDog and PBS’s Emmy-winning series Word Girl. She also stars as Tilly Mulch in Team Coco’s scripted podcast Frontier Tween. Maria played DeBrie Bardeaux on Netflix’s Arrested Development and recurred on the ABC hit series Fresh off the Boat. She is the 2014 winner of the American Comedy Award for Best Club Comic. Maria’s late night appearances include CONANThe Tonight ShowThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Late Night with Seth Meyers.

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