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As a zygote Kelsie was stuck in her mother's womb-bone. It took some pullin’ and yankin’ but the good people wearing stiff scrubs got her out and only damaged her right ear flap with their shiny medical tools. But who really needs two ear flaps anyway? Ear flaps are overrated. Kelsie has been living a 1/2 earflap life ever since and it’s been good. She uses said earflap to make comedy.

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Kelsie in the News
Winner: 2008 Camera Eye Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Comedy)

“Huff will make you love one-person plays again.” – Time Out Chicago

“Kelsie Huff is hilarious.” – Chicago Reader

“She has an infectious joyousness that makes you happy to be alive.” – New City Stage Chicago

"This is an actress who makes confident choices and creates loud, defined characters that are both unbearable and hilarious." - Chicago Tribune

 “She is very loud, all the time.” – Kelsie’s downstairs neighbor 

 

Press on HUFFS:

“Huff owns this story. With a Sedaris-like attention to detail and a playfulness that’s infectious, she continually serves up the type of unexpected turns that smack of honest-to-God truth. Huff pulls you in with wide-eyed physicality and razor-sharp focus. True to her best comedic forbears, she plays the absurd so pitch perfectly that when the climax arrives, it feels less like a major tonal shift than a revelation of something we knew was always just offstage. Undoubtedly, this show (wo)man is headed for an even bigger stage. DON’T MISS -Dan Granata; Time Out Chicago

"It's a darkly funny show that takes an unexpectedly poignat turn.  Her performance crackles with life and at its very best, gets into rare reaches of emotional ambiguity.  Huff leads us into laughing and crying territory, but not in the Joni Mitchell way.  More in a Bart-Simpson's-world-gone-bad kind of way." - Mark Collins, The Daily Camera   

“A high energy Kelsie Huff takes us to her grandfather’s funeral in small-town Illinois in HUFFS, a monologue well served by her unique perspective, vivid imagination, and willingness to embarrass herself. The memories aren’t always sunny, but they deliver some hearty laughs along with the bitterness and guilt.” HIGHLY RECOMMENDED -Jenn Goddu; Chicago Reader

 

Press on BRUISER:
 
"After last year's stellar "Huffs," Chicago's Kelsie Huff returns with another standout performance. It starts with her stint in Girl Scouts, and ends at a church camp, where she and her Broadway musical-loving pal are harassed by the beautiful kids. Among the many gems we encounter are Huff's impressions of her Hostess-delivery-truck-driving Grandma, a visit to the roller rink, and the time she delivered payback to the (pretty) mean girls. Huff, who I think is a big-time talent, mixes a friendly Midwestern manner with a darker, slap-your-face-funny edge. They say the best comedy comes from painful places, and Huff is a fearless chronicler of the awkward and the excruciating, turning it into comic gold."  - Mark Collins, The Daily Camera   
 


 

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...nothing like a long a*s third person bio to swell the ego...

After graduating from Columbia College Chicago in 2002 Huff was accepted into the Second City Conservatory where she graduated AND met Amy Sumpter and formed the two women sketch comedy team Children of the Absurd.  Their signature show titled 10% Less Fat focused on the absurdity of female body image and was performed at Second City’s Donny’s Skybox, Frankie J’s, Chicago Sketchfest, The Beverly Arts Center, Neo-Futurarium, Cornservatory, the space, and Kentucky and Indiana State University.  During this time Huff also created several solo pieces produced by The Box Theatre Group, an all female theatre company formed by fellow Columbia College Chicago Alumni. In 2005 Huff wrote and produced her acclaimed one woman show Huffs which explored the struggle to find forgiveness in one dysfunctional family tree.  The show was directed by Jason Madeja (Columbia College Chicago 02’).   Huffs was staged at the Royal George Theatre, Dairy Center for the Performing Arts, and Memorial Hall Theatre.  Huffs was voted best in C.R.A.B and given four out of four stars at the 2008 Boulder International Fridge Festival. Kelsie's second one woman show, BRUISER was staged at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and will be opening in Chicago Spring 2010. Kelsie also co-wrote Don’t Ever Change a story of two high school friends that reunite in their small town only to find that time has changed their once meaningful relationship.  The piece has been read at Three Pear Studios and the Theatre Building Chicago.  She has performed with the Beast Women Female Cabaret and is an Artistic Associate of Babes with Blades. Huff is very proud to be the co-creator, director, and writer of an all women solo performance troupe The Muffin Basket Cases, seven women whipping up a new solo show every week.  Kelsie can currently be seen performing stand-up around Chicago and is jazzed to head up, the kates, who perform the second Friday and last Saturday of the month at The Book Cellar in Lincoln Square. 

 

Kelsie has performed stand-up at The Lincoln Lodge, Doyle's Pub, Subterranean, Chicago Center for the Performing Arts, Studio BE, Chicago Underground Comedy (Beat Kitchen), Dairy Center for the Performing Arts, Lakeshore Theater, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Olive Black, and Circuit.  



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