Growing Up with Uncle Miltie is a new stage show written and performed by Patt Benson, directed by Richard Embardo, and playing Sundays Oct. 18-Nov. 22 at the Improv Comedy Lab Theatre in Los Angeles.
Berle was famous for his comedy and often cross-dressed as a gag.
Patt Benson met and befriended her show business idol, Milton Berle, the biggest star of TV in its early days. This is the story of the improbable, but special friendship between Berle and Benson. Encouraged by Berle, Benson pursued a life in comedy. Growing up with Uncle Miltie is a show business memoir with a candid behind-the-scene look at the making of a successful professional comedian.
Actor/Comedian Patt Benson was born and raised in New York City. She studied acting with Lee Strasberg and Milton Katselas. She met her comedy partner, Burt Heyman ( who lives in Chicago now ) , in acting class and formed the successful comedy team of "Patt and Burt." They played in clubs from Boston to Miami after appearing on The Merv Griffin Show. The team then joined the famed Second City improv group in Chicago. Patt arrived in LA in 1974 and started acting in commercials, sitcoms and doing stand up at comedy clubs culminating as a regular on the NBC TV series Joe & Valerie. TV credits include Hill Street Blues, Alice, The Golden Girls, The Tom Snyder Show, and many others. Currently, she is acting and teaching acting at the SAG Conservatory. She has been writing and developing her solo show, Growing Up with Uncle Miltie for the past three years.
For reservations call 323-651-2583.
Direct link:
http://www.symfonee.com/Improv/hollywood/comedians/Bio.aspx?Uid=c3880ad3-e586-484c-8fc5-3bb9c3fe30ef
