By Sarah Kehoe
skehoe@kentreporter.com
Kent’s Rebecca Corry, a Last Comic Standing finalist, returns home to headline Friday’s Comedy at the Ave show in Auburn.
“I always love coming back home to do shows,” Corry said. “It feels comfortable, and I love to see my sisters and their kids.”
Corry performs at 7:30 p.m. in the iconic Auburn Avenue Theater.
“Choosing the arts/comedy is a lifestyle and one that you have to be prepared to live,” she said. “It’s predominantly a boys business. I love what I do and feel blessed to have had the strength to get this far.”
Born and raised in Kent, Corry lived and comedically trained in Chicago for nine years, writing, acting and performing at The Second City, Annoyance and Center Theater. After an 11-month run in the Chicago production of “Tony and Tina’s Wedding” as the pregnant maid of honor, Corry moved to Los Angeles.
“I realized I wanted to be a comedian after seeing a show at The Second City in Chicago,” Corry said. “What they did was amazing and I knew I could do it. Also, being born into the family I was born into, it was only natural for me to be a comedian because having a sense of humor was the only way to deal with the cards I was dealt.”
Corry appeared at the HBO workspace in her first one-woman show, “Have You Ever Been Called a Dwarf?,” hosted a pilot for the Oxygen Network and was chosen to perform as a “New Face” at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Corry has starred in movies and television shows that include “Big Fat Liar”,”Yes, Dear”, “The King of Queens” and “The Wayne Brady Show.”
“My favorite part about being on stage is the idea that a concept or idea that I thought up could connect with total strangers, and that I can see those effects in the exact moment that I’m saying it,” she said. “Laughter is a very powerful thing. I love to laugh and I love it when other people are laughing. I hate people who don’t laugh.”
Tickets for the show are $17 regular and $15 students and seniors. To order, call 253-931-3043 or online at www.auburnwa.gov/arts.
For more information, visit www.rebeccacorry.com.
