Amy Sedaris Biography (2)

Amy Sedaris first felt the tug of the stage when she moved from her native North Carolina to join her brother David in Chicago, where she took classes at the famed Second City, and was soon on their Main Stage. She then moved to New York, where she teamed up with fellow Second City alums Stephanie Colbert and Paul Dinello, and others, to develop a half-hour sketch-comedy series called Exit 57, for HBO Downtown Productions. The series, which ran for two seasons on Comedy Central, received five Cable ACE nominations for Best Writing, Best Performance and Best Comedy Series. Sedaris once again teamed up with Dinello and Colbert to create Comedy Central's first live-action comedy series, Strangers with Candy, a twisted take on the classic and typically moralistic after-school specials.

A favorite guest of Conan O'Brien, Sedaris starred in When I Grow Up, a pilot from Glenn Gordon Caron, the creator of Moonlighting, and was recently seen on NBC's hit comedy Just Shoot Me, as well as three episodes of HBO's hit Sex and the City.

In addition to many plays she and her brother have written and produced, including the 1996 Obie Award-winning One-Woman Shoe, Sedaris has added Paul Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Douglas Carter Beane's Country Club to her ever-expanding resume. Sedaris and her brother staged their 1997 critically acclaimed collaboration, The Little Frieda Mysteries in Seattle. In 2001 they staged The Book of Liz, and this past fall Sedaris shared the stage with Sarah Jessica Parker in The Wonders of the World, at the Manhattan Theater Club.

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