“PERFORMS WITH A CELEBRATED SENSUALITY AND IRONY.”
— ROMA C’E

Lauren LoGiudice is a comedian, actor, award-winning filmmaker, and author of Amazon Kindle Best Seller Inside Melania: What I Know About Melania Trump by Impersonating Her. Her work has been featured by The New York Times, BBC, Bust Magazine, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Hyperallergic, among others. Her writing has been called “criminal.” Her TV and film credits include Veep, Brave the Dark and Galaxy360, as well as several national commercial campaigns. Moth StorySLAM Champ. You can listen to her comedy album, Misfits: A Comedy Album, as well as select tracks from Melania Trump’s Rockin’ Right-Wing Christmas Album, on all major streaming platforms.

Currently, Lauren continues to create comedy through the lens of her unique personal experience with stand up and deeply flawed, painfully idiosyncratic character videos that have garnered over 12 million views, while producing her podcast Misfits Makin’ It on Radio Misfits Podcast Network.

She lives in New York City where she downplays every great thing that’s ever happened to her.

You + Laughter = Better World

If you feel like you never fit in, then you've come to the right gal.

I'm a life-long misfit. I grew up in an Italian-American family, but looked like a Nordic family friend, later finding out that I was a sperm donor kid all along. I walked into prestigious Wesleyan with a Queens swagger and accent. I was an oddball chemistry teacher more interested in social justice than experiments. And then as a Queer dyke I shacked up with a cishet dude.

As a comedian I continue to defy traditional categories to show fellow misfits that what makes them different makes them stronger. At my shows you’ll never know what’s coming next, but you will be confident that I got you.

Join me!

“Mr. Bean meets Amy Sedaris” - NatAlie Merritt, High 5 Gallery

You wouldn’t know by looking at me:

1) I did a brief stint as a high school Chemistry teacher in Oakland, CA and, as an unconscious homage to Fire Marshall Bill, almost blew up the classroom several times.
2) I carry around a cutlery set and a sunshade.
3) My videos have gone viral many times, but most often not as myself.
4) I speak on college campuses about Vintage Hollywood LGBTQ+ history.
5) I’m a queer dyke but married a cis-het dude.

6) I’m was raised in a 100% Italian American family and predominantly Italian-American neighborhood, so spent my formative years as Gulliver (I’m 5’11”) amongst the Lilliputians.
7) I've lived and worked in many different places around the world, gathering unique skills along the way, like dancing Bharatanatyam, speaking Swahili, and rolling my own pasta.
8) I worked at Restaurant Florent as an overnight host and to make it easier to wrangle the drunk late-night patrons, dressed as a different deranged character every night.
9) A few years ago I found out that I was a donor-conceived kid and that my genetic family is related (maybe) to Princess Diana. (Impression here.)
10) My Melania Trump impression was so realistic that the parody account was tagged by the White House.

F.A.Q.:

Am I a misfit?

If you suspect you are, you are. Yay! Now it's time to embrace it.

What is a misfit?

Someone who feels outside the box. Even if the box if already outside the box.

Who exactly are misfits?

People who feel different, not meeting the expectations have for them, unique, awkward, in the grey area of categories. I'm not the identity police. Misfits are people who feel like they're misfits.

We did a survey and here are some words community members used to describe what misfit meant to them: bring weird, other/othered, fringe, weird, not fitting in, beyond normal, rebel. And, of course, Island of Misfit Toys.