Gloria Bigelow
{{Short description|American comedian}}
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Gloria "Glo" Bigelow is an American comedian, writer, and actress based in Los Angeles.
Biography
Bigelow was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in the nearby suburb of Mount Lebanon.{{cite news |newspaper=New Pittsburgh Courier |title=Pittsburgh native Bigelow featured on Wanda Sykes' 'Herlarious' |date=July 13, 2013 |url=http://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/2013/07/13/pittsburgh-native-gloria-bigelow-featured-on-wanda-sykes-herlarious/ |access-date=June 29, 2016 |archive-date=August 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806053158/http://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/2013/07/13/pittsburgh-native-gloria-bigelow-featured-on-wanda-sykes-herlarious/ |url-status=dead }} After leaving Pennsylvania in 1989, she started her comedy career doing stand-up in New York clubs such as The Improv, Carolines on Broadway, and Gotham Comedy Club. Since then she has performed at comedy clubs and festivals around the world and made numerous television and film appearances. From 2008 to 2013 she was a cast member on the AfterEllen series, Cherry Bomb.{{cite web |website=Autostraddle |title=100+ LGBTQ Black Women You Should Know: The Epic Black History Month Megapost |url=http://www.autostraddle.com/100-black-lesbian-bisexual-queer-and-transgender-women-you-should-know-225375/ |date=February 26, 2014 }} She hosted the pre and post show for the first annual NewNowNext Awards on the Logo channel, and was nominated in 2009 for their "Brink of Fame" award.{{cite web |website=NewNowNext |title=NewNowNext Awards: Who Won? |url=http://www.newnownext.com/newnownext-awards-who-won/05/2009/ |date=May 21, 2009 }} She has written for Last Comic Standing and appeared as a contestant on the show.{{cite web |website=AfterEllen |title=Watch now! Gloria Bigelow and Dana Eagle bring the lesbian to "Last Comic Standing" |url=http://www.afterellen.com/tv/218014-watch-now-gloria-bigelow-and-dana-eagle-bring-the-lesbian-to-last-comic-standing |date=May 23, 2014 }} She appeared on OutTV's Hot Gay Comics in 2009. She has also appeared in television specials such as Showtime's Fierce Funny Women (2011){{cite web |website=Gloria Bigelow |title=Bio |url=http://www.globigelow.com/#!page2/cjg9 }} and Wanda Sykes's Herlarious (2013),{{cite web |website=Oprah.com |title=Meet the Comedians of the First Show of Herlarious |url=http://www.oprah.com/oprahdotcom/Meet-the-Herlarious-Comics-The-First-Show |date=June 27, 2013 }} and in documentaries such as Out in the City (2009), U People (2009), and Laughing Matters...Next Gen (2009). Her writing is included in the 2012 Seal Press anthology, Here Come The Brides! Reflections on Lesbian Love and Marriage, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.{{cite book |last1=Bigelow |first1=Gloria |editor-last=Bilger |editor-first=Audrey |title=Here Comes The Brides! Reflections on Lesbian Love and Marriage |chapter=Another Word for Marriage |date=2012 |publisher=Seal Press |isbn=978-1580053921 |pages=240–247 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L83KDl9TybEC&pg=PA240 }}{{cite web |website=Lambda Literary Foundation |url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/foundation-updates/03/06/llf-announces-finalists-of-the-25th-annual-lambda-literary-awards/ |title=LLF Announces Finalists of the 25th Annual Lambda Literary Awards |date=March 6, 2013 |access-date=June 29, 2016 |archive-date=April 19, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419011656/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/foundation-updates/03/06/llf-announces-finalists-of-the-25th-annual-lambda-literary-awards/ |url-status=dead }}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.globigelow.com/}}*
- {{IMDb name|3059124|Gloria Bigelow}}
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Category:American women comedians
Category:American stand-up comedians
Category:People from Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:American LGBTQ comedians
Category:LGBTQ people from Pennsylvania
Category:Comedians from Pittsburgh
Category:20th-century American comedians
Category:21st-century American comedians
Category:20th-century American women
Category:21st-century American women
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