DCM26 - UCB Mainstage Edi Patterson’s PLAYGIRL: UCB
About This Event
Edi Patterson, an American actress and writer best known for Fran in Knives Out, Jen Abbott in Vice Principals and Judy Gemstone in The Righteous Gemstones, brings PLAYGIRL to the UCB Theatre Mainstage. The live comedy draws on her television and film work and highlights her voice as a writer-performer on the UCB Theatre stage.
About PLAYGIRL
Now at UCB Theatre, PLAYGIRL is a comedy show that borrows the title’s cultural charge from the once-notorious magazine while shifting the focus to performance and voice. Built around Edi Patterson’s sensibility as an actress and writer, it draws on the character work that has defined her screen roles and retools it for a live room. In New York, the piece reads as part of the city’s ongoing conversation about gender, gaze, and who gets framed as spectacle. Its sharpest move is treating that history as material rather than nostalgia.
About the Artist
Edi Patterson
Edi Patterson is an American actress and writer. She has primarily acted in comedies. She is best known for portraying Fran in the film Knives Out (2019), Veronica in the FX series Partners (2014), Jen Abbott in the HBO series Vice Principals (2016–2017), and Judy Gemstone in the HBO series The Righteous Gemstones (2019–2025).