Iliza Shlesinger in Gary

Iliza Shlesinger is an American stand-up comedian, actor and writer, born in New York City in 1983 and raised in Texas. She won NBC’s Last Comic Standing in 2008; her observational comedy uses character voices and physical performance. Her recorded work includes the Netflix specials War Paint, Freezing Hot, Confirmed Kills, Elder Millennial, Unveiled and Hot Forever, as well as the film Good on Paper, which she wrote and starred in. War Paint was recorded at the Lakewood Theater in Dallas in 2012. She returned to the filmed-special format aboard the USS Hornet in Alameda for Elder Millennial in 2018, then brought Hot Forever to the Connor Palace in Cleveland for its 2022 taping.