Join WBEZ and How to Academy on Thursday, September 24, for an intimate conversation with Taylor Tomlinson at the Athenaeum Center.
One of the most celebrated stand-ups working today, Taylor Tomlinson has headlined four Netflix specials, including Have It All, which debuted at number one. She has been named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30, Time's 100 Next, The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Most Powerful Women in Hollywood, and, in 2023, headlined the seventh-highest-grossing comedy tour of the year, making her the only woman in the Top Ten.
In this special In Conversation event, she will take us on a tour of her brain and share her shifting opinions about everything from love and relationships, mental health and therapy, religion and sex, food and body image, being the eldest daughter and the only woman in late-night TV, to ghosts, morning people, and more.
With the same unflinching honesty that fuels her beloved stand-up specials, she will capture the dizzying contradictions of adulthood in the modern world: wanting independence while craving reassurance, chasing self-improvement while resisting change, and finally learning that certainty can be overrated. “True wisdom,” says Taylor, “is accepting how little you know, and real maturity is becoming as flexible as possible. (Emotionally, not physically. Real maturity also means needing to stretch way more.”
