The My Name is Not Mom Tour comes to the Wortham Center this weekend. WorthamCenter
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“We started working on this when we were very deep in the pandemic,” says Dena Blizzard, a playwright and comic who previously appeared Off-Broadway in. “I think we all started to interact a lot more with our audiences, due to the pandemic and going live [on Facebook]. But we still didn’t have that feedback that you would get with a live show. So when we started working on it, we were coming out of the pandemic; we thought there were tons of people who were eager to get out to do anything.
Almost to prove a point, after each “Not Mom” gets their own time to showcase their stand-up material, they intend to turn the show over partially to the audience with an improv-heavy section dedicated to the moms in the audience. “We get to talk to people in the audience and even bring them up on stage,” Blizzard says. “A lot of the times, even we don’t know what is going to happen and is a nice surprise to see what kind of kooky people we can meet on the road.
“I think that’s where my comedy originated from, I used it as a deflecting tool to keep people distracted with the comedy so they couldn’t see all the stuff that was going on with me. As I got older, I was able to get a better grasp on what was going on. It turns out I had really severe anxiety and we just didn’t have a word for it when I was little. As I got older I learned it wasn’t normal. I was self medicating for a long time, trying to just feel nothing.
"Then once I started having children, the daily stresses are overwhelming and I can’t turn to wine or to alcohol to de-stress, so luckily I’ve learned some other tools to take the place of those things. It is hard, of course. Having kids sometimes makes you want to drink, but I know that me being the person that I am if I were to choose to drink, I wouldn’t able to be present for my kids. Everyday I wake up sober and present is a true gift.
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