Ayun Halliday
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| Born | March 29, 1965 Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer and Actor |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Park Tudor School |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University |
| Genre | Zines, Graphic novels, Memoir, Plays, Travel literature |
| Spouse | |
| Partner | Stephen Colbert (1986–1990) |
| Children | 2 |
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Ayun Halliday is an American writer and actor.[1]
She is best known as the author and illustrator (or, as Halliday herself terms it, "the chief primatologist") of the long-running zine The East Village Inky.[2] The zine got its name from Halliday's living in New York City's East Village, and "Inky" being the nickname of her then-infant daughter India.[3]
Her first graphic novel, Peanut, was published in December 2012 and was positively reviewed by The New York Times.[4]
Early life
[edit]Halliday was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. She attended Park Tudor School and Northwestern University, where she obtained a degree in theater performance. She is also a licensed massage therapist, who completed her training at the Chicago School of Massage Therapy. After graduating, she joined the Neo-Futurists, an experimental theater troupe in Chicago. It was during her tenure with the troupe that she met her husband, playwright Greg Kotis.
Personal life
[edit]She lives in East Harlem, New York. She and Kotis have two children: India (born 1997) and Milo (born 2000).[5][6]
Halliday and Kotis are co-founders of Theater of the Apes.
Halliday created and hosts Necromancers of the Public Domain, a monthly performance series in New York City, wherein a dusty book from the New York Society Library is turned in a low budget variety show.
Published books
[edit]- The Big Rumpus (published in the UK as Mama Lama Ding Dong) (2002)
- No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late (2003)
- Job Hopper (2005)
- Dirty Sugar Cookies: Culinary Observations, Questionable Taste (2006)
- Always Lots of Heinies at the Zoo (2009)
- The Zinester's Guide to NYC (2010)
- Peanut (2012)
- Creative, Not Famous: The Small Potato Manifesto (2022)
- Creative, Not Famous Activity Book (2023)
Plays
[edit]- Farang (1992)
- Bagel: Anatomy as Simile (1994)
- Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (1989-1998)
- The Mermaid's Legs (2014)
- Fawnbook (2015)
- Zamboni Godot (2017)
- Nurse! (2018)
References
[edit]- ^ "Bio". Retrieved October 2, 2017.
- ^ Halliday, Ayun (23 February 2014). "Interview with a Zinester: Ayun Halliday". Feminist Zinefest. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- ^ Sabin, Anika (23 January 2013). "Interview with Ayun Halliday". New York Times. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
- ^ Paul, Pamela (28 February 2010). "Fitting In/Standing Out: 'Peanut,' by Ayun Halliday". Reading Frenzy. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
- ^ Brady Smith, Lois (May 21, 2006). "Ayun Halliday and Greg Kotis". The New York Times. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
- ^ Rendell, Joanne (July 14, 2015). "Theater on Their Own Terms". The Huffington Post. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Dirty Sugar Cookies food blog
- Whogoslavia? travel blog
- 2006 Interview with Ayun
- Theater of the Apes website
- New York Times "Vows" column
- Why Mommy Drinks podcast Ayun Halliday: What the Freakin' Fudge?
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- Living people
- American women bloggers
- American bloggers
- American memoirists
- American humorists
- American children's writers
- Writers from Indianapolis
- 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
- 1965 births
- 21st-century American women writers
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- 20th-century American women writers
- American women memoirists
- American women humorists
- People from East Harlem
- People from the East Village, Manhattan
- Writers from Manhattan
- Actresses from Manhattan