Like you, dear reader, Woody Shticks grew up a competitive handbell ringer in a Puritan cult in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
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These days, Woody Shticks (Noah Duffy, if you're nasty) is a stand-up storyteller and flesh peddler based in Seattle, Washington. Five-time Bawdy Storytelling favorite, one third of The Libertinis, and forty pounds of fun in a two pound sack, he's been hailed as "razor-sharp" by Seattle Star, "comedy gold" by BroadwayWorld, and "too gay to book anything but children's theatre" by his college acting teacher.
Woody unashamedly harnesses the unruly subject of sex - the good, the bad, and the ugly - to confront power and privilege while getting to the bottom of respectability politics. Uncovering our basest parts is dirty work, but a little fruit makes it all easier to swallow. Never frozen, usually sweet, and always fresh, Woody invites conversation and incites collaboration to bring warmhearted weirdos out of the shadows and into the streets. Woody has taught master classes at Seattle FringeCon and Intiman's Emerging Artist Program, headlined the Seattle Fringe Festival and The Comedy Womb, and produced new theatre and dance at 18th & Union, ACT Theatre, West of Lenin, Annex Theatre, The Pocket, The Ballard Underground, and on his childhood waterbed. Woody will bring his solo shows Schlong Song, Maniac, and Who Cares! to anyone with a bare stage and thirst for shenanigans. |
reviews
"The theater has always been the proper residence for real satire. As an intelligent comedian and razor-sharp performer, Woody Shticks is well aware of the tradition."
SEATTLE STAR / 02.16.18
"Shticks offers more than just puns, sexy times, and high-impact dancing. There’s substance and depth swimming beneath the surface of his hilarity. You won’t be sorry you spent money on tickets to this show."
SEATTLE GAY SCENE / 02.20.18
"...sad, but brilliant."
THE STRANGER / 08.16.17
"It’s often easy to forget comedy is a serious business, but not today. I’m clearly in the presence of a serious artist."
SEATTLE STAR / 06.09.17
"Shticks is endearing, entertaining, and genuinely engages the audiences, creating an energy of improvisation, an energy of magic-making. He performs a diversity of arts; there's a little something for everyone to enjoy."
SEATTLE GAY SCENE / 06.03.17
"Dark, racy comedy punctuated with lessons in strength in the face of bigotry."
BROADWAYWORLD / 02.07.17
"Woody Shticks, who performed, wrote, and I suspect improvised Schlong Song, had the writing skill of Oscar Wilde, the physical ability of Charlie Chaplin, the facial expressions of Zero Mostel, the charm, of Hugh Grant and the combined genius of just about every comedian I have ever seen."
DRAMA IN THE HOOD / 02.05.17
SEATTLE STAR / 02.16.18
"Shticks offers more than just puns, sexy times, and high-impact dancing. There’s substance and depth swimming beneath the surface of his hilarity. You won’t be sorry you spent money on tickets to this show."
SEATTLE GAY SCENE / 02.20.18
"...sad, but brilliant."
THE STRANGER / 08.16.17
"It’s often easy to forget comedy is a serious business, but not today. I’m clearly in the presence of a serious artist."
SEATTLE STAR / 06.09.17
"Shticks is endearing, entertaining, and genuinely engages the audiences, creating an energy of improvisation, an energy of magic-making. He performs a diversity of arts; there's a little something for everyone to enjoy."
SEATTLE GAY SCENE / 06.03.17
"Dark, racy comedy punctuated with lessons in strength in the face of bigotry."
BROADWAYWORLD / 02.07.17
"Woody Shticks, who performed, wrote, and I suspect improvised Schlong Song, had the writing skill of Oscar Wilde, the physical ability of Charlie Chaplin, the facial expressions of Zero Mostel, the charm, of Hugh Grant and the combined genius of just about every comedian I have ever seen."
DRAMA IN THE HOOD / 02.05.17
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"CRISIS FETISH" @ BAWDY STORYTELLING
Dixie De La Tour, Re-Bar (Seattle) "UNDIE CAPER" @ SAFEWORD Bobby Higley, Highline (Seattle) "UZSEXISTAN" @ THE MOTH STORYSLAM (WINNER!) The Moth, St. Marks (Seattle) "BRO WHISPERER" @ THE BIG QUEER TALENT SHOW Lifelong AIDS Alliance, The Vera Project (Seattle) "FACIAL TONING" @ THE SHOW Neon Burgundy, AllWays Lounge (Nola) THE LIBERTINIS' "NITE SKOOL" Annex Theatre (Seattle) THE LIBERTINIS' ANNUAL "SMUT P(ART)Y" 18th & Union (Seattle) |
SCHLONG SONG @ COME INSIDE 2018
Dance Naked, CoHo Theatre (Portland) THE LIBERTINIS' "UNCLE SEAGULL" Seattle Fringe Festival "SOMEONE LIKE YOU" @ PONY Pony Pride (Seattle) "SLICK" @ WEIRD & AWESOME With Emmett Montgomery, Annex Theatre (Seattle) "JEALOUS PEASANT" @ INTIMAN'S UNSCRIPTED Intiman Theatre, The Foundry (Seattle) "PENIS PUMP" @ THE MOM SHOW Kara O'Connor, The Pocket (Seattle) "BED BUGS" @ SACRIFICIAL TOFU Bobby Higley, Highline (Seattle) |
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