Actress, comedian and musician Riki Lindhome on her first , new show Dead Inside, and TV and film memories. I sent my guitar and props by FedEx almost a month ago but they still aren’t here. And then I got sick.
So I don’t have any props, I got the flu...
it feels very Fringe. I thought, ‘OK, this is what everyone says happens, and I guess they’re right’. My director, Brian McElhaney, is in a sketch group called Britanick and has done the Fringe the last three years.
I told him last summer I was trying to write a musical, then he texted me when he came here last August and said, ‘I think you should do the Fringe’. I’ve been writing funny songs a long time – since I was in college, so about 25 years. I wanted to give myself this level of challenge.
It’s hard to find the balance between talking about very sad subjects and being able to take a step back and laugh at it. I don’t know if I’ve done it – I’ll let the audience be the judge of that. Some of the songs are not about fertility, so there are reprieves.
It’s something I’ve been dealing with for so long and I haven’t seen much art about it. I had almost everything happen in my fertility journey. It wasn’t fun, but in a way it’s a blessing because I can speak from experience.
Not many people have been on every journey of fertility the way I have. I don’t know anyone who had a baby the way I did – an egg donor, sperm donor and a surrogate. It’s not the first, second, third, fourth, .