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David Sedaris, Live In Laramie

Credit Jenny Lewis

Wyoming Public Media presents NPR humorist and best-selling author David Sedaris at the University of Wyoming Arts & Sciences Auditorium. Join us Monday October 28 at 7:30 p.m. for new, never-before-heard stories. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. with book signing both before and after the show.

Tickets are available beginning Thursday, August 1 at 10:00 a.m. and may be purchased the University of Wyoming Fine Arts Box Office or Wyoming Union Information Desk. Tickets are available for purchase online or by phone at (307)-766-6666. Prices are as follows:

  • $50 VIP, Rows 1-4 (Limited Number)
  • $35 General Admission
  • $20 UW Student Tickets

With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. He is the master of satire and one of today’s most observant writers addressing the human condition. Calypso, his latest collection of essays, is a New York Times best-seller, and a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. The audiobook of Calypso has been nominated for a 2019 Grammy in the Best Spoken Word Album category.

Beloved for his personal essays and short stories, David Sedaris is the author of Barrel Fever, Holidays on Ice, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, and Theft By Finding: Diaries (1977-2002). He is the author of Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, a collection of fables with illustrations by Ian Falconer. In 2018 Sedaris was awarded the Terry Southern Prize for Humor, as well as the Medal for Spoken Language from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In March 2019 he was elected as a member into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Sedaris’s original audio pieces can often be heard on the public radio show This American Life. He has been nominated for three Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album.

The University of Wyoming Bookstore will provide copies of the full Sedaris repertoire available for purchase from 6:30 p.m. until after the reading.

For more information about the event, contact Mary Grace Bedwell at mbedwell@uwyo.edu.