Jonesboro Sun, Arkansas

Karen Loftus to perform at ASU

Actress and comedian Karen Loftus will perform in Wilson Theater at Arkansas State University on Thursday, Feb. 3, at 8 p.m.

The free performance is sponsored by the Student Activities Board, the ASU Theater and KASU radio. Admission is free.

Also, Loftus will conduct a workshop for ASU theater students entitled "Body Comedy." Loftus developed the workshop, which she has presented at many venues from women's shelters to college classrooms.

The comedian is coming to Jonesboro as a part of a program sponsored by ASU Theater were she will continue development of her one-woman show, "I'm Not the Blonde You Think I Am" with professor John O'Connell, assistant professor of the theater arts.

"Her brand of humor is a crazy mix of smart and silly, with sharp observations and hilarious life-experience stories of a female comic in the world of male entertainers," according to O'Connell.

Loftus has performed at major clubs around the country including Caroline's, Comic Strip and Dangerfield's in New York City and The Improv, Laugh Factory and the Comedy Store in Los Angeles.