Lynne Roberts

About Me

Lynne grew up painfully shy but with the love of stand-up comedy, listening to Steve Martin, Bill Cosby, George Carlin, and Eddie Murphy records (YES! Records.).  Because she was terrified to speak out loud in front of people, but had a wild imagination to tame, she stuck to writing stories.  She graduated with a BA in Creative Writing and worked as a children's book editor and writer for seven years. "Wait! I want to save the Earth!" she thought. So she got her Masters and became the most un-scientific environmental scientist on the planet.  But she always kept writing, albeit not terribly successfully.  She has completed four novels as part of the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and is 3/4 done with another novel she started 10 years ago (YES! I know!).  She would give it up, but she's knows it's hilarious and must be finished.  She has a failed blog called, Perils of the Urban Runner on Blogspot (check it out!).  And, it wasn't until she was old and creaky and taking yet another writing class at Story Studio Chicago that she discovered Feminine Comique (Fem Com), the all-female stand-up writing class taught by the incredible and hilarious Kelsie Huff.  She graduated from Levels 1 and 2 of Fem Com, and the rest is history!  In addition to stand-up comedy, Lynne has been dabbling in Live Lit and even had the opportunity to tell a story at Fillet of Solo festival with The Kates.  She got to perform stand-up at the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival and Gilda's LaughFest.  She has taken a Solo Sketch class at The Playground Theater and also has been a contributing writing on The Othy Schwering Show. Most recently, Lynne is performing sketch comedy with the group Waiting for Huffman at the Chicago Sketch Fest.