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Event Program
MON, JAN 27
DISCUSSION
Neko Case and Samantha Bee
A CONVERSATION WITH THE AUDIENCE
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Samantha Bee quickly established herself as having one of the most unique and sharp comedic voices on television. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Bee joined The Daily Show with Jon Stewart's "Best F#@king News Team" on Comedy Central in 2003. Bee departed The Daily Show in 2015 and currently holds the title for being the longest-serving regular Daily Show correspondent of all time. In 2016, Bee received global recognition from the success of her very own weekly late-night comedy series, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, which ran for seven seasons on TBS. Full Frontal offered a unique satirical take on weekly news and explored important stories that had been largely overlooked by more traditional media outlets. Full Frontal received rave reviews, critical acclaim, and garnered 12 Emmy nominations and 2 Emmy wins. In a landscape of male late-night talk show hosts, critics have appreciated Bee's "fiery and fierce" delivery (The New York Times) and have embraced Full Frontal as a "daring, innovative addition to the late-night slate" (Entertainment Weekly). Bee and her husband, Jason Jones, co-created the half-hour comedy series The Detour, which ran for four seasons on TBS. The Detour, which starred Jones, was inspired by their personal lives and followed Nate (Jones), Robin (Natalie Zea), and their two kids, as they traveled the world in a series of misadventures. Bee is the author of the essay collection I Know I Am, But What Are You? and has been included as one of TIME 100's: Most Influential People. In 2018, Bee announced her new production company, Swimsuit Competition, co-founded with Full Frontal producer Kristen Everman. Swimsuit Competition aims to create inclusive, narrative and documentary television. Bee embarked on her first national tour, Your Favorite Woman: The Joy of Sex Education, where she completed a 17-city run including sold-out dates at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, The Newmark Theatre in Portland, OR, and New Jersey’s Victoria Theatre. The show is presented under Samantha Bee and Kristen Everman’s production banner, Swimsuit Competition, and produced by Kim Burdges. Most recently, Bee performed her one-woman show, How To Survive Menopause, to three live sold out shows at the Audible Theater’s Minetta Lane Theatre. The production was recorded live and will be released as an Audible Original in 2025.
Samantha Bee quickly established herself as having one of the most unique and sharp comedic voices on television. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Bee joined The Daily Show with Jon Stewart's "Best F#@king News Team" on Comedy Central in 2003. Bee departed The Daily Show in 2015 and currently holds the title for being the longest-serving regular Daily Show correspondent of all time. In 2016, Bee received global recognition from the success of her very own weekly late-night comedy series, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, which ran for seven seasons on TBS. Full Frontal offered a unique satirical take on weekly news and explored important stories that had been largely overlooked by more traditional media outlets. Full Frontal received rave reviews, critical acclaim, and garnered 12 Emmy nominations and 2 Emmy wins. In a landscape of male late-night talk show hosts, critics have appreciated Bee's "fiery and fierce" delivery (The New York Times) and have embraced Full Frontal as a "daring, innovative addition to the late-night slate" (Entertainment Weekly). Bee and her husband, Jason Jones, co-created the half-hour comedy series The Detour, which ran for four seasons on TBS. The Detour, which starred Jones, was inspired by their personal lives and followed Nate (Jones), Robin (Natalie Zea), and their two kids, as they traveled the world in a series of misadventures. Bee is the author of the essay collection I Know I Am, But What Are You? and has been included as one of TIME 100's: Most Influential People. In 2018, Bee announced her new production company, Swimsuit Competition, co-founded with Full Frontal producer Kristen Everman. Swimsuit Competition aims to create inclusive, narrative and documentary television. Bee embarked on her first national tour, Your Favorite Woman: The Joy of Sex Education, where she completed a 17-city run including sold-out dates at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, The Newmark Theatre in Portland, OR, and New Jersey’s Victoria Theatre. The show is presented under Samantha Bee and Kristen Everman’s production banner, Swimsuit Competition, and produced by Kim Burdges. Most recently, Bee performed her one-woman show, How To Survive Menopause, to three live sold out shows at the Audible Theater’s Minetta Lane Theatre. The production was recorded live and will be released as an Audible Original in 2025.
Is there another songwriter so fearless and inventive? Bending decades of pop music into new shapes, Neko Case wields her voice like a kiss and her metaphors like a baseball bat. She has cast the fishing net of her career wide—from Seattle and Vancouver to Chicago and Stockholm, setting up her home base on a farm in New England. Gathering power year after year, Neko sings with the fierce abandon of a newborn infant crying in a basket in the woods. Since escaping the labels of country and Americana, the gorgeous train-whistle vocals of her early career sit submerged in her later style, where their ghost can appear any minute. When her voice jumps an octave, it’s almost visible, like sparks at night. “I never knew where I wanted to go or what I wanted to do with my voice,” she says, “but I just wanted to do it so bad.” With a career spanning over twenty years, she has famously collaborated with The New Pornographers and Case/Lang/Veirs in addition to releasing many critically acclaimed solo albums, including Fox Confessor Brings The Flood, Middle Cyclone, and most recently 2018’s Hell-On in addition to the career-spanning retrospective Wild Creatures, which was released in 2022. She also writes weekly pieces for her popular Substack, Entering The Lung, where she ruminates on the nature near her rural home, life on tour, her pets, and anything else that comes to mind. She’s doing it on her own terms, but the legacy she’s building is one that can stand up to music made by any other solo artist in her lifetime. Don’t look away; you never know what might happen. “I’m just trying,” she says, “to be myself as hard as I can.”
Is there another songwriter so fearless and inventive? Bending decades of pop music into new shapes, Neko Case wields her voice like a kiss and her metaphors like a baseball bat. She has cast the fishing net of her career wide—from Seattle and Vancouver to Chicago and Stockholm, setting up her home base on a farm in New England. Gathering power year after year, Neko sings with the fierce abandon of a newborn infant crying in a basket in the woods. Since escaping the labels of country and Americana, the gorgeous train-whistle vocals of her early career sit submerged in her later style, where their ghost can appear any minute. When her voice jumps an octave, it’s almost visible, like sparks at night. “I never knew where I wanted to go or what I wanted to do with my voice,” she says, “but I just wanted to do it so bad.” With a career spanning over twenty years, she has famously collaborated with The New Pornographers and Case/Lang/Veirs in addition to releasing many critically acclaimed solo albums, including Fox Confessor Brings The Flood, Middle Cyclone, and most recently 2018’s Hell-On in addition to the career-spanning retrospective Wild Creatures, which was released in 2022. She also writes weekly pieces for her popular Substack, Entering The Lung, where she ruminates on the nature near her rural home, life on tour, her pets, and anything else that comes to mind. She’s doing it on her own terms, but the legacy she’s building is one that can stand up to music made by any other solo artist in her lifetime. Don’t look away; you never know what might happen. “I’m just trying,” she says, “to be myself as hard as I can.”
This program is made possible thanks to the generous support of Susan Bay Nimoy, Seedlings Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Charina Endowment Fund, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, PECO Foundation, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina, Michael Tuch Foundation, Jody and John Arnhold and the Arnhold Foundation, The Grodzins Fund, and The Isambard Kingdom Brunel Society of North America.
This program is also made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
Symphony Space thanks our generous supporters, including our Board of Directors, Producers Circle, and members, who make our programs possible with their annual support.
Kathy Landau Executive Director
Peg Wreen Managing Director
Isaiah Sheffer*
Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director (1978-1990)
Artistic Director (1990-2010)
Founding Artistic Director (2010-2012)
Allan Miller
Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director (1978-1990)
Jennifer Brennan Director of Literary Programs
Drew Richardson Lead Producer of Literary Programs
Vivienne Woodward Producer of Literary Programs
Mary Shimkin Director of Broadcast & Literary Initiatives
Matthew Love Consultant for Literary Programs
Magdalene Wrobleski Literary Assistant
Leigh Reid Literary Intern
Mia Testa Literary Intern
*in memoriam