#256: Caitlin Cook - Do what scares you

Caitlin Cook wears many hats, she is a comedian,
singer-songwriter, artist, writer, director, producer and
designer. She began writing songs at age four, she’s not your
conventional stand-up, Caitlin combines witty one-liners and
scintillating storytelling with hilariously irreverent musical
comedy and projected visuals. She has taken the stage all across
the US, Canada, Europe, and Oceania at top-tier venues (like the
Meltdown in Los Angeles, Union Hall in Brooklyn, and the Bill
Murray in London), comedy clubs (like Comedy on State in Madison,
the Comedy MIX in Vancouver, and Dead Crow Comedy in
Wilmington), festivals (like the New York Comedy Festival,
Skankfest, and High Mud), theatres (like Theatre 99 in
Charleston, the Bug Theatre in Denver, and the Throckmorton in
Mill Valley), dimly lit bar basements, strangers’ living rooms,
and even a houseboat once. 


She has two other successful musical comedy albums:
Zinger-Songwriter, which she recorded at 12 different venues
while on tour across the US and UK, and Betty Pitch, which she
recorded after writing 250 songs a day during the pandemic. A
fierce champion of mixed media and genre-bending works of art,
Caitlin has carved out a space for herself smack-dab in the
centre of the Venn diagram between comedy, music, and theatre.


She has a number of shows out now called The Writing on the Stall
and it sounds brilliant! Links below.


Caitlin Cook became obsessed with bathroom graffiti a decade ago
while she was studying art history (of course) and getting
frustrated at the pretentious exclusivity of the art world.


Fascinated by this perspective, Caitlin set about creating her
own art from the bon mots, wise cracks, witticisms, bizarre
ponderings, and silly doodles that make up bathroom stalls across
the world. 


This led to the creation of The Writing on the Stall, which sold
out its 2023 Off-Broadway debut and was a New York Times Critic’s
Pick; the accompanying studio album has over 25M+ streams. 


We chat about leaving ones comfort zone, doing what scares you
mentality, stage fright, sound healing, songwriting, not fitting
in the ‘traditional comedy box’, her brand new shows in
Edinburgh, graffiti and unique take on musical comedy plus plenty
more!



The video footage of this entire chat is now out as well (one day
after release)! So check them out on YouTube under Michael
Kahan


Check Caitlin out on:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecaitlincook/?hl=en

Tickets to shows:
https://www.thecaitlincook.com/the-writing-on-the-stall

Website: https://www.thecaitlincook.com/

Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUkWwnJMi6DNF8FPGdxvhTA

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thecaitlincook



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