Elena Azzoni has performed her written and comedic stage work at various venues throughout New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. In November 2007, her one-woman show, This Is the Way I Pray: Confessions of a Yearning Heart on a Sugar High, received standing ovations each night of its sold-out run at BAX Theater in Brooklyn, NY. She also appeared as a “Straight Coach” in a comedy sketch on the Logo Channel, and in the debut issue of the I Heart Brooklyn Girls calendar. Elena received an MFA from New College, and a BA in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies from UMASS, Amherst. She currently lives in Paris, France.