Heather Gold is the turkey baster child of Sarah Silverman and Rachel Maddow. She’s a lesbian comic who tours North American and is best known for her quick wit, warmth and ability to involve the audience in her hilarious shows. She’s made over 24,000 chocolate chip cookies in her hit solo debut “I Look Like An Egg, but I Identify As A Cookie” which was named Best of the Bay, showed at Ars Nova in NY and often included guests like Elizabeth Falkner and Jamie Lauren (Top Chef). Heather won Curve’s National Lesbian Theatre Award for Cookie and also for The C Word with Jen Kober.
Heather has appeared with performers like Maria Bamford, Margaret Cho, Sabrina Matthews, BETTY, Adrianne, Patrice Pike, and Michelle Tea.
Heather’s also hosted Austin Gay Pride, spoken at major Prop 8 rallies in SF and NY, written for Jen Coolidge and for Alan Cumming for the Webbys. She’s appeared in Wired, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, Tech TV, CBC radio, Air America, the San Jose Mercury News, Salon.com, Curve and a LOGO pilot presentation. She will soon be the host of two shows on one of the largest online networks This Week in Tech (2.6 million / month).
Heather performs and speaks about LGBT issues at colleges like UCLA, Scripps College, Kenyon and SUNY Stony Brook. She also helps other people “come out” as themselves in business keynotes at places like Google and Web 2.0.
Much to her parents’ delight, she has degrees from Yale and Northwestern Law.
Her recent marriage was recognized by California and, more enduringly, by Marie Claire.
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