About this Event
BIO
BUDDY WAKEFIELD is an actor, writer, producer, and three-time world champion spoken word artist featured on the BBC, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, ABC Radio National and has been signed to both Sage Francis’ Strange Famous Records as well as Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records. In 2004 he won the first Individual World Poetry Slam Finals thanks to the support of anthropologist and producer Norman Lear, then went on to share the stage with nearly every notable performance poet in the world in over 2000 venues internationally from The Great Lawn of Central Park, Zimbabwe’s Shoko Festival and Scotland’s Oran Mor to San Quentin State Penitentiary, House of Blues New Orleans and The Basement in Sydney, Australia.
The inaugural author released on Write Bloody Publishing, now published by Button Poetry, and having served on the original Board of Directors for Youth Speaks Seattle, Buddy is published in dozens of books internationally with work used to win multiple national collegiate debate and forensics competitions. His first short film, Farmly, directed by Jamie DeWolf, won Best of Texas at the Literally Short Film Fest, and the USA Film Festival.
QUOTES:
“Buddy Wakefield!” —Norman Lear
“Buddy Wakefield…” —Mos Def
“Buuuddy.” —Amy Poehler
“Buddy Buddy Buddy Buddy, Buddy!” —Whitney Cummings
“Buddy F*!@#^g Wakefield.” —Ani DiFranco
“Hi Buddy.” —Tig Notaro
“Buddy Wakefield” —Reggie Watts
“Bud.” —Ryan Reynolds
“Budderfield!” —Amber Tamblyn
“Wakefield!” —Utah Phillips
“Buddy Wakefield.” —Gregory Alan Isakov
“Buddy Wakefield?” —David Cross
“Buddy Wakefield.” —Saul Williams
“Buhdy” —Amy Schumer
“Bobby was it?” —Tilda Swinton
“Oh my god. That was incredible.” —Helen Hunt, Academy Award Winner
“Buddy Wakefield is an unbullshit artist… and he’ll make you laugh your ass off while he does it.” —Gabrielle Bouliane
“Buddy Wakefield is a honey badger. Lions will go completely out of their way to avoid a honey badger.” —Don Beck, Theory of Spiral Dynamics
“I think he’s proof that there is a God.” —Graham Moore, Academy Award-winning writer of The Imitation Game
In her book, Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, New York Times best-selling author named Wakefield “the modern poetry slam role model.” She wrote, “…[Wakefield] sold everything he owned and toured the country, living out of his car when he wasn’t crashing on couches. He was not the first slam poet to do this and certainly not the last, but he was definitely the most high-profile, and he really set the stage for what I like to call the ‘Troubadour Movement’ in slam, the whole desire simply to tour, to reach out and be with your community.”
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Art Share L.A., 801 East 4th Place, Los Angeles, United States
USD 28.52
