Heather Woodbury standup novelist; fasten your seat belts for a cross-country joyride.(Profiles)(What Ever: An American Odyssey)(Critical Essay)
American Theatre, October, 2003 by Renner, Pamela
Watch out America: Heather Woodbury has your number, and she's broadcasting it from a small stage near you. That stage may be bare, but by no means is it barren--there are scores of imaginary beings whom she channels in her one-woman marathon, What Ever: An American Odyssey. Mostly, they are summoned by way of voices, some deep and gruff, others groovy in the manner of a latter-day Scooby Doo cartoon, and all inflected by a fanciful version of American vernacular.
Altogether, there are more than 100 characters in What Ever, a lanky picaresque whose main protagonists are teenage ...
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