Heather Gold

Bio

Heather Gold is a hilarious and passionate voice for authenticity and tours North America as a comedian, speaker, and solo performer.

She plays venues like UCLA, the Punchline, the Purple Onion, SFSketchfest, Gotham Comedy Club, Laughing Liberally and AltDOTComedy at the Rivoli in Toronto.
Heather also brings entertaining insights to places like Google, Web 2.0 SXSW BlogHer, AIGA, Social Venture Network, Personal Democracy Forum and Overlap 08.

Heather is the creator of the hit interactive show “I Look Like an Egg, But I Identify as a Cookie,” which ran for a year in San Francisco, showed at Ars Nova in New York and was selected by The Oakland Tribune as “Best of the Bay Area.”

Driven to comedy by law school, Gold never does the same set twice. Her unique style—raw and participatory, inflected by confessional politics—is a reflection of her unorthodox artistic path: studies at Yale and Northwestern Law, training at Groundlings, plus years soaking up Hollywood and the geek culture of the Net and Silicon Valley. Heather worked the web since it’s earliest days in 1995, influencing her innovative form of comedy which involves the audience whenever possible, drawing them out and threading and connecting ideas and people.

Heather hosted Austin Gay Pride, has written for Alan Cumming, and hosts her own talk show podcast, The Heather Gold Show which features bold conversations about politics, relationships and big life questions, mingling web celebrities with the avant-garde, with guests including Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, blogger Merlin Mann, and twitter founder Ev Williams. boingboing calls her “one of our favorite comedians.”

Heather hosts the weekly Tummelvision.tv show about the art of social engagement for Leo Laporte’s TWiT Network. She also contributes to media like The San Jose Mercury News, Tech TV, The Learning Channel, The Toronto Globe & Mail, and CBC Radio. She’s been quoted and covered in places like WIRED, Salon and NPR. Heather is one of the creators of EqualityCamp, which brings techies and activists together to organize the current gay marriage movement. She’s a Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Mark Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies.

She has pledged to never use the words “leverage” or “synergize” unless it’s for a very important lifesaving purpose.