Jackie Hoffman

TALES OF HOFFMAN

AN EVENING OF ESSAYS WRITTEN AND READ BY JACKIE HOFFMAN

Rapidly aging actress Jackie Hoffman reads her musings on showbiz, failure, and other areas of life because she’s getting too old to memorize things anymore. 

Best known for her Emmy nominated role of ‘Mamacita’ from FX’s “Feud: Betty and Joan,” Jackie was recently seen in in Paramount +'s "Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies" as Assistant Principal McGee. She recurs in the SAG nominated cast of HULU's "Only Murders in the Building” and in Amazon's "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”  

A staple on television, Hoffman’s numerous credits include HBO Max's “And Just Like That,” Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series “The Politician”, Spectrum's "The Bite", TruTV’s “At Home With Amy Sedaris”, “Night Court,” The Other Two”, “Difficult People”, “Gilmore Girls”, “I Shudder”, “Girls”, “Six by Sondheim”, “The New Normal”, “The Good Wife", "Inside Amy Schumer", "Raising Hope", "Melissa and Joey", "On We Go", "30 Rock", "Starved", "Hope and Faith", "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "Strangers with Candy", "TV Funhouse", "Late Night with Conan O'Brien”, "Soulman" and "Cosby." 

A distinguished voice actress, she has also appeared in the cartoons “Spidey And His Amazing Friends,” “Batman: Caped Crusader,” “High School USA," "Family Guy," "Dilbert", "PB & J Otter", and “Robots.”

In film, Hoffman has appeared in memorable roles in “Birdman”, “Kissing Jessica Stein”, “Shiva Baby”, “Decay”, “The Sitter”, “The Extra Man”, “How to Seduce Difficult Women”, “A Dirty Shame”, “Garden State”, “Legally Blonde II” and “Mo' Money”.

On Broadway, Hoffman has co-starred in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, “On The Town”, “The Addams Family”, “Xanadu” and “Hairspray”, for which she won a Theatre World Award. 

Off-Broadway, Hoffman starred as ‘Yente’ in the critically acclaimed Yiddish production of “Fiddler on the Roof”. She starred as ‘Princess Winifred’ in the Transport Group’s “Once Upon A Mattress”, and received a Drama League Award Nomination for her performance. 

Her additional theater credits include “A Chanukah Charol”, “The Gingerbread House”, “Straightjacket”, “Incident at Cobbler's Knob” (Lincoln Center Theatre Festival) and “One Woman Shoe”. Hoffman has performed in regional theatre, as well in Chicago at The MUNY and The Sisters Rosensweig at the Globe Theatre. 

She starred in six revues at The Second City Theatre in Chicago, where she won the Jeff Award for Best Actress. Her solo shows at Joe's Pub have received critical acclaim. They include “It’s Over. Who Has Weed?”, “Themeless”, "The Kvetching Continues", "Jackie Five-Oh!", "Chanukah at Joe's Pub" (Bistro Award), "Scraping the Bottom" and "Jackie with a Z”. In 2009, Hoffman received the Mac Award for Best Female Stand Up. 

Her show “Jackie Hoffman: Live from Joe's Pub” can be found on all streaming platforms.  

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