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Meet Sarah Lucas

Today we’d like to introduce you to Sarah Lucas.

Every artist has a unique story. Can you briefly walk us through yours?
Like most kids these days, I grew up attached to the TV. My family loved comedies and many of our family nights were spent watching Steve Martin, Adam Sandler, and SNL. My brother and I would stay up late and watch old SNL reruns and more inappropriate comedies like Futurama. I never liked drama or horror because they usually made me cry, so I was always watching comedies and romcoms to keep me smiling.

I always liked making people laugh and used my comedy as a defense mechanism when I was younger. I felt like such a black sheep in my suburban town in Oregon that I figured if I could not be the pretty one or the athletic one than I could always be the funny one. Once I moved to Chicago for comedy, I found confidence on getting on stage and making whole rooms laugh. Comedy has helped me find my self-worth and believe in myself in all aspects of life. Comedy has brought me so many new friends and experiences that I have learned almost everything I know from life through it.

I believe that comedy is the best way to comfort people and brings us together. It’s a tool that makes people feel home and silly and loved again. I want to use comedy to help everyone feel this way.

Please tell us about your art.
I am a comedy writer and performer. I really am strongest at writing, but I feel it is important to be a performer too in order to really understand the comedy community and exercise my comedy muscles. It is so much easier and more rewarding to be funny in the moment with other people around than it is to be funny into a computer.

I have a strong passion for political satire, especially in today’s political climate. I love and admire political and social activism and have begun to participate here in Chicago. I think that political satire is the best way for me to be politically active. I love how Jon Stewart and Samantha Bee and rap artists like Childish Gambino and Kendrick Lamar can use their platforms to call out what is wrong with society. People pay more attention to media than they do the news, which is a sad truth. I feel a responsibility to use my writing to help teach my audience about real world issues and the hypocrisies in the world.

More so than that, I want to remind people that you are not alone in this world and that you cannot survive alone in this world. I am nothing without the people in my life who have held me up through the hard times, celebrated the good times, and laughed with me through everything in between. A lot of my comedy and the shows I have written focus on the theme of family and taking care of one another.

I am at a cross roads at the moment where I am trying to figure out where to go with my comedy. I have poured my heart into this passion for the last three years, but some of it is beginning to feel played out. I want to find the best way where this “art” of comedy I create can really do some sort of greater good. I do not want my words to be empty.

Choosing a creative or artistic path comes with many financial challenges. Any advice for those struggling to focus on their artwork due to financial concerns?
Do it on the cheap. Art cannot be the thing that brings you most money until you actually perfect it, and even then, it may never be your biggest pay check. It’s free to write, it’s free to go up at most open mics, it’s free to goof off with your friends. I am always working day jobs and constantly applying for new opportunities. You will learn more about yourself and your art working with real world people in the restaurant industry. Those people are who will be your audience one day anyway, so it is important to understand them.

That being said, you have got to stay inspired. Apply to every job in your field that you want. Go to as many shows or exhibits as you can, read anything that makes you excited, hangout with people who are making stuff that reminds you why you started in the first place. This society forces us to hustle, and unfortunately that means some people have an advantage over others, but everyone can still make art that affects the people who see it. So just make the art as much as you can.

How or where can people see your work? How can people support your work?
Keep an eye out for a web series called “Yuppies” I am acting in created, written, and directed by my friend Colin Bowles that will be coming out later this year on Amazon Prime!!

Come on out to the Laugh Factory for a weekly stand up show I currently intern on, “Verified Laughs” Wednesday nights at 8PM!

I am taking the next step in my career right now, so I am turning over projects at the moment. Follow me on twitter to see what’s next for me, and you can check out some of my old work on the political satire webseries S#!TSHOW on Facebook and at The Black Sheep Columbia College Chicago.

Contact Info:

  • Website: sarahelucas9.tumblr.com
  • Email: sarahelucas9@gmail.com
  • Instagram: iamoccasionallyfunny
  • Twitter: sarbearlucas


Image Credit:
Yuppies Production

Lexa Funderburg

Izzy Regan, Freq Out! Live

Blake Slover

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