On this episode guest co-host Adam Kirby joins Skunk Manhattan to chat with writer, comedian, and fervent bagpiper, Madeleine Hamilton. Madeline, a native Texan originally from Houston, lived in Los Angeles and studied abroad in Scotland (where she took up and became obsessed with bagpipes) before relocating to Austin, TX.
Her bagpipes-centric "Piping Hot", was performed at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and she received four star reviews from The Scotsman and Broadway World. The one woman show is essentially a first timer’s bagpipes lesson, but Madeleine teaches about the bagpipes through true stories of her sexual escapades. American made, with and a pile of kilts purchased on Amazon, she has incorporates her country’s trademark lack of propriety and chronic horniness into the show. Each part of the bagpipes unfortunately reminds her of a man from her past, and Madeleine weaves a narrative of her search for love and coping with heartbreak against the backdrop of her true love: the loudest instrument ever.
Madeleine has been doing stand-up comedy for over 6 years, ran a show for a year and a half, and performed at The Comedy Store and Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles. To date, she has written four pilots and two features, and has twice placed in the Second Round of the Austin Film Festival.
Madeleine is currently working on a degree in accounting at the University of Texas, while performing solo or with the Austin-based pipes and drums group, Silver Thistle. She is also working on the third draft of a novel which has caused a stunning amount of family drama.
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