Adrienne Truscott is a choreographer, dancer, and stand-up comedian. She won the

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Panel Prize and Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality at the 2013

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for her show ''Adrienne Truscott's Asking For It: A One Lady Rape About Comedy''. Originally part of a

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duo, The Wau Wau Sisters, ''Asking For It'' was her first solo comedy show. She also received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2017). Truscott's show ''…Too Freedom…'' premiered at

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in December 2012. In 2017, she was appointed as one of three Fringe Ambassadors for the

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. Truscott is a 1994 graduate of

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