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VISIONS Magazine cover, Summer 2006

Honors in "VISIONS"

A recent VISIONS magazine article features the Honors Program! (Article is in PDF format.)

This article was originally published in the Summer 2006 issue of VISIONS magazine, a publication distributed to members of the Iowa State University Alumni Association. For more information about VISIONS or the ISU Alumni Association, please visit www.isualum.org.

 

Honors Grad Returns to Campus

From Iowa to Hollywood: Comedy Writing, Performing and Promotion - A Panel Discussion with Carrie Seim and the Deviants


Date/Time:

Tuesday, 10 Apr 2007 at 4:00 pm

Location:

Great Hall, Memorial Union

Carrie Seim will discuss her path from "Grandma Mojo's Moonshine Revival" on the stage of the Maintenance Shop at Iowa State to Hollywood and her comedy career. Her fellow sketch comedians and Deviants will offer helpful suggestions and fill in embarrassing details she may leave out. The other Deviants are Brian Clark (That Gay Ghost), Drew Droege (Reno 911 and Campus Ladies), Tanya McClure (Pussytag), Nicol Paone (Punk'd and The Big Gay Sketch Show), and Michael Serrato (The Big Gay Sketch Show).

PhotoCarrie has written about Capitol Hill politics, immigration policy reform, saltwater crocodiles and Paris Hilton's panties for Newsday, The Chicago Reporter, National Geographic Television and the E! Network. Not necessarily in that order. She received her bachelor's degree from Iowa State's Greenlee School of Journalism and her master's degree from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. She traveled extensively as the senior coordinator of international writing programs for the Sundance Film Institute and as a contributor to the high school news program Channel One. After years of writing about serious things like government policies, Carrie now writes about silly things, like government policy. She recently performed her original sketch comedy show Midwestern Wisdom at the Groundlings Theatre in Los Angeles and has a recurring role on the E! Network's Seven Deadly Hollywood Sins. She is also an alum of The Groundlings Sunday Company in Los Angeles and The Second City conservatory in Chicago.