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UPDATED, 3:54 p.m.: Hulu has announced that Abbott Elementary prima Lisa Ann Walter‘s debut stand-up special, connected which we were first to study past fall, is titled It Was an Accident and will premiere Friday, May 15.
In nan hour, Walter takes connected feral Gen-Xers, self-loathing, and navigating a backsliding America, via nan no-filter lens of a grown-ass female who has been paying attention. Walter wrote, performed, and directed it herself, exec producing alongside Abbott co-star Sheryl Lee Ralph, Michelle Caputo, and Shannon Hartman, pinch Art & Industry producing.
Read much connected Walter and her typical below.
PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE, OCTOBER 14: After touring arsenic a stand-up for 20 years, Abbott Elementary prima Lisa Ann Walter has inked a woody for Hulu to merchandise her debut drama typical successful 2026.
No connection yet connected what Walter will beryllium discussing successful nan special. But she directed it herself, taping it astatine Helium Comedy Club successful Philadelphia, PA. It’ll watercourse connected Hulu and Hulu connected Disney+ for bundle subscribers successful nan U.S. and connected Disney+ internationally.
The typical is produced by Art & Industry, and is executive produced by Walter, Walter’s Abbott co-star Sheryl Lee Ralph, Michelle Caputo and Shannon Hartman.
Walter plays instrumentality favourite Melissa Schemmenti successful ABC’s highest rated comedy, Abbott Elementary, which is presently airing its 5th play Wednesdays connected ABC, pinch episodes streaming adjacent time connected Hulu. She has antecedently co-created, produced and starred successful respective web sitcoms: Fox’s My Wildest Dreams, ABC’s Life’s Work, and NBC’s Dance Your Ass Off. She’s besides known for stand-out performances successful films for illustration The Parent Trap, Shall We Dance, Bruce Almighty, Steven Spielberg’s War of nan Worlds, and nan Lionsgate action-comedy Killers pinch Ashton Kutcher.
Walter published nan memoir The Best Thing About My Ass Is That It’s Behind Me pinch Harper One successful 2011, seeing it scope #13 connected some Amazon and nan New York Times Comedic Essays Bestseller List. As an advocator for galore years, she is connected nan committee of galore organizations: The Entertainment Community Fund (for whom she won $1 cardinal arsenic Celebrity Jeopardy champion), nan ERA Coalition, and nan SAG-AFTRA National & Local organization, wherever she was precocious elected arsenic nan first Vice President of nan Los Angeles Local.
The comedic multi-hyphenate is represented by Authentic, Gersh, and Innovative for stand-up, arsenic good arsenic Del Shaw Moonves.
