Walk Me Through Your Resume

Overview

Comedian and storyteller Martha Cooney brings her book, Walk Me Through Your Resume, to life in a solo comedy show about weird jobs, class status, and the ultimate battle with a nanny cam. Blending work tales with comedic fantasies, it’s a reflection on dreaming of bigger things while on the daily grind, and hope for success ending in a dead end in IKEA. Jason Kelce’s used toothpick, the questionable virginity of a duck, and a movie theater brawl all show up in the workplace as Martha tells the story of her resume, with details not available on LinkedIn.

About the Artist

Martha Cooney is a comedian and writer from Philadelphia. She is a winner of The Moth GrandSLAM storytelling competition and a frequent First Person Arts Winning Storyteller and Audience Favorite. Her first humor essay collection, Walk Me Through Your Resume, was released in 2023. Martha writes the popular YO from Martha Cooney newsletter and hosts the Philly variety comedy show YO Live. For many years she produced and hosted interactive shows based on stories from kids, performed by Philly’s best improv comedians with her arts organization, StoryUP. Martha made her comedy debut in a Dublin, Ireland hostel in 2008 in exchange for a night’s free stay. She has performed on countless stages and in more than a few libraries, but not yet in a laundromat.