Lambeth Sterling started telling authentic stories on stage in the early 1990s, and audiences unexpectedly started laughing.  She learned to tell the often excruciating truth with humor on her feet.  Having been trained by her mother, who was a fundamentalist at heart, to tell the blunt truth immediately, improvisation eventually came naturally.  She was fortunate to have a therapist who said, “Nothing is funnier than hearing Lambeth talk about her deepest pain.”

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Lambeth was born in the Bible Belt, attended UNC at Chapel Hill, and graduated from SUNY.  She worked on commercials as an Associate Producer and on documentary, television, and feature film production in New York City.  She worked at the Smithsonian as an Associate Producer on short documentary films, meditated four hours per day for years in the cornfields of Iowa in an effort to create world peace, and moved to the San Francisco Bay area in 1988.

 

She honed her ability as a comic and solo performer under the direction of the best directors in the Bay Area and now performs under the direction of widely acclaimed Director David Ford. 

 

She has been in therapy everywhere.