Performance to benefit LGBT Initiatives Fund at CentralWashingtonUniversity

Alison Arngrim, best known to viewers world-wide for her portrayal of the incredibly nasty Nellie Oleson on the long-running hit television series “Little House on the Prairie,” is bringing her hilarious stand-up act to CWU on Fri., Nov. 17, to benefit the CWU Diversity Education Center’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Initiatives Fund.
Tickets for the 7 p.m. performance at the Student Union Theatre are available at the Student Union Box Office and are $5 for Students, $15 for non-students, and $25 for reserved VIP seating which also includes a post-show reception.

Arngrim played Nellie Oleson for seven years before leaving the “Little House on the Prairie” to pursue her other interests including theatre and stand-up comedy. Arngrim has since headlined at some of the most famous comedy clubs such as the Laugh Factory, the Comedy Store and the Improve in Los Angeles.

Since 1985, when her friend and Little House co-star Steve Tracy was diagnosed with HIV, Arngrim has used her acting background to help educate people about AIDS and the power of humor in the healing process. Arngrim is currently serving as Vice Chair of the Screen Actors Guild Young Performers Committee, addressing the needs of children in the entertainment industry, and on the National Advisory Board of PROTECT, fighting to give children a legal and political voice in the war against Child Abuse.

Created four years ago, the LGBT Initiatives Fund delivers educational programming and outreach for the University community while providing advocacy for the LGBT population and their allies. Since its inception, the fund has played a key role in changing the University’s non-discrimination policy to include gender identity and expression, creating and organizing the first Northwest LGBT Leadership Conference for college students, and most recently, helping CWU become “one of nation’s top 100 schools for Gay and Lesbian students” according to The Advocate Magazine’s prestigious “College Guide for LGBT Students.”
For more information about Arngrim’s benefit, CWU LGBT Initiatives Fund, or for persons of disability to arrange for reasonable accommodation, call (509) 963-1685, or (for the hearing impaired) TDD (509) 963-2143.

A CWU press release