Adrienne Truscott received a 2014 Doris Duke Impact Artist Award and is a 2017 Foundation for Contemporary Arts grantee for Theater/Performance Art. Her solo comedic work and group choreographic works have been presented at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Just For Laughs, Darwin Festival, PS122, Joe's Pub, The Kitchen, Dublin Fringe Festival, Danspace Project, Boom Arts, New York Live Arts, the Malthouse Theatre (Melbourne), and Dance Theater Workshop. Her form-busting show Adrienne Truscott’s Asking For It: A One-Lady Rape About Comedy Starring Her Pussy and Little Else! won the 2013 Edinburgh Foster's Panel Prize, was a finalist for the Total Theatre Award for Playing With Form, and is considered a critical impetus to the evolving conversation about rape culture. It has been presented by or included in curriculum at CalArts, New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Lewis and Clark College, among others. THIS was nominated for a 2017 New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for Outstanding Production. The Wau Wau Sisters, her boundary-defying neo-vaudevillian collaboration with Tanya Gagne, have been presented by the Sydney Opera House, Joe's Pub, CBGB, Victoria Arts Centre, and The Roundhouse, and won the prestigious 2009 Herald Angel Award. Her piece Wild Bore, a “meta rebuke to critical writing,” was nominated for a Green Room Award for New Writing for the Australian Stage and won for Best Ensemble. Current touring pieces MASTERCLASS, a collaboration with Dublin-based Brokentalkers was recently presented at Dublin Fringe, in Harstad, Norway and at The Pleasance at Edinburgh Fringe and Grey Arias, a desecration of the problematic Madame Butterfly through the lenses of race and drag with UK-based opera performer Le Gateau Chocolat is premiering in Melbourne in April 2023. Truscott's essays have been published in Between Us: Women of Letters and Doing It: Women Tell the Truth about Great Sex, as well as in the Guardian. She's appeared as a storyteller at the Sydney Opera House's Festival of Dangerous Ideas and on The Moth. Truscott has guest taught for the Wesleyan University Dance Department, Sarah Lawrence College, Princeton University, Bard College, and is currently the MA Coordinator at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College/Open Society University Network.