Jackie Honikman is a writer and comedienne who has studied comedy at The Groundlings, ComedySportz, UCBLA, and CalArts. She is a graduate of the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television where she made waves with her parody of Karen Finley's Shock Treatment (mainly because she covered herself head to toe in chocolate frosting and crumbled cheese-its) and Katrina Personified , the story of Hurricane Katrina as a washed-up jazz singer. Her first full-length one-woman satire Jackie Live: For Real ran for 8 sold-out weeks in Los Angeles this year and was described as "A clever original" and "entertaining and imaginative" by Variety and LA Weekly respectively. In 1999, Jackie received congressional recognition for her work as a performer and was honored as a California Arts Scholar. She later became Santa Barbara's Young Woman of the Year 2001, and was the Junior Statemen of America's Best Impromptu Speaker of 2002. If you meet her, you should make fun of her about this.