On this episode of Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am chatting with Alison Arngrim, former child star, outspoken activist, and TV Land Award Winner, best known for playing acid-tongued, pre-Midol meanie Nellie Oleson from Little House on the Prairie.

We talk all things Little House on the Prairie, her upcoming virtual performances of Confessions of a Prairie Terror, a live stay-at-home online version of her critically acclaimed show Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, her activism & advocacy for such causes as HIV/AIDS & against child abuse + so much more!

Confessions of a Prairie Terror will be streamed on May 9, 2020 at 8pm EST/5pm PST and May 16, 2020 at 11pm EST/8pm PST ONLY. Tickets can be purchased at StageIt.

UPDATE: Confessions of a Prairie Terror ENCORE performance June 25, 2020 at 8pm EST/5pm PST.

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New York Times Best Selling author of Confessions of A Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated, Alison Arngrim is best known to viewers world-wide for her portrayal of the incredibly nasty “Nellie Oleson” on the much loved, long running hit television series Little House On The Prairie, and continues to amuse audiences through her many film, television and stage appearances.

Her one woman show Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, which started at Club Fez in New York in 2002, has now become a world-wide phenomenon, having been performed to packed houses in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, and in France, where Alison performs entirely in French to standing room only crowds in her all French version titled: Confessions d’une Garce de La Prairie.

In 1986 when her friend and "Little House husband" co-star, Steve Tracy, passed away due to complications of HIV/AIDS, Alison began volunteering at AIDS Project Los Angeles. Her duties ranged from working on the Southern California AIDS Hotline and the APLA food bank, to chairing the steering committee of the volunteer speakers bureau and developing “Safer Sex” workshops. In 1992, Joel Wachs presented Alison with a resolution by the Los Angeles City Council commending her on her work on behalf of people living with HIV and AIDS.

From 1989 through 1993 she served as Program Manager at Tuesday's Child, an organization assisting children and families affected by HIV and AIDS. From 1989 through 2003 she served as both hostess and producer for the comedy stage at the AIDS Project Los Angeles Annual Summer Party, where she helped to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for people living with HIV.

She currently serves as California Chair, National Spokesperson and Founding Board Member on the National Advisory Board of The National Association to Protect Children (www.PROTECT.org), fighting to give children a legal and political voice in the war against child abuse. As an activist for the improvement of child protection laws, she has spoken before the California Senate and worked on legislative and political campaigns in several states, including Virginia and New York, in addition to PROTECT’s work on federal legislation in Washington, D.C.

She takes pride in the fact that so many people enjoyed hating her as a girl and is more than happy to give them the opportunity to do so in the future.

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Theme Song by Bobby Cronin

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Edited by Drew Kaufman

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