How ‘SNL’s’ Pat Inspired Abby McEnany’s ‘Work in Progress’
Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVJust as in Las Vegas, everything Abby McEnany used to say in her one-woman iO Theater show “Work in Progress” was supposed to stay in that location.When the writer, producer and actor was creating that project to live on stage, she recalls feeling as if she “just needed it to be a safe space and to be small.” But that autobiographical show was later turned into a pilot that premiered at Sundance and eventually a half-hour comedy series airing on Showtime, and suddenly her most vulnerable and honest emotions and experiences had a much larger audience.Some of these experiences included dating a trans man whom she at first mistook for a lesbian woman, feeling like her life was ruined by Julia