Alexa Fitzpatrick
Alexa Fitzpatrick’s standup comedy show about her 10,000 hours of bartending was called “bound to get noticed” by the NY Times and the Orlando Sentinel dubbed her “the bartender you want to find at the end of the day.” From a neighborhood dive bar in NYC to Chef Nobu’s five-star sushi restaurant in Aspen, Colorado, Alexa’s tales of adventure and unique take on life both inform and entertain. After leaving the standup world for corporate environs (i.e., Stanford University, the Aspen Institute), Alexa noticed that her “well-educated” colleagues lacked some of the basic life-skills that good bartenders master in their first week – simple hacks that change everything and were sorely missing in the corporate world. She wrote a book about her experiences in the sushi trade and what they taught her about getting along. Serving Bait to Rich People: A Bartender’s Guide to Happiness, balances her standup comedy stories with the vital life lessons that can only be learned from behind the bar.