June Diane Raphael

Co-created the two-woman sketch comedy show, "Rode Hard and Put Away Wet", with her friend, Casey Wilson. The show originated at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City and was hailed as a "Critics Pick" by TimeOut New York. "Rode Hard" was also an official 2005 selection of the HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado and won Best Comedic Duo at the 2005 Emerging Comics of NY (ECNY) Awards. In late 2005, the show was performed for several months at the UCB Theater in Los Angeles.

One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write them, but I just handed out poems as Christmas presents. Like, 'Here's a Pablo Neruda poem that really made me think of you.'