Mrs. D.: A waking daymare of suburbia, wound up so tight it squeaked when she moved her head, her maskface producing the mirthless “backward laugh” common to all the moms around, a staccato series of high-pitched wheezing inhalations.

So, I read you were hand-picked by Amy Sedaris to play everyone’s favorite “little redheaded spitfire,” Tammi Littlenut, on “Strangers With Candy.” Please tell the story. I was in a play where I had one scene, no lines. I just screamed and talked to myself, and was basically as weird as I could be, completely [...]