Former Seattleite Lauren Weedman’s comedic prowess continues to turn heads in Hollywood. In addition to stealing scenes as the insatiable Horny Patty on HBO’s Hung, she recently won raves as a tough yet needy top chef in The Five-Year Engagement (The New Yorker called her bit “irresistible”). But Weedman still tours the country doing solo stage shows, a skill she honed here; and her latest piece is a departure from the “ouch”-inducing, introspective comedy mined from recent experiences. Instead, SRO—Single Room Occupancy reaches back to a time spent in Amsterdam watching American movies like Philadelphia. (“The death scene that leads into the wake? I was 23, okay? It carpe diem-ed me really hard.”) Upon her return to Fremont, she took up with a “stalker” who did lawn care and obsessed over horror movies. “I lived above City People’s—the dreariest apartment in the world,” she explains by phone. “I found this SRO; and the first night I was there, a man was passed out on the toilet. So getting into this ritual with this lawn-care guy watching horror movies every night was sort of comforting.” SRO will be more off-the-cuff than usual thanks to her ongoing gig hosting the popular live storytelling event The Moth in Santa Monica. “This time I just want to let stuff happen,” says Weedman. “That’s usually the best part of the story—the part you find while you’re talking.” STEVE WIECKING

May 17-19, 8 p.m., 2012