Who Is Tig Notaro's Wife? All About Stephanie Allynne

Tig Notaro’s success story would be incomplete without mentioning her wife and biggest supporter, Stephanie Allynne.

The Hi again the comedian met Allynne on set In the world 2013, and the pair later reconnected at the Sundance Film Festival. Their working relationship quickly became personal, providing Notaro with much-needed support during a difficult time in her life, including the death of her mother and her own diagnosis of stage two breast cancer, which led to a double mastectomy.

After these health battles, the comedian’s romantic relationship with Allynne blossomed, and they became the main thing in each other’s lives.

“Even though I’ve had a lot of great relationships and wonderful people and fun and love and all those things, it was more like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe after that hell that this person who is grounding me has come.’ “, said Notaro Cosmopolitan 2015, the same year the couple got married.

After building their relationship, Allynne and the comedian realized they both wanted children. “The first year we were together, I put things aside and just wanted to focus on our relationship, but she’ll come back because that was the focus,” Notaro said on Death, sex and money podcast in 2018.

The couple have two twin sons, Max and Finn, born via surrogate on June 26, 2016.

So who is Tig Notar’s wife? Here’s everything you need to know about Stephanie Allynne and her relationship with the comedian.

She was born in Southern California

Stephanie Allynne and friend as children.

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Allynne was born in Southern California. She moved to Buffalo, New York, shortly after birth and spent part of her youth in the northern city before returning to Los Angeles at age 18.

Speaking about her youth to online magazine Trainwreck’d Society, Allyne said: “I’ve always been funny, not in a clown way, more of a whispered, funny comment to the person sitting next to me. I still am I think.”

She is very involved in the comedy scene in LA

Stephanie Allynne at the Variety Studio at Sundance on January 26, 2015 in Park City, Utah.

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After returning to LA, Allynne joined comedy troupes such as the Upright Citizens Brigade and The Groundlings. She became a regular performer in shows like ASSSSCAT and Wild horses and was part of the Last Day of School improv team.

She immediately felt the spark with the Notary

Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne.

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Allynne talked about her surprise at having an instant relationship with Notar because she had always identified as heterosexual.

“Everything about her was good. I knew I liked her, I knew I cared about her, and that threw me into a spiral of identity crisis,” Allyne explained to Cosmopolitan.

“I felt the need to label myself, was I gay? Am I bi? Was I still straight? Have I ever been straight? etc. It took me six months to realize that those labels were ridiculous,” she continued. “Once I could own my true feelings, everything was easy and beautiful. Now I no longer believe in labels.”

She married Notara in October 2015

Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne at a special screening of “Just Before I Go” in Los Angeles on April 20, 2015.

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The couple exchanged vows in Notaro’s hometown of Pass Christian, Mississippi, in October 2015. The wedding featured celebrity guests such as Sarah Silverman, Alicia Silverstone, Lake Bell, Lucy Lawless and Kate Micucci, among other family and friends.

The reception was held in the home of a family member, po Herald of the Sun.

“I think the one thing I didn’t have was a relationship that filled me up and made me excited to be with that person forever, and now I have that, for the first time in my life,” Notaro said of her future wife to HuffPost in 2014.

She shares two children with Notar

Tig Notaro with twins Max and Finn.

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On June 26, 2016, the couple had twins, Max and Finn, via surrogate.

A few weeks before their arrival, Notaro opened up to PEOPLE about her excitement about becoming a new mom. “But I think more than anything I can’t wait to find out who these little people are. I can’t wait to just watch them, find out their interests, dress them in cute clothes,” she said. “I imagine them as little kids running around in our yard.”

Notaro announced their birth on Facebook, writing, “Max and Finn Notaro arrived happy, healthy and really, really cute.”

He has notable acting credits in comedy series and films

Stephanie Allynne and Tig Notaro at the Amazon Instant Video ‘One Mississippi’ Premiere on August 30, 2016 in West Hollywood, California.

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Allynne is an accomplished writer, performer and producer with acting credits in series such as One Mississippi, Room 104 and Twin Peaks. She is also known for her roles in films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, including In the world (where she met her husband), People post things and Tig.

In addition, Allynne appeared in The L word reboot on Showtime.

“It [The L Word] is truly an iconic queer show. The original series meant a lot to me and definitely helped me understand myself and sexuality.” she told Heavy.com.

Allyne’s comedy career also includes roles in several series such as Comedy Bang Bang, 2 broke girls, The Mindy Project, Key & Peele, Maron and Kroll Show.

She was a screenwriter and film director am i ok

Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne at the Tribeca Festival After-Party for Rising Voices on June 16, 2021 in New York City.

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Along with her husband, Allynne directed the film am i ok — a comedy-drama that premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

He wrote the film The The Ellen Degeneres Show writer Lauren Pomerantz, reflects Allynne’s late realization of her sexuality, as she told NBC News.

“It’s so similar, just that feeling of, ‘Oh my God, how did I not react to this? How am I so late to this?’ And then the decision to be like, ‘OK, I’ll do it.’ That’s totally my experience,” Allyne said.

Dakota Johnson, who stars in the film, joined the project through a personal connection with Notar.

Judd Apatow is producing one of her upcoming projects

Stephanie Allynne attends the premiere of Showtime’s “The L Word: Generation Q” on December 2, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. ; Judd Apatow attends the 2nd Annual Museum Academy Gala on October 15, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.

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In January 2022. Deadline announced that Allynne would direct Time and space, a feature film she created with Notar during the COVID-19 pandemic. Produced by Judd Apatow and her own production company with Notaro, Something Fierce, the script focuses on the story of a lesbian couple who swap their LA lifestyle for rural upstate New York.

Notaro said Deadline“There was a lot of inspiration from the pandemic… It was inspired by hearing about the struggles that couples were going through while also thinking how crazy it must have been to have problems when you can’t get away from each other.”

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