Laugh Track for Dying is a tale of losing two parents simultaneously. It's episdoes feature blind euchre and mothers like epic beasts and fathers with prophetic camera vision. It's a meditation on heredity, on hilarity, on the ever-twisting dementia carnival in a long-term care centre and a daughter's rite of passage as caregiver, whether she likes it or not.
J.Lorito, MA, is a multidisciplinary Ontario-based artist most concerned with character. J.Lorito Books are chock full of colour, absurdity, blunt truths and queer characters. For Lorito, art is a collaborative, community-building process; she works with actors, filmmakers, musicians and writers. J.Lorito was awarded an Ontario Arts Council grant in 2006, then went on to found The Raise-an-Artist Project. Find her at jlorito.com and on instagram @j.lorito