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Storyteller
"You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained."
Paramahansa Yogananda
Upcoming...
SUNDAY 08/31
LAUGHPACK PRODUCTIONS presents
The Sunday StandUp and Sketch Show
@ East Village Basement
321 East 9th St, NYC 10039
8pm
$10
THURSDAY 09/04
Eros Unbound: Erotic Reading Series
with special guest Steve Buscemi
@ The Red Pavilion
8:45pm
SATURDAY 9/27
Stand Up Comedy
@ Westside Comedy Club
8pm
THURSDAY 10/2
BOOGIE MANJA: SKETCH COMEDY COLLECTIVE
@ Second City Black Blocks Theater
9:30pm
Comedian
Stand Up Comic, Sketch Actor, Improviser
CREDITS: Stand Up| Two month residency at Greenwich Village and Broadway Comedy Club, One month residency at St Marks Comedy Club via Laughing Buddha, 2nd Place Buddha Battle at the Stand, UG Comedy Show Wild Card Winner, Queer Comedy Festival, St Marks Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club, Westside Comedy Club Sketch & Improv | Musical improv troupe Petting Zoo, various theaters. Fever Dream Boogie Manja at the Pit. Off-the-Cuff improv Troupe, various theaters, Creative Zone, various theaters, Positive Force Players a Planned Parenthood sponsored performance troupe touring statewide high schools
my style: raunchy, sweet & spiritual
TRAINING: UCB Improv 101 - 401, Magnet Musical Improv 101 - 201, Theatrical Clown Class 101 Jean Taylor, Intro to Stand up Rick Crom at the Comedy Cellar
Actor
SAG/ AEA
Rep. Ingber & Associates
CREDITS: Film & TV| Various commercials, Big Country Blues (best actor LA Web), The Letter
(*Winner* Art with Impact, Sunscreen Film Fest, Lousiville's International) Law and Order CI, Miss Connected (NY Shorts Fest, LA Shorts Fest), Selfish Ones (best ensemble WDFF) , The Fugitive Chronicles for A&E. Theatre| Building Pain with Origin theater (best actor nom), Short stuff 7 at the Barrow Group, Adults Only with Core Artists Ensemble, The Hungry Ghosts at TBG theater (play extended), Pucker Up and Blow (best overall show *NY Fringe Encore), The Three Sisters Brontë (workshop) at the Rubicon Theater, Acting mentor for university students at Quinnipiac University
TRAINING: The Barrow Group: Master Class with Seth Barrish, Lee Brock
The New York Conservatory of the Dramatic Arts
Writer
Writer/ Producer
CREDITS: Playwriting with the Core Artists Ensemble via the off-broadway theater company the Barrow Group: House of Tarts, Sidekicks, Top of the Morning. Screenwriting with Kumquat Kelly (Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Berlin Lift-Off Film Festival, New Filmmakers New York), Bodies Are Weird (post production), and A Day at the Park.
In addition to crafting my own stand up comedy material, I most recently have been thrilled to be a part of Eros Unbound: monthly erotic reading series at The Red Pavilion for the last year and a half, debuting all new pieces: Kink and other Existential Questions, Morning Wood, Fly on the Wall, Beginner's Mind, Take Me to Church, Wild at Heart, Justice for 69, This Little Piggy Stayed Home. ----->
Read about the show: "Sex as a language of honesty, not shame." - The Village Voice
TRAINING: One Man Show Class with Seth Barrish, Playwriting with Arlene Hutton, Writing for TV with John Yearley, Writing for Film K. Lorrel Manning
Filmmaker
Writer/ Producer
Kumquat Kelly Writer/ Director/ Producer
(Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Berlin Lift-Off Film Festival, New Filmmakers New York) Bodies are Weird Writer/ Producer (Post Production) A Day at the Park Writer, Producer Brother or Sister Director (Winner of the Barrow Group 48hr Film Fest)
