The Big Gay Sketch Show Season 1

Meet the Cast:

Best known for her portrayal of Marcy Rhoades D'arcy, the manic, feminist/careerist neighbor on the long-running series MARRIED...WITH CHILDREN, Amanda Bearse is also a prominent spokesperson for lesbian and gay rights in the entertainment industry and a very busy director on television....

Erica Ash

Erica Ash was raised internationally as a child of military parents and calls Atlanta, Georgia her home. She started her career in Tokyo, Japan when she "fell into" a gig as a back up singer to a Japanese artist. Erica spent three years there modeling, singing and dancing before moving to New...

Dion Flynn

Dion Flynn is an actor, writer, and improv comic who lives and works in the NYC area. Dion holds an MFA in acting from New York University. He calls the People's Improv Theater his artistic home where he performs with "The Faculty". You've seen him lending on-screen commentary to VH1's "Best Week Ever", "Supersecret TV Formula's" and "Greatest Cheesetastic Videos". He appeared in the Fox sketch-comedy "40 Whacks" with Jimmy Fallon and is half of the tragi-comic duo Farahnakian and Flynn with Ali Farahnakian. He performed stand-up comedy in NYC and the Republic of Korea for troops in US Army, and co-founded an improv troupe. Dion has appeared in Shakespeare in the Park's "Taming of the Shrew" with Alison Janney and the Public Theater's "Hamlet" with Liev Schrieber. Dion has appeared in the indie gay film "Under Heat" starring Lee Grant and wrote, directed, and performed the solo shows: "Unboozeming the Clown" and "How I Forgave the World (...and by 'The World' I mean my mother)". He's appeared in commercials for Sprint, Virgin Mobile, McDonald's (dir. Spike Lee), Coconuts Records and Fleet Bank. Dion brings dynamic talent to ranks of "The Big Gay Sketch Show".

Julie Goldman

Julie is an accomplished stand-up comedienne, having toured with "Laughing Liberally", "Puppetry of The Penis", and starred in four solo shows. Julie has been seen on FUSE, BRAVO, AMC, PLUM TV, and HBO. See Julie do everything from saving the lasses of the Olivia Cruise, play both husband AND...

Stephen Guarino

Stephen Guarino is authentic river trash from the swamps north of Orlando where he swam with manatees and modeled briefly for JC Penney huskies. Stephen has performed improv comedy since he was 18 at SAK Comedy Lab, Florida State University, and Dad's Garage Theatre Co. of Atlanta. His proudest...

Jonny McGovern

Jonny McGovern first gained New York City notoriety with his one-man show "Dirty Stuff". As 'The Gay Pimp', an entirely original character persona, Jonny starred in the international hit music videos "Soccer Practice" & "Lookin' Cute/Feelin' Cute", recorded the popular CD "Dirty Gay Hits",...

Kate McKinnon

Kate recently graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in Theater, and is thrilled to have put all her work with puppets and contact improvisation to good use in "The Big Gay Sketch Show". Now she writes and performs stand-up comedy and solo shows around New York City. She'd like to be...

Nicol Paone

Nicol Paone, a New Jersey native, started her career doing Improv and NYU student films. She was in "NYC's hottest all-female improv group" (Village Voice) called "The Improvazons." Now she proudly performs regularly at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles, is an alumna of the...

Michael Serrato

Michael Serrato grew up in Carson, California the oldest of two in a working class family. After a brief interlude in the fashion industry Michael has jumped head first into show biz. He can be seen live every week in the world famous Groundling's Sunday Company in Hollywood, Ca and plays the...