BIO
I was born in a small town in northwest Missouri (Bethany) in 1963 where my mom was the homecoming queen and my dad was on the high school football team…honest, I’m not making that up, cute huh? Norman Rockwell would have painted us had he known us. At age two we moved to the big city, Kansas City, and mom & dad had my little sister Brooke. Brooke and I spent our childhood roller-skating in the streets all summer and praying for snow days all winter.
We moved to Florida when I was in Junior High and I survived my teens starring on high school cafetorium stages in theatrical productions ranging from Fiddler on the Roof to The Night of Jan. 16th (often wearing a tuft of crepe hair stuck onto my pimply teenage chin with a glob of spirit gum, ah youth). After graduating High School in 1982, I went on to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Florida State University in 1987 and subsequently spent a year in Jupiter Florida at the Burt Reynolds Institute for Theatre Training. Armed with my Actors Equity Card…I moved to NYC and embarked on my career as an actor spending almost 10 years making my living “on the boards”, traveling all over the country doing stock, regional, dinner and small theatre productions. I received the Carbonell Award in Florida for playing “Bill Snibson” in Me and My Girl in 1992. By the late 90’s I was doing mostly sketch and stand-up comedy in NYC. I headed west in 1999 for pilot season and never made it back to NYC. I continued doing comedy in LA and in 2003-2005 I wrote and performed a one-man autobiographical show entitled Good News. All the while I’ve been here in LA working in television doing guest spots, co-stars and commercials.
I no longer have to glue hair to my chin…it grows all by itself now.
Still from Solo Show “Good News!”
“Rising well above the glut of mediocre solo shows, Brian Chenoweth's
'Good News' is a serious delight. Brian is a deeply engaging
performer who draws us right into the personal realities behind the
gay rights culture wars. 'Good News' is a wonderful night of
hilarious, compelling and solidly theatrical personal storytelling.”
— Lisa Kron, “Well”,
“2.5 Minute Ride”, “Five Lesbian Brothers,”
www.lisakron.com