2019
McKenna Cox
December 20th: McKenna did her finest Ellie Kemper impression in Bing Crosby’s Merrie Olde Christmas 2019 at UCB at Subculture! The show was hosted by Peter Johnston and featured many incredible New York comedians.
December 16th: McKenna performed in a SPANK at UCBT Hell’s Kitchen! A SPANK is a thirty minute sketch comedy show that is open to the public to watch, and then decided by the staff if it will be given a run at the theatre. The show that McKenna was a part of is called CHECK PLEASE! and was written by John Zachary Townsend and directed by Cara Devins.
November 27th: McKenna was an actor in Scrapped, a cold read sketch comedy show that showcases three NYC writers’ best worst sketches. The show took place at the PIT Striker and featured writers: Dominique Euqinimod, Aaron Porchia and Michael Tannenbaum.
November 23rd: McKenna filmed an original sketch written by Pratima Mani! She had the privilege of acting with Prat, Ann Marie Yoo, Leanne Velednitsky and Alex Otis.
November 22nd: McKenna had the pleasure of shooting a pretape for SNL in which she played a bar patron and office worker. The sketch, Wrangler Peekaboos, was cut for time but featured Will Ferrell, Alex Moffat, Kyle Mooney, and Bowen Yang strutting in jeans that enhanced their butt cleavage. It was quite an experience! Ha!
November 19th: McKenna is so excited to let you know that she has been cast in the upcoming season of UCBT’s Maude Night! Her house sketch team, Peach, will be performing the first Monday of every month in 2020!
November 18th: McKenna performed in The Story Pirates’ Cotillion at the Magnet Theater! She is ecstatic to be a part of this wonderful community of artists!
November 14th: McKenna filmed a commercial for SafeAuto Car Insurance! More info to come…
November 10th: McKenna performed an original monologue entitled “Ellie Kemper at the DMV” in her UCB Character 101 Class Show!
November 7th: McKenna filmed a commercial for Maven in which she plays a concerned friend and proud coworker! Stay tuned…
November 4th-6th: McKenna was in Washington D.C. filming a PSA for the FDA! Say that five times fast…
October 27th: McKenna performed with Room 28 Comedy in the People’s Improv Theatre’s 2019 SketchFest! Her team headlined at the PIT Loft.
October 24th: McKenna performed in Bragging Rights in the People Improv Theatre’s 2019 SketchFest! The show headlined at the PIT Striker Theatre.
October 19th: McKenna performed in SketchCram at UCB Hell’s Kitchen! This is a sketch comedy show that is built in one day! The writers meet at 9AM, the actors join in the fun at 6PM, and the show is performed off book and with no tech rehearsal at midnight! It’s a whirlwind of a day but so much fun!
October 13th: McKenna was an actor in Hunter Nelson’s 301 Class Graduation Show at UCB Hell’s Kitchen! The show featured nine original sketches with a cast of six NYC comedic actors.
October 5th and 6th: McKenna performed with Room 28 Comedy at the People en Espanol Festival on behalf of SOMOS at the Armory!
September 25th: McKenna began shooting a new film entitled Steve, written by Maryanne Melloan Woods, directed by Andrea Odezynska, and produced by Walter Rodriguez! She is excited to tackle her first lead role in a feature!
September 21st: McKenna performed with The HERlarious Show ladies at Pop Show hosted by Ziwe at Union Hall in Brooklyn! She acted in the sketch, Hot Donuts, written by Laura Michelle. You can see more of Laura’s work at the Upright Citizens Brigade where she writes and performs with her team, The Foundation.
September 8th: McKenna is so excited to announce that she now an official performer for the Story Pirates! This amazing organization is an arts education and media company based in New York and Los Angeles. We take stories written by kids and bring those stories to life to celebrate the words and ideas of children. For more information about how the Story Pirates work, click here!
August 21st and 22nd: McKenna shot a Bob’s Furniture commercial in Connecticut! She’ll share with you when she gets the footage!
August 2nd: McKenna was on set playing a receptionist in the short film, Dormant.
July 31st: McKenna was excited to join the cast of Scrapped for another night of embarrassingly great writing! She cold read scripts written by Laura Michelle, Natasha Vayblat and Brandon Bassham at the PIT Underground. Big thanks to the hilarious hosts, Sarah Ann Houghton and Dylan Eshbaugh, for bringing her onboard.
July 25th: The all women cast of Comedy Derailed was defeated in Round Two of the Bragging Rights July Madness Sketch Competition. As always, McKenna had a great time performing at the PIT Underground!
July 16th: Room 28 Comedy made their debut on NBC’s new comedy competition show, Bring The Funny ! Click here to watch their performance!
July 12th: McKenna performed with the all women cast of Comedy Derailed in Round One of the Bragging Rights July Madness Sketch Competition and is happy to say that the team advanced to Round Two!
July 8th: McKenna filmed a commercial for City Empire MGM Casinos! It is currently running on TV in New York and surrounding states, as well as live at NY Yankees and Mets baseball games. You can also view it by clicking here!
July 6th: McKenna’s UCB 301 Sketch Writing Class had their graduation show at UCB Hell’s Kitchen! Two sketches that McKenna wrote were featured and she even performed in a few!
June 29th: McKenna performed with Room 28 in the DAF Festival at Caveat!
June 29th: Affairs Interrupted, a short created by Danny Garcia, Sarah Ann Houghton, David Morton and McKenna, was featured in the one minute film festival, Quickie Fest VII.
June 27th: The all women cast and team of Comedy Derailed had two comedy variety shows at the Triad Theatre!
June 15th: McKenna filmed a new short with Behind the Camera NYC which will be featured in Quickie Festival VII.
May 30-31: McKenna traveled to Connecticut to film a commercial for LinkedIn! The spot features her conducting job interviews with children. You can view the commercial here!
May 29th: McKenna booked a print job for Brilli Lightbulbs! She filmed in Brooklyn with one of her favorite production companies, Piro. If you want to learn more about their product, click here!
May 16th: McKenna had a photo shoot for the poster of the upcoming short film, Last Call.
May 8th: Escape! The Burbs, a short featuring McKenna and created by Faux Reel Studios, premiered in the Iron Mule Short Comedy Screening Series. You can view the short here!
May 5th: McKenna flew to Toronto to shoot a few commercials for Squarespace with director Tim Godsall! Hey! You’re looking at a Squarespace site right now! 🤗 View a couple while you’re here!
April 9th: McKenna flew to LA to film a new project! More details to come… :)
March 24th: The Fancy Drunk, a sketch written and created by Perfectly Adequate Films and featuring McKenna, premiered at the New York City Short Comedy Film Festival.
March 6th: McKenna played a naive, spirited, Southern woman named Kekkie in Joanne Hoersch’s reading of Bunnies, a play about the lives of the 1970s Playboy bunnies. The reading took place at Jersey City Theatre Center and was part of the NJ Women Playwright’s series produced by the Writer’s Theatre of New Jersey.
March 1st: McKenna performed in the March edition of the hit PIT sketch comedy show, Bragging Rights, at the Striker Theater!
February 27th: McKenna performed in SCRAPPED, a new sketch comedy show at the PIT Underground where the actors cold read scripts that never made it past the writing room by featured comedy writers.
February 22nd: McKenna shot a new comedic short, Last Call, with Behind the Camera NYC. Danny Garcia wrote and directed the piece and McKenna had the pleasure of acting opposite of her fellow Room 28er, Ariana Rodriguez.
February 16th: McKenna performed with Room 28 Comedy at the ASPIRA of New York’s 26th Annual City Youth Conference sponsored by Macy’s. Hostos Community College hosted the event for high school students from all five boroughs.
February 3rd: McKenna filmed Episode 3 of the Open House Web-Series with Indelible Films!
January 20th: McKenna shot a comedic short with Perfectly Adequate Films called The Breakup.
January 18th: McKenna filmed a pretape for SNL where she played a Jazz Club Patron in a Marvelous Mrs. Maisel parody! Getting to watch Rachel Brosnahan and Leslie Jones perform standup live is an experience she will never forget.
January 6th: McKenna played an overachieving newspaper reporter named Nora in Eric Peterson’s new play, Water, Water Everywhere. The play was a part of the Soundings Reading Series through the Writers Theatre of New Jersey.
A behind the scenes pic of McKenna doing a pretape for SNL’s Marvelous Mrs. Maisel parody.
Catch McKenna with Room 28 Comedy on the first season of NBC’s Bring the Funny!
McKenna had so much fun filming Last Call with Danny Garcia and Ariana Rodriguez!
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McKenna was cast on a house sketch team at the Upright Citizens Brigade! Come watch, Peach, on Maude Night the first Monday of every month in 2020!