Sierra Katow

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Sierra Katow
Birth nameSierra Lynn Katow [1]
BornAugust 2, 1994
Pasadena, California, U.S.
MediumStand-up comedian, writer, actress, podcaster
Alma mater Harvard University (A. B.), Computer science
Years active2015–present
Notable works and roles Last Comic Standing
Last Call with Carson Daly
Close Enough

Sierra Lynn Katow is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer and podcaster.

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Early life

Sierra Lynn Katow was born to Vincent and Corinne Katow at the Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California and is a fourth-generation American of Chinese and Japanese heritage. [2] [3] She grew up in La Cañada in Los Angeles County. [4] [5] Katow attended La Cañada Elementary School, [3] La Cañada High School, [6] and Harvard University, where she was part of a number of comedy groups including the Harvard College Stand-Up Comic Society and vice-president of The Harvard Lampoon ; and from 2013 to 2014 a cartoonist for The Harvard Crimson , [7] and graduated with a degree in Computer Science in 2016. [4] While attending college, Katow performed in and around Boston and around Hollywood when home on summer break, and participated in a Lampoon roast of and award ceremony for Jimmy Fallon in 2015. [8] [9] [10]

Career

Katow began performing at comedy clubs at the age of 16, and broke into the West Coast stand-up industry during high school. [4] [2] [11] During college she often performed at open mics at comedy clubs in the Boston area, and through this organised further gigs with fellow comedians while backstage. [4]

She was the youngest comedian to feature on Season 9 of Last Comic Standing (2015), which she auditioned for during her junior year, and has also performed stand-up on television in Last Call with Carson Daly , Just For Laughs Digital, Laughs (on Fox) and Acting Out (MTV).

In 2020, Variety announced Katow was joining the cast of the Chris Blake quarantine comedy, Distancing Socially . The film was shot at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, using remote technologies and the iPhone 11. The film was acquired and released by Cinedigm in October 2021. [12]

In 2021, Katow voiced two characters in Disney's Raya and the Last Dragon and appeared as recurring character Evangeline in Mindy Kaling's The Sex Lives of College Girls on HBO Max. Katow will create a short adult animated series to feature on Cake on FXX in 2022.

Katow has written for Take My Wife ; Drop the Mic ; Earth to Ned and Close Enough on HBO Max; The Wedding Coach on Netflix; and Eureka! on Disney Junior. She has also been involved in several projects with Wong Fu Productions, including appearing in and writing for the series Dating After College. [13] She also appeared as Mulan in the Screen Junkies web production The Roast of Beauty and the Beast in 2017. [14]

She co-hosted the comedy podcast SCUSSION with SCLARQ + SKATOW with fellow comedian and Harvard alumnus Sam Clark in 2016. [15] Katow is the host of the podcast Stay Podsitive with Sierra Katow, which she started in 2019. [16]

Outside of comedy, Katow does freelance work as a full-stack web developer. [13]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2021 Raya and the Last Dragon Merchant, Fang Officer (voice)
2021 Distancing Socially Mi Cha
2023 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Waiter

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2015 Last Call with Carson Daly HerselfGuest; Series 14, Episode 55: "Evan Peters/Sierra Katow/The Re-Licked Project"
2015 Last Comic Standing HerselfSeries 9, Episode 4: "The Invitationals: Last Chance to Advance"
2015LaughsHerselfSeries 2, Episode 2: "Funny Boys and Girls"
2016Acting OutHerself - ComedianSeries 1, Episode 5
2018Straight Up, Stand UpHerselfSeries 1, Episode 4: "Bar Lubitsch"
2018 Take My Wife PASeries 2, Episode 7; writers' assistant, 8 episodes
2018 Drop the Mic Writers' assistant, 10 episodes
2019Epic NightWriter
2020 Earth to Ned ComedianSeries 1, Episode 2: "Laugh Your Ned Off"; also writer for Season 1
2021–present The Sex Lives of College Girls EvangelineRecurring; 12 episodes
Girls Dorm

Web

YearTitleRoleNotes
2017How to Define the RelationshipVicky Wong Fu Productions short
2017Screen Junkies Roasts Mulan Series 1, Episode 6: "The Roast of Beauty and the Beast"
2018How Asians Celebrate Halloween Ocean's 8 Awkwafina Wong Fu Productions short
2019Dating After CollegeWoman #1; writerWong Fu Productions short

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  14. ↑ Katow, Sierra (July 14, 2017). "Me as Mulan roasting the crap outta ur fav Disney dudes for @screenjunkies . Fun Fact: I wore Matt Damon's original wardrobe #TheGreatWall". Twitter . Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  15. ↑ "SCUSSION with SCLARQ + SKATOW". PODCHASER. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
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