About

KURT BRAUNOHLER was most recently seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where he was nominated (along with Kristen Schaal) for the if.comedy Award's "Best Comedy Show" (formerly the Perrier). Before that he won the Barry Award for Best in Festival at the Melbourne Comedy Festival (also with Kristen).

In the past year he has performed at Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, the HBO Vegas Comedy Festival, and on the BBC in "Comedy Shuffle." His web-series, which he co-created, "Penelope: Princess of Pets" on Superdeluxe.com, has been picked up for 12 more episodes, including a music video for the New Pornographers, as well as been picked up for air by the BBC. He has also traveled to the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen with the Neutrino Video Projects, which he helped create, as well as to the Edinburgh Theater Festival in Scotland, and was awarded "Improv Ensemble of the Year" by the Chicago Improv Festival.

He co-hosts the variety show, Hot Tub, which was voted "Best New Variety Show" by Time-Out New York's readers poll. His creations include www.chengwin.com, which was voted by the Village Voice as "Best Hilarious Insane Guerilla Theatre". He is currently working on a Script Development Deal with Paramount Studios.