Emmy
award winning producer Sandy Chanley calls her
“a rare combination of angelic charm and biting wit”.
Cable ACE and Comedy award winner comedian Richard
Jeni asserts that she has “more appeal and
animation than a Disney classic. Fearless, funny and beautiful”. |
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Kris
McGaha was born in upstate New York during a blizzard. “My
mom almost had me at home like a bad movie of the week”.
She caught the acting bug from her father, an Air Force
Colonel who played Frankenstein of “Young Frankenstein”
in a very off Broadway show on the sandy stages of Taif,
Saudia Arabia. At age 17, Kris began performing professionally
at Houston's Comedy Workshop which also launched the careers
of Sam Kinison, Bill Hicks and Janeane
Garofalo. |
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to Los Angeles, Kris did a development project for HBO entitled
“Vegarama” as well as the cross-dressing
play “Psycho Beach Party” in
which one L.A. reviewer noted “...surprisingly one of
the most extreme female impersonations is done by a woman
in the cast, Marvel Ann, (Kris McGaha), boy magnet extraordinaire...a
towering construction of hair spray, padding and attitude.” |
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| After
co-hosting 65 episodes of MTV’s “Loveline”,
she extended her late night presence doing stand-up on
“NBC’s Comedy Showcase” and sketches
for “The Tonight Show” and
“Later”. Other television appearances
include “Curb Your Enthusiasm”
on HBO, “The Test”
on FX and co-hosting “Now
Or Never” on FOX with the
infamous Jerry Springer. Film credits include
“Dead Man’s Curve” AKA
“The Curve” by hot indie writer-director
Dan Rosen and the ultimate indie road movie “Radio
Free Steve”. |
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with acclaimed writer Ron Zimmerman, the
duo came up with a character Tildy St. John in which they
based a few projects. A pilot sold to HBO and a short mockumentary
film called “Following Tildy”
currently making rounds at film festivals. It’s Kris’s
very expensive hobby. Ron thinks she should get a pony. |
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of now, Kris can be seen Friday nights on FOX’s “Invasion
of the Hidden Cameras” and is patiently waiting
for them to air another series she did called “Hotel
Hell”. Until then she can be seen live doing
stand up around the country or in Los Angeles at the Hollywood
Improv where she is a regular. |
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