Drew Droege Explained

Drew Droege
Education:Lincolnton High School
Alma Mater:Wake Forest University
Birth Name:Andrew Gerhardt Droege
Years Active:1995–present

Andrew Gerhardt Droege (pronounced [1]) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director best known for his online impressions of Chloë Sevigny.

Early life and education

Droege attended and graduated from Lincolnton High School in Lincolnton, North Carolina. Droege went on to study Theatre and English at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he obtained a BA. Following college graduation, Droege moved to Los Angeles and started studying with The Groundlings.

Career

Television and film

Droege has appeared on television in Hot in Cleveland, Key & Peele, Bob's Burgers, How I Met Your Mother, Up All Night, New Girl, , Jon Benjamin Has a Van, Glory Daze, The Sarah Silverman Program, Kroll Show, Nick Swardson's Pretend Time, Halfway Home, Reno 911! and Campus Ladies and on film in Sassy Pants, and Big Gay Love.

Live performance

Droege performed in the March 2012 edition of Don't Tell My Mother, a monthly showcase event in which authors, screenwriters, actors, and comedians share true stories they would never want their mothers to know.[2] He has directed several sketch comedy shows and Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera[3] (winner, Best Ensemble, NY International Fringe Festival 2011)[4] in Los Angeles.

In 2017, Droege was in the original cast of the jukebox musical Titanique in Los Angeles.[5] In 2023, he joined the Off-Broadway cast of the show as Ruth in New York City.[6] [7] [8]

Droege was a member of improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings Sunday Company, where he currently performs and teaches.[9] He also performs regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and plays a leading role in UCB's breakdancing movie musical, Freak Dance.[10]

Web series

Droege's Chloë Sevigny[11] impression videos have been featured on PerezHilton.com, EW.com, The Huffington Post and The New York Post, and were called "compulsively watchable" by The Advocate.

In 2012 and 2013, Droege appeared in the comedy series Romantic Encounters[12] and the interview series All Growz Up,[13] both opposite Melinda Hill.[14] Droege also starred in Crowned.

Other work

Droege's Earwolf podcast, Glitter In The Garbage, was deemed "Brilliant and Lowbrow" by New York magazine's Approval Matrix.[15]

As a writer, Droege has contributed to OUT magazine, Logo's New Now Next Awards, E!'s Fashion Police, and Funny Or Die's Billy on the Street.

Droege portrays Walt Disney in the short film Boop opposite Rose McGowan.

Awards

In 2010, Droege was given Outfest Film Festival's Special Programming Award For Emerging Talent.[16] In 2011, he was named one of Out magazine's OUT 100.[17] In 2012, LA Weekly cited Droege as one of Los Angeles' Top 10 Comedy Acts To Watch.[18] In 2017, Droege won an Indie Series Award for Best Guest Actor (Comedy) for his performance as Dewey in the web series

  1. Adulting
.[19]

Filmography

Year Work Role Notes
1995 Glory Daze Bruce
2002 Romeo and Juliet Revisited Benvolio
2002 data-sort-value="Journey, The"The Journey Guy in Coffee Shop
2003 Killing the Dream John Colburt
2003 Scream Bloody Murder Beaumont
2005 data-sort-value="70s House, The"The 70s House Disco Drill Sergeant
2005 Reno 911! Governor's Assistant
2006 Kill House Detective Kirk
2006 Pro-Choice Camper
2007 Halfway Home Jeremy
2007 Derek and Simon: The Show Surprise Guest
2008 King Country Charlie
2009 Kicking Sand in Your Face Bad Comedian
2009 Yoga Man Erich Sun
2009 data-sort-value="Lone Wolf, The"The Lone Wolf Bully #2
2009 Milk Dad #1
2009 Coco Lipshitz: Behind the Laughter Raoul Lupenstein
2010 Wish Makers of West Hollywood Jake
2010 data-sort-value="Sarah Silverman Program, The"The Sarah Silverman Program Seth
2010 Freak Dance Dazzle
2010 Glory Daze Bruce
2011 Dick Dickey
2011 Jon Benjamin Has a Van Gay Driver
2011BoopWalt Disney
2011 data-sort-value="Zombie Whisperer, The"The Zombie Whisperer Xander Xaxs
2011 Pretend Time Man in Audience
2011 How I Met Your Mother Waiter
2011 New Girl Restaurant Manager
2011–2014 Stallions de Amor Merlinda Stallion
2011–2012 Up All Night Driver / Manic Man-Day Singer
2012 Key & Peele Maitre D
2012 Hot in Cleveland Stage Manager
2012 Sassy Pants Michael Paul
2012 Baby Daddy Simon
2012 Waffle Hut Teresa
2012 Redeeming Dave James
2013 Romantic Encounters Web series
2013 All Growz Up Self
2013 Crowned Rori Web series
2013 Ass Backwards Homeless Norma
2013 House of Lies Albert
2013 Happy Endings Josh Jill Episode: "The Ballad of Lon Sarofsky"
2013 We Are Animals George
2013 Chad
2013 Burning Love Cyrano Cruze-Shippe
2014 Sean Saves the World Jason
2014 Chozen (voice)
2014 Comedy Bang! Bang! Guy Balfour
2014 2 Broke Girls Gay Jim
2014 Kroll Show Terrence
2014 Where the Bears Are Oscar Butterfield Web series/6 episodes
2014 Go-Go Boy Interrupted Ann Ziety Web series
2014 Such Good People Clay Hampton Film
2014–2015 Drunk History Himself 2 episodes
2015 Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse Drunk Man
2015–2019 Bob's Burgers Deirdre, Adrian, Donovan (voice) Episodes: "Eat, Spray, Linda," "The Hormone-iums," "All That Gene"
2016 Transparent Drag Natalie
2016 Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ Grimsley Episode: "Spiritual Gurus"
2016
  1. Adulting
Dewey Web series – Episode: "Pictures of Posteriors"
2016 Life in Pieces Chris Joestalli Episode: "Window Vanity Dress Grace"
2017 The Circle Improv Actor
2017 Idiotsitter Timothy
2017 Nobodies Host
2018 Ideal Home Drew
2018 Heathers Maurice Dennis Recurring role
2018 Cadette in Charge Scientist Scott (voice) Pilot
2018 Liza on Demand Sebastian Foyeé Episode: "Elite Status"
2019 Now Apocalypse Casting Director
2020 Battletoads Pia (voice) Video game[20]
2020 The Never List Principal Greer
2020–2021 Search Party Ashley
2021 Bless the Harts Julian (voice) Episode: "Hot Tub-tation"
2021–2023 The Great North Matthew / Cal (voice) 2 episodes
2021 Q-Force (voice)
2022 The Goldbergs Randall
2022 Me Time Combover Stew
2023 Your Honor Gary the Tailor
2023 Fool's Paradise Male Hairdresser

Notes and References

  1. drewdroege . 24625428706631680 . 2011-01-11 . It's pronounced DRO-gee (with a hard g)..
  2. Web site: LAWeekly . 8 July 2012.
  3. Web site: Jersey Shoresical: Cast/Crew. jerseyshoresical.com. 9 May 2012. 15 May 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120515003136/http://jerseyshoresical.com/#cast. dead.
  4. Web site: FringeNYC Encore Series. fringenyc.org. 9 May 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120531040558/http://www.fringenyc.org/index.php/component/content/article/9-shows/180-encoreseries. 31 May 2012.
  5. Web site: Musbach . Julie . Take a Voyage on the Titanique . July 5, 2017 . October 12, 2023 . Broadway World.
  6. Web site: Comedian Drew Droege and RuPaul's Drag Race Star Willam to Join Titanique Off-Broadway. Playbill. Meg. Masseron. Andrew. Gans. August 24, 2023. October 12, 2023.
  7. Web site: Drag Race Star Willam and Comedian Drew Droege to Join Titanique. Chloe. Rabinowitz. Broadway World. August 24, 2023. October 12, 2023.
  8. Web site: Willam, Drew Droege join Titanique Off-Broadway cast. Gillian. Russo. August 24, 2023. New York Theatre Guide. October 12, 2023.
  9. Web site: Drew Droege: Groundlings' School. The Groundlings Theatre & School.
  10. Web site: Freak Dance . UCB Theatre web page . 15 May 2012 . 29 October 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200405/http://losangeles.ucbtheatre.com/shows/view/655 . dead .
  11. Web site: Hansen. Jim. The Chloe Videos. Jim Hansen Films. 10 May 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20111222191715/http://jimhansenfilms.com/jimhansenfilms/The_Chloe_Videos.html. 22 December 2011.
  12. Web site: Gutelle. Sam. Melinda Hill Seeking "Romantic Encounters" on My Damn Channel Network. 26 June 2013 . Tubefilter. 24 October 2013.
  13. Web site: All Growz Up: Drew Droege. Chuckler.
  14. Web site: Carrie. Stephanie. Steph's LA Weekly Feature Series – Melinda Hill's Romantic Encounters. 24 October 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160319001821/http://tangledwebwewatch.com/2013/07/17/stephs-la-weekly-feature-series-melinda-hills-romantic-encounters/. 19 March 2016.
  15. Web site: The Approval Matrix: Week of April 25, 2011. nymag.com. 14 April 2011 . 9 May 2012.
  16. Web site: Outfest Announces 2010 Award Winners . https://archive.today/20120907010120/http://www.outfest.org/article.php?id_art=136 . dead . 7 September 2012 . Outfest.org . 9 May 2012 .
  17. Web site: 17th Annual Out100. www.out.com. 11 December 2011 . 9 May 2012.
  18. Web site: 10 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2012. LAWeekly.com. 9 May 2012.
  19. Web site: 8th Annual Indie Series Awards Winners . . April 14, 2017.
  20. Web site: Battletoads (2020 Video Game) . Behind The Voice Actors . 19 January 2021. . A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of the title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information..