director - actor - producer

Gus Mahoney is a director/actor based in Brooklyn by way of Cleveland, Ohio. He is the co-founder of Parabasis Productions, a new theater company/ensemble focused on new play development through performance. They make plays simply, intimately, and excitingly, just the audience, actors, and maybe a light or two if they’re feeling frisky. With Parabasis, he has directed the summer Chekhov series (Nigel Berkeley'sThe Cherry Orchard 2026 & Craig Johnson's The Seagull 2024), as well as produced Berlindia! at The Tank and R is for Writer at IRT. He also devised and directed Mitchell Ashe'sThe Spaghetti Variable with Most Unwanted Productions (The Tank 2024 & Atlanta Fringe Summer 2025). As an actor, he has been seen in Isa Spector's Dionysus at the Equinox in Sugar Sugar! 2026, Trove's STENCH, and Bird Play at IRT.

In comedy, his work has included writing, producing, and hosting The Wig Pageant Variety Hour, a “John Waters-meets-QVC-meets-Miss America” monthly character comedy pageant at BCC and Second City NYC; developing and performing ProLapsiXca, a faux Multi-Level-Marketing scheme at Second City NYC; and performing character/improv comedy at venues like BCC, UCB, Second City NYC, Caveat, and more. Passionate about glitzy trash, the aesthetics of The Midwest, clowns (self identified and coincidental), reality tv, economic accessibility to the arts, dinner parties, and, of course, actresses of a certain age.

Graduate of University of Minnesota/ Guthrie Theater

BFA Acting Training Program