director - actor - theatermaker

Gus Mahoney is a director/actor/comedian based in Brooklyn by way of Cleveland, Ohio. He is the co-founder of Parabasis Productions, a new theater company/ensemble focused on actually putting plays on, rather than being stuck in the dregs of development. 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 a sold out run of Daniel Holzman’s Middle School Play at The Brick and a new adaptation of The Seagull by Craig Johnson in a warehouse in Bushwick, as well as acted in Bird Play by Sarah Goldman and Nigel Berkeley at IRT. He also devised and directed Mitchell Ashe'sThe Spaghetti Variable with Most Unwanted Productions at The Tank (coming to Atlanta Fringe Summer 2025). In comedy, his work has included writing, producing, and hosting The Wig Pageant Variety Hour, a “John Waters-meets-QVC” monthly character comedy pageant at BCC and Second City NYC; writing, devising, and performing in the mainstage residency show at Brooklyn Comedy Collective (BCC); developing, producing, and performing ProLapsiXca, a fake Multi-Level-Marketing Scheme show at Second City NYC; and performing character/improv comedy at venues like BCC, UCB, Second City NYC, Caveat, and more. Passionate about late stage capitalism aesthetics of The Midwest, clowns (self identified and coincidental), reality television, economic accessibility to the arts, dinner parties, and, of course, actresses of a certain age. 

Graduate of University of Minnesota/ Guthrie Theater

BFA Acting Program