Marshall Lorenzo

Marshall Lorenzo is a sketch comedy writer and performer originally from Auckland, New Zealand. Now back home, he’s fresh off of writing the debut season of Canada’s Drag Race, produced by the Emmy Award-winning creators of RuPaul’s Drag Race.  He is currently the head writer of the multi Canadian Comedy Award-winning troupe The Sketchersons. Known for their famous show Sunday Night Live, modelled after Saturday Night Live, the show features local artists and comedians including celebrities such as Tom Green, Tim Baltz (The Righteous Gemstones), Carolyn Taylor (Baroness Von Sketch), Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black), Scott Adsit and John Lutz (30 Rock), Paul Britain (Saturday Night Live), James Adomian (Comedy Bang Bang), Scott Thompson and Kevin McDonald (Kids in the Hall) and even Brett ‘The Hitman’ Hart. He is also a writer and performer for the sketch comedy troupe ‘Panacea™’, that garnered rave reviews and a 5 N rating in Now Magazine for their self-titled debut show, and was named top 5 shows to see at the 2015 Toronto Sketchfest. He is part of the 2019 Canadian Comedy award-winning ensemble queer sketch show ‘Extravaganza Eleganza’ which was named one of the 2018 Now Magazine top 5 comedy shows to watch. He’s performed regularly in the Toronto Sketch Comedy festival and was picked for the ‘Best of the Fest’ showcase in the 2018 Montreal Sketch Comedy Festival as a solo comedian. He also wrote the book and lyrics to a sixty-minute disco musical about Marine land for the 2015 Toronto Fringe that critics hated, garnering reviews such as “Why disco?” and “WTF”. Marshall is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory and in 2014 was nominated for the Second City Tim Sims Encouragement Fund Fresh Meat showcase. He likes three things: vodka.