Paco Romane-Comedian

Paco Romane, is a familiar face to fans of Comedy. He is a regular performer of stand up, sketch and improv comedy in the Bay Area and around the country. Paco is a favorite at Universities and Colleges and was Voted "Best Comedian" by The SF Bay Guardian in 2005 and was runner-up in 2007, and 2008. As a stand up Paco has worked with Robin Williams, Will Durst, Jake Johanssen, Greg Proops, Joe Rogan, Rick Overton and many others.

He is a Company Member, of the Award Winning sketch comedy group, Killing My Lobster, and was a founding member of Richter Scale, San Francisco's premier socio-political sketch comedy group.

In addition to being a comedian, Paco is also a multi-instrumentalist, an Award Winning filmmaker, voice over and commercial actor, writer, director and producer! He has performed in many films, plays, sketch comedy shows, pod casts and commercials.

Paco has also in many comedy festivals, including: The Bay Area Comedy Festival, The SF Sketch Comedy Festival, The Gulf Coast Comedy Festival, The SF Theatre Festival, The Sketchy At Best Festival, The Bruno's Island New Plays Festival, The SF Fringe Festival and The I Laughed So Hard I Pee'd My Pants Festival. Seriously, that was the name.

He has also opened, as a comedian, for many musicians including: Michelle Shocked, Don Was, Sean Hayes and Tartufi , and many others at The Rock Make Street Festival.

Paco is currently signed with the top San Francisco talent agency, JE Talent.

STAND UP
Paco hosts, books and produces "The Romane Event Comedy Show", one of the most popular, comedy shows in The Bay Area. The Romane Event features top, comedic talents from all over the country. Each month comics are given the time and stage to perform their comedy act in an "anything goes and probably will" environment. The Romane Event is still going strong after 5 years and many, many, great comedians have performed there. Paco has performed his stand up act all over the country to sold out shows and is a favorite at colleges and universities.

HOST
Paco has hosted many fundraisers, charitable events and comedy shows including: The Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic Fundraiser, Building Arts for Kids, The Hopalong Pet Adoption Fundraiser. He has also hosted many comedy shows including The Punch Line, Cobb's Comedy Club, The Purple Onion, The Punch Line in Sacramento, The Comedy Club, and many others.

THEATER
Paco has performed in many theatrical productions and is the only person to perform the same character in two different shows in the San Francisco Fringe Festival. He just finished directing "Preaches To The Choir" an original sketch comedy show with Killing My Lobster. He has written, directed, produced, acted, stage manged, and scored many original theater productions. He is currently the Managing Director and Company Member of the award winning sketch comedy group Killing My Lobster.

TELEVISION - WEB SERIES
Paco has recently written/directed and co-starred in a web-series called "Totally Sketchy". An semi-autobioraphical story about his time in the sketch comedy group Richter Scale. He has also shot a sitcom pilot for Nickelodeon, called "Jerry's World" and has been in two episodes of "The Worlds Most Astonishing News", a popular television show in Japan.

FILM
In addition to his performing credits, Paco is also a writer,director and producer of many short films and theater pieces. He directed, wrote and co-starred in "Salt Quest", which won 3 awards in The 48 Hour Film Festival for his film production company FreeDirt Media. Paco was a featured performer in the underground comedy hit movie Evolution - The Musical". He was recently a featured extra in the movie, MILK, starring Sean Penn.

Viral Videos
Paco has starred in many viral videos that you can see, well, virally or on Youtube.
Pure Michigan Ad Spoof
Pure Michigan Ad Spoof II
A spoof of the movie "Knocked Up"
Paco and Mr T in a weird Hitachi Ad- #1
Paco and Mr T in a weird Hitachi Ad- #2
A Mr. T Birthday Greeting
"Parking Gods"
"Super Toy Robot"
"Quake Flakes"

GAME SHOWS
Mr. Romane recently produced and hosted an original game show called "Show Me Yo' Wits" at the "I Laughed So Hard I Pee'd My Pants" comedy festival in SF. It was greatly successful and he hopes to continue the show as a monthly in SF.

MUSIC
Paco also started, Saturday Morning Rock Out!, a rock school for kids ages 4-7 in San Francisco with the highly talented rock band Tartufi. SMRO! has been a hit with both kids and parents alike. Paco is also a huge audio-file, and has worked for both OM Records, and Ubiquity Records, a radio DJ on WIDR 89.1 FM in Kalamazoo Michigan, a record collector, an avid reader and dog lover.

MAIYSHA
Paco recently had the wonderful opportunity to have been the guardian of his beloved golden retriever "Maiysha" (see above picture). She lived to be 16 1/2 years old and he misses her and her random flatulence greatly.

Paco is spicy but not hispanic.