Paco Romane, is a familiar face to Bay Area fans of comedy and music. He performs year round and is a regular performer of comedy in the Bay Area and around the country. He was awarded "Best Comedian" by The SF Bay Guardian in 2005 and was runner-up in 2007, and 2008.
In addition to being a comedian, Paco is also a multi-instrumentalist, award winning filmmaker, voice over and commercial actor,
writer and teacher of ROCK! He performed in many films, plays, sketch comedy shows,
podcasts and commercials.
He is the Managing Director and Company Member, of the award winning sketch comedy group, Killing My Lobster,
and is a founding member of Richter Scale,
San Francisco's premier socio-political sketch comedy group.
Paco has performed 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 and bands including: Michelle Shocked, Don Was, Sean Hayes and Tartufi.
Paco is currently signed
with the top San Francisco talent agency, Stars.
STAND UP
Paco hosts, books and produces "The Romane Event", 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 Punchline, Cobb's Comedy Club, The Purple Onion, The Punchline in Sacremento, 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
Paco has recently written/directed and co-starred in a full season sitcom 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 Asthonishing 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. 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 Spoofbr />
A spoof of the movie "Knocked Up"
Paco and Mr T in a weird Hitachi Ad- #2
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. Check out our videos of the kid's CD Release Parties.
Paco is also a huge audio-file, and has worked for both OM Records, and Ubiquity Records, a radio DJ, 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 retriver "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.
For pictures or interviews with Paco Romane, media comp tickets, or to join my mailing list, email me at paco@pacoromane.com
