director - actor - producer

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 new play development through performance, rather than being stuck in the dregs of closed door 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 Daniel Holzman’s Middle School Play at The Brick, a new adaptation of The Seagull by Craig Johnson in a warehouse in Bushwick, as well as produced Berlindia! at The Tank and 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 (The Tank 2024 & Atlanta Fringe Summer 2025). 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, 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 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 Program