Frank McDade

Frank McDade is a writer, producer, performer, puppeteer, and business guy with over a decade of bringing fun, creativity, and strategic ideas to the comedy world. In 2009, he started studying improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in NYC before moving to Chicago to study at iO and work in the marketing department for the B2B division of the famed comedy theater, The Second City. Frank has mastered both long-form and short-form improv, written many sketches for video and stage, dabbled in clowning but couldn’t master the pratfall, co-produced and wrote for a transmedia web series “I Made America”, completed two TV pilots that he swears he’ll submit to festivals one day, ran many creative corporate workshops, puppeteers in his puppet comedy group “Stranded with Strangers”, and is currently writing a near-finished book called Playtivity that demonstrates how improv comedy + toys + design thinking come together to impact business. Frank can currently be found performing, producing, coaching, writing, and teaching at Arcade Comedy Theater where he has helped bring many Sketchvilles and the recent Sketch Comedy Lab to life.