Dewayne Perkins
Dewayne Perkins (born November 5, 1990) is a queer stand-up comedian and writer from Chicago, Illinois currently residing in Los Angeles. Perkins writes on NBC's Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and previously wrote for Netflix's The Break with Michelle Wolf. He was also a writer for the 2018 White House Correspondents Dinner, from which a joke he penned was listed as one of The New Yorker's "Best Jokes of 2018."
Perkins was listed as one of one of Variety’s 10 Comics To Watch in 2020.[1]. Dewayne was included on the Just For Laughs[2] up-and-coming comedians to highlight for its 2019 “New Faces” showcase. Perkins was a former cast-mate on Nick Canon/MTV's Wild N' Out and was a presenter and winner at the 2018 Webby Awards[3]
Early Life and Education[edit]
Perkins was born and raised on the south side of Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Curie Metropolitan High School in 2008. He graduated from DePaul University in 2014, where he majored in animation and film with a minor in theatre.
Career[edit]
Perkins started improv classes at The Second City and iO in Chicago in 2012. Eventually leading him to be an inaugural recipient of the Second City/NBCUniversal Bob Curry Fellowship[4] and joining their National Touring Company "BlueCo." His career at Second City culminated in the winter of 2016 when Perkins co-wrote and starred in "Black Side of the Moon", a collaboration between Second City and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. The show is known as one of Second City's best selling shows in history.
In April 2017, Perkins joined the cast of the 9th season of MTV's Wild 'n Out[5] as the first openly gay male in the history of the show.
Perkins is a part of the award winning comedy collective "3Peat," alongside Saturday Night Live cast member Chris Redd. 3Peat's sketch "The Blackening"[6], which Perkins wrote for Comedy Central, went viral in 2018. The sketch is being turned into a feature film co-written by Perkins and Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip, Little), to be produced by MRC Studios and The Story Company. The story lampoons horror film tropes with the tale of seven African-American friends trapped in a cabin with a homicidal maniac.
In addition to writing to on Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Break with Michelle Wolf, Perkins has written for The Writer's Guild of America.
Perkins makes up half of the duo, Bleep that Bleep, with writer/comedian Aasia Lashay Bullock. Their web series "STARVING ARTISTS" won the "Best Short Form Content" Award and a development deal with Red Arrow Entertainment Group at the 2017 New York Television Festival.
Perkins is developing a solo comedy show How Being Black and Gay Made Me Better Than You. The show serves as an interdisciplinary experience showcasing some aspects of Dewayne's background in dance and theatre as he is a technically trained ballet and hip-hop dancer, while chronicling his life as a black gay man in comedy. The show previewed in Chicago in December of 2019 and the official one-man show will be going up in 2020.
As a stand up comedian Perkins has opened for Hannibal Buress and Joel Kim Booster, and performed all over the country at venues like The Comedy Store, The Laugh Factory and the New York Comedy Club, and festivals like NBC's Break Out Comedy Festival, Accidental Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest, and Comedy Central's Clusterfest.
References[edit]
- ↑ Riley, Jenelle; Riley, Jenelle (2020-08-12). "Variety Announces 10 Comics to Watch for 2020". Variety. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
- ↑ Wright, Megh (2019-07-22). "Just for Laughs Announces Its 2019 New Faces". Vulture. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
- ↑ "Here Are Your 2018 Webby Award Winners". PAPER. 2018-05-14. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
- ↑ "Dewayne Perkins". The Second City. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
- ↑ "LGBTQ POC comedians we're obsessed with right now". Time Out New York. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
- ↑ Boucher, Geoff; Boucher, Geoff (2020-01-16). "'The Blackening': MRC & The Story Co. Adapting Comedy Central Short To Feature Film". Deadline. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
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