MARLENA RODRIGUEZ HAS BEEN WRITING AND PERFORMING COMEDY SINCE BIRTH.
She’s toured with The SECOND CITY, done stand up across the country,
and performed in a Lincoln Center benefit called, Leave It To Beavers:
A Night With Tina Fey and Friends. MARLENA HAS WRITTEN FOR NETFLIX'S
UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT, All About The Washingtons, George Lopez's
Lopez, and JG Quintel's upcoming TBS project, Close Enough.
MARLENA’s been named one of Comedy Central's Comics To Watch, though
you may have already seen her at Glasgow International Comedy
Festival, San Francisco Sketchfest, Limestone Comedy Festival, opening
for Aparna Nancherla, Adam Devine, Gilbert Gottfried, or SNL’s
Michael Che.
MARLENA HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS “equal parts sly, crazy, sassy,
subdued and has clearly studied closely that particular flavor of
Midwestern wack-a-doodle”. She wrote, produced, and starred in a web
series called, We Have To Move, as well as a Broadway Video/Mas Mejor
produced web series called, Bouncers. In 2016, she became a fellow of
the Sundance Institute Episodic Lab with her script DMV.
MARLENA IS CURRENTLY AN EXECUTIVE STORY EDITOR ON HBO'S SILICON
VALLEY.
Follow her on twitter @MARLENARODRIGZ.
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