PJ McCormick is a mixed Filipino and British actor, writer, and comedian based in Los Angeles. He's a regular performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) on the Harold team Lohan, host of UCB’s ONE BIG JAM, and is an original member of Filipino AF, an all Filipinx comedy group.
At The Shared Experience Studio, PJ serves as Director of Content and faculty instructor. He designs and maintains the website; directs, edits, illustrates, and animates the SES Comedy Tips and Patreon content; and teaches The Shared Experience Drop In every Sunday and Tuesday. He is also a regular performer on Shared Experience Show on the monoscene team Bad Baddies.
PJ started performing at 16 as professional wrestler Johnny Ender of The Nerdy Boys and is the inaugural tag team champion of River City Wrestling. In college, PJ studied broadcast journalism and created Happy Workshop, a surrealist puppet show built on Buddhist values that aired on North Texas Television. In New York, he worked at The Howard Stern Show as a contributing joke writer and producer. PJ has appeared in national commercials for companies like Yahoo! Sports, The Zebra, and Wonderful Pistachios.
PJ teaches weekly drop in workshops on Tuesdays and Sundays that you can sign up for at https://www.thesharedexperiencestudio.com/dropins
PJ was a contributing writer and producer at The Howard Stern Show. At age 16 he won multiple tag team championships as one half of The Nerdy Boys in the Texas pro wrestling territory. PJ has appeared in national commercials for companies like Taco Bell, Yahoo! Sports, Arizona Lotto, The Zebra, and Wonderful Pistachios.
Some of the topics he covers as a coach include:
- Creating and sustaining interesting characters and scenes
- Using physicality, emotion, and status to enhance your performance
- Understanding the expectations of base realities and genres
- How to work as a team and support your scene partners
- Dealing with challenges and mistakes on stage
- How to find your own unique voice and style as an improviser
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