Chloe Troast

Chloe Eileen Troast (born May 14, 1997) is an American comedian and actress. In October 2023, Troast was hired to join the cast of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live for its 49th season, becoming the only new featured player for that year.

Early life and education
Troast was raised in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, and graduated from Northern Highlands Regional High School in 2015. Her older brother, Duncan, is in the New Orleans rock bands Video Age and The Convenience. In 2021, Troast directed and starred in the music video for The Convenience song "Saturday's Child".

Troast attended New York University, where she got an individualized major at Gallatin School of Individualized Study (which she describes as "basically just an English degree") and a minor in Middle Eastern Islamic studies. She sang at her college graduation.

Career
Troast has performed improv, stand-up, and sketch comedy in New York City, sometimes embodying an Old Hollywood character named Pepper Slit. Troast co-wrote and starred in the web series on The Basics (2021). In 2023, she participated in the Montreal comedy festival Just for Laughs and was named one of its 2023 New Faces of Comedy.

She has frequently collaborated with the comedy trio Please Don't Destroy (writers at Saturday Night Live) and appeared in the film Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain. She is set to appear in the romantic comedy film Sweethearts along with Kiernan Shipka, and on the Adult Swim Smalls series Dohl's.

After auditioning and coming close to joining the cast the previous season, Troast made her Saturday Night Live debut on October 14, 2023.

Personal life
Troast lives in Brooklyn, New York. She enjoys crocheting.