User:Adrian monaco

Early Life
Adrian Monaco is a 24 year old Canadian actor, comedian, DJ and all around entertainer. Adrian grew up outside Toronto in the City of Pickering Ontario. As a kid Adrian was labelled by teachers as "A Daydreamer" with a possible attention defecit disorder. A natural class clown Adrian was popular with classmates. In the 2nd grade Adrian made a deal with his teacher, if he was good in class he was aloud to play guitar for his classmates for 10minutes at the end of each day while students waited for the school bus. Although he couldn't really play guitar Adrian made up silly songs, voices and faces to entertain his peers. In grade 4 he baffled the entire school and community by putting together a sketch for the school talent show where he did a killer impression of Forrest Gump. For the rest of his elementary school career he was nick named "Forrest". Adrian naturally gravitated to comedy becoming an avid fan of SNL at age 8 and idolizing Jim Carrey. Much like Jim Adrian would practice funny faces in the mirror for hours on end. There was a time where he actually didn't know what his real voice sounded like because he was always doing impressions. He only wanted to have a career making people laugh. In grade 5 Adrian Auditioned to host the School talent show. He did impressions of Kermit The Frog, Antonio Bendarez, Forrest Gump and Pamela Anderson and had the Teachers in Stitches. He was given a 10 minute spot to do stand up at the show and entitled it "Adrian Monaco: Me and My Friends" as his set was based on the "friends" he made in the mirror. In his teenage years lacking positive role models in his life Adrian became rebelious, experimented with drugs, skipped class, quit sports, partied, and ultimatley lost focus on his Dream.

2003-2009
Adrian started off Highschool playing sports, getting involved in extra curricular activities and focusing on academics. He remembers almost consciously making the choice to throw that away and become a part of "the in crowd". Adrian gave up on his dream of becoming an actor thinking it was too far fetched. When he decided to audution for the improv team he was immediatley rejected and felt his Drama teachers had no faith in him. Instead of acting Adrian took up DJing spinning rave music and emulating a lifestyle very diferent from the one he set out to live as a child. By grade 10 Adrian gave up drugs after realizing it was having a negative effect on his life. He graduated highscool in 2003 and continued working flipping burgers at a restaurant called Lick's where he was always cracking up his co workers. In the fall Adrian Dropped out of a college business program and was feeling stuck. At age 20 Adrian moved to Wasaga beach with a friends family where he worked in a surf shop selling souveineirs and blowing up water floaty toys. Him and his friend Mike spent the summer working and partying. Adrian landed a gig back in Pickering DJing at a nightclub. He was back and forth from Wasaga and Pickering and found himself partying at least 5 nights per week. At the end of the summer ready to focus on a career Adrian and Mike registered for an Advertsing program at Durham College. It was here that Adrian rekindled his love for comedy and acting. He incorperated video in his projects and collaberated with his friend Dan Lee a Film graduate. After graduatuing Adrian tried working a sales job selling ad space for a paper taking the advice of his teachers. In the back of his mind Adrian really wanted to do something with video but didn't bother. After being fired from his sales job Adrian took a contract working for a cruiseship hosting parties and Djing. Constantly being "On" infornt of people Adrian had a blast entertaining the guests. He hosted a stand up comedy event every cruise called "Jokester" where he invited guests to share their jokes with him. Adrian and coworkers came up with a"Murder Mystery" holiday show they performed for the guests and crew. It was then Adrian realized acting is the only thing he has always wanted to do.

Present
Since Adrian's return from the Crusieship he has been 1 half of the comedy duo "Dudefellas" with his friend Cole and is collaberating with Dan lee on a partnered youtube channel caled "Comedy Made Short" where he is a lead actor. He is currently rehearsing for the role of Dannny Zuko in Grease which will be performed outside Toronto in the city of Oshawa Ontario. Adrian plans to explore different styles and platforms to perform including theater, Second City, Comedy clubs, internet, television and film with a focus on Comedy.

Charecters
Adrian plays several charecters he has invented for Sketch Comedy. They include "Detective Smash:" an errogant discgruntled cop, 'Jerimiah the Jewce Master:" a Jewish juicer salesmen, "Vinny": a stereotypical Italian who reviews movies and pop culture events and "Stereo Mario": an annoyiing modern day radio host with a nasil voice and venomous tongue.