Biography
Megan Stalter is an American comedienne and actor. In her videos, she focuses on desperate, deluded characters who are prone to theatricality, repeated mispronunciations, and botched suicide attempts.
Age
She is 33 years old as of 15 September 2023. She was born in 1990 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
Family – Education
Stalter was born in Cleveland and lived there until the age of twelve. She later traveled about with her family, residing in Dayton, Huber Heights, and Centerville, Ohio. She was raised in a Pentecostal church. Stalter attended Wayne High School and was a member of the drama club. She auditioned for every production but was never cast as the lead. After graduating from high school, Stalter attended Sinclair Community College and then Wright State University before leaving to pursue acting again. She started doing sketch and improv comedy in Dayton and soon moved to Chicago to pursue comedy full-time. Stalter frequently collaborates with her brother Nick and his wife Destiny.
Partner
Stalter resides in Los Angeles. She is bisexual.
Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $1.4 million.
Height
She has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Hacks
She appeared as Kayla Schaefer, the airhead daughter of Jimmy’s boss, who works as his assistant in the American comedy-drama television series Hacks. Deborah Vance, a famed Las Vegas stand-up comedy queen, must reinvent her aging act or risk losing her residency at the Palmetto Casino. Ava is a young comedy writer who can’t find work because of an insensitive tweet and her reputation for being self-centered and pompous. When Ava’s agent assigns her to work as Deborah’s new head writer, the two gradually bond as Ava encourages her new employer to take more risks and Deborah, in turn, assists Ava in working through her own issues.
Tooning Out the News
She provides the voice of Bonnie Davis in the Paramount+ original series Tooning Out the News.Tooning Out the News is an animated news show that combines live-action and animation, focused on topical news satire based on real-life news articles and lampooning current events, political concerns, media coverage, social commentary, pop culture topics, and even features of the show itself. The first season consisted of four main portions, with interstitial vignettes telling other stories.
The second season featured two new segments: “The Establishment with Tory Hughes” and “Smart Talk Tonight.” The third season removed “The Establishment with Tory Hughes” and vignettes. The show aired on Paramount+ from Tuesday to Thursday, with a compilation “Week in Review” show released every Friday. The second season saw the series shift to a weekly basis.
Career
In Chicago, Stalter began her improv career. In 2018, she also began uploading videos to the internet for what would eventually become The Megan Stalter Show. Stalter relocated to New York in 2019 and hired a manager. She became well-known in the “alt-comedy scene” very fast, frequently doing more than three shows a week in Brooklyn. In 2020, The New York Times critic Jason Zinoman dubbed Meg Stalter “sketch comedy’s newest star,” noting, “In the constantly shifting ecosystem of young performers on Twitter and Instagram, the most vital voice to emerge during this anxious, isolating moment is that of Meg Stalter.” New York magazine named Stalter one of the “comedians you should and will know in 2019.”
During the pandemic, she improvised as various personalities on nightly Instagram Live shows, which boosted her profile significantly. The Los Angeles Times compared Stalter to self-distributed comedians like Cole Escola and Ziwe.
In 2019, she joined the cast and writing team for the revival of The National Lampoon Radio Hour. She also hosts the web series The Megan Stalter Show and the Forever Dog podcast Confronting Demons with Megan Stalter. She provides the voice of Bonnie Davis in the Paramount+ original series Tooning Out the News and plays Kayla in the HBO Max comedy Hacks. The second character, described by the Los Angeles Times as a “clueless Hollywood assistant brimming with self-assurance yet utterly lacking self-awareness,” was her breakout performance.
Movies
♦ 2020 – Little Miss Ohio
♦ 2021 – Star-Crossed: The Film
♦ 2023 – Sometimes I Think About Dying
♦ 2023 – Cora Bora
♦ 2023 – Problemista
♦ 2023 – First Time Female Director
♦ 2023 – Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
TV Shows
♦ 2020–2021 – Tooning Out the News
♦ 2021 – Crank Yankers
♦ 2023 – Yearly Departed
♦ 2021–present – Hacks
♦ 2022 – Snack vs. Chef
♦ 2023 – Queer as Folk
♦ 2023 – The Great North
♦ 2023 – RuPaul’s Drag Race
