Michaela Watkins Biography

Fast Facts

• Received an LA Weekly award for a premiere musical called "Laura Comstock's Bag Punching Dog․"
• Earned her BFA from Boston University, where she studied theater and acting
• Started out working in regional theater, appearing on the Portland Center Stage and with the Toad City Productions improvisation group
• Quote: "I do like to play people I wouldn't want to spend five minutes in a room with․"
• As a cast member on "Saturday Night Live," one of her recurring characters was Angie Tempura, a nerdy, celebrity bashing iced coffee lover, and she also did impressions of such celebrities as Barbara Walters and Julia Louis-Dreyfus
• Her regional stage credits include a production of "Rosencrantz & Gildenstern are Dead" at the Portland Center Stage and a production of "Arcadia" at the Portland Repertory Theatre
• Joined the Circle X Theatre Co․ based in Los Angeles
• Joined the main company of The Groundlings improvisational comedy troupe