Mary Gallagher
Mary Gallagher has been a professional stand-up comic, TV and film actor, and children’s book author/illustrator for over thirty years. She has guest-starred on such shows as Friends, NCIS, The West Wing, How I Met Your Mother, and Grey’s Anatomy, and worked with stars from Ted Danson to Ellen DeGeneres to Halle Berry.
She has done pilots with Rob Reiner, Jason Alexander, and Kelsey Grammer. In the world of reality TV, she has done Prank Encounters on Netflix, David Spade’s Fameless, Fright Club on Fox, and Howie Do It with Howie Mandel. She was one of the hosts of Faux Pause on GSN, World Cup Comedy, and The Short Show on E!
In film, she has worked with James L. Brooks, Jodie Foster, and Carrie-Anne Moss. Her upcoming feature is a romantic comedy, In Spite of Ourselves, in which she also coached the lead actor on the world of stand-up. She teaches stand-up seminars at the Screen Actors Guild Conservatory and has made a successful career doing both classes and private coaching for clients. Her latest workshop at the Screen Actors Guild is “Are You Brave Enough to be Funny?”
She has travelled to France to work with Kevin Hart, and she frequently opens for Jay Leno here at home, as well as performing at major clubs throughout the country.
Friends
How I Met Your Mother
Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen
It’s been a long journey for Mary from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and Chicago’s Second City Training Center to the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theater, where she performed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. As a lifelong Beatles fan, it was the dream of a lifetime for Mary to stand on the very spot where the Beatles performed! And after taking her daughter to college she fulfilled a lifelong dream by performing in Ireland, her ancestral homeland! Erin go Mary!
Mary is very active in the cause of comedy and wellness and frequently gives lectures on her personal journey on transformation through uniting the two. She tours and performs for the United States Marine Corps promoting mental health awareness and suicide prevention. For Mary, the daughter of two US Marines, this is particularly important and fulfilling. She also takes pride in her successful classes using comedy and cartooning to teach confidence to children.
Mary, the singing telegram