Drew Droege

 ( 1977 Births ) 

Andrew Gerhardt Droege (pronounced ; born February 9, 1977) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director, known for his improv work and for a series of online impressions of Chloë Sevigny that went viral.

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Early life and education Droege attended and graduated from Lincolnton High School in Lincolnton, North Carolina. Droege went on to study Theatre and English at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he obtained a BA. Following college graduation, Droege moved to Los Angeles and started studying with The Groundlings.

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Career

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Television and film Droege has appeared on television in Hot in Cleveland, Key & Peele, Bob's Burgers, How I Met Your Mother, Up All Night, New Girl, , Jon Benjamin Has a Van, Glory Daze, The Sarah Silverman Program, Kroll Show, Nick Swardson's Pretend Time, Halfway Home, Reno 911! and Campus Ladies and on film in Sassy Pants, and Big Gay Love.

Droege appears as John Dumé in the 2024 feature film Queer.

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Live performance Droege performed in the March 2012 edition of Don't Tell My Mother, a monthly showcase event in which authors, screenwriters, actors, and comedians share true stories they would never want their mothers to know. He has directed several sketch comedy shows and Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera (winner, Best Ensemble, NY International Fringe Festival 2011) in Los Angeles.

He wrote several off-Broadway shows, including "Bright Colors and Bold Patterns" (2016), "Happy Birthday Doug" (2020) and "Messy White Gays" (2025, a variation on the 1948 Alfred Hitchcock film Rope).

In 2017, Droege was in the original cast of the jukebox musical Titanique in Los Angeles. In 2023, he joined the off-Broadway cast of the show as Ruth in New York City.

Droege was a member of improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings Sunday Company, where he currently performs and teaches. He also performs regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and plays a leading role in UCB's breakdancing movie musical, Freak Dance.

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Web series Droege's Chloë Sevigny impression videos have been featured on PerezHilton.com, EW.com, The Huffington Post and The New York Post, and were called "compulsively watchable" by The Advocate.

In 2012 and 2013, Droege appeared in the comedy series Romantic Encounters and the interview series All Growz Up, both opposite Melinda Hill. Droege also starred in Crowned.

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Other work Droege's Earwolf podcast, Glitter in the Garbage, was deemed "Brilliant and Lowbrow" by New York magazine's Approval Matrix.

As a writer, Droege has contributed to OUT magazine, Logo's New Now Next Awards, E!'s Fashion Police, and Funny Or Die's Billy on the Street.

Droege portrays Walt Disney in the short film Boop opposite Rose McGowan.

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Awards In 2010, Droege was given Outfest Film Festival's Special Programming Award For Emerging Talent. In 2011, he was named one of Out magazine's OUT 100. In 2012, LA Weekly cited Droege as one of Los Angeles' Top 10 Comedy Acts To Watch. In 2017, Droege won an Indie Series Award for Best Guest Actor (Comedy) for his performance as Dewey in the web series #Adulting.

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Filmography

2011	Boop	Walt Disney
How I Met Your Mother	Waiter
New Girl	Restaurant Manager
Web series
Web series
Episode: "The Ballad of Lon Sarofsky"
Web series/6 episodes
Web series
Film
2 episodes
Episodes: "Eat, Spray, Linda," "The Hormone-iums," "All That Gene", "The Place Beyond the Pinecones"
Episode: "Spiritual Gurus"
Web series – Episode: "Pictures of Posteriors"
Episode: "Window Vanity Dress Grace"
Recurring role
Pilot
Episode: "Elite Status"
Video game
Episode: "Hot Tub-tation"
2 episodes
2025	Fireflies in the Dusk	Martin	Short film

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