Acting Projects | Zack Mast

acting HIGHLIGHTS

Reel: 'Siskel & Ebert'

A quick cut-up of Zack Mast as Roger Ebert in select clips from 'Siskel & Ebert at 50', produced in 2025.

See Stephen Winchell and I as Gene and Roger on WGN.

Teaser: 'American Carnage'

A short teaser for my solo satire in which I played Steve Bannon, aspiring screenwriter and overall bad guy. I'm happy to share a link to the full show if you're interested.

MAKING NEW FRIENDS, Ep. 01

First of a seven-part web series called “slickly produced and wonderfully absurd” by TimeOut Chicago. (Dir. Eric Richter)

This Guy Perfectly Explains Global Warming Probably (Clickhole)

Clickhole, 2015 (Dir. Leonardo Adrian Garcia)

Sketch shows

P.O.T.U.S. in Love

A live show to celebrate the intersection of Valentine's Day and President's Day in 2015. Produced under the Peaches and Hot Sauce collective. My segment starts at 38:10.

ACTOR, CO-WRITER, CO-PRODUCER, CO-DIRECTOR

The Peaches and Hot Sauce Guide to Internet Fame

A live parody of TED Talks, tech culture, and The Music Man. Produced in 2014 under the Peaches and Hot Sauce Collective.

Plays

Chicago stages

Siskel & Ebert at 50. Roger Ebert, November 2025. Produced by Pocket Guide to Hell. Director: Meredith Milliron

SISKEL/EBERT. Roger Ebert, July 2024. Co-produced with Stephen Winchell. Director: Katlin Schneider

The Perfect Play. Ensemble, April 2019. Director: Stephen Winchell

The Funny Papers. Ensemble, September 2018. Director: Erica Reid

Strike 3*. Ensemble, August 2016. Director: Erica Reid

American Carnage: A Solo Staged Reading of Select Screenplays by Stephen K. Bannon. Steve Bannon (solo show), February 2018. Self-produced. Director: Bryan Duff (Appeared in the 2018 NYC International Fringe Festival)

Cornell University (Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts):

The Government Inspector. German Doctor, Spring 2010. Director: Richard Hamburger

The History Boys. Crowther, Spring 2009. Director: Melanie Dreyer

Alice in Wonderland. Various Roles, Spring 2008. Director: Norm Johnson

Improv Training/Teams

iO - Training completed in 2012. House Teams: Sonis, Gideon

The Annoyance - Training completed in 2013.

CIC - House Team: High Horse

Press

"Winchell was spot-on and very funny as Siskel, while Mast captured Ebert’s look, mannerisms and cadence so impeccably, it was downright eerie." - Matt Fagerholm, RogerEbert.com, 2025

"It’s a show better described as political-adjacent, rather than politically focused, and helpfully avoids judging the politics at-hand in favor of instead using them as backdrop for Mast’s wry comedic voice and clever storytelling." - Chris Behmke, My Entertainment World, 2018

"Naive line readings, semaphore-style acting, conscientious efforts to make every joke last too long, plus a director in a black beret (Zack Mast) who wanders in from time to time to explain his method and lose his train of thought—it’s all kind of goofy sweet." - Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 2016

"From a jittery, bumbling schoolmaster (Alejandro Ruiz) to an underhanded hospital director (Ian Harkins) and his incomprehensible chief of surgery (a relatively muted, but hilarious Zack Mast), each character is as bonkers as the next." - Kathy Laluk, Ithaca.com, 2010

Zack Mast

ACTING PROJECTS + CV