Mary Birdsong was named one of the
Top 10 Talents on the Rise by The Hollywood Reporter. Birdsong joined the cast of Comedy Central's hit series
Reno 911! for the third season. Birdsong has a lot more in common with the
Reno cast than her deputy's badge, having graduated from the same college as
Kerri Kenney-Silver,
Thomas Lennon and
Robert Ben Garant. She earned her BFA in Acting from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and was also awarded the Stella Adler Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting. Previously, she appeared on Comedy Central as a regular on the faux-debate show
Crossballs, in
Denis Leary's
Contest Searchlight and on The Daily Show with
Jon Stewart. Hardcore fans of the channel may even recall her appearing in a sketch of the series
Viva Variety, created by Garant, Kenney-Silver, and Lennon. Other television credits include a co-starring role in the CBS sitcom
Welcome to New York, starring
Christine Baranski, as well as guest spots on MTV's
Apt. 2F, NBC's
Ed and
Late Night with Conan O'Brien, ABC's
Talk to Me, and E! television's
The Howard Stern Show.
More recently Mary starred in the Broadway play Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater. It is a one man show with a cast of six. Mary played many roles including Joan Rivers, Judy Garland, and Jodie Foster. Other stage credits include the role of Vixen Fox in Elaine May's off-Broadway comedy Adult Entertainment with Danny Aiello and Jeannie Berlin at the Variety Arts Theatre in New York City. She also wrote and starred as Judy Garland in the one-woman off-Broadway show Judy Speaks at the Ars Nova Theatre in New York City, where she debuted her new one-woman rock musical The 99 Cent Whore.
Film credits include Pizza, Le Chase, Above Freezing, Let it Snow, In God's Hands and The Last Request. In addition, she has done voiceover work on numerous commercials.
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