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About

Jared Bronen Headshot

Hello, and welcome to my website.

I'm a Brooklyn-based writer, filmmaker, and comedian. I wrote and directed the short film The Debut with my writing partner Alex Guaglianone, which was selected as a finalist at Just for Laughs Montreal in 2025 in partnership with Electric Avenue. My debut short Pick a Random Number (linked below) played at several film festivals in 2023 / 2024.

Currently, I co-host a monthly show at the Upright Citizens Brigade in NYC called The Trash King, which is a tournament of bits celebrating comedy that is both dumb and high commitment. It has been featured in the New York Comedy Festival and written up in Jezebel and Timeout NY. We've taken the show to UCBLA, Fun and Dumb Festival in Brooklyn, and iO Fest in Chicago.

I wrote for UCBNY's Maude Night (the house sketch team program) for several years, writing and acting for Ponyboy both at UCB and SF Sketch Fest. Before that, I wrote for Like Butter at the PIT, Cherry, Cherry for Boogiemanja, and several other indie sketch teams. I also wrote for CollegeHumor 2012-2013, and had a recurring role in the Jake & Amir web-series as Mike Fink.

I currently teach Sketch at Brooklyn Comedy Collective and work as a software engineer at Google, where I develop C++ and Java applications.

Shorts

The Debut

(Comedy) - A woman organizes a cabin getaway for her friends to debut a new comedy character that will change the course of their lives forever.

Pick a Random Number

(DocuFiction / Comedy) - A scientist explains how computers measure naturally occurring phenomena to "pick" random numbers. Then, he searches for the ultimate source of randomness.

Writing

PDFs available on request

Shrek’s in the City: (Comedy) a parody of fish-out-of-water comedy pilots featuring Shrek, who, for reasons unknown to him, has taken the form of a human man living in modern-day New York City. Things go a little haywire as he learns to adjust to our crazy way of life!

Content Moderator: (Horror / Sci-Fi) feature screenplay about a contract moderator working for a large social media company who starts seeing personally disturbing imagery in his review queue.

Contact

email: jbronen [at] gmail [dot] com
instagram: @jbronen
linkedin: linkedin.com/in/jaredbronen

Note: I am not looking for / soliciting work related to software engineering at this time, thank you!