Mark Bonanno
Birthday: Born in in
Deathday: Alive
Mark Samual Bonanno is best known for his general silliness within comedy troupe Aunty Donna, one of Australia's biggest comedic acts who have garnered a huge international audience both live and online. Since studying Acting at the University of Ballarat Arts Academy, Mark's work has won and been nominated for numerous awards, including the Helpmann Award for Best Comedy in 2017, Best of The Fest at Sydney Comedy Festival in 2018, and across the last few years, Best Supporting Actor, Best Ensemble and Best Comedy Web Series at the Melbourne International Web Festival. Mark's work directing Demi Lardner's 2017 and 2018 stage shows also saw award attention, winning both the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Director's Choice Award and Pinder Prize in their respective years. In 2020, Mark has co-written/created the six part sitcom Why Are You Like This, which will be coming to the ABC (Australia). Mark also live streams weekly on Twitch under the name VeryPoliteGamer.
TV Credits
Hug the Sun
Character: The Shädow Män
BJ, Trent, Linda and (occasionally) Trina host Australia's favourite religious variety hour that is most certainly NOT for children. Praise Oxtos....
RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under
Character: Self - Special Guest
Drag queen contestants compete in an elimination-style contest and strut their stuff in a variety of challenges - all to prove that they’ve got what it takes to be Down Under's next Drag Queen Superstar!...
Aunty Donna: 1999
Character:
Sketch group Aunty Donna's limited workplace comedy web series...
Have You Been Paying Attention?
Character: Guest Quizmaster
Topical comedy-quiz show featuring five guests competing to see who can remember the most about events of the week. A fast-paced, funny look at international affairs, politics, sport and entertainment news, we test just how well our contestants have been paying attention....
Aunty Donna's Coffee Cafe
Character: Mark
Starring Aunty Donna's Mark Samual Bonanno, Broden Kelly, and Zachary Ruane, the high octane and unpredictable series follows the story of three best mates running a trendy cafe down one of Melbourne's less-than-iconic laneways....
Melbourne Comedy Festival
Character: Self - Host
After a less-than-hilarious 2020, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival will be back, delivering COVIDSafe laughs and comedy good-times to Melburnians and the world....
The Most Upsetting Guessing Game in the World
Character: Self - Host
The 'Most Upsetting Guessing Game' is a comedy/improv guessing game based on 'Party Quirks' from the Aunty Donna Podcast. Each week a 'party host' is selected and tasked with guessing what 'characters' are attending their party. Sounds simple enough? It's not... it's cooked....
The Most Upsetting Guessing Game in the World
Character: Self
The 'Most Upsetting Guessing Game' is a comedy/improv guessing game based on 'Party Quirks' from the Aunty Donna Podcast. Each week a 'party host' is selected and tasked with guessing what 'characters' are attending their party. Sounds simple enough? It's not... it's cooked....
Thank God You're Here
Character:
Each episode involves performers walking through a door into an unknown situation, greeted by the line "Thank God you're here!". They then had to improvise their way through the scene. At the end of each episode a winner was announced....
Aunty Donna: Glennridge Secondary College
Character: Mark / Various
Comedy group 'Aunty Donna' present a sketch show set in Glennridge Secondary College, a quintessential Australian public school....
Finding Yeezus
Character: Self
FINDING YEEZUS is a six-part investigative comedy web-series starring comedians and pop-culture detectives Cameron James and Alexei Toliopoulos. The pair embark on an action-packed investigation to find out who made ‘Kanye Quest 3030’ – an infamous RPG game that went viral in 2013 after a hidden level was uncovered with potential links to the cult ‘ascensionism'....
The Wizards of Aus
Character: Skulldrich
Fed up with the Magical Realm's obsession with large-scale fantasy warfare, Jack the Wizard decides to migrate to the sanest place he can think of: Melbourne's Western suburbs. After accidentally causing Flinders Street Station to turn ever so slightly into a giant Fish monster, his existence (and that of his fellow magical immigrants) is revealed to the Australian public. Fearing a backlash against himself and his kind, Jack swears off using magic in a bid to better assimilate into human life. ...
Aunty Donna's Big Ol House of Fun
Character: Himself
Comedy trio Aunty Donna showcase their uniquely absurd and offbeat style through an array of sketches, songs and eclectic characters....
Movie Credits
The Comedian
Character: Simon
A want-to-be stand-up comedian uses comedy routines to spark a connection with a Chinese girl. They are surrounded by an empty, urban landscape, yet an intimacy grows....
Always Room for Panettone
Character: Mark
No matter how much espresso and cigarettes you have, there is always room for panettone....
The Aunty Donna LIVE Spooktacular
Character: Himself
It's here, our third Aunty Donna special...the "Aunty Donna LIVE Spooktacular" filmed live at Stupid Old Studios in Brunswick....
Always Room for Christmas Pud
Character: Mark
This sketch is about how no matter what you eat at Christmas lunch or dinner, there's always room for christmas pudding. While this sketch is specific to christmas it really can be applied to any type of dessert based situation. It's a comment on greed and gluttony in our modern age. not really I'm just trying to think of stuff to say in the description but it hardly seems worth it because I dont think anyone reads them, please let me know in the comments if you actually do read these descriptio...
Aunty Donna: New Show
Character: Himself
A cheeky taping of Aunty Donna's singular award winning "New Show". Filmed at the famous Enmore Theater in Sydney, and featuring all three of the Aunty Donna boys, "New Show" is legally a 'comedy'....
Aunty Donna - The Album Tour
Character: Himself
Australian comedy trio Aunty Donna, along with Michelle Brasier and Tom Armstrong, perform songs from their debut album at Max Watts in Melbourne. Haven't they done well?...
Bald Future
Character: Owen
Peter believes his baldness is the root cause of his colleague's distain towards him. His struggle for acceptance leads to an unintended tragedy. With his job hanging by a thread, Peter devises a hair-raising, high-stakes plan to regrow his standing in the office and save his dwindling career....
Descent
Character: Poker Player/Additional Voices
Convinced they can find a new home for humanity and save the world from climate doom, three 'scientists' descend to the bottom of the ocean...to Eel City....
Lesbian Space Princess
Character:
A space princess is thrust out of her sheltered life and into a galactic quest to save her bounty hunter ex-girlfriend from the Straight White Maliens....
The Story of Pud - A Tell All Documentary
Character: Self
Join Aunty Donna and friends for this raw exposé into the making of the 2018 classic sketch 'Always Room For Christmas Pud'....
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Character: Corpse
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people....