With high-powered, hilarious, clean comedy, comedian Erik Passoja tackles thought-provoking topics like science, religion, veganism, and yoga. Recent comedy credits include Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed, Last Comic Standing semifinals in Los Angeles, and a standup comedy concert movie, Spiritually Incorrect Comedy.

A fifth-degree black belt in Shotokan karate, Erik lived in Japan for a year and was brutally beaten by men far smaller than he.

This classically-trained actor is a graduate of Yale University and a lifetime member of the Actors Studio. He starred in the Actors Studio West production of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Barbara Bain. He also recently originated the role of Claude in Cheyenne, written by Liz Tuccillo (Sex and the City, He’s Just Not That Into You).

Since moving to Los Angeles with his wife Rita and her sixteen-pound cat, Erik has worked extensively. Credits include appearances on Nip/Tuck, CSI, Without a Trace, CSI: Miami, Charmed, Hawaii Five-O, and Firefly. He also played the role of Charles Manson in the ABC movie The Beach Boys: An American Family. Films include Believers, Prey4Me, Monty and the Runaway Furnace, and Réalité.

A voiceover artist and a nationally touring standup comedy headliner, Erik performs at clubs and colleges everywhere, and he has performed overseas for our troops in Japan and Korea.