Midwest based comedian Prateek Srivastava tirelessly performs all over the country. Prateek recently performed at the NBC Break Out Festival at Second City, he has also appeared at 2017's San Francisco Sketchfest, the Laugh Your Asheville Comedy Festival, the Desi Comedy Festival, and the Arch City Comedy festival. In 2014 Prateek was selected as a Chicago Finalist in NBC's Stand Up for Diversity Talent Search. In 2016 he had the rare distinction of performing stand up comedy at the Chicago Improv Festival. He has performed alongside nationally touring headliners Maz Jobrani, Ryan Singer, Stewart Huff, Sammy Obeid, and Dwayne Kennedy.

Prateek is the co-founder and producer of Simmer Brown, a comedy collective that has been selling out shows since May 2015. Prateek also co-produces the food based show Snack Attack Comedy. Prateek has been featured in Time Out Chicago, Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune and has appeared on WGN Radio and NPR.
A former cast member of 100 Proof Comedy at Comedysportz, Prateek was also a senior writer/producer for the sketch show Talk Hard, which was voted Best Sketch Show by the Chicago Reader.
Prateek thanks you for reading his bio and thanks you for not realizing that he’s speaking in the 3rd person right now!