Celeste Pechous has been performing comedy in Chicago and elsewhere from Kankakee to Vienna. Originally from Iowa City, Pechous moved to Chicago to study improvisation at Second City, Improv Olympic and The Annoyance Theater. Her stomping grounds of doing the bits include being a member of The Second City's National Touring Company; the Second City Theatricals with their current revue, Weddings of Mass Destruction; Improv Olympic's house teams: Rockstar of Siam and Leather and Lace. She was also a founding member of the all-girl ensemble Sirens. Pechous has performed at The Chicago Improv Festival, The Chicago Comedy Festival, New York's Toyota Comedy Festival and Comedy Central's "Comics Come Home" for the Chris Farley Foundation. The past three years Pechous has hosted and performed at HRC's; "Laughing Out Loud" at the Park West where her video shorts; "One Community" and "One Community Divided," debuted. She headlined her one-woman show, "Frozen Angel," in Dallas and in Chicago she wrote and performed a successful run of her hit comedy, "Pushed," with Jim Bennett. As an ensemble member with the award-winning comedy group, Gayco, Pechous has written and performed the hit comedy revues, "Better Than Better Than Chocolate" and "Poked", in which she performed at Comedy Central's Hudson Theater in Los Angeles. Most recently she voiced George Eckert's latest animation; "The Clan" and performed with at Second City's Unhinged with Abby Sher in her two-person critically acclaimed show, "D.I.R.T." Pechous has also written knock-knock jokes for Dixie Cups. Look for her in Will Ferrel's movie, "Stranger Than Fiction," as Nurse #1!