KIRK DIEDRICH began his acting career at an early age, when he was cast as Patent Clerk #2 in his elementary school production of “Thomas Edison: The Electric Light Man.” His teacher was so impressed with his ability to remember lines and not screw them up in front of parents, she cast him as John McHenry, the Ed Sullivan/Ed McMahonesque host of “That’s Entertainment!” the following year. 

But, his rise to success was halted quickly when, the following year, he was not picked as one of the irascibly cute Von Trapp children for a local community theater’s production of The Sound of Music. Stunned that they didn’t recognize his brilliance, he retreated from the limelight and consoled himself with books and doodling.

Alas, the call of the stage was constant and he was unable to resist the roar of the greasepaint and the smell of the crowd. In high school, he was drafted by his singing teacher into a production of Li’l Abner where he played one of the “before” husbands. Here he learned the two best pieces of advice a husband could use, stand where the woman tells you and try not to embarrass her. This would serve him well when taking a college acting class, wherein he met the love of his life, no, not the theatre, his trophy wife, the buxom, beautiful and incredibly talented Kristine. It was here he that realized how much he missed his mistress, the Theatre.

After abandoned attempted journeys alternately as an artist, a dentist, a mortician and gravedigger, Kirk attended the prestigious theatre school, Wayne State University, to follow in the steps of Lily Tomlin, Jefffrey Tambor and, Max Wright, the dad from “ALF”. There, he began writing plays, vignettes and other theatrical diversions. For a short while, he belonged to an acting troupe, “Miniature Sun presents” that toured Detroit area coffeehouses (remember those?) with their off-beat and insightful gaze on the ironic foibles and melancholia of modern life. Highlights from this period include, Best Director for his harrowingly minimalist production of Howard Korder’s “Search and Destroy” and winning Best Actor for his turn as Jacob Jerome in Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memiors.”

Kirk pursued this love of theatre across the country to Boston with his wife in tow, where he attended Brandeis University (the Jewish Hahvahd) for Dramatic Writing. There. his plays “Last Call” and “Burnt” were performed as part of Brandeis’ Annual Festival of the Arts. He also performed in several productions at Brandeis and at area regional theatres like The Turtle Lane Playhouse. 

After graduating, he and his lovely wife moved to Californy to pursue a life in the “Industry.” He has been seen in commercials and on stage at the ACME Comedy Theatre (www.acmecomedy.com) where he’s in the Main company as well as the Art Director. You may have seen him on Trailer Court Justice, Jimmy Kimmel Live! as “Hurley” from LOST, in the short film Once Upon A Time in the City with Laura Prepon (That 70s Show, October Road) or as a bank robbing ex-con on MONK. He has just realized his lifelong ambition to one day build a website where he could write a pompous, self-aggrandizing biography.