Colton Dunn is an Emmy Award–winning actor, writer, comedian, and improviser based in Los Angeles.
He spent six seasons — 113 episodes — as Garrett McNeill on NBC's Superstore, where he was also a writer, which meant he occasionally wrote lines for himself and then had to say them. Before that he wrote, produced, and performed on Comedy Central's Key & Peele (three Emmy nominations for writing), with earlier writing credits on MADtv and Nick Swardson's Pretend Time, and he turned up around Pawnee as Brett on Parks and Recreation.
On screen he plays Lester Kitchens on Netflix's The Recruit, was Rudy in the feature Blockers, and served soup as Dominic opposite Larry David on HBO's Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness. His comedic timing has also wandered through Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Muppets Mayhem, History of the World, Part II, Grand Crew, and The Rookie, among others. Next he appears alongside Will Ferrell and Zac Efron in Judgment Day, the Amazon MGM Studios comedy from writer-director Nicholas Stoller, currently in post-production.
Behind the camera, he was a Supervising Producer and writer on Apple TV's Widow's Bay, which won Outstanding Comedy Series at the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards after leading all comedies with nineteen nominations for its first season. He worked on both seasons, stepping up to Co-Executive Producer for season two. He was also an executive producer on Prime Video's Good Sports with Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson, and he shares story credit on Ali G: Who Iz I?, Sacha Baron Cohen's return to the character after twenty years, from Amazon MGM Studios.
He also works where no one can see his face. Voice credits include Star Trek: Lower Decks (a Klingon or two), Krapopolis, Big City Greens, and Solar Opposites. Voice acting is still acting. He checked.
He's from Minnesota, and no, they're not nice anymore. He got his start in Minneapolis, joined Amsterdam's Boom Chicago ensemble, and has performed and taught at the Upright Citizens Brigade in both New York and Los Angeles. His live and improv work still runs through UCB, Holy Shit Improv, and touring with Ben Schwartz & Friends — with stops at Radio City Music Hall and the Sydney Opera House along the way.
For work, he's managed by Artists First and represented for film and television by Independent Artist Group. For everything else, the phones are mostly decorative now.