Jeremy Onorato

I am a 29 year old male living in Pottstown Pennsylvainia. I was raised in Phillipsburg NJ, but attended high school at Bethlehem Catholic(Beca)in Bethlehem Pennsylvainia. While at Beca I participated in both the marching band (trumpet, trombone) and school newspaper (editor, advertising, and humor writer). I graduated high school in 1999 with a two year scholarship for creative writing. I briefly attended Eastern University, majoring in writing and literary arts, before transfering to Moravian College to pursue a degree in Phsycology. I graduated in 2005 and entered the field of social work until 2008 when I fell ill after botched surgery I had undergone the previous fall. I was unable to work for a full year, and consequently lost my social work job. During this time period I began to rethink what it was that I wanted to do with my life and began writing game review articles for several websites. I also attended any open mikes I could find locally, although they were few and far between at best. Finally in the early fall of 2009 I got word of several open mikes in the Bethlehem area, and I began attending those shows (about 3 a week) for the remainder of the year and continue to do so. In December of 2009 I was given the opportunity to do a five minute set opening for a Bob Levy show on New Years Eve. I found the experience to be an ejoyable and rewarding one.
Since then I have done numerous paid and private gigs all around the Lehigh Valley and Philadelphia area. In June of 2010 I was also asked to perform at Tickle Me Tuesdays, a local comedy show in Allentown.