It's me, Parker.
I'm a comedian, editor, director, and musician located in Chicago, IL. My passion is creating fun, queer, and unusual video sketches and visuals. I’m heavily influenced by made-for-tv movies, the year 2004, reality television, and David Lynch.
Represented by CAA and Grossman & Jack Talent. Managed by Tommy Stackhouse of Framework Entertainment.
Featured Videos
Just For Laughs New Faces of Comedy 2023
Stepmom
At the Old Ethan Allen Space
Director/Performer
Steppenwolf Lookout Series
The 1998 millennial cult classic STEPMOM comes to life on the Steppenwolf stage. Jeff Award Winner Rob Lindleybreathes life into Oscar Winner Susan Sarandon while VHS collector and nostalgia queen Alex Grelle dawns a new day as Julia Roberts. Sit back, relax and sob on a thrill ride that will take you on a journey that's just in time for Pride Month and too late for Mother's Day. It's Stepmom... At The Old Ethan Allen Space.
In Bad Taste
Director
Steppenwolf Lookout Series
In Bad Taste is an evening of impeccable nonsense with dumbass/comedian/mother, Eunji Kim. Join her for some laughs, a cry and a few "HUH?!"s.
What is taste? And how can it be BAD? Basically, it's a one-woman show about taste, the immigrant experience with ART (capital A) and motherhood (with a healthy sprinkle of queerness). Eunji, an authority upon nothing, explores the morality of taste - GOOD or BAD - as a queer immigrant of questionable means and talent.
Now That's What I Call
Grelley Duvall!
NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL GRELLEY DUVALL storms the beloved Hideout stage with just six performances this April (2022). Miss Grelley brings you a greatest hits collection of their finest work over the past seven years. As always, the evening will incorporate live music, dance, on-key singing, ACTING, and multimedia gallivanting. NTWICGD is a non-stop erotic 2-hour marathon. A joyride with no breaks. An event that will make you wish you were gay. The Grelley Duvall Show is an obsessive homage collage revue that focuses on the magic of MUSIC.
The Purpose Driven Life: The Album merch commercial and "Hello...I'm Grelley Duvall" track and video.
Soho House Chicago:
NYE 2021
In collaboration with celebrated Chicago photographer/videographer Paul Octavius and Jenna Liberman of Eye Eaters, I created a series of video instalations advertizing the experiences and performances guests would be treated to at the 2021 New Years Eve party at the Chicago Soho House. In addition, I performed as a live entertainer and party host.
Videos from top to bottom:
Welcoming Video- featuring Paul Octavius and Jenna Liberman
Peepers Leather Bar
Mermaid Oysters and Caviar
Andrew in Anotherland
Andrew Sa's otherworldly revue and feature film premiered at Millennium Park on Mon. August 16th 2021
From Local Universe: A voice bigger than the stage, Andrew Sa has been surprising audiences in small clubs for years but what he has planned for a Millennium Park debut is even larger. As part of the city’s Year of Chicago Music, and the Millennium Park Music Series, CIVL (Chicago Independent Venue League) has invited Andrew Sa and Local Universe to create an otherworldly revue. A rotating cast of musicians of different backgrounds and talents share a microphone with the city’s country crooner backed by an all-star band. This live musical event will crescendo into the debut of a sprawling cinematic experience that utilizes many Chicago artists and filmmakers featuring dozens of musicians spanning generations and styles as an audience ventures through Sa’s subconscious in an otherworldly adventure: Andrew in Anotherland.
Segment Director and Co-Editor with Matthew Mahaffey of Jane Barbe Productions, Assistant Director and Editor of additional segments.
grelley.
grelley. premiered on May 29, 2021
From The Grelley Duvall Show: grelley. inhabits the world of Alex Grelle’s VHS collection in what has been dubbed “a virtual homage for the obsessive age”. This show is a triple-threat extravaganza, an expansion and reformulation of the larger-than-life experience of The Grelley Duvall Show. Grelle and an outstanding cast act their way through a stream of film parodies connected through song and dance. This will be the most ambitious project from the young star to date. Bringing together the worlds of music and dance through film, Grelle’s past live performances have been cult-hits, selling out runs at Steppenwolf, Chopin, and The Hideout for years.
Co-wrote, directed, perfomed, scored, and edited the Video Showcase/Ghost segment.
Read more about the show's incepting in this Chicago Reader interview with Alex Grelley.
Commercial Appeal
This special was produced for The Hideout Inn Online, and it aired on September 21, 2020.
What is Commercial Appeal? Imagine it's 3am, and a bad dream just woke you up. Your hand fumbles in the dark, searching for the remote. "A little TV will put me back to sleep" you think to yourself. But you couldn't be more wrong, because you just tuned in to Parker Callahan's Commercial Appeal, a somnambulous journey into the dark heart of a gay man who loves infomercials.