Chloe Eileen Troast (born May 14, 1997) is an American comedian and actress. In October 2023, after four years of performing improv and stand-up comedy in New York, Troast was hired to join the cast of the NBC

sketch comedy Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. The form developed and became popular in vaudeville, and is ...

series ''

Saturday Night Live ''Saturday Night Live'' (often abbreviated to ''SNL'') is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and Peacock. Michaels currently serves a ...

'' for its 49th season, becoming the only new featured player for that year.

Early life and education

Troast was raised in

Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey Ho-Ho-Kus () is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 4,258, an increase of 180 (+4.4%) from the 2010 census count of 4,078, which in turn reflected an increas ...

, and graduated from Northern Highlands Regional High School in 2015. She attended

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

, where she got an individualized major at

Gallatin School of Individualized Study The Gallatin School of Individualized Study (commonly referred to as Gallatin) is a small interdisciplinary college within New York University (NYU). Students at Gallatin design an interdisciplinary program that meets their specific interests a ...

(which she describes as "basically just an English degree") and a minor in Middle Eastern Islamic studies. She sang at her college graduation.

Career

Troast has performed improv, stand-up, and sketch comedy in New York City, sometimes embodying an

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character named Pepper Slit. Troast co-wrote and starred in the web series on '' The Basics'' (2021). In 2023, she participated in the Montreal comedy festival Just for Laughs and was named one of its 2023 New Faces of Comedy. She has frequently collaborated with the comedy trio

Please Don't Destroy Please Don't Destroy is a comedy group in New York City consisting of Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy, who began collaborating as students at New York University. The group was originally founded in 2017 and based on an act titled ...

(writers at ''

'') and appeared in the film '' Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain''. She is set to appear in the

romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...

film '' Sweethearts'' along with Kiernan Shipka, and on the Adult Swim Smalls series ''Dohl's.'' After auditioning and coming close to joining the cast the previous season, Troast made her ''Saturday Night Live'' debut on October 14, 2023.

Personal life

Troast lives in

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. She enjoys

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ing.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Troast, Chloe 1997 births Living people Northern Highlands Regional High School alumni People from Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey 21st-century American comedians American women comedians Comedians from New Jersey Comedians from Brooklyn American stand-up comedians 21st-century American actresses Actresses from New Jersey Actresses from Brooklyn American television actresses New York University alumni