Actor Dave Stern cast as Fisherman Ed

Dave Stern has joined the cast of "Echo Flats" as Fisherman Ed.

Dave Stern is an experienced, actor, improviser, and standup comedian. Dave graduated from the Improv Asylum’s Training Center in April 2013 and has completed both Level 1 and Level 2 standup comedy classes at Improv Boston. He holds his bachelor's degree from Northeastern University and his master's degree from Simmons College, both in Boston. One of his earliest stage performances was as Elwood P. Dowd in the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy, “Harvey.” Most recently, Dave portrayed Tony, the lead character in a short comedy video entitled “Bad Thing.” He also portrayed the father of a deceased improv actor in the short comedy, “Improv at a Funeral.” Dave is the former director and cast member of the improv troupe Assorted Birds! He was a member of the improv troupes Russian for Elephant and Elderberry Jam, performing at Y Comedy (the improv/sketch show at the YMCA Theatre in Cambridge), and at The Riot Theater in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston. Russian for Elephant also performed and won the championship belt at ImprovBoston’s improv cage match in Cambridge, and was the opening act at The Jam at ImprovBoston, and at the weekly improv shows at Hennesy's in downtown Boston. Dave has performed standup comedy nearly 700 times over the past five years at a number of venues in and around Greater Boston and has been the featured comic at shows produced by Just Suspects, a popular Boston improv and sketch comedy troupe. He has performed at Dangerfield's and the Broadway Comedy Club in New York City, The Comedy Studio in Cambridge, The People’s Show, The Comedy Lottery, and Standup Battle Royale at Improv Boston in Cambridge, and has been featured in comedy shows in Boston, Quincy, Worcester, Portland, Maine, Manchester, N.H., Providence, R.I., and New York City. Born in Boston, he has been a writer all his life, beginning with a Western adventure novel he wrote when he was 10. Sadly, that manuscript was lost in one move or another over the years.