Sierra Katow

Sierra Lynn Katow is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer and podcaster.

Early life Sierra Lynn Katow was born to Vincent and Corinne Katow at the Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California and is a fourth-generation American of Chinese and Japanese heritage. She grew up in La Cañada in Los Angeles County. Katow attended La Cañada Elementary School, and Harvard University, where she was part of a number of comedy groups including the Harvard College Stand-Up Comic Society and vice-president of The Harvard Lampoon; and from 2013 to 2014 a cartoonist for The Harvard Crimson, and graduated with a degree in Computer Science in 2016.

Career Katow began performing at comedy clubs at the age of 16, and broke into the West Coast stand-up industry during high school. During college she often performed at open mics at comedy clubs in the Boston area, and through this organised further gigs with fellow comedians while backstage.

In 2021, Katow voiced two characters in Disney's Raya and the Last Dragon and appeared as recurring character Evangeline in Mindy Kaling's The Sex Lives of College Girls on HBO Max. Katow will create a short adult animated series to feature on Cake on FXX in 2022.

Katow has written for Take My Wife; Drop the Mic; Earth to Ned and Close Enough on HBO Max; The Wedding Coach on Netflix; and Eureka! on Disney Junior. She has also been involved in several projects with Wong Fu Productions, including appearing in and writing for the series Dating After College. She also appeared as Mulan in the Screen Junkies web production The Roast of Beauty and the Beast in 2017.

She co-hosted the comedy podcast SCUSSION with SCLARQ + SKATOW with fellow comedian and Harvard alumnus Sam Clark in 2016. Katow is the host of the podcast Stay Podsitive with Sierra Katow, which she started in 2019. As of January 2026, no new podcast episodes have been uploaded since April 2022.

Outside of comedy, Katow does freelance work as a full-stack web developer.

Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 2021 Raya and the Last Dragon Merchant, Fang Officer (voice) 2021 Distancing Socially Mi Cha 2023 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Waiter

Television Year Title Role Notes 2015 Last Call with Carson Daly Herself Guest; Series 14, Episode 55: "Evan Peters/Sierra Katow/The Re-Licked Project" 2015 Last Comic Standing Herself Series 9, Episode 4: "The Invitationals: Last Chance to Advance" 2015 Laughs Herself Series 2, Episode 2: "Funny Boys and Girls" 2016 Acting Out Herself - Comedian Series 1, Episode 5 2016 Girls Dorm Sketchy 2018 Straight Up, Stand Up Herself Series 1, Episode 4: "Bar Lubitsch" 2018 Take My Wife PA Series 2, Episode 7; writers' assistant, 8 episodes 2018 Drop the Mic Writers' assistant, 10 episodes 2019 Epic Night Writer 2020 Earth to Ned Comedian Series 1, Episode 2: "Laugh Your Ned Off"; also writer for Season 1 2021-2022 The Sex Lives of College Girls Evangeline Recurring; 12 episodes

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