About

Esteban Gast is a comedian, writer, and host. 

Esteban is Colombian, was raised in Puerto Rico and Illinois, and lives in LA. He is co-creator and co-host of Identity at Play, a Spotify Original podcast featured in Insider and Remezcla. He is the host of "Comedians Conquering Climate Change, a podcast that was called "irreverent but aspirational" by Variety. He was the host of Hyundai Highways, a travel series using only an electric car. He was the star of Jungletown, a TV show airing on VICELAND. He's the creator and host of a variety of educational-focused series, including On a Different Note, Nothing Is Boring, and Third Culture Conversations.

Esteban is the co-creator of the Climate Comedy Cohort, creating a first-of-its-kind program connecting comedians to climate experts and giving money, production support, and entertainment connections to empower comedians to create comedy around the climate crisis. The work from the cohort was featured in a live tour and on Comedy Central. Esteban's work has been written about in The Guardian, Grist, NPR, and others. 

With the skills gained as a standup comedian and his years in the classroom, Esteban is a gifted communicator who loves breaking down complex issues.

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Esteban's event was great, we had a small but engaged crowd (tough time of year to really bring out a huge group). Esteban was so easy to work with and we enjoyed his event immensely. Thank you!

Leann Adams
Director of Student Activities
Whitman College

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popular programs

Story Matters: How Stories Shape Our World On and Off The Screen
As a Colombian-American kid, Esteban moved to Chicago in elementary school and, all of a sudden, he didn’t see too many people that looked like him on screen. Worse, the ones he saw represented an incomplete part of his culture - to a point that Esteban was ashamed to have the name Esteban. Now as a television personality, comedian, producer, and founder of Scriptd, a Hollywood Tech startup, Esteban is focused on telling stories (and helping others tell stories) that create mirrors for those in society who don’t see themselves.

In this talk, he dives into his personal journey and offers a more expansive approach to storytelling that goes beyond writers in LA, presenting a framework and questions to everyone (not just creators) about the stories we believe about ourselves and the work that we do. If stories are how we shape the world around us, how can we be more intentional about finding and telling better stories in our everyday life? In a world where literally everyone has a platform and audience, how can we use that responsibility to heal the world?

Program Run Time: 45 min + 15 min Q&A
Diversity Matters: New Thinking For a More Inclusive World
Soon after his move to LA, Esteban realized Hollywood has a real diversity problem. 87% of film & television writers are white men, and though Latinx/Hispanic audiences buy 25% of movie tickets, only 6% of the speaking roles found in last year's top-grossing 250 movies were played by Latinx/Hispanic people.
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He went about making change in the way he saw others make changes; he starred in a TV show that featured Latin Americans positively, worked with the cast of Jane The Virgin, and created and worked on other value-aligned shows.

However, he began viewing diversity and inclusion as more of a systemic issue that can’t be solved by individual high-achievers. He co-founded the screenplay production platform Scriptd, which takes a data-driven tech-first approach to diversity, building tools and exploring comprehensive data to tell stories that reflect the world we live in. 90% of scripts optioned from Scriptd have been written by women and people of color. In order to build a more inclusive future, we have to move beyond emotional and moral arguments and simply look at data concerning the world around us.

In this optimistic talk, he details his journey and gives tangible insights on how to think about diversity & inclusion so we might reconsider how anyone can approach emotionally-charged issues we care about.

Program Run Time: 45 min + 15 min Q&A

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Esteban did an excellent job tailoring his performance to his audience. He asked questions about campus before he went on stage in order to tie that info into his comedy set. He made a lot of references about Texas State, and he did amazing at building a connection with the students.

Rigo Gutierrez
Coordinator for Campus Activities
​Texas State University

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