October 31, 2025
It gives us great pleasure to present Season 10, Episode 43: Jon Kinnally!
Jon Kinnally shares his memoir I’m Prancing As Fast As I Can. We discuss how his life as a self-doubting gay youth brought him to acting and ultimately writing for television’s Will & Grace, Ugly Betty, The Crazy Ones and others.
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Jon Kinnally was born in Upstate New York and went to college at Oswego State before moving to a then-affordable Manhattan, where he pursued acting and performed with his writing partner, Tracy Poust, in their comedy group Loud Blouse.
After relocating to Los Angeles, they got a job on a new show called Will & Grace and stayed with it for its entire eight seasons, eventually running it and returning for the reboot. Over the years, there were many Emmy nominations as well as a Writers Guild Award for Outstanding Writing in Episodic Comedy in 2018. He has also worked on several other shows with Tracy, including Ugly Betty—Emmy and NAACP award nominations—and The Crazy Ones which they ran, and had the privilege to write for the great Robin Williams. He currently lives in Spain with his husband Chris and their cats, Howard Bannister and Elliott.
