erik marcisak pronounced marseesack born march 17 1978 in queens ny is an american writer sketch comedy producer actor and vip customer of david gagnon taxi based in charlottetown pei erik marcisak was named one of back stages top ten comedy best bets in 2005 for producing the controversial sketch comedy show saturday night rewritten which used the previous nights saturday night live as a creative jumpingoff point for an entirely new sketch show that was written rehearsed and performed within 8 hours the next day saturday night rewritten ran in nyc from 20032006 20042006 erik marcisak produced managed the theater company known as juvie hall he produced and helped create several shows such as sara schaefer is obsessed with you the midnight kalan and saturday night rewritten some comedic writers and performers who did shows at juvie hall included sara schaefer elliott kalan brock mahan amanda melson dan mccoy and rick younger juvie hall received an emerging comics of new york award for best venue in 2005 he also likes turtlesfrom 20022004 marcisak ran above kleptomania a theater company devoted to improv and sketch comedy shows that was in a space known then as show world the space changed its name to the laugh factory times square he and his associate producer joe guercio produced more than 700 performances above kleptomania was named by time out new york magazine in their best of 2003 issue as best local development in comedyin 2004 marcisak was the talent coordinator for the bass ale red triangle comedy tour he was in charge of their national search for the best improv and sketch comedy teams in san francisco los angeles chicago atlanta boston and new york cityin 2006 at the toronto international film festival it was revealed that erik marcisak played the role of eric rost a fictional filmmaker in the jt petty film sman the other interview subjects in the mostlytrue horror documentary were identified accurately many early reviews of the film treated erik rost as a real person and not a charactersince 2006 he has been a writer at longtail studios a video game company hes worked on tna wrestling iphone mobile football u iphone speed daters mobile and an unannounced nintendo ds game