Doug Brochu

Brochu was born in Tennessee,^[2] the son of Nita and Michael Brochu. He has an older brother, Chris Brochu, and a younger sister, actress Kaitlyn "Kate" Brochu. When he was 4 years old, Brochu moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina, where he spent most of his childhood, before moving to Tampa, Florida, where he started taking acting classes and doing local theater.^[2] In August 2006, he moved to Los Angeles with his family to pursue acting.^[1][2]

Brochu has appeared in stage productions of My Fair Lady, Smokey Mountain Christmas, The Play's the Thing and Forever Broadway.^[1][2] He has also had guest starring roles on Nickelodeon's Zoey 101 and iCarly. Brochu played the main role as Grady Mitchell in Sonny with a Chance and in So Random!. Brochu also played in a special guest role as Oogie in Disney XD's Pair of Kings.^[3] In 2011, Brochu was part of Disney's Friends for Change Games, which aired on Disney Channel. After So Random! was cancelled, Brochu hosted AwesomenessTV's web series Shove It,^[4] as well as two episodes of How to Be Awesome.^[5][6]

Since then, Brochu has appeared in several short films^{[7][8][9][10][11][12]} and theater productions,^[13][14] as well as started the sketch comedy group Burnt Quiche^[15] in 2017. In 2018, he starred in the interactive live show Kid Claw^[16] on Twitch, playing the titular character.

In 2021, Brochu reprised his role as Duke Lubberman in the iCarly reboot.^[17]

Brochu's hobbies include reading, writing, playing videogames, playing banjo, blacksmithing, leather-crafting and brewing.^[2][18][19] From 2012 to 2013, he co-hosted a podcast called Beardomancy 101 with friend Ryan Moran,^[20] where they would discuss adventures, comics, movies and geek culture in general.^[21]

In 2016, he moved to New York City to start a business, All-Wise Meadery, alongside actor Dylan Sprouse.^[22] In September 2016, they started an interactive D&D show called Pug Crawl,^[23] which went on until March 2017. The premise consisted of weekly D&D games where viewers would choose which characters and scenarios would be featured. In November 2018, Brochu announced he was leaving All-Wise.^[24]

Brochu lives in Columbus, Ohio. He currently works as a live broadcast producer at Esports Engine alongside some of his best friends, including Kid Claw creator Ethan Spencer and Chase Down Podcast co-host Carter Rodriguez.^[25]