[3][4][5][6] Mary Dimino is a MAC Award winner for Best Female Comedian,[7] presented by Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs in 2010.
Dimino has been the awards host and comedian for the Northeast Film Festival[14] for five years running, with her co-hosts including Vincent Pastore from The Sopranos, Fatima Ptacek from Dora the Explorer, and David Harris from The Warriors.
[15][16][17] Her stand-up has been seen on Comedy Central, WNBC-DT2's All Night with Joey Reynolds, Canada's Better Living Television, and interstitials for AMC, FOX and PBS.
[20] Dimino was featured as one of the real-life characters in the PBS documentary Fat: What No One is Telling You, documenting her weight loss of over a hundred pounds through diet and exercise.
[23][24] Dimino has appeared on television programs including NBC's Today, HBO's The Chris Rock Show, and on New York Undercover, as Polly.
[25] Dimino's Off-Broadway appearances include roles in My Big Gay Italian Funeral at St. Luke's Theatre in Times Square, New York City.
In the Abington Theatre's weekly 2014 Sunday Series, Messina's one-act titled A Mooney for the Misbegotten starred Dimino and Johnny Tammaro.