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Ophira Eisenberg
Ophira Eisenberg is a Canadian comedian, writer, and actress. She is from Calgary, Canada.[1] Eisenberg now lives in New York City.
She has made guest appearances on comedy programs including Comedy Central’s Premium Blend and Fresh Faces of Comedy, as well as VH-1's Best Week Ever[citation needed] and All Access, the E! Channel, the Oxygen Network, and the Discovery Channel. She had her own half-hour comedy special for CTV Television Network’s Comedy Now!.[2] She was also featured in the award-winning Canadian film The Overlookers and episodes of The Guardian and Queer as Folk.
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Career
Stand-up comedy and storytelling
Eisenberg performs regularly in New York City, where she resides.[1][3] She headlines comedy clubs and colleges across the US as well. She also hosts and tours with The Moth,[1] a NYC storytelling show and is featured on one of their Audience Favorites CDs. She is a core performer in the live shows Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad and The Liar Show. She co-produces and hosts the long running stand-up comedy show, Sweet Paprika.
She was featured in New York magazine’s “Ten New Comedians That Funny People Find Funny”,[4] New York Post’s “The 50 Best Bits That Crack Up Pro Comics”,[5] selected by Back Stage magazine as one of “10 Standout Stand Ups Worth Watching” in their Spotlight on Comedy Issue, and hailed as a “Highly Recommended Favorite” by Time Out New York magazine. She was a MAC Awards (Manhattan Association of Clubs and Cabarets) Finalist for Best Female Comic.[6]
Writing
Her writing has been featured in the anthology, I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America’s Top Comics alongside that of Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Dennis Miller and Joan Rivers, in Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Canceled, also the upcoming Heeb Magazine’s Love, Sex and Gelfite Fish. She is also a regular contributor for US Weekly’s Fashion Police, Gawker.com, Msn.com, and The Comedians Magazine.
Acting
Her acting credits include The Overlookers (winner of Best Picture at the Canadian Film Festival and Best Feature Film at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival), Showtime's Queer as Folk and CBS’s The Guardian. She was also in the original Toronto Fringe production of The Drowsy Chaperone in 1999,[7] which went on to become a Tony Award winning Broadway show.
References
- ^ a b c Kane, Michael. "Talk of the Town: Raconteurs Take Stage In Story Series The Moth", New York Post, 24 March 2007.
- ^ Eisenberg at the Comedy Now! website (not available in the US)
- ^ Eisenberg, Ophira. Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad, Chicago, Illinois, 5 September 2009.
- ^ Sternbergh, Adam. “Ten New Comedians That Funny People Find Funny”, 22 March 2009.
- ^ "Wild Jokers: America's Best Comics Tell The Post The 50 Funniest Jokes They Know", New York Post, 29 March 2009.
- ^ MAC Awards
- ^ Ophira Eisenberg profile at BroadwayWorld.com
External links
Categories:- Canadian stand-up comedians
- Living people
- Women comedians
- People from Calgary
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