Ophira Eisenberg

Ophira Eisenberg

Ophira Eisenberg, born in 1972, is a Canadian comic, writer, and actress. She is from Calgary, Canada[1] and now lives in New York City.

Eisenberg hosts the weekly NPR and WNYC trivia, puzzle, and game show Ask Me Another,[2] with the "one-man house band" Jonathan Coulton. On February 8, 2013, she appeared on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and was called over after her set to the desk, for a chat[3] She also appeared on Comedy Central’s Premium Blend and Fresh Faces of Comedy, as well as VH-1's Best Week Ever[4] All Access, the E! Channel, the Oxygen Network, the Discovery Channel, TV Guide Channel's Standup in Stilettos, and the AXS Network.

Career

Stand-up comedy and storytelling

Eisenberg performs regularly in New York City.[1][5] She frequently hosts and tours with The Moth,[1] a storytelling show, and is featured on one of their Audience Favorites CDs.

She was featured in the New York Times' "Telling Tales With a Tear and a Smile,"[6] New York magazine’s "Ten New Comedians That Funny People Find Funny",[7] New York Post’s "The 50 Best Bits That Crack Up Pro Comics",[8] selected by Backstage 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.[9]

Writing

Her debut memoir, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy was released 2 April 2013.[10] She has also been featured in a number of anthologies, including: I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America’s Top Comics alongside those of Dennis Miller, Joan Rivers, Chris Rock, and Jerry Seinfeld;[11] in Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Canceled; and Heeb Magazine's book Sex, Drugs and Gefilte Fish (2010).

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,[12] which went on to become a Tony Award winning Broadway show.

Personal life

Eisenberg lives in a fifth floor walk-up apartment in Brooklyn with her husband, Jonathan Baylis, a producer at the USA Network, their son Lucas, and their dog, Mocha.[13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kane, Michael (24 March 2007). "Talk of the Town: Raconteurs Take Stage In Story Series The Moth". New York Post.
  2. ↑ "Ophira Eisenberg: NPR". Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "Ending". Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. February 8, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Bio". OphiraEisenberg.com. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
  5. ↑ Eisenberg, Ophira. (5 September 2009). Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad. Chicago, Illinois.
  6. ↑ Zinoman, Jason. (4 April 2012). "Telling Tales With a Tear and a Smile". The New York Times.
  7. ↑ Sternbergh, Adam (22 March 2009). "Ten New Comedians That Funny People Find Funny". New York Magazine.
  8. ↑ "Wild Jokers: America's Best Comics Tell The Post The 50 Funniest Jokes They Know". New York Post. 29 March 2009.
  9. ↑ "MAC Awards". MACNYC.
  10. ↑ Eisenberg, Ophira. Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy. Seal Press. ISBN 1580054390.
  11. ↑ I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America’s Top Comics. ISBN 030738229X.
  12. ↑ "Ophira Eisenberg profile". BroadwayWorld.com.
  13. ↑ Kaufman, Joanne (April 4, 2014). "Ophira Eisenberg’s Walk-Up Cave". The New York Times.
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