Ophira Eisenberg

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Ophira Eisenberg
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Born1972 (age 52–53)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
MediumStand-up, film, TV, radio
Nationality
  • Canada
  • United States
Years active1998–present
SpouseJonathan Baylis
Children1
Website ophiraeisenberg.com

Ophira Eisenberg (born 1972) is a Canadian American comedian, writer, and actress. She is from Calgary, Alberta. [1] She has been living in New York City since 2001 and obtained American citizenship in April 2021. [2] [3]

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Eisenberg hosted the weekly NPR and WNYC trivia, puzzle, and game show Ask Me Another, [4] with the "one-man house band" Jonathan Coulton. In 2013, she appeared on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson . [5] She also appeared on Comedy Central's Premium Blend [6] and Fresh Faces of Comedy, as well as VH-1's Best Week Ever [7] All Access, [8] 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] [9] 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," [10] New York magazine's "Ten New Comedians That Funny People Find Funny", [11] New York Post 's "The 50 Best Bits That Crack Up Pro Comics", [12] 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 in 2009. [13]

Writing

Her debut memoir, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy was released 2 April 2013. [14] She has also been featured in a number of anthology books, including: I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America's Top Comics alongside Dennis Miller, Joan Rivers, Chris Rock, and Jerry Seinfeld; [15] Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Canceled; [16] and Heeb Magazine 's Sex, Drugs and Gefilte Fish (2010). [17]

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, [18] which later became a Tony Award-winning Broadway show.[ citation needed ]

Personal life

Eisenberg lives in an apartment in Brooklyn, New York City, with her husband, Jonathan Baylis (a writer-producer-editor and comic creator of So Buttons Comix) and their son Lucas. [19] She is Jewish and a breast cancer survivor. [20]

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". Q.E.D. – A Place to Show & Tell. Archived from the original on 7 August 2019. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  3. ↑ "Check-In: American Citizen Ophira Eisenberg". NPR.org. 16 April 2021.
  4. ↑ "Ophira Eisenberg: NPR". NPR . Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  5. ↑ "Ending". Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. 8 February 2013. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.
  6. ↑ "Premium Blend episode dated 17 November 2004 (TV Episode 2004) – IMDb". IMDb. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  7. ↑ "Bio". OphiraEisenberg.com. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
  8. ↑ "Biography of Ophira Eisenberg for Appearances, Speaking Engagements". allamericanspeakers.com. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  9. ↑ Eisenberg, Ophira. (5 September 2009). Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad. Chicago, Illinois.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. ↑ Zinoman, Jason. (4 April 2012). "Telling Tales With a Tear and a Smile". The New York Times.
  11. ↑ Sternbergh, Adam (22 March 2009). "Ten New Comedians That Funny People Find Funny". New York Magazine.
  12. ↑ "Wild Jokers: America's Best Comics Tell The Post The 50 Funniest Jokes They Know". New York Post. 29 March 2009.
  13. ↑ "2009 MAC Awards Nominees and Winners – Manhattan Association of Cabarets". Manhattan Association of Cabarets. 7 December 2009. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  14. ↑ Eisenberg, Ophira (26 March 2013). Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy. Seal Press. ISBN   978-1-58005-439-3.
  15. ↑ Shydner, Ritch; Schiff, Mark (2007). I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America's Top Comics. Crown. ISBN   978-0-307-38229-0.
  16. ↑ "Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped and Canceled « Ophira Eisenberg". ophiraeisenberg.com. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  17. ↑ Express (21 October 2009). "Oy, Yeah! Shana Liebman, 'Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish: A Heeb Storytelling Collection'". The Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  18. ↑ "Ophira Eisenberg profile". BroadwayWorld.com.
  19. ↑ Kaufman, Joanne (4 April 2014). "Ophira Eisenberg's Walk-Up Cave". The New York Times.
  20. ↑ Stroud, Court. "Happiness? NPR Host Ophira Eisenberg Thinks There Are Better Choices". Forbes. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
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