Ophira Eisenberg

Ophira Eisenberg
Ophira Eisenberg

Ophira Eisenberg (born in 1972), is a Canadian comedienne, 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[4] and Fresh Faces of Comedy, as well as VH-1's Best Week Ever[5] 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][6] 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,"[7] New York magazine’s "Ten New Comedians That Funny People Find Funny",[8] New York Post’s "The 50 Best Bits That Crack Up Pro Comics",[9] 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.[10]

Writing

Her debut memoir, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy was released 2 April 2013.[11] 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;[12] in Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Canceled[13]; and Heeb Magazine's book Sex, Drugs and Gefilte Fish (2010).[14]

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,[15] 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.[16] She is Jewish and a breast cancer survivor.[17]

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. ↑ {{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0677968/
  5. ↑ "Bio". OphiraEisenberg.com. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
  6. ↑ Eisenberg, Ophira. (5 September 2009). Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad. Chicago, Illinois.
  7. ↑ Zinoman, Jason. (4 April 2012). "Telling Tales With a Tear and a Smile". The New York Times.
  8. ↑ Sternbergh, Adam (22 March 2009). "Ten New Comedians That Funny People Find Funny". New York Magazine.
  9. ↑ "Wild Jokers: America's Best Comics Tell The Post The 50 Funniest Jokes They Know". New York Post. 29 March 2009.
  10. ↑ "2009 MAC Awards Nominees and Winners – Manhattan Association of Cabarets". Manhattan Association of Cabarets. 2009-12-07. Retrieved 2018-01-28.
  11. ↑ Eisenberg, Ophira. Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy. Seal Press. ISBN 1-58005-439-0.
  12. ↑ I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America’s Top Comics. ISBN 0-307-38229-X.
  13. ↑ "Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped and Canceled « Ophira Eisenberg". ophiraeisenberg.com. Retrieved 2018-01-28.
  14. ↑ Express (2009-10-21). "Oy, Yeah! Shana Liebman, 'Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish: A Heeb Storytelling Collection'". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-01-28.
  15. ↑ "Ophira Eisenberg profile". BroadwayWorld.com.
  16. ↑ Kaufman, Joanne (April 4, 2014). "Ophira Eisenberg's Walk-Up Cave". The New York Times.
  17. ↑ Stroud, Court. "Happiness? NPR Host Ophira Eisenberg Thinks There Are Better Choices". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
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