"Ophira Eisenberg... Practice pronouncing that name. She is cleverly, memorably funny... On stage she has that marvelous air of being both relaxed and in charge... She is a class act." "Give her just a minute and Ophira will win you over." "Ophira is a rare combination of a sharp stand-up and a brilliant storyteller"
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BIO: Selected as one of New York Magazine's Top 10 Comics that "Funny People Find Funny, Ophira has appeared on Comedy Central's Premium Blend and Fresh Faces of Comedy, VH-1's Best Week Ever and All Access, Fox, E! Channel, the Oxygen Network, and the Discovery Channel. She also had her own 1⁄2 hour comedy special for CTV’s Comedy Now. Ophira performs regularly in New York and headlines across the US, Canada, and Europe. She also received rave reviews for her performances at the Edinburgh Festival and recently the Montreal Comedy Festival. She's a regular host and storyteller with The Moth, a NYC-based storytelling phenomenon and is featured on their Audience Favorites CD, and*1 rated podcast. She is also core performer in the hit shows Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad and The Liar Show. Ophira has been featured in the New Times Picks, New York Post’s “The 50 Best Bits That Crack Up Pro Comics”, selected by BackStage as one of “10 Standout Stand Ups Worth Watching” and regularly hailed as a “Highly Recommended Favorite” by Time Out New York magazine. Her writing has been featured in five anthologies including, I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America’s Top Comics alongside that of Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Dennis Miller and Joan Rivers, Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Canceled, and Heeb Magazine’s Sex, Drugs, and Gelfite Fish. She is also a regular contributor for US Weekly's Fashion Police, YourTango.com, Gawker.com, Msn.com, and The Comedians Magazine. Her acting credits include The Overlookers (Best Picture, Canadian Film Festival, Best Feature Film, New York International Independent Film & Video Festival), Showtime's Queer As Folk and CBS’s The Guardian. |