"Ophira Eisenberg... Practice pronouncing that name;
you will be wanting to buy tickets to see her.
She is cleverly, memorably funny...
On stage she has that marvelous air of being both relaxed and in charge...
She is a class act." -
Kate Copstick, The Scotsman, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2008
A MAC (Manhattan Association of Clubs and Cabarets) Award Finalist for Best Female Comic, Ophira Eisenberg has appeared on Comedy Central's Premium Blend and Fresh Faces of Comedy, VH-1's Best Week Ever and All Access, E! Channel, the Oxygen Network, and the Discovery Channel. She also had her own ½ hour comedy special for CTV’s Comedy Now!
Ophira performs regularly at renowned comedy clubs all over the world and headlines regularly at colleges across the US. She also tours with The Moth, a NYC storytelling phenomenon and is currently featured on the Moth’s Audience Favorites CD. She is a core performer in the hit shows Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad and The Liar Show.
Ophira was featured in the 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” in their Spotlight on Comedy Issue, and hailed as a “Highly Recommended Favorite” by Time Out New York magazine.
Her writing has been featured in the Crown/Random House 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 and the upcoming Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Canceled, also published by Random House. She is also a regular contributor for US Weekly's Fashion Police, Gawker.com, Msn.com, and The Comedians Magazine.
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.