| Ophira Eisenberg | |
| Birth Place: | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Medium: | Stand-up, film, TV, radio |
| Active: | 1998–present |
| Spouse: | Jonathan Baylis |
| Children: | 1 |
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]
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.
Eisenberg performs regularly in New York City.[9] She frequently hosts and tours with The Moth, 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 "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]
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 Magazines Sex, Drugs and Gefilte Fish (2010).[17]
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.
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]