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Ophira Eisenberg
Ophira Eisenberg is a Canadian comedian, writer, and actress who has made guest appearances on comedy programs including Comedy Central’s Premium Blend and Fresh Faces of Comedy, as well as VH-1's Best Week Ever and All Access, the E! Channel, the Oxygen Network, and the Discovery Channel. She had her own half-hour comedy special for CTV Television Network’s Comedy Now! She was also featured in the award-winning Canadian film,The Overlookers and episodes of The Guardian (TV series) and Queer as Folk (North American TV series).

Stand-Up & Storytelling
Eisenberg performs regularly in New York, where she was a Mac Awards (Manhattan Association of Clubs and Cabarets) Finalist for Best Female Comic. She headlines comedy clubs and colleges across the US as well. She also hosts and tours with The Moth, a NYC storytelling show and is featured on one of their Audience Favorites CDs. She is a core performer in the hit shows Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad and The Liar Show and co-produces and hosts the long running stand-up comedy show, Sweet Paprika. She was featured in New York Magazine’s “Ten New Comedians That Funny People Find Funny”, 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.

Writing
Her writing has been featured in the 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, in Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Canceled, also the upcoming Heeb Magazine’s Love, Sex and Gelfite Fish. She is also a regular contributor for US Weekly's Fashion Police, Gawker.com, Msn.com, and The Comedians Magazine.

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 (North American TV series) and CBS’s The Guardian (TV series). She was also in the original Toronto Fringe production of The Drowsy Chaperone, which went on to become a Tony Award winning Broadway show.