Rebecca Addelman
Canadian actress, comedian and writer
Rebecca Addelman (born 1981) is a Canadian comedian, writer, director and actress living in Los Angeles, California. She was a contributing staff writer on Fox's sitcom New Girl and is the creator of Guilty Party (TV series).
Background and education
Addelman is from Ottawa, Ontario. She was born in a Jewish family. She received a B.A. in literature at the University of Toronto (2004) and studied comedy writing and performance at Humber College (2005). After several years working as a copy-editor and performing stand-up comedy, Addelman moved to Los Angeles in 2008.
Career
While performing stand-up comedy in Canada, Addelman was nominated for The Cream of Comedy and wrote humor articles for The Walrus and Toro Magazine, where she has a bi-monthly column. Addelman performs with Toronto comedians Holly Prazoff and Inessa Frantowski as "HIR". She has also appeared as a panelist on the Much Music show Video on Trial.
Addelman has written for the CURRENT TV animated sketch-comedy show SuperNews!, as well as appearing in the HEEB 100 (whose book, "Sex, Drugs, and Gefilte Fish", she also contributed to).
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