Rebecca Addelman

Rebecca Addelman is a Canadian comedian, writer, and actress currently living in Los Angeles, California. She is a contributing staff writer on Fox's sitcom New Girl. Background and education Rebecca Addelman (born 1981) is from Ottawa, Canada. She received a B.A. in literature at the University of Toronto and studied comedy writing and performance at Humber College. 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). In April and May 2010 she co-wrote and performed "The Holly and Rebecca Show: A Very Special episode" with Prazoff at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. She is currently developing a sitcom with CBC Television and is a contributing writer on Fox's sitcom New Girl.