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SE: An ACTORS Christmas
Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 8:00PM

Ars Nova
511 West 54th Street
New York, NY 10019
United States


Created & Performed by CHRISTI CHIELLO & LORELEI RAMIREZ
Featuring CHRISTI CHIELLO, LORELEI RAMIREZ, LENA EINBINDER, ANA FABREGA,IKECHUKWU UFOMANDO & DAN CHAMBERLAIN

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It’s everyone’s favorite time of year: Christmas, and what’s Christmas without ENTERTAINMENT? Nothing. So, hold onto your seats because two of the most talented women on and off Broadway, will take you on a journey into the unknown, into… seeing Christmas for what it really is. In this intensive ACTOR workshop on understanding the fundamental elements of holiday cheer, ACTORS will move you to sing, dance, imagine and be your true whimsical self. ONE NIGHT ONLY. Allow the Holidays to move you. BRING MONEY… to Ars Nova on December 10th when Lorelei Ramirez and Christi Chiello reprise their roles as ACTORS in a show UNLIKE ANY OTHER. With special appearances by Lena Einbinder, Ana Fabrega and more!

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
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CHRISTI CHIELLO (Actor) is a NYC based comedian who made her Comedy Central debut this summer on Jeff Ross Presents ROAST BATTLE. She battles regularly at The Stand Comedy Club and was thrilled to take her roasting to the prestigious Montreal Just For Laughs Festival this past July. Christi has made appearances on truTV, IFC, MTV’s Girl Code, College Humor, Funny or Die and MNN’s The Special Without Brett Davis. She's been featured in The Village Voice, Time Out NY, Splitsider, the Interrobang, the New York Comedy Festival, the Brooklyn Comedy Festival and the Women in Comedy Festival. Christi co-hosts White Chocolate at the Standing Room and Battle of the Divas at Union Hall! For show dates and more information check out christichiello.com & follow her on social media @christichiello!

LORELEI RAMIREZ (Actor) is an artist, comedian and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She's a regular writer for VICE's The Creators Project, and humor writer for Cracked. She's performed at Caroline's, UCB, Ars Nova, The Special without Brett Davis, The Chris Gethard Show,The Annoyance Theatre, BHQFU, The Cinderblock Comedy Festival, The Brooklyn Comedy Festival and has exhibited her work at Family Business Gallery, The Living Gallery, Cloud City and The Experiment Comedy Gallery. When she's not mourning the disappearance of her son, she's making video's on instagram @pileoftears. Check her out!

LENA EINBINDER (Actor) is a comedian, actor and shape shifting warrior demon from Los Angeles. They’ve appeared on The Chris Gethard Show, Horace and Pete, the cult public access show The Special Without Brett Davis and performs at comedy shows all over New York.

ANA FABREGA (Actor) is a Brooklyn-based comedian who The New York Times describes as "an inventive performer with a knack for off-kilter characters." She produces and hosts a monthly show called Sundays with Ana, and performs at comedy venues and art spaces around New York City. She writes and stars in the award-winning web series Jana & Shasta (New York Television Festival, Channel 101), and wrote The Truth About Pangaea, a comedy zine published by Social Malpractice Publishing. Ana was selected as a Comedy Central Comics to Watch for the 2016 New York Comedy Festival, and recently toured with Fred Armisen. She was a finalist in the 2015 Andy Kaufman Awards, and her one-woman comedy variety show, Go, Baby, Go! was part of Ars Nova’s Showgasm Spotlight series in 2016. Ana has appeared on IFC’s Portlandia, Fusion's The Chris Gethard Show, TV Land’s The Jim Gaffigan Show, Comedy Central’s Alternatino and Sunset Peak and more. Find her on Instagram @ana_fabrega and Twitter @anafabregagood. Gracias por leer esto.

IKECHUKWU UFOMANDO (Actor) is an actor and comic entertainer. He has created and hosted a number of live shows, including Nightcap | By Ike (Joe's Pub at The Public); Ike at Night (The Public Theater, The Bushwick Starr, JACK) and Ike Night (Ars Nova, San Francisco Sketchfest). His show Ike for the Holidays returns Thursday, December 15th at St. Mazie in Brooklyn. Ikechukwu also performs stand-up at venues across New York, including UCB and Union Hall. As an actor, he's collaborated with several OBIE-winning theatre companies including: Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, 600 Highwaymen and Hoi Polloi. He trained at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and in Studio Five's programs in Bali, Indonesia. More at ikehimself.com or follow @ikeminded

DAN CHAMBERLAIN is currently a staff sketch writer at Above Average, and has previously written for Funny Or Die, MTV, CollegeHumor, and Buzzfeed. A house performer at the Upright Citzens Brigade Theatre, he can be seen as Justin on the semi-scripted comedy Thingstarter for NBC's Seeso, and can be seen in the Lionsgate comedy Dirty 30.



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