| 03.15.13 | On Saturday, March 23, for one night only, Risa will take part in Studio 42's UNPRODUCIBLE SMACKDOWN, on Team Megan DEANS. Don't miss this hilarious night of "no-holds-barred theater featuring the most unproducible plays brought to you by the town's most daring playwrights" where the audience picks the winner! |
| 03.03.13 | Today at the EST/Sloan Brunch EINSTEIN ON THE BRUNCH Risa will be playing a sexed up duck in an amazing new short play chock full of science by Leah Nanako Winkler. |
| 02.17.13 | Risa will be playing a hipster witch in Christopher Sullivan's SATAN HELLFIRE COSMIC SPIRIT ORGY PLAY, as part of "Plays and Bands" presented by Pony Show. This series merges the independent music and theater communities by presenting amazing evenings of works by emerging writers and musicians. |
| 01.23.13 | Happy New Year! Risa is off to LA to shoot Season 2 of Risa and Christina's webseries, AVAILABLE. Risa and Christina will also begin work on writing their second live show. |
| 01.18.13 | Risa had a great time shooting with Alex Herald for his film noir webseries WILLIAMSBURG PL- Episode 3: The Dame. |
| 11.07.12 | Also coming up this month, Risa will be filming scenes for the pilot The Safe House, written by and starring Alexandra Roxo and Natalie Leite. |
| 11.07.12 | Risa is excited to be cast in "The Space Miners Series" video for Adult Swim's Thing X, a new digital comedy website produced by the creative genius of Nick Gallo and other former members of "The Onion". |
| 09.16.12 | Risa will be performing October 26th in PARTY AWESOME FUN, AWESOME FUN PARTY, a short play by Jonathan Caren which debuted earlier this year at The Old Vic in London and has now been selected for the Samuel French OOB Festival. Directed by Kel Haney, the play costars Ariel Woodiwiss, Nathaniel Kent, and Tre Davis. |
| 09.16.12 | "Snow White and Cinderella F**king Rage" is returning to LA! Christina and Risa will be performing the show at IOWest Hollywood the first two weeks of October. Tickets are available here: http://ioimprov.com/west/io/shows/snow-white-and-cinderella-f-king-rage |
| 07.12.12 | After a sold-out run in LA Risa is excited to be once again performing her play "Snow White and Cinderella F**king Rage" at The Tank in NYC this August. |
| 05.29.12 | Risa will be performing with Megan Hill and Allyson Morgan at Ensemble Studio Theatre Sunday June 3rd. The play, Erica Saleh's "Goodbye Brunch", is directed by John Giampietro. |
| 05.26.12 | Risa and Christina will present "Snow White and Cinderella F**king Rage" on June 22 and June 23 at ComedySportz Los Angeles as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival! If you're in LA, hope to see you there! |
| 04.19.12 | "The hostess and chief mean girl, Cassandra (a deliciously narcissistic Risa Sarachan)"...New York Times rave review of Critics' Pick YOUR BOYFRIEND MAY BE IMAGINARY. Two more weeks, don't miss it! |
| 04.11.12 | "Risa Sarachan is a standout as Cassandra...hilarious!" -Theateronline. Last weekend YOUR BOYFRIEND MAY BE IMAGINARY opened to rave reviews and will run through the month of April. Don't miss it! |
| 02.01.12 | BILLY WITCH opened to a sold out house at Intar Theatre! It runs one week only, don't miss it! |
| 01.23.12 | Risa has been cast in The Management Theater Company's production of Larry Kunofsky's play YOUR BOYFRIEND MAY BE IMAGINARY, directed by Meg Sturiano. It will run April 5-28, Thursday through Saturday, at Under St. Marks. |
| 01.16.12 | Risa will perform the role of Kate in the staged reading of Kimberly Pau's play DEACTIVATED at Theater for the New City, directed by Josh Hecht. |
| 01.06.12 | And here's the second part of the latest Inconvenient Interviews with Risa, with the cast of HAND TO GOD! |
| 01.06.12 | Risa had a great first day rehearsing with the talented cast of Greg Moss's BILLY WITCH for Studio 42, directed by Erik Pearson. |
| 01.04.12 | Here is the first part of the latest two part Inconvenient Interviews with Risa, featuring Tyrone, one of the stars of HAND TO GOD, the steaming hot show written by Robert Askins and directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel which will return for a longer extended run at Ensemble Studio Theatre before moving to Broadway! |
| 01.03.12 | Happy New Year! Risa got started celebrating with New Year's Brunchin' Eve at Ensemble Studio Theatre in Meghan Deans' play BOYFRIEND SCARF, directed by John Giampietro and costarring Katie Schorr. |
| 11.30.11 | This Sunday Risa will be at Ensemble Studio Theatre's Brunchify Wall Street, in Mary Elizabeth Hamilton's new play "The Dame of Crystal Bridges" directed by Abigail Zealey Bess. |
| 11.16.11 | Watch Risa and Christina get politically active in the dating community in their new episode of Risa and Christina: Available. |
| 11.11.11 | Risa and Christina are really excited to be playing the roles of real housewives in a shoot for a Doritos Super Bowl Crash Contest Spec Commercial next week! |
| 11.10.11 | Next week Risa will take part in a table reading of Jeanne Dorsey's new play AWAY TOWARDS HOME at Ensemble Studio Theatre. |
| 11.09.11 | Risa plays the romantic leading girl in a music video with Andrew Rose Gregory (of the Gregory Brothers of "Autotune the News" fame) for his new song "Where We Lie Down, Our Bed is Green" directed by Dennis Roberts. Coming soon! |
| 11.04.11 | Check out the PSA "Combustible" Risa shot for the GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE INITIATIVE campaign, created by REALM and directed by Tom Colella. |
| 10.24.11 | Risa will be performing in Ben Rosenthal's short play FOR THE LOVE OF BRANDON directed by Chris Sullivan, at Cake Shop in NYC, November 5 at 8 pm. |
| 10.24.11 | Check out the new Halloween episode of Risa and Christina: AVAILABLE ! |
| 10.05.11 | This week Risa plays a delusional woman at a furniture company's fall retreat in a very funny play written by Christopher Sullivan and directed by Maryna Harrison, part of Youngblood's Asking For Trouble 2011 at Ensemble Studio Theatre. |
| 8.16.11 | Risa heads to Pensacola, Florida next week for the premiere of GOING COASTAL with Plumtv and Landshark Lager. |
| 8.15.11 | Check out Risa and Christina: Available. Episode 5, in which Risa and Christina get prepped to date a private eye. |
| 8.10.11 | Risa and Christina will be guest speakers at GEMS Women in Film Career Day. |
| 8.08.11 | Risa shoots THE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE Shorts with Tom Colella for the Mantra Agency. |
| 7.22.11 | Amy Staat's HERE'S WHAT I LIKE: FASHION AND FLOWERS will be shown at the Trimedia Film Festival. Risa had a great time working on this amazing project, which has already been honored at LA COMEDY SHORTS as well. |
| 7.20.11 | This week Risa is playing the role of a secretary who loves her new files in a commercial for Pendaflex, directed by Michael Eldridge for Millenium. |
| 7.02.11 | Risa will be playing the part of Katie Holmes in I WAS TOM CRUISE, written by Alexander Poe and being remounted in the FRINGEBENEFITS SERIES at the Laurie Beeechman Theatre on July 7. This benefit features 15 of the best shows from the past 15 years of FringeNYC. |
| 7.01.11 | Watch Risa in this episode of "GOING COASTAL", Plum TV's webseries for LANDSHARK LAGER. |
| 6.29.11 | "Miss USA 2011 - SHOULD MATH BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS?" gets featured in the HUFFINGTON POST and numerous other national blogs and goes viral. |
| 6.28.11 | Risa plays "Miss Arizona" in Mackenzie Fegan's brilliant viral video "Miss USA 2011 - SHOULD MATH BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS?" , a parody of a real clip where pageant contestants gave their opinions on evolution. The video also features Faryn Einhorn, Corinne Donly, Grace Helbig, Jen Curran, Sara Jane Taylor, Lorraine Cink, and Leslie Collins. |
| 5.24.11 | Check out the website for Risa's new comedy series AVAILABLE, costarring Christina Jeffs, filmed and edited by Lou Gruber and Kris Knight. Keep watching it, it will be updated with a new episode weekly! Episode One is up now! |
| 5.4.11 | Risa will be traveling to Miami and South Hampton to film PlumTV's promotional comedy for Landshark Lager. |
| 5.1.11 | Risa had a great time at the Youngblood Brunch at Ensemble Studio Theatre in Lydia Brunner's play THE STUDENTS AND THE TART, directed by Heidi Handelsman, costarring Katie Schorr and Natalie Kim. |
| 4.18.11 | The INCONVENIENT INTERVIEW Series is up and running, with two interviews posted and several more in production. This week Risa was interviewed about the series and her other acting work by BLEEPmag. Watch for it, the issue is due out on May 1! |
| 4.13.11 | Check out the first interview in Risa's new webseries INCONVENIENT INTERVIEWS WITH RISA! |
| 4.11.11 | Risa had a great time in LA with the cast of Amy Staats amazing video HERE'S WHAT I LIKE, which was selected for screening at the LA COMEDY SHORTS FESTIVAL. |
| 2.26.11 | Risa will be performing her show SERIOUS HAMMERING with Andrew Zox at PS 122 on April 5th. |
| 1.26.11 | As Artist in Residence at the Green Building in Gowanus, Brooklyn, talented playwright Kimberly Pau will be presenting a staged reading of her new work CPR: The Center for Procreation Research, in which Risa reads the role of Kate. |
| 1.10.11 | Risa has a photoshoot with fashion and editorial photographer Gilles Decamps. |
| 1.10.11 | Risa will begin workshopping Stephen Peabody's new PEABOHEMIA work NULLA SECRETA. The theater/music/movement piece has a projected production date of March 2012. |
| 11.27.10 | Risa will be performing in the play THE BALLAD OF ALL BEEF PATTY in the ASKING FOR TROUBLE PLAY FESTIVAL at Ensemble Studio Theatre. The play, written by Michael Walek and directed by Morgan Gould, will costar Kibibi Dillon. |
| 11.11.10 | Filming has begun on Risa's new webseries, co-written and performed with Christina Jeffs, and directed by Alanna Gladstone. Details to come! |
| 10.31.10 |
Risa begins work this week on the short film TRY A LITTLE HARDER, written and directed by Antonia Grilikhes-Lasky. The film is a dark comedy about the messy line between art and life, and Risa plays Wendy, the quirky successful girlfriend of a self-doubting sculptor. |
| 10.01.10 | This week begins OCTOBERFEST at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and Risa will be reading the part of Rebecca Sue in a new play by Roger Hedden called "As Sure as You Live", directed by Billy Hopkins. |
| 9.24.10 | Risa has signed with Cinematic Management. |
| 9.04.10 | This month Risa has been wrapping up filming the pilot for B SHARP in Connecticut. Also, watch for the new webseries INCONVENIENT INTERVIEWS WITH RISA, coming soon. |
| 8.09.10 | Rehearsals begin in NYC for the film PAPER CRANES AND PENDULUM, shooting in New Orleans this winter. |
| 7.26.10 | Risa and Andrew Zox will remount their play SERIOUS HAMMERING for the Potomac Theater Projects After Dark Series, at the Atlantic Theater Stage 2 on Monday July 26 at 10:15 pm. |
| 7.12.10 | For one night only, Risa will play an assortment of inanimate objects in a staged reading of James Ryan Caldwell's BABYFAT, OR SKINNYBABY, presented as part of the 2010 HOT Festival at Dixon Place. |
| 6.08.10 | Risa is a stewardess with a fear of flying in 31DOWN Radio Theatre's RED OVER RED , which opens at the Ontological-Hysterical Theatre on July 22. Check out the promo video HERE. |
| 6.08.10 | This week Risa begins work on the music based dramedy pilot B SHARP, in which she plays the role of Candy, a ditzy goth "modern day Gracie Allen." |
| 5.21.10 | Risa will be performing June 6 at Ensemble Studio Theatre, in the Youngblood Brunch play PATTY'S CURSE, written by Meghan Deans and directed by Gerritt Turner. |
| 5.21.10 | Risa completes a 3 week Master Class with Craig Chester and Parker Posey, which focused actors on finding their uniqueness and writing original monologues. |
| 5.20.10 | Photographer Andrew Lipovsky selects Risa for a Classic Eye Wear photo shoot. |
| 5.17.10 | Risa plays Wendy, the dental assistant, in the short film PARACHUTE, directed by Susanna LoCascio of Von Deren Films. |
| 4.26.10 | Please check out Risa's updated reel in the media section! |
| 4.20.10 | Donari Braxton and Takeshi Fukunaga have completed their short film hItec! in which Risa plays the starring role of Elsa. Watch the trailer and find details about the screening on the website at www.hitecmovie.com . |
| 3.20.10 | Risa's play SERIOUS HAMMERING is selected as a semi-finalist in the Network One-Act Festival. |
| 3.09.10 | Check out an interview with Risa in THE DAILY FEMME. |
| 3.07.10 | Risa plays the character Advocate Ann in a reading of DEACTIVATED, a new play by Kimberly Pau Donato. |
| 2.21.10 | Risa's new video MANHUNT WITH RISA is up on youtube, filmed and edited by Mike Ennis. Watch her interview random people in the streets of NYC looking for marriage proposals. |
| 2.18.10 | Risa does a video shoot for Super!Alright! Media company, styled by We Came In Peace, for a film installation to be used during the upcoming charity event for Bailey House, hosted by Tim Gunn. |
| 2.11.10 | The play SERIOUS HAMMERING, which Risa co-wrote with Andrew Zox, has been accepted into the Network One-Act Festival. Risa and Andrew will be performing it at The Barrows Group Theatre in March, in competition with 39 other short plays by up and coming playwrights . |
| 2.10.10 | Risa will take part in a reading of James Ryan Caldwell's new play at Columbia University. |
| 1.21.10 | Risa is thrilled to have just been cast in the independent film PAPER CRANES AND PENDULUM filming this fall in New Orleans....details to follow! |
| 1.02.10 | Risa is beginning rehearsals with 31DOWN for the premiere of their new work RED OVER RED, directed by Shannon Sindelar with sound by Ryan Holsopple and Tim Cramer. The production will also star DJ Mendel, Caitlin McDonough-Thayer and Mike Sharpie, and is being created with the support of free103point9 and the Ontological Incubator. |
| 12.08.09 | The new reel is up in the media section! For anyone who misses the old reel or the "RUSSIAN MOVIE" they can both still be seen on You Tube, HERE and HERE, along with some of Risa's other comedy videos, DESPERATION, BEING TINA TURNER, BEASTWOOD PARK, and LOOKING FOR SISTER/WIFE. |
| 11.23.09 | Watch for Risa in INSIDE THE OUT OF WORK ACTORS STUDIO, a hilarious web-series written by David Ross that should be hitting the internet soon! |
| 11.15.09 | Risa recorded voice-over today for James Ryan Caldwell's new play THE PRIVATE LIFE OF INGA SNYDER, directed by Stephen Brackett. The play runs November 19-22 at Schapiro Studio, 605 W 115th St. |
| 10.13.09 | Later this month during Ensemble Studio Theatre's Octoberfest, Risa will play Eliza in a staged reading of Laura Maria Censabella's new play INTERVIEWING MISS DAVIS directed by Kel Haney, also featuring Delphi Harrington and Adria Vitlar. |
| 10.05.09 | Risa will portay one of Rachel's friends in an episode of "How To Make It In America" on HBO. |
| 10.01.09 | Risa is cast as a dating reality show contestant in Ensemble Studio Theatre's ASKING FOR TROUBLE Play Festival, in a new play by Sharyn Rothstein directed by Wes Grantom. |
| 9.28.09 | Work will begin shortly on the independent noir film hItec! written and directed by Donari Braxton and Takeshi Fukunaga, in which Risa plays the lead character Elsa. |
| 8.30.09 | This month Risa filmed her new comedy short, directed by Marcos Luevanos, and costarring Stefanie Estes, Victoria Haynes, Amanda Peters, Erika Smith, and Steve Stout. You can view it now in the media section of this site. |
| 8.03.09 | Risa has a photoshoot with fashion photographer John DeAmara. |
| 7.30.09 | Risa performs the role of Belinda at the Avram Theatre in Southampton in Ensemble Studio Theatre's staged reading of THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, written by Billy Aronson and directed by Robert Davenport. |
| 7.21.09 | Filming is completed on CLAIRE AND DANIEL, a short directed by Daniel Zox in which Risa plays a Socialite Environmentalist. |
| 6.27.09 | Risa plays Mel, a lost girl, in a staged reading of HOSPITAL CITY directed by Anthony Johnston, and co-starring Emily Axford and Stacy Jordan. A full production will be mounted in the fall. |
| 5.08.09 | Risa plays the part of a little girl in Tigermilk Collective’s reading of Miranda Huba’s new play GROUNDED: A PLAY IN SIX AIRPORTS. |
| 4.04.09 | Carlos Dengler's film MY FRIENDS TOLD ME ABOUT YOU, in which Risa plays the leading role of Belle, will premiere with Anonymous Gallery in New York City as a video installation from April 17th through May 5th. The film is also a main feature in Wholphin Volume 8, due in the Spring of 2009. Wholphin is a quarterly DVD magazine of short films published by McSweeney's. |
| 2.18.09 | Tigermilk Collective’s new short play by Miranda Huba, THE HISTORY OF MY DOMESTICATION, opens tonight at The Red Room. Risa plays a young former sex worker. |