{{Short description|Canadian comedian and writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Rebecca Addelman | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1981}} | education = {{Plainlist| *University of Toronto *Humber College}} | occupation = Comedic writer }}
'''Rebecca Addelman''' (born 1981) is a Canadian comedian, writer, director and actress living in Los Angeles, California.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heebmagazine.com/jewish-make-believe-with-rebecca-addelman/ |title=Jewish Make-Believe with Rebecca Addelman | Heeb |website=Heebmagazine.com |date=2009-11-11 |access-date=2016-04-09}}</ref> 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).<ref name=Dehaas12>{{cite news |title=Rebecca Addelman, 31, is a writer for New Girl |author=Josh Dehaas |url=http://www.macleans.ca/work/jobs/rebecca-addelman-31-is-a-writer-for-new-girl/ |work=Maclean's |date=27 August 2012 |access-date=3 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Arts |first=Faculty of Media & Creative |title=Rebecca Addelman - Humber College |url=https://mediaarts.humber.ca/programs/comedy-writing-and-performance/success-stories/programs/comedy-writing-and-performance/success-stories/rebecca-addelman.html |access-date=2023-06-13 |website=mediaarts.humber.ca |language=en-ca}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Who are you calling a new girl? U of T alumna Rebecca Addelman on writing comedy in Hollywood |url=https://www.utoronto.ca/news/who-are-you-calling-new-girl-u-t-alumna-rebecca-addelman-writing-comedy-hollywood |access-date=2023-06-13 |website=University of Toronto |language=en}}</ref> After several years working as a copy-editor and performing stand-up comedy, Addelman moved to Los Angeles in 2008.<ref name=Dehaas12/>
==Career== While performing stand-up comedy in Canada,<ref name=Dehaas12/> Addelman was nominated for The Cream of Comedy<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1047456/|title=Cream of Comedy (2007)|website=IMDb|access-date=2016-04-09}}</ref> and wrote humor articles for The Walrus<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2009.04-rebecca-addelman-humour-its-about-time/ |title=The Walrus » Humour by Rebecca Addelman » It's About Time |access-date=24 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100114150500/http://walrusmagazine.com/articles/2009.04-rebecca-addelman-humour-its-about-time/ |archive-date=14 January 2010 }}</ref> and ''Toro Magazine'', where she has a bi-monthly column.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.toromagazine.com/sex/women-whats-the-deal/index.html |title=SEX | TORO MAGAZINE | What Men Need to Know about Sex, Style, Music, Sports, Drinks & Video |publisher=Toro Magazine |access-date=2016-04-09}}</ref> 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<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heebmagazine.com/rebecca-addelman/ |title=Rebecca Addelman | Heeb |website=Heebmagazine.com |date=2010-04-05 |access-date=2016-04-09}}</ref> (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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://losangeles.ucbtheatre.com/shows/2324 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100330151737/http://losangeles.ucbtheatre.com/shows/2324 |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 March 2010 |title=UCB Theatre - Los Angeles - Shows - the Holly & Rebecca Show: A Very Special Episode |access-date=25 May 2010 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
Addelman worked as a staff writer and story editor on Fox's sitcom ''New Girl'' beginning in the show's second season.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rebecca Addelman is Keeping Busy - Shalom Life |url=http://www.shalomlife.com/eng/12539/Rebecca_Addelman_is_Keeping_Busy/Page2/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130202184811/http://www.shalomlife.com/eng/12539/Rebecca_Addelman_is_Keeping_Busy/Page2/ |archive-date=2013-02-02}}</ref>
Addelman wrote and directed the 2018 movie ''Paper Year'', which is loosely based on her own failed marriage.<ref name="thisamericanlife.org">{{Cite web | url=https://www.thisamericanlife.org/665/transcript |title = 665: Before Things Went to Hell|date = 12 January 2019}}</ref> In 2021, she created the show Guilty Party (TV series).
==Personal life== At age 23, Addelman married Will Weldon, who was 19 at the time.<ref name="thisamericanlife.org"/> The marriage lasted six years.<ref name="thisamericanlife.org"/> Addelman has one daughter, Hannah Beth Bissonnette, with partner Matthew Bissonnette.{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}
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==External links== *{{Official website|http://www.raddelman.com}} *[http://www.hollyinessarebecca.com HIR Official Website] *{{IMDb name|2485374}} *[http://www.toromagazine.com/contributors/76e77f0f-c650-0c24-5953-8de5ce00d17b/Rebecca%20Addelman/index.html Rebecca Addelman] at ''Toro Magazine''
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