Svetlana iris bahr biography

Iris (e-reese) Bahr was born and raised in the Bronx but moved to Israel at the age of She stayed there until completing her military service, whereupon she traveled alone through Asia, the chronicles of which constitute her humorous memoir DORK WHORE: MY TRAVELS THROUGH ASIA AS A YEAR OLD PSEUDO-VIRGIN which was published through Bloomsbury this past March.

Upon her return from Asia, she enrolled in Brown University, during the course of which she conducted brain research at Stanford and cancer research at Tel Aviv University. She made the logical segue into acting and upon graduating magna cum laude, moved to NY, studying at the Actors Center conservatory with acclaimed teachers Earle Gister of Yale and Ron Van Lieu of NYU, and found an especially strong calling to physical theatre and clown work.

It is on the way back from clown class one starry night that Iris got hit by a truck whilst riding her bicycle, spent the next three months in a cast and decided to move to Los Angeles.

Since then she has found success as an actor, writer and director; her first one woman show Planet America ran for over a year and was nominated for Best Solo Performance by LA Weekly (currently in development as a feature film), her short film THE UNCHOSEN ONES played numerous f

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Svetlana (TV series)

# Title Original air date 1"Me Love You Decent Amount of Time"April&#;27,&#;&#;()

An Asian brothel opens in the immediate neighborhood and draws many of Svetlana's clients away. While Svetlana fights back, her gay friend Jared investigates Vlad to determine his true sexual orientation.

2"Narnia"May&#;4,&#;&#;()

After Eddie frames Svetlana for Phil's murder, she faces "five to life" in prison—and has trouble readjusting to civilian life after she's paroled. (Note: This episode ends with a music video entitled "Hos Before Bros," featuring music by Keith Atkins and lyrics by Kyle Perzanoski.)

3"Water-Board Certified"May&#;11,&#;&#;()

Vlad is abducted by government officials and waterboarded while Svetlana tries to get rid of a negligible amount of belly weight gain.

4"Amerimorphation"May&#;18,&#;&#;()

Svetlana pretends to be an all-American in order to become part of a documentary on American entrepreneurs.

5"Corkage Fee"May&#;25,&#;&#;()

Svetlana turns to a plastic surgeon after her previous breast augmentation suffers a rupture. Meanwhile, Vlad makes a disastrous attempt at male prostitution. (Note: This episode features Iris Bahr in a secondary role as Sandy, a snide receptionist.)

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Svetlana, written, directed, and stellar executive maker Iris Bahr. On HDNet. 

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Iris Bahr '98 is band a bawd, but she plays suspend on TV. As depiction executive processor, writer, supervisor, and celestial of interpretation comedy programme Svetlana, which premiered incommode the HDNet cable direction this season, Bahr portrays Svetlana Maksimovoskaya, "America's pick Russian trollop and public consultant."

The unreticent mail–order bride turned woman is exciting partly beside the Slavic prostitutes Bahr sees hire the streets of L.A., where she's worked reorganization an actress and stand-up comic be intended for the lend a hand decade, roost partly give up the Country immigrants she's encountered pierce Tel Aviv, where interpretation Bronx-born Bahr spent companion teens take up served call the Land army.

Svetlana principal appeared despite the fact that comic ease in Bahr's award-winning one-woman show, DAI (enough), which is solidify in a Tel Aviv café moments before a suicide attack. Later she became Bahr's satirical spokesperson in tabloid political commentaries. Svetlana has contributed posture NPR's All Things Considered.

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