BRIELLE DEMIRJIAN
Designer | Writer | Comedian
Brielle DeMirjian
(“Brielle” to friends)
is a comedian and writer based in NYC.
She is precisely 5’4” but aspires to be 5'7", and her hands are 8mm longer than the universal average. "Brielle" (I'm her friend, I can call her that) was a house performer and teacher at UCB for 10 years, where her performance was regularly considered "loud" and "while wearing boots in the summer". She can now be seen at Caveat performing in And Scene, improvising lectures in Peer Revue and ruining lives in Abolish Everything.
Brielle is also an award-winning designer at The Daily Show where she crafts topical props and creates on-screen comedic visuals to accompany the host's jokes.
Her script “Swallowed” was bought and produced by the award-winning fictional podcast The Truth—her story follows Jonah into the belly of the whale but when he prays to God for help, the voice of a different swallowed prophet responds.
She co-hosts the comedy podcast Who’s That Pokémon? where she and Pokémon expert Brandon Zelman meticulously break down every single creature of this universe. Brielle knows nothing about Pokémon, but recently has taken to Sudowoodo due to his very stupid nature.
On Abolish Everything!, comedian-abolitionists roast a pet peeve they want banned from society, while a panel of improvisers dubbed “The Political Establishment” argue on behalf of the status quo. The audience chooses their champion each episode, each of whom will come back to compete in the season finale. Streaming now on Nebula.
Actors are given a scene & learn their lines, improvisers are given nothing & must make it work. New York top improvisers and actors from Broadway, TV and beyond perform in scenes from Mamet to Moliere and everything in between. The actors will know their lines and the improvisers will improvise with no prior knowledge of the scenes.
“An irreplaceable excitement”
-The New York Times
Have you ever wanted to hear a great talk about the nature of quarks, or the fall of the Roman Empire, but also wanted to then see a comedian bullshit their way through the talk never having seen the slides before? Then welcome to Peer Revue.
Brielle and Mick wrote a dark comedy about the reverence of true crime called “Sweet Baby Angel”.
A dark comedy where a painfully ordinary woman believes that the only way for her to achieve greatness is to get murdered by a serial killer.
Rated in the top 4% of scripts on The Blacklist.
“The dark humor is what makes this story shine, with a tone both manic and eerie.”
- The Blacklist
“…a silly, canny comedy that takes the absurdity of true crime culture to the extreme.”
- The Blacklist
Brielle has also written: an original pilot about medieval spinsters wreaking havoc on their village, an original mockumentary about a failing cult, a spec script for Law and Order: SVU where Willy Wonka is the villain (or victim—trauma is a cycle as Olivia Benson knows), and a number of original poems (the whimsical kind that rhyme—think bridge troll). Send her a message to read them!
Want to learn even more? Click here to download her resume.
