Comedienne Rita Rudner Returns To Feinstein's/54 Below July 11st – 12th

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, is thrilled to welcome back award-winning comedian and New York Times bestselling author, Rita Rudner, for two performances only! A house-filling favorite in Las Vegas since she opened as one of the hottest tickets in town in June 2000, Rudner is known for her epigrammatic one-liners. Over the course of a 15-year run she sold almost two million tickets and became the longest-running solo comedy show in the history of Las Vegas. She was named Las Vegas's Comedian of the Year nine years in a row and in 2006 received The Nevada Ballet's Woman of The Year Award.

Rita's first solo HBO special, Rita Rudner's One Night Stand, was nominated for several awards, as was her eponymous English BBC television show that later appeared in the USA on A&E. Rudner's two one-hour specials for HBO, Born to Be Mild and Married Without Children, were ratings standouts and she performed all over the country, filling Carnegie Hall in New York three times and the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles twice. In 2008 Rita Rudner: Live From Las Vegas was PBS's first ever stand-up comedy special.

Rita Rudner has written five books; her bestselling non-fiction titles, Naked Beneath My Clothes Rita Rudner's Guide to Men and I Still Have It...I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It, plus the novels Tickled Pink and Turning the Tables. The audio version of Naked Beneath My Clothes received a Grammy nomination.

Rudner is a frequent collaborator with her writer/producer husband of twenty-eight years, Martin Bergman. The couple's first produced film script was Peter's Friends. The film, starring Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, Kenneth Branagh, Imelda Staunton, Stephen Fry, and Rita, won the Evening Standard Peter Sellers Award for Comedy and was nominated for the Goya Award for Best European Film of 1994. Noted London Times' critic AA Gill recently hailed the movie as his favorite ever British film. Bergman and Rudner's last film, Thanks, premiered at the 2011 Palm Springs International Film Festival, won several awards on the film festival circuit and was bought by and frequently aired on Showtime.

Most recently, Rita and Martin wrote and performed The Rita Rudner Show for BBC radio in London. Rita also appeared in the Showtime comedy special Rita Rudner and Three Potential Ex-Husbands. In January 2016, Rita appeared at the Laguna Playhouse in the new play by David Ambrose and Claudia Nellens entitled Act 3..., alongside English actor Charles Shaughnessy and under the direction of her husband. She and Martin have previously collaborated on two plays which they co-wrote - Room 776 and Tickled Pink.

In June 2016 Rita was invited and honored to speak about her career and technique in comedy at Cambridge University, England. And this Fall, Rita will be coming out with her latest stand-up special.

For additional information on Rita Rudner, visit: www.ritarudner.com.

Rita Rudner plays Feinstein's/54 Below (254 West 54th Street) on July 11 & 12 at 7pm. There is a $55-$65 cover charge and $25 food and beverage minimum. Tickets and information are available at www.54Below.com. Tickets on the day of performance after 4:00 are only available by calling (646) 476-3551.