Grace won a Big
Easy Entertainment Award for Best Supporting
Actress in a Play (Dalt Wonk's Rio Seco
)!! She has also been nominated for a Marquee
Award
and a Storer Boone Award, both
for Best Actress in a Comedy!
Stand-Up
Grace was part of Comedy Cage Match on CBS
Mobile. She was the comedian and one of the emcees' at
PRIDEFEST 2008 in New Orleans!
Grace just launched her stand-up comedy DVD
Full of Grace! With stand-up and interview
segments. To purchase a copy click STORE!
Grace has
been performing all over the country Oregon,
Nevada, Utah, Idaho, New York, Illinois,
California and
Louisiana in the past
few months.
She performed at Chicago Center
for the Performing Arts in another fabulous MIKEYO Production Las Comadres of Comedy
2007
with the amazing Shayla Rivera, Gina Brillon and
Abuelita Alegria.
She's a
regular on Grace White's Women Who Kick
Comedy Butt shows
(www.wwkcb.com)
Films
Grace just shot "Mystery ER" where she plays Cindy the
Mom (lead role, baby!) on the "Speedbump" episode.
Grace plays a mean neighbor in Locamotion, Internet Celeb Star Stevie Ryan's "Little Loca"
movie. Click and watch!
http://www.bullfighterscafe.com/
Loca/ticket.html
Grace is on two Feature Films: she's the "check out lady" at CostCo in the film
Carts showing at the San Diego Film Festival.
She also plays
a tough-as-nails Detective in The Parallel, currently showing at local LA theatres
and the trailers air on MTV and IFC.
TV Shows
Grace has her own TV show Laff It Off
With Grace on
Time Warner Cable. It airs on six TV stations in
Los Angeles, in Chicago, New York, New
Orleans, Reno, WI and MN.
So go to "showtimes",
tune in and
dare look at things funny!
And now
you can watch it on the internet.
Go to:
www.video.google.com or
www.blip.tv search "Laff it off
with Grace"
and
enjoy the show!
Grace is featured on Emmy Award nominated producer
Jacquie Jordan's website
www.tvguestpert.com.
Commercials
Grace co-wrote a commercial for AIR TRANS with her
neighbor and friend Athena Ashburn. She will also star
in it as the cooky wife of a dumb hubby. Her hubby is no
other than Grace's friend Tim Powers (www.timisfunny.com).
Definitely a funny couple!
Internet & Cellphones
Grace is writing & producing mobisodes and webisodes. She partnered
up with her fabulous mentor and friend Emmy Award WInner Anne Beatts (SNL,
Square Pegs). They're co-executive producing Dr Lupe's
Love Picante . Anne & Grace created
the show. The cast is amazing! Stay tuned!
Carlos Eton &
Grace launched their internet TV & radio network on
April 1st.
www.comedytvradio.com
They're working on expanding it with other talent! Stay
tuned!
Radio
Grace had a
blast on Tiffany Granath's Afternoon Advice on
the Playboy channel 198 on Sirius Satellite Radio.
Tiffany is an awesome host and so much fun to talk with!
Check her out
www.tiffanygranath.com
Grace was a guest on The Rolonda Show
www.radiorolonda.com. It
was so much fun! The topic was "Living without a spouse".
She was also a guest on Azucena Diaz's show on 1540 AM
TROPICAL New Orleans and on Lady J Live's show on KLASFM
www.ladyjlive.com
Grace was also interviewed by the best and funniest
interviewer, el "muy caliente" Frazier Smith on the XM
Satellite National Lampoon Comedy Radio.
Grace had her own Internet radio
show Laff it off with Grace on
www.xradio.biz/variety for a whole
year.
Improv & Sketch Comedy
Grace
trained at the Groundlings and was a
full time member of Loose Cannons
Improv Troupe. For sketch comedy, she trained
with former SNL writer Anne Beatts and
showcased at The Comedy Union.
Writer
Grace was
invited to be a guest speaker for Emmy nominated Ellen
Sandler at the 19th Annual American Screenwriter's
Conference in San Diego. This event was in
conjunction with the San Diego Film Festival. The
topic was Advancing your Career through Digital Media.
Grace is a
staff writer for an animation project called The
Unsustainables.
www.sustainlane.com
Grace has done the adaptation of Best-selling Brazilian
author Chris Linnares's Cinderella in a Tight Spot.
She's currently writing a sitcom script based on her
stand-up comedy act. Emmy nominated writer Ellen Sandler
(Coach, Everybody Loves Raymond) is coaching her.
Producer
Grace's currently executive producing mobisodes/webisodes
that she created, wrote and starred in: "Sporting Grace",
"Dr Lupe's Love Picante" and "Jalapenio
Mamma".
Grace is teaming up with best selling author Chris
Linnares to do a Healing Laughter seminar in the LA
area...Stay tuned!
Training
M.A. Art History
/ Thesis on Theater & Film, University of Buenos
Aires, Argentina.
MBA /
Emphasis on Finance, Loyola University, New Orleans,
LA.
About Grace Fraga:
The saucy Argentina native, rumored to be a distant relative of
Eva Peron, alit in New Orleans sixteen years ago, taking the
city by storm. Thank goodness it wasn’t hurricane season! While
there Grace honed her South American sidesplitting humor doing
stand-up comedy and appearing in live theatre productions. Her
titillating tamale timing garnered her a Best Actress in a
Comedy nomination from the Marquee and Storer Boone Awards;
winning a Big Easy Entertainment Award for Best Supporting
Actress, in Dalt Wonk’s comedy “Rio Seco,” playing a Latina
spitfire. Typecasting, do you think?
Not one to rest on her laurels, the blonde bombshell and
margarita soccer momma decided to take the plunge and imbedded
herself in Beverly Hills. However, soon after her foray into
this foreign territory she discovered that she was just…“A
Spanish Valley girl, with Neiman Marcus taste, living on a
K-Mart budget!” Never feint of heart, the incorrigible Fraga,
took the bull by the horns, deciding to become…“A true American
girl…Hair by Clairol, boobs by Victoria’s Secret and bootie by
McDonald’s.”
As a child growing up in Buenos Aires, the daughter of a civil
engineer and internationally renowned concert pianist,
Elisabeth
Fiocca (yes, pronunciation wise you can go there), the ever
inquisitive over achiever earned three college degrees: a BA in
Art History Education, an MA in Art History with an emphasis in
Theatre and Film Analysis and an MBA in Finance, which of course
led her to her career in the entertainment field
because…“There’s no business like show business.” Still close to
her mother, some of Fraga’s routines are based around her
mother’s annual visits and her ability to drive Grace to rack
and ruin… “Am I Crazy? I moved 9,000 miles away and now she has
a computer. I didn’t buy a computer, I bought 9,000 miles of
umbilical chord!”
Grace’s current expansion plans, fueled by a diet by Jake, in
her lifelong quest to lose J-Lo’s behind are hosting a weekly
internet radio show “Laff It Off With Grace” and an upcoming
cable version on Adelphia. “Did you know,” she comments, “that
if you spend one full hour of sustained belly-laughing you can
burn as many as 500 calories?” Ever wonder how many calories
she’s burning off in her Body by Jake class? Ever wonder what
her mother’s thinking as she tunes in to her daughter’s show at
www.xradio.biz? Thank goodness
the TV version won’t run in her native country.
So, after 9,000 miles and sixteen years in the making, this
effervescent, clever comedienne is about to put her feminine
jocularity to work, joining ranks with her masculine
counterparts,
George Lopez,
Paul Rodriguez and
John Leguizamo.
By consistently performing at mainstream clubs around the
country, and at
the Laugh Factory and
Comedy Store
on the Sunset Strip, Grace Fraga likes to quip…“ Hey, at least
I’m not turning tricks on Sunset Boulevard, yet. Ole!”
