Pursuing a Dream
Kira Soltanovich began her comedy career back in 1998 after asking her Russian immigrant parents if they would support her dream to become a stand-up. After her mother and father confessed “It’s not like you’re smart enough to be a doctor…”, Kira took that as their blessing to pursue her dreams and she’s never looked back.
TV Shows & Writing
Kira Soltanovich was a series regular on How To Be A Grownup for TruTV, the hidden camera show Girls Behaving Badly and was a correspondent on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for over eight years. Recently, Kira co-hosted the game show Winsanity with Donald Faison for the Game Show Network. In addition, she appeared on Hello Ross! with Ross Mathews, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Last Call with Carson Daly, Hell’s Kitchen, Last Comic Standing, Set List TV, and The World Stands Up on Comedy Central. She wrote for Joan Rivers, Scott Baio, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber. She was a writer on Easiest Game Show Ever, How’d You Get So Rich? for TV Land, Warning: Men Thinking, Raising Whitley and Prankstars on Disney.
Stand-Up Specials
One of Kira’s greatest achievements is shooting her latest 1 Hour Stand-Up Special, You Did This To Me, which was completely self-produced. Not to mention, she shot it while being over seven months pregnant. She was the first stand up comedian to shoot a special while pregnant! Her half hour Showtime special, Here Comes Trouble, won Best Stand Up Special by a Soviet.*
*No such award exists
Projects
Kira’s pilot, Weren’t You Scott Baio?, was optioned by New Line Television. Her hidden camera dating show, Who’s Got Game?, was optioned by MTV, and her feature film, What’s Your Sign?, was optioned by Terra Firma at Universal. For a while there, she and her writing partner were only developing projects that asked a question. Genius, right? Did you know once the kids who watch Nickelodeon go to sleep, the network changes over to NickMom? Well, it does. Kira is a recurring round table comic on Parental Discretion and performed on both seasons the stand up series NickMom’s Night Out.
Podcast
Kira’s two children inspired her to have her very own podcast. On The Kira Soltanovich Show, she interviews other fellow comedians who have kids and they discuss all things comedy and colic related.
