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Get This BadgeAdrienne is author of 'Notes From the MotherShip ~ Naked Invisibles' The Cleveland Plain Dealer writer, Mike McIntyre, stated,UBU, you are a Renaissance Woman! You do it all!Adrienne Zurub aka UBU (you be YOU!) Zurub is aActor/Comedian/Professional Speaker/Writer/Spoken WordPOeT/Mother/Wife/Seita and Registered Nurse on the OpenHeart team at Cleveland Clinic! UBU has performed Stand Upat The Hollywood Improv-Melrose, for Industry at theCalifornia Comedy Conference, at Stand Up New York,Gothams? Comedy Club, The New York Comedy Club, Carolines,Don?t Tell Mama, The Cleveland Improv, and numerousvenues (also known as hell holes) in between both coasts.She participated in the Guiness Book World record for thelongest running Stand Up Comedy show at the ClevelandHiliarities; fifty-two hours of Stand Up! Heraccomplishments in theater include writing and performingSolo Performance pieces at Cleveland Public Theater withnoted playwright Sarah Morton; performing at thehistorical Karamu Theater in Arenafest. She performs inThe Manhattan Monologue Slam in New York City. As thelead character, Alice in the Cleveland PlayActsProduction of 'My Son Alex' in Cleveland, Ohio, herperformance was deemed terrific! She will appearin SpiderMan 3 which filmed in Cleveland. Other filmwork include Director Jason Tomaric?s films, 'The Worldwithout US' and 'The Overcoat.' As well as, themovie, ?The Lords of Praxton?by Producer-Director, PeterFields; a film by British Director Brendon Connellyentitled Grey Goo And, Adrienne is featuredin Attrition an Independent motion picture thatpremiered at The New York Film Festival and the Ohio FilmFestival as well. UBU is a writer and actor in aforthcoming sketch comedy pilot being pitched to PAXtelevision, The Mark Norton Show.In November 2005, Adrienne received the Editor?s ChoiceAward For Outstanding Achievement in Poetry presented bypoetry.com and the International Library of Poetry. UBUwas one of three finalists for Poet Laureate of ClevelandHeights 2006. She is a WINNER in the prolific ?NationalNovel Writing Month? (NaNoWriMo) 2005, 2006.
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Offically, UBU is declared, ?...one of the funniest womenin America? in Judi Brown?s book, ?She?s So Funny,? acompilation of the best jokes from women comedians, inwhich some of her jokes are published! UBU participatedin Tellabration,the National Storytelling Event, where herrich stories and poetry were describedas, ?Great!? ?Exuberant!? ?Spirited!?Adrienne has a Associate Degree in Nursing, a Bachelor?sDegree in Psychology, and a Master?s Degree in Philosophywith a Concentration in Bioethics. She applied to and wasaccepted into Law School but decided not to go to pursueher artistic self. Adrienne is a member of the NationalSpeakers Association (NSAOhio Chapter), Toastmasters, TheCleveland Clinic Speakers Bureau and AORN. She is a sororof Alpha Kappa Alpha, Sorority, Inc. Both Adrienne andUBU have trained at the American Comedy Institute withStephen Rosenfield in New York City, Second City, JudyCarter Comedy Workshops in New York and California, TheManhattan Monologue Slam in New York, and Solo Performanceworkshops at Cleveland Public Theater. She has takenworkshops with Tracy Newman, a writer for the show, ?TheWorld According to Jim?; the actor Tim Bagley of ?Will andGrace? and with Rick Overton, an LA-based Comedian. HerActing Coach and mentor is the noted Victor D?Altorio.Her most meaningful performances have been in the CardiacOR?s at Cleveland Clinic with patients and colleagues.Her interests are sleeping, world travel, reading, HGTV,quietly judging others, ?link addiction? from surfing theinternet and buying Modern works of Arts.Adrienne's book 'Notes From the MotherShip ~ Naked Invisibles' has a release of January 2008!
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