Education
Tisch School of the Arts.
Tisch School of the Arts.
Born in New York City, she grew up in Connecticut, later moving to Greenwich Village to attend New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied with David Mamet—a period chronicled in Take Your Shirt Office and Cry. After New York University, Balbirer landed a featured role on Music Television"s first-ever nonmusical program, Remote Control, playing what she referred to as "a rotating succession of floozies", alongside comics like Adam Sandler, Denis Leary, Ken Ober and Colin Quinn. She also often appeared in avant-garde theatrical productions in downtown Manhattan, where she frequently contributed material to the scripts written over the course of rehearsals.
