Bachelor of Arts | comedy | Sundance Film Festival | Master of Arts (postgraduate) | National Endowment for the Arts | Comedy Central | Master of Arts | Cannes Film Festival | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Electronic Arts | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Toronto International Film Festival | Glastonbury Festival | Edinburgh Festival | Royal Festival Hall | Venice Film Festival | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Tisch School of the Arts | mixed martial arts | Institute of Contemporary Arts | festival | École des Beaux-Arts | California Institute of the Arts | Tribeca Film Festival | British Academy of Film and Television Arts | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts | University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna | Salzburg Festival | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | martial arts |
In 2002, her show Eye Candy, which she co-wrote and starred in with her creative partner Dannah Phirman, was selected for the HBO/U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO.
Phirman teaches sketch comedy writing and improv, and has performed in two-person shows like Eye Candy (with Danielle Schneider), which went to the 2002 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, and Special Delivery (with Paul Scheer), a parody of a British children's show in which postal workers rummage through people's mail in search of heartwarming lessons and edibles.
Along with co-stars Miss Coco Peru and Varla Jean Merman, Plotnick shared the Best Actor Grand Jury Award at Outfest 2003 and "Best Actress" honors at the 2003 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival for his role in Girls Will Be Girls.