Jim Nieb: SAG-AFTRA
ACTOR | COMEDIAN
About!
Conceived in Germany, born in Ohio, and raised in Virginia. Currently living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Jim started his career
doing stand up comedy his senior year of high school
In 1991 when Jim met a great bunch of folks from ComedySportz in Washington, DC and began his professional comedy career. It was then he began performing variety skills (i.e. juggling, stilts, clowning, magic, balloon sculpting, fire eating, impersonations, corporate entertainment and more.)
Jim worked at the Maryland Renaissance Festival for almost a decade performing with the Bloody Drama Comedy Show as well as creating a few very popular, original characters (Chance Darewithal - Risk Taker, and Digger Gravesly - Grave digger) and performing several street shows each festival day.
For six years Jim worked with the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit (CCU) an outreach program of the circus which works with children’s hospitals around the USA putting clown doctors on regular CLOWN ROUNDS in conjunction with the Child-Life programs in the hospitals. He started working at Children’s National Medical Center in DC and in 2001 moved to Maryland to start a new program at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
In March of 2001 he was fortunate enough to be sent to Paris to perform as a clown in various children’s hospitals there as part of a program with the CCU sister program in paris. He spent 3 weeks there not speaking a lick of French. Unfortunately he wasn’t licked once.
Jim began performing a variety of impersonations early on in his career. His most popular have become Austin Powers, and George W Bush.
2004 was a big year that found Jim making a big move to Los Angeles.
Jim has had several successes since moving to Los Angeles, such as working with Clint Eastwood, J.J. Abrams, Bill Engvall, shooting several national commercial spots to name just a few.
Jim began training at the prestigious Playhouse West School and Repertory Theatre in North Hollywood in 2005. The school was founded by Robert Carnegie and Jeff Goldblum and is one of a very few Meisner schools in LA which were sanctioned by Sandford Meisner himself.
April 2009 Jim started the improv comedy program at Playhouse West. Combining the Meisner technique with comedy improvisation, the program has been growing and going strong ever since with hundreds of working actors having gone through the program.
That same year Jim was asked by Robert Carnegie to begin teaching the regular classes at Playhouse West as well.
Currently Jim can be seen in a Verizon Fios commercial running online and in a Dodge commercial (directed by Pete Farrelly) running internationally. You can also find Jim performing around town with a few comedy groups including The Society. Jim also travels quite a bit performing for private and corporate events as well as a presenter and entertainer for trade shows around the Country.
In 1991 when Jim met a great bunch of folks from ComedySportz in Washington, DC and began his professional comedy career. It was then he began performing variety skills (i.e. juggling, stilts, clowning, magic, balloon sculpting, fire eating, impersonations, corporate entertainment and more.)
Jim worked at the Maryland Renaissance Festival for almost a decade performing with the Bloody Drama Comedy Show as well as creating a few very popular, original characters (Chance Darewithal - Risk Taker, and Digger Gravesly - Grave digger) and performing several street shows each festival day.
For six years Jim worked with the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit (CCU) an outreach program of the circus which works with children’s hospitals around the USA putting clown doctors on regular CLOWN ROUNDS in conjunction with the Child-Life programs in the hospitals. He started working at Children’s National Medical Center in DC and in 2001 moved to Maryland to start a new program at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
In March of 2001 he was fortunate enough to be sent to Paris to perform as a clown in various children’s hospitals there as part of a program with the CCU sister program in paris. He spent 3 weeks there not speaking a lick of French. Unfortunately he wasn’t licked once.
Jim began performing a variety of impersonations early on in his career. His most popular have become Austin Powers, and George W Bush.
2004 was a big year that found Jim making a big move to Los Angeles.
Jim has had several successes since moving to Los Angeles, such as working with Clint Eastwood, J.J. Abrams, Bill Engvall, shooting several national commercial spots to name just a few.
Jim began training at the prestigious Playhouse West School and Repertory Theatre in North Hollywood in 2005. The school was founded by Robert Carnegie and Jeff Goldblum and is one of a very few Meisner schools in LA which were sanctioned by Sandford Meisner himself.
April 2009 Jim started the improv comedy program at Playhouse West. Combining the Meisner technique with comedy improvisation, the program has been growing and going strong ever since with hundreds of working actors having gone through the program.
That same year Jim was asked by Robert Carnegie to begin teaching the regular classes at Playhouse West as well.
Currently Jim can be seen in a Verizon Fios commercial running online and in a Dodge commercial (directed by Pete Farrelly) running internationally. You can also find Jim performing around town with a few comedy groups including The Society. Jim also travels quite a bit performing for private and corporate events as well as a presenter and entertainer for trade shows around the Country.
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