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[Anna Suzuki] Is The Genre

How the unlikely pairing Studio Ghibli animation and '7th Heaven' paved the way for Anna Suzuki's comedy.

Tim Barnes chats with Anna Suzuki about moving to the U.S. from Japan as a teen, pursuing the same performance crafts as her father, and her ultimate Broadway dreams.

Anna Suzuki is a Japanese-Jewish actor, writer, and comedian. She acts, writes, and does comedy. Anna is the co-creator of the all-Asian parody pop group, AzN PoP!, where she writes and performs original songs. Credits include: UCB NY (one-year run), UCB LA, sold out run at Joe’s Pub (Off-Broadway), SF Sketchfest, LA Diversity in Comedy Fest at Second City and more.

Anna is a three-time quarter-finalist of the Sundance Episodic Lab for her original pilots, Spooky Town, Japandering and Great Expectations, co-written with Pakistani-Muslim stand-up, Omar Shaukat. She co-wrote and co-directed the award-winning short film, Spooky Town:

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