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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CREDITS:

* Host: Tim Barnes

* Guest: Anna Suzuki

* Theme Song: “You Are The Genre” by Freddie Nunez

* Music Engineer: Adam Smith (@a_scug on Instagram)

* Podcast Art: Madhuri Shukla

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