Sooz Kempner
Sooz Kempner | |
|---|---|
 Sooz Kempner at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern | |
| Born | Suzanna Maria Kempner Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England |
| Education | Royal Academy of Music |
| Relatives | Luke Kempner (brother) |
| Comedy career | |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Medium | Stand-up |
| Website | soozkempner |
Suzanna Maria Kempner is an English stand-up comedian, actress and singer.
Biography
Suzanna Maria Kempner was born in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, before the family moved to Surrey, where she attended Oakwood School, Horley.[1][2] She is the older sister of impressionist Luke Kempner.[3][4] Kempner studied at the Royal Academy of Music.[5] Her first stand-up gig was in 2009 at The Cavendish Arms.[6] In 2010 she was named Best Newcomer at the Musical Comedy Awards.[7]
In 2012, Kempner won the Variety Award at the Funny Women Awards at the Leicester Square Theatre.[8] From February to March 2013, she appeared as Katisha in the Pulling Focus production of The Mikado at the Tabard Theatre in West London.[9] Her Edinburgh Festival debut was at the 2014 fringe with the stand-up hour Defying Gravity.[10][11]
In 2018, Kempner performed her sixth solo show, "Super Sonic 90s Kid", at the Edinburgh Festival. In 2018, she performed in Doodle at the Waterloo East Theatre, The World Goes Round at the Stockwell Playhouse and as David Cameron in a new musical about Brexit by Richard Thomas and Jonny Woo. She hosts the podcast Mystery on the Rocks, which began in 2019, with Chris Stokes and Masud Milas.[12][13]
She played the lead in the 2023 multiplatform Doctor Who project Doom’s Day.[14]
Filmography
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Numberblocks | Three Times Table
Ten Times Table |
Audio
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019–present | Mystery on the Rocks | Herself | Podcast, co-host with Chris Stokes and Masud Milas |
| 2019 | Mockery Manor | Dorothy, Kelly | |
| 2020 | Kosmokrats | VAL 9000 | Video game voiceover |
| 2021 | Dick Dickson in the 21st Century | Lieutenant Fox | 3 episodes |
| The Ballad of Anne and Mary | Mary Read | ||
| 2022 | The Day the Earth Didn’t Die | Siobhan | |
| 2023 | Four from Doom’s Day | Doom | Doctor Who: Doom's Day (multi-media series) |
| Dying Hours |
References
- ↑ "Interview: Luke Kempner, Surrey's Downton impressionist". Essential Surrey. 2 November 2015. Archived from the original on 27 June 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
- ↑ "Suzanna Maria KEMPNER". freeBMD. Archived from the original on 14 August 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
- ↑ "'I almost died. Just kidding! I only broke my leg': comedians share their Edinburgh fringe horror stories". The Guardian. 5 August 2023. Archived from the original on 7 August 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
- ↑ Kempner, Sooz (16 February 2015). "Letter to My Hometown: To Horley, With… Reservations". Standard Issue. Archived from the original on 25 February 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ↑ "Comic Sooz Kempner to play intergalactic assassin in multi-platform story to celebrate Doctor Who's 60th anniversary". www.femalefirst.co.uk. 20 March 2023. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
- ↑ "Sooz Kempner – First Gig, Worst Gig". British Comedy Guide. 8 May 2020. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
- ↑ "Avin a Larf". Archived from the original on 9 May 2009. Retrieved 5 September 2009.
- ↑ "Magazine | Funny Women".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ Vale, Paul (25 February 2013). "Reviews / The Mikado". TheStage.co.uk. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014.
- ↑ "Edinburgh 2014: Defying Gravity". SoozKempner.co.uk. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ↑ Connelly, Graeme. "Sooz Kempner: Defying Gravity : Reviews 2014 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide". chortle.co.uk. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ↑ "'I almost wet myself laughing': 50 funny podcasts to make you feel much better". The Guardian. 5 April 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
- ↑ Bennett, Steve (30 March 2019). "Comedy meets true crime podcast... in an old saloon". Chortle. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
- ↑ "BBC Studios announce Doom's Day, a brand-new multiplatform story to celebrate Doctor Who's 60th anniversary year" (Press release). BBC Media Centre. March 2023. Retrieved 16 July 2026.
