Suzanna Maria Kempner (born 1 February 1985), also known as Sooz Kempner, is an English

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and

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who studied at the

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Biography

Kempner attended Oakwood School, Horley. Her first stand-up gig was in 2009 at The Cavendish Arms. On 27 February 2010 Kempner made it through to the semi-finals of the UK Musical Comedy Awards. She was named Best Newcomer in the competition and performed at the final on 26 March. In March, she recorded the

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for a new musical by Theresa Howard and Steve Edis, ''

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''. On 24 September 2012, Kempner won the Variety Award at the Funny Women Awards at the

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. From February to March 2013, Kempner appeared as Katisha in the Pulling Focus production of ''

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'' at The

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in West London. Kempner's full

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debut was at the 2014 fringe with the stand-up hour "Defying Gravity". In a review for

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, Graeme Connelly observed that "There was a lot of singing from empner but it was very much second fiddle to her manic and frantic stand-up, a brilliantly light-hearted way of forming interludes between distinct segments". In 2018, Kempner performed her sixth solo show, "Super Sonic 90s Kid", at the

. In 2018, she performed in ''Doodle'' at the

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, '' The World Goes Round'' at the Stockwell Playhouse and as David Cameron in a new musical about Brexit by Richard Thomas and

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. Kempner hosts the podcast ''Mystery on the Rocks'', which began in 2019, with Chris Stokes and Masud Milas.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kempner, Sooz 1985 births Living people Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music English women singers English musical theatre actresses English stand-up comedians Place of birth missing (living people)