Anna Drezen
Anna Drezen is an American writer, actress, and comedian. Since 2016 she has been on the writing staff of Saturday Night Live.
Personal life
A native of Long Island, Drezen grew up in Massapequa, New York and has identified herself as "half-Jewish."[1] She graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2010 where she studied drama.[2] She subsequently earned a certificate in Shakespeare in Performance from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.[3] Her mother Irene (née Roarke) is a nurse and her father Warren is a pharmacist and the retired Director of Pharmacy at South Oaks Hospital in Amityville, New York;[4][5] he accompanied her to the 2019 Emmy Awards show.[6] Her older brother is comic artist Rich Drezen.[7] She has a dog named Lady Bird, a Chihuahua-Terrier mix named after the former first lady Lady Bird Johnson.[8]
Drezen is a sexual assault survivor,[9] but prefers not to address the trauma she experienced from acquaintance rape in her stand-up because it "is not the most interesting stuff that I’ve experienced and I don’t feel like talking about it."[10][11][12] She is a recovering alcoholic.[13][10]
Career
Drezen is an editor at large of the feminist humor site Reductress and has co-written the book How to Win at Feminism: The Definitive Guide to Having it All—And Then Some! with the site's founders Beth Newell and Sarah Pappalardo.[14][15] She has also coauthored the book How May We Hate You? with Todd Dakotah Briscoe. The latter book began as a blog inspired by Drezen's time as a hotel concierge in New York City.[14] She was editor and writer at humor website Cracked.com until 2016.[16]
She is a member of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (UCB). Together with fellow UCB performer Taylor Moore,[17] Drezen hosted the podcast Ten Ideas from 2013-2016.[18]
Drezen was hired as a staff writer on Saturday Night Live before the start of that show's 42nd season.[3][19] She has toured college campuses with cast members Alex Moffat and Melissa Villaseñor.[20] and has been a supervising writer on the show since season 44, episode 16, which aired on 30 March 2019.[21] Drezen shared nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series with the SNL writing staff in 2017, 2018 and 2019.[22]
Previously she has written and performed on Manhattan Neighborhood Network's The Special Without Brett Davis.[23]
In 2019, she performed on The Late Late Show with James Corden on 24 September 2019[24] and was a guest on the Drunk Women Solving Crime podcast.[25]
At the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Drezen premiered Okay, Get Home Safe, a one-woman show inspired by her obsession with true crime podcasts.[26]
References
- Drezen, Farmer (31 October 2019). "'The Haunted House' with Paul F. Tompkins!" (Podcast). Forever Dog Podcast Network. Event occurs at 33:20. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- "2019 Alumni Primetime Emmy Nominations". tisch.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- ""Saturday Night Live" hires seven new writers for season 42". The Laugh Button. September 15, 2016. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
- "Pharmacy Alumni | Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health". www.mailman.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- "College of Pharmaceutical Sciences Newsletter, Winter 2018" (PDF). mailman.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- Drezen, Anna (2019-09-23). "And the Emmy for best pharmacist goes to... wow, *again,* my dad, Warren Drezen!!!!pic.twitter.com/vOvbVOns5A". @annadrezen. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- "Rich Drezen". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- Wiegand, Chris (2019-07-23). "'He humps all the other dogs … I'm his humping accomplice': comedians on their pets". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- Schilling, Dave (2019-08-20). "The Season SNL Embraced Its Old, Weird Self Again". www.vulture.com. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- Dazed (2019-08-22). "Anna Drezen is the comic and former Reductress editor obsessed with murder". Dazed. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- "Comedy review: Anna Drezen: Okay Get Home Safe!, Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- Drezen, Anna (2018-09-21). "I didn't report my assault because I don't have time for another part-time job of navigating the criminal justice system's views on acquaintance rape, I already have another part-time job of so much therapy". @annadrezen. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- Drezen, Anna (2016-08-13). "The 6 Worst Parts Of Getting Sober (Nobody Tells You About)". Cracked.com. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- Kosugi, Haruka (March 31, 2018). "Q&A with SNL writer Anna Drezen". The Spectrum. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
- Rothfeld, Becca (December 2, 2016). "How to Win at Feminism: The Definitive Guide to Having it All—And Then Some! by Beth Newell, Sarah Pappalardo, and Anna Drezen". Bookforum. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
- Miller, Rachel (2016-06-03). "Brooklyn's 50 Funniest People: Anna Drezen". Brooklyn Magazine. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- "Taylor Moore". www.ucbcomedy.com. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- "Ten Ideas on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- Fitzpatrick, Kevin (September 14, 2016). "SNL Season 42 Adds 'BriTANicK,' Jimmy Kimmel Writer and More". ScreenCrush. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
- Alger, Olivia (February 3, 2019). "Live from Rochester, it's Saturday Night!". Campus Times. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
- "Anna Drezen". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- "Anna Drezen". Television Academy. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- Goldstein, Ian (August 25, 2017). "On the Verge: Brett Davis". Vulture. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
- Wright, Megh (2019-09-24). "SNL's Anna Drezen Comes From a Long Line of Murderous Horse Thieves". www.vulture.com. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- "59 Drunk Women Live: With Anna Drezen". acast. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- Abraham, Amelia (August 22, 2019). "Anna Drezen is the comic and former Reductress editor obsessed with murder". Dazed. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
External links
- Anna Drezen on IMDb