Anna Drezen

Anna Drezen is an American writer, actress, and comedian. Since 2016 she has been on the writing staff of Saturday Night Live.

Anna currently co-hosts a podcast, Scary Stories to tell on the pod, with her friend of 14 years writer Andrew Farmer.

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] In 2020, for season 46, she was promoted to co-head writer.[23]

Previously she has written and performed on Manhattan Neighborhood Network's The Special Without Brett Davis.[24]

In 2019, she performed on The Late Late Show with James Corden on 24 September 2019[25] and was a guest on the Drunk Women Solving Crime podcast.[26]

At the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Drezen premiered Okay, Get Home Safe, a one-woman show inspired by her obsession with true crime podcasts.[27]

References
  1. 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.
  2. "2019 Alumni Primetime Emmy Nominations". tisch.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  3. ""Saturday Night Live" hires seven new writers for season 42". The Laugh Button. September 15, 2016. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
  4. "Pharmacy Alumni | Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health". www.mailman.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  5. "College of Pharmaceutical Sciences Newsletter, Winter 2018" (PDF). mailman.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  6. 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.
  7. "Rich Drezen". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  8. 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.
  9. Schilling, Dave (2019-08-20). "The Season SNL Embraced Its Old, Weird Self Again". www.vulture.com. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  10. Dazed (2019-08-22). "Anna Drezen is the comic and former Reductress editor obsessed with murder". Dazed. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  11. "Comedy review: Anna Drezen: Okay Get Home Safe!, Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  12. 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.
  13. Drezen, Anna (2016-08-13). "The 6 Worst Parts Of Getting Sober (Nobody Tells You About)". Cracked.com. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  14. Kosugi, Haruka (March 31, 2018). "Q&A with SNL writer Anna Drezen". The Spectrum. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
  15. 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.
  16. Miller, Rachel (2016-06-03). "Brooklyn's 50 Funniest People: Anna Drezen". Brooklyn Magazine. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  17. "Taylor Moore". www.ucbcomedy.com. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  18. "Ten Ideas on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  19. Fitzpatrick, Kevin (September 14, 2016). "SNL Season 42 Adds 'BriTANicK,' Jimmy Kimmel Writer and More". ScreenCrush. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
  20. Alger, Olivia (February 3, 2019). "Live from Rochester, it's Saturday Night!". Campus Times. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
  21. "Anna Drezen". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  22. "Anna Drezen". Television Academy. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  23. White, Peter (September 16, 2020). "'SNL': Jim Carrey Set To Play Joe Biden As NBC Show Adds Three Featured Players & Will Have Limited Audience". Deadline. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
  24. Goldstein, Ian (August 25, 2017). "On the Verge: Brett Davis". Vulture. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
  25. 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.
  26. "59 Drunk Women Live: With Anna Drezen". acast. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  27. Abraham, Amelia (August 22, 2019). "Anna Drezen is the comic and former Reductress editor obsessed with murder". Dazed. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
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