Today on the podcast we talk to Sunanda who is a Punjabi-Thai writer, comedian, radio host, and producer raised in Bangkok, matured in New York City and Los Angeles, and has since moved to Melbourne for love.
This year, they were nominated for the highly coveted Best Newcomer award from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for their solo show, "Sunanda Loves Britney."
Sunanda is a core collaborator of the award-winning Melbourne queer clowning troupe, Po Po Mo Co, and in 2022 their children’s short film series “Once Upon a Drag Storytime” is the official selection at several worldwide film festivals with screenings.
They have performed stand up in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Honolulu, Manila, Hyderabad, Singapore, Bangkok and Melbourne among other cities. Sunanda also created, curated, and hosted the groundbreaking show, "Indian Wedding," a South Asian variety show that was called one of the fifteen best things to do in Los Angeles by LA Weekly. They produced Broad City's "I Heart NY" webisode, the feature film “How To Follow Strangers” (Prix D’or of L.E.S. Festival) and countless other shorts where they’ve worked with Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation), Ilana Glazer (Broad City), Lucia Aniello (Emmy-award winning director and writer of Hacks, Broad City), Reggie Watts, Horatio Sanz (Saturday Night Live), Michael Che (Saturday Night Live), Ego Nowdim (Saturday Night Live), Jena Friedman (The Daily Show), and Chioke Nassor (High Fidelity) among others.
I’m sorry, but please, these collabs. Needless to say, this conversation was funny, frank and you’re going to love it.
As usual, we hit Sunanda up with the important Qs:
Last meal: Gai Pad Krapow
Currently reading: Instagram captions
Currently watching: We are lady parts
Listening to: Spotify playlist - ‘Back at Mine’; plus