Sooz Kempner

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]

In March 2023, the BBC announced that Kempner would be featured as the title character in a Doctor Who multiplatform story, Doom’s Day, to be released later in the year.^[14] Doom’s story took place through the Doctor Who digital channels, Penguin Random House, Doctor Who Magazine, Titan Comics, Big Finish Productions, BBC Audio, and East Side Games, as part of the show's 60th anniversary.^[15][16]