Jennifer Cho Suhr is an award-winning Korean American writer and director based in Brooklyn, working in both live action and animation. Her work explores the ways memory, time, and relationships shape one another, revealing the beauty in the emotional contradictions that define our lives. She is currently developing her debut feature drama, Time Away, executive produced by Ken Jeong.
Most recently, Jennifer wrote for Nickelodeon's upcoming Avatar: Seven Havens. She co-created the animated short Welcome to Doozy, produced by Frederator Studios and Sony Pictures Animation, which has garnered over one million views. She also co-created the satirical web series American Viral, executive produced by Michael Showalter and featured by Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe. Previously, she wrote on an adult animated series for Kakao and 9 Story, a family film special for Netflix, and has developed projects for Adult Swim, Disney Junior, DreamWorks, Cartoon Network, Spin Master, PBS, and Netflix.
Jennifer is an Almanack Episodic Lab Fellow, WarnerMedia 150 Fellow, and Asian American Arts Alliance Fellow. She is also an alumna of Tribeca Film Institute's All Access, Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women's Filmmaker Program, and Film Independent's Producing Lab and Fast Track, and was a finalist for AT&T's Untold Stories.
Her short film Saeng-il (Birthday) won the Audience Award for Best Short at the Gen Art Film Festival, and her science fiction drama screenplay Out There was selected for NYU's Purple List, an annual selection of the university's best screenplays.
Jennifer received her B.A. from Yale University, where she studied American Studies and Ethnicity, Race & Migration, and her M.F.A. from New York University's Graduate Film Program, where she received the Tisch Fellowship, the Spike Lee Film Production Grant, and the Clive Davis Award for Excellence in Music for Film.
She is represented by Redefine Entertainment.