Jennifer Cho Suhr is an award-winning Brooklyn-based writer and director, working in both live action and animation. Her storytelling leverages both comedy and drama to highlight life’s complexities in inventive and cinematic ways.
In animation, Jennifer is currently staffed on a fantasy Nickelodeon animated series and serving as Story Editor for a series of musical shorts for Disney Junior. In live action, she is developing her debut feature drama, Time Away, executive produced by Ken Jeong. The project was selected for Tribeca Film Institute’s All Access, both the Film Independent Producing Lab and Fast Track programs, and was a finalist for AT&T’s Untold Stories.
Jennifer is the co-creator of the animated short, Welcome to Doozy, produced by Frederator Studios and Sony Pictures Animation, which has garnered over a million views. She also co-created the satirical web series, American Viral, which was executive produced by Michael Showalter and featured by Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times, and the Boston Globe among others. Prior Jennifer has been staffed on an upcoming adult animated series; wrote a family film special for Netflix; and has developed and written for DreamWorks, Cartoon Network, Spin Master, PBS, and Netflix.
Jennifer has been an Almanack Episodic Lab fellow, a WarnerMedia 150 Fellow, an Asian American Arts Alliance Fellow, and was chosen for Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program. 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 as part of NYU’s Purple List, an annual selection of the best screenplays from NYU.
She received her BA from Yale University studying American Studies and Ethnicity, Race & Migration and received her MFA from New York University's Graduate Film Program where she was awarded the Tisch Fellowship, the Spike Lee Film Production Grant, and the Clive Davis Award for Excellence in Music for Film.
She is repped by Redefine Entertainment.