Atra Asdou is a New York based SAG-AFTRA, AEA, actor/writer/comedian, from Chicago, a city where she created and starred in three critically acclaimed sketch comedy revues at The Second City. 

 

She is fresh off of co-starring in HBO's Somebody Somewhere and South Side, and recently performed in Succession writer Susan Soon He Stanton's Today is My Birthday at Yale Repertory Theatre. 

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Her short films Fever and Renee`  have placed at various film festivals around the world, and her debut feature script, Izza, was a finalist in The 2020 Chicago International Film Festival and is currently in pre-production. She is a 2022 Writer in Residence with Lookingglass Theatre Company where she is working on a full length play about her Middle Eastern/Iraqi family.

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As a comedian, Atra has opened for Katie Rich, Maz Jobrani and Janeane Garofalo.

She is represented by Gray Talent Group.