218. Anu Vaidyanathan

Blank Podcast with Giles Paley-Phillips & Jim Daly

Anu Vaidyanathan is a filmmaker, comedian and engineer whose memoir Anywhere But Home was long-listed for the Mumbai Film Festival's word-to-screen market in 2016. Her show 'Blimp' is part of Edinburgh Fringe 2023, tickets are currently available here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/anu-vaidyanathan-blimp

We talked to Anu about her segue into comedy via engineering, her time at the Philippe Gaulier clown school and using comedy as a vehicle to express bigger themes.

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