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Theater People

Annoying Actor Friend Revealed: Andrew Briedis

Theater People

Patrick Hinds and Mike Jensen

Tony Awards, Nyc, Musicals, Actors, Creative, Arts, Plays, Writers, Broadway, Theater, Society & Culture, Interview, Comedy, Producers, Performing Arts

4.8757 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

If you've been paying attention to the Broadway press over the last few days, you know that the incredibly popular--and incredibly anonymous--social media personality Annoying Actor Friend has identified himself. World, meet Andrew Briedis. Wonder why he did it, what he got out of it, and why he picked now to reveal himself? Take a listen and find out!

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0:00.0

Hello, fellow theater people. Welcome to the theater people podcast. I'm Patrick Kines, your host.

0:10.3

If you've been paying attention to the Broadway press over the last day or so, you know that the

0:14.9

incredibly popular, incredibly anonymous, social media personality, annoying actor friend has

0:20.5

identified himself.

0:22.2

We now know that the hilarious social commentator slash author of hashtag grateful and hashtag

0:27.7

so blessed is the very handsome Andrew Bratis. So who is this guy? Why did he create

0:34.7

an annoying actor friend and why did he pick now to identify himself?

0:38.2

You're about to find out. Here's our conversation.

0:41.9

Anoying actor friend, welcome not only to the theater people podcast, but to my home.

0:46.7

Thank you so much for having me. You have a beautiful home. Thank you so much.

0:49.9

Do you want to, now that you're officially out, do you want to just say hello as you?

0:54.7

Oh, hi.

0:55.4

Hi.

0:56.0

Hi, my name is Andrew Braidis, not Andrew Keen and Bulger.

0:59.2

It's Andrew Bradus.

1:00.7

That's spelled B-R-I-E-D-I-S.

1:03.8

It's Lithuanian for reindeer, and everyone's going to mispronounce it for the rest of my life.

1:07.7

Oh, and I'm an annoying active friend.

1:09.3

Hi. for the rest of my life. Oh, and I'm an annoying active friend. You're very handsome.

1:11.6

Let's get that out of the way right at the top.

1:13.0

Thank you.

1:13.6

Thank you.

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