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Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 471st episode of the Hollywood Reporter's awards chatter podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg, THR's executive editor of awards coverage.

And my guest today is a tremendously gifted young actress who seems to keep popping up

and doing extraordinary work in stage and screen projects that everyone winds up talking about.

Stephanie Schoo.

Consider the 32-year-olds output over just the last five years.

On Broadway, she starred in two musicals, SpongeBob SquarePants,

which was tied with main girls as the most Tony-nominated show of 2018,

and then in the cult favorite, Be More Chill.

On TV, she played May, Joel Maisel's post-mage love interest,

on the third and fourth seasons of Amazon Prime's Emmy-winning comedy series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,

and she'll presumably be back for that show's fifth and last season, though she can't say.

Most recently, in 2022, she made her feature film debut opposite Michelle Yo and Kihei Kwan playing Joy,

the queer American daughter of Chinese immigrants who desperately wants her mother to accept her for who she is,

and who, in some alternate universes, is a nihilistic chaos agent named Jobu Tupaki,

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