Stand Up
I began my comedy career in Liverpool in 2001 when I co-founded, wrote and performed with the disabled women’s comedy sketch group Nasty Girls. Prolific in devising and writing, we gigged all over the UK and took our many shows to festivals in Edinburgh, Vancouver and Wales!
My stand-up debut was in the 2005 show, Abnormally Funny People (AFP) where I performed alongside disabled comedians Tanyalee Davis, Simon Minty Steve Day, Chris McCausland and the abnormally normal Steve Best. The show premiered in London at Soho Theatre before a month run at the Edinburgh Fringe. SKY TV funded and filmed the show for a documentary shown on Sky and regularly repeated on the Community Channel. I continue to be an Abnormally Funny person.
Since my involvement with AFP, I have focused my comedy career on stand-up, becoming a regular on the disability, gay and mainstream comedy circuits and performing each year at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I perform 10/20 minute sets, opening 20’s, closing 20’s and increasingly am MC-ing. Gigs include:
- Downstairs at the Kings Head, London
- The Comedy Store, Manchester and London
- The Comedy Cafe, London
- Banana Cabaret, London
- Krater Comedy Club, Brighton
- Comic Boom, Brighton
- Rawhide, Liverpool
- Hackney Empire, London
- Hampstead Comedy Club, London
- Wivenhoe Funny Farm, Colchester
- Soho Theatre, London
- Bent Double, London
- Hammersmith Palais, London
- Spiegeltent, Brighton
- Laughing Cows, Manchester, Birmingham and London
- Funny Women, London
- Mirthcontrol, various
- Laughing Horse, various
- XS Mallarkey, Manchester
- Mirth on Monday, Manchester
- Liverpool and Leicester Comedy Festivals
- Manchester and London Pride
- DADAfest (Disability Arts / Deaf Arts Festival)
- Liberty Disability Rights Festival, Trafalgar Square
I was a finalist in the 2006 Funny Women competition, received a special commendation (!) in the Laughing Horse New Act competition 2007 and was runner up in the 2007 Hackney Empire New Act of the Year, performing at their Edinburgh Fringe showcase, Four On The Floor.
