Autumn 2018 saw me able to combine my love of film with my love of standing on stage by introducing the closing film of the Widescreen Weekend Festival at The National Science and Media Museum, Bradford.
“Maureen gave an enlightening introduction to our 50th anniversary of Funny Girl. It was warm, funny and poignant.” (Kathryn Penny, Director, Widescreen Weekend)
Recently I’ve also been asked to give talks to organisations such as the Media Hub and SHEnetWORKS about MY Comic Life.
A talk about my colourful “comic life” from my beginnings in a Scottish Presbyterian working-class enclave in North London (i.e. my parent’s house) to being known as the “baddest white girl in my year” (to be fair I was more or less the only white girl in my year so all I had to do was turn up); to attending university and going on to study or work in Austria, Spain, Germany and France and the then Soviet Union (or as I prefer to call it, to make me sound younger, Russia and Ukraine). Then it was life as a Yuppie in the 80s (I lasted 6 months) as well as working for a Japanese company in Germany where I was sacked after 3 months for not epitomising a traditional Japanese woman (who would have guessed?); not forgetting my stint as a bi-lingual PA for a top lawyer at a leading Franco-American law firm on the Champs-Elysées in Paris despite not being able to speak French or type. I am now one of the few (if only) comedians who regularly gigs on the mainstream, urban, Asian and gay comedy circuits as well as gigging in German in Germany. A story about leading an unconventional life and knocking certain entrenched stereotypes and assumptions on the head.
“refreshing….. very witty” – Sarah Parfitt, Media Hub
“I loved listening to Maureen speak at SHEnetWORKS this year. She made me laugh and inspired me with her intelligently funny outlook on life and her business successes.” Emma-Jane Taylor
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