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Maureen is frank, fast, feisty, sharp and engaging – honest humour with attitude! She works as a stand up comedian and compere all around the UK and abroad and has even gigged in German! As an experienced compere, Maureen is known for her quick wit and sharp audience interaction. In the UK she is one of the few (if only) comedians who performs regularly at mainstream, urban, gay and Asian comedy nights.
In 2023 she reached the finals of British Comedian of the Year and was placed third. In 2024 she was one of the acts performing Best of British at the Adelaide Comedy Festival.
Her gigs have ranged from being the support act for comedians such as Frankie Boyle and Jen Brister as well as the entire West End run of The Naked Magicians at the Trafalgar Studios as well as one of the warm up acts for Puppetry of the Penis to performing at the Barbican alongside Arthur Smith; supporting Shazia Mirza on tour; to being one of the acts at the Jamaica vs The World gigs at the Shepherds Bush Empire. (Maureen was representing the latter category!)
MY Gigs
Maureen has played major venues such as the Indigo 02, 02 Hammersmith, Hackney Empire and The Barbican as well as numerous clubs including The Comedy Store, Up the Creek, Komedia, The Glee, Off The Kerb, Top Secret Comedy Club, Backyard Comedy Club, Covent Garden Comedy Club, Funny Beeseness, House of Stand Up, Comedy Carnival, Bent Double, Upfront Comedy, Screaming Blue Murder, Downstairs at the King’s Head, Crack Comedy Club, The Comedy Club, Frog & Bucket, Manchester Pride, The Stand, Real Deal Comedy Jam, Arthur Smith’s Comedy Night, The Laughing Sole, Laughing Cows, Funny Women, Comedy with Cake, Bradford Literature Festival, Buzz Comedy, Coventry Pride, Cardiff Pride, BBC Comedy Club, Choice FM Comedy Club, Jongleurs On The Road, Breakneck Comedy, Red Imp, byob Comedy, The Poodle Club, Ladies of Laughter, Coastal Comedy Club
MY International Gigs
- Australia, Adelaide Fringe Festival
- Austria, Bratislava, Budapest: Baby Blue Banana
- Belgium: Antwerp Arenberg, Stand Up Antwerp, Café the Joker; Ghent Lunatic Comedy Club Night; Brussels English Comedy Night
- Cyprus: Limassol, Pathos
- Czech Republic: Praha International Comedy Festival, Prague Crown Comedy Club Brno Crown Comedy Club
- Denmark: Copenhagen Wisecrackers
- Germany: Berlin Strictly Stand Up, Quatsch, Time Out Berlin Presents, English Comedy Night, Comedy Club Kookaburra (in English), Stage-Diven, Fools & Freaks, Scheinbar, BKA (in German); Cologne Cologne Comedy Festival, Kanakedy (in German); Altenburg Comedy Sonntag; Bonn English Comedy Night @ The Fiddlers; Hamburg Top Notch Comedy Club
- Greece: Crete
- Hungary: Sziget Festival
- Ireland: The International, Bankers, Comedy Shed, Dublin
- Luxembourg: Luxembourg International Comedy Festival
- Netherlands: Utrecht Comedy Festival; Amsterdam Boom Chicago, Comedy Café; The Hague Theater PePijn, Theatre Branoul; Enschede University of Twente; Eindhoven The Laughing Lizard, The Hub
- Norway: Oslo Comedy Club, Oslo
- Spain: Ibiza
- Sweden: Linköping LPKG Ha Ha, Stockholm Humormaffian Lund Wisecrackers
- Switzerland: The Comedy Club, Zug, Funny Laundry, Basel & Zurich
MCing & Warm up
Resident MC for MY Comedy in London & Birmingham; Regular MC at Top Secret Comedy Club, MC at Comedy Store, Up the Creek, The Glee, Off the Kerb, Backyard Comedy Club, Big Belly, Downstairs at the King’s Head, Funny Women; Manchester Pride, Newham Summer Festival, Pink Festival, Grendon Festival, Jongleurs On The Road.
Support act for Frankie Boyle and Jen Brister on their national tours. Support act for entire 2016 West End run of The Naked Magicians; also supported Puppetry of the Penis, Gina Yashere at The Birmingham Rep, Shazia Mirza & Kojo, Hackney Empire & Soho Theatre; radio warm up in English & Spanish and English & French.
Radio
- Contributor & Guest panellist on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio London, BBC Radio Manchester, Gaydio
- Newspaper Reviewer on BBC Radio London. Presented an 80s soul show on Break FM
- Co-Presenter on the Sunday morning show Jen & Maureen on Gaydio
Television/film includes:
- Lead role in Past Caring, Sky TV
- Lead role in the short film, Pastry by Requiem Productions
- Newspaper Reviewer on Sky News
- Band of Brothers (BBC/HBO)
- The Affair (b&w silent comedy)
Theatre includes:
- Philoctetes, National Theatre Studio
- Debbie & Gerald (Debbie)
- Comedians Theatre Company
- Comedy sketches (café théâtre, Paris)
- Electra (Clytemnestra)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hippolyta/Titania)
- As You Like It (Pheobe/Lebeau)
- Fallen Angels (Saunders)
- English Theatre Berlin