Review: Natalie Palamides, WEER
If you were expecting WERE to be a romantic romcom, forget it! Any new show from Natalie Palamides, best known for her outrageously bold clowning style, is now a media-worthy attention- grabbing theatrical event. Deservedly so.
Q&A: Jane Postlethwaite talks about Terrible People and Things
Jane Postlethwaite is a queer, northern, multi-comedy award nominee, stand up comedian and writer from Cumbria. She was a Funny Women Stage Award finalist in 2015 and often heard on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Cumbria. Jane performs her show Terrible People at the Women in Comedy Festival in October and her new paranormal queer comedy podcast, All the Terrible Things, is now live.
Podcast: Áine Gallagher – Making Sense
Aine Gallagher, queen of off-beat, spoje to our Irish producer Catherine about her preperation for her Dublin Fringe Show, Making Sense. Tickets and show information available at Dublin Fringe. Follow Aine on Twitter
Help Advance Women in STEM
Funny Women isn’t known for it’s STEM skills, but our company is known for it’s great sense of humour and huge network of brilliant, hilarious women and the team think it’s time we made sure that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. So in 2017 we’re going to start trying to bring ourselves more into the STEM world. […]
The Vagina Monologues, Osaka
I’m not totally sure how this happened, but I nearly made it to the ripe age of 30 without having seen The Vagina Monologues. Smack on the wrist. Luckily for me, my friends put on a performance this month. Shows are generally overseen by the V-Day feminist organisation, giving people the freedom to run their […]
Yuriko Kotani (& more) in Osaka
Before coming to Japan, I lived in London for four years. To have never – ever – seen Yuriko Kotani do stand-up in either of those places yet? ‘An oversight’ would be putting it mildly. Also, Yuriko and I follow each other on Twitter. (If you’re not already following YurikoComedy, go do it.) So when […]
