Voicebox: Edinburgh Fringe

"The best piece of feedback I’ve gotten from anyone was for an early performance of my show, and it was from a friend of mine named Toby Huss. This is the piece of feedback I always go back to: He said “This story to you is important, and you’re talking about it as though it’s not important.”"

"People think colonialism was long time ago. But it’s like Japanese knotweed. Once in the ground, it’s impossible to get rid of. History has consequences, and those consequences are me telling colonial jokes."

Performers are like vampires. We feed on the energy channelled back by the audience. Some of my best lines came from reacting to the crowd when I really felt I was in my moment on stage.

"Do it because you love it, and do the best job you can do. "

"A drink or two throughout the month is okay but not every night. Please don't quote me on this when you see me at the bar."

"The biggest thing I am always most grateful for in terms of my upbringing, is that I had parents and a family who would always support whatever endeavour I was undertaking – they would drive me hours to perform a one hour show for a primary school, and that same night help me with my homework!'

"I made them uncomfortable by calling them out for being rich, which is so insane, because it was a private island."

"As a writer, having a new show performed in front of a live audience is a real privilege. It’s the first time you get a genuine and immediate audience reaction which can be both daunting and exhilarating."

"I decided just to sit on a random audience member’s lap and did my set from there. Which caught their attention, that’s for sure."

"Growing up with a slightly dysfunctional family made me want to be a psychiatrist. I think I hoped to get the secret codes to fix them."

"In 2019 I was doing a show where I would make someone in the audience pretend to be my dad and I gave him lines and this one guy went off book and started flirting with me. I would have loved some sleeping pills that night."

"“A Comedy of Operas” is a musical comedy featuring some of the world’s most famous arias, combined with a number of pop and rock hits as well. It’s a story of a troupe of five eccentric performers in search of love and acclaim."