MAUREEN YOUNGER
Hackney Empire New Act of the Year Finalist
A multi-lingual London Scot, frank, fast, feisty, sharp, engaging - honest humour with attitude!
Gigs include
Hackney Empire, The Hyena, Downstairs at the King's Head, Up the Creek, Glee Club, Upfront Comedy, BBC Comedy Club Happy Thursdays, Bent Double, Choice FM Comedy Club, Manchester Pride, ED Comedy, Comedy Store, The Stand, Lee Hurst's Comedy Club, Comedy at The Highlight, Jongleurs, Underbelly, Komedia, Comedy Camp, Arthur Smith’s Cut Price Comedy Night, Comedy Café, Laughing Cows, Hampstead Theatre, BrouHaHa, Buzz Comedy, Mirth on Monday, Laughter Fest, Real Deal Comedy Jam, Funny Bones Comedy Clubs, Leicester Square Theatre, Ship of Fools,
International Gigs
Berlin: Comedy Club Kookaburra, BeatStreet, (in English), Stage-Diven & Freaks & Fools at Scheinbar & BKA (in German)
Dublin: The International, Bankers, Comedy Shed
Sweden: LPKG Ha Ha!, Linköping
Belgium: Café the Joker, Antwerp; Lunatic Comedy Club Night, Ghent
Cyprus: Limmasol, Pathos
MCing
Resident MC for Laughing Cows in London, Birmingham and Berlin; MCed Music Stage at Newham Summer Festival & at Pink Festival; Downstairs at the King’s Head, BBC Comedy Club Happy Thursdays, Laugh out Loud at The Hyena.
Warm Up /Support Act
Warm up act for Puppetry of the Penis and performed warm up in English & Spanish and English & French as part of a prize-winning radio drama season, The Works. In 2009 supported Shazia Mirza on tour for her one woman show, A Portrait of Shazia Mirza, and in 2010 supported Kojo at his one man show at the Soho Theatre.
Radio
Contributor on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio London, BBC Radio Northern Ireland, BBC Radio Newcastle
Weekly Guest of the Breakfast Show on www.gaydio.co.uk
Guest panellist on the Andy Crane Show, BBC Radio Manchester
Guest panellist for BBC Radio 5 Live.
Newspaper Reviewer on the Christopher Biggins & Lesley Joseph Radio Show, BBC Radio London.
Presenter Mo's Soul show on Break FM
TELEVISION/FILMincludes:
Newspaper Reviewer on Sky News;
Roles in Band of Brothers (BBC/HBO), The Affair (black & white silent comedy). Comedy Balti (Brit Asia TV), MC for Comedy Night Live
THEATRE includes:
Debbie in Debbie & Gerald, Comedians Theatre Company (Pleasance Theatre), Saunders (Fallen Angels - English Theatre Berlin), Electra (Clytemnestra), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hippolyta/Titania), As You Like It (Pheobe/Lebeau), Philoctetes (National Theatre Studio), Comedy sketches (Café theatre, Paris)