Wendy Wason is a Scottish writer, comedian and actress.
Career edit
Wason reached the grand final of the Babycham Funny Women competition at The Comedy Store (London) in 2005.[1]
In 2008 Wason appeared on Last Comic Standing and she did her first Edinburgh Fringe Festival hour long show called Things I didn’t know.[2]
At the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Wason did two shows whilst nine months pregnant, performing at The Stand Comedy Club in her own one-woman show, and at the Gilded Balloon in the show Looser Woman with Karen Dunbar.[3] In 2012 Wason performed at the New York Comedy Festival.[4] Wason returned to the Edinburgh Festival again in 2016 with her show Tiny Me.[5][6]
Wason has written and starred in her own sitcom for BBC Scotland called Half My Age Plus Seven broadcast in October 2014.[7][8] Wason was a regular on Broken News.[9] Other TV acting credits include Midsomer Murders,[10] Sherlock,[11] Coupling, Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd,[12] Tittybangbang, and Doctors.[13]
Alongside Mackenzie Crook Wason voiced the audiobook of Charlotte Street written by Danny Wallace (humorist).[14] Wason has written a regular column for The Huffington Post.[15]
Wason has been a guest on The Comedian's Comedian with Stuart Goldsmith.[16] Wason has been a guest on the BBC Radio Scotland programmes Breaking the News[17] and The Good, the Bad and the Unexpected.
Personal life edit
Wason was born in Durban in South Africa and lived there until she was three years old before moving to Edinburgh in Scotland. At five her parents got divorced. Wason worked as a teenager at the Gilded Balloon Box Office in Edinburgh, where she later performed. Wason has three children and lives in North London with husband Stephen Hagan.[18][19][20]
Wason supports the charity Integrated Education.[12][21] She performed alongside comedians Ed Byrne, Gráinne Maguire and Carl Donnelly at the London Irish Centre on 2 November 2018 to raise funds for the Integrated Education Fund in Northern Ireland.
References edit
- ^ Solutions, Powder Blue Internet Business. "A very funny woman : News 2005 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide". chortle.co.uk.
{{cite web}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ "AmusedMoose - Performers - Stand-up Comedy Soho Kings Cross Awards Courses". www.amusedmoose.com.
- ^ Banana, Giant. "Screaming With Laughter Comedy". Screaming With Laughter Comedy.
- ^ "Backyard Comedy Club". www.BackyardComedyClub.co.uk.
- ^ "Wendy Wason – Tiny Me 4**** - One4Review". 17 August 2016.
- ^ "Wendy Wason: Tiny Me: 4 star review by Fiona Mossman". broadwaybaby.com.
- ^ Guide, British Comedy. "Half My Age Plus Seven - Radio Scot Sitcom - British Comedy Guide". British Comedy Guide.
- ^ "BBC Radio Scotland - Half My Age Plus Seven". BBC.
- ^ Solutions, Powder Blue Internet Business. "Wendy Wason, comedian news : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide". www.chortle.co.uk.
{{cite web}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ "Midsomer Murders - Dance With the Dead - Main Characters-Roles". midsomermurders.org.
- ^ "'Sherlock' Season 3 news summary". 9 January 2014.
- ^ a b "'I'm amazed schools in Northern Ireland are segregated'" – via www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk.
- ^ "Actress and comedian Wendy Wason on children, acting and comedy".
- ^ Wallace, Danny. "Charlotte Street". www.penguin.co.uk.
- ^ "Wendy Wason". HuffPost UK.
- ^ "174 – Wendy Wason - The Comedian's Comedian". www.comedianscomedian.com.
- ^ "Funny Women, Comedy Zone - BBC Radio Scotland". BBC.
- ^ "The A to Z of Wendy Wason". HeraldScotland.
- ^ "Stephen Hagan: James Nesbitt brought some drama into my life" – via www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk.
- ^ "The Wendy Wason Three Minute Interview by Martin Walker". broadwaybaby.com.
- ^ Integrated Education Fund (3 October 2018). "Wendy Wason asks you to join her for a one-off comedy special" – via YouTube.