Mae Martin

Based in the UK, Mae Martin is an award-winning Canadian comedian and writer whose most recent stand-up show Dope focused on addiction and was nominated for the main Edinburgh Comedy Award while earning four and five star national reviews. The show has since been turned in to a stand-up special for Netflix which recorded at Montreal's Just for Laughs festival and is released on New Years Day 2019 as part of Netflix's first global stand-up series. Mae is the co-host of BBC Radio 4 podcast Grown-up Land and their second BBC Radio 4 series Mae Martin's Guide To... was nominated for a BBC Audio Drama Award. Mae is also the new host of Channel 4's arts strand Random Acts and her first non-fiction book, a guide to sexuality for young adults, will be released in May 2019. Performing comedy since the age of 13, Mae trained in improvisation and sketch comedy at the Toronto outpost of the internationally acclaimed comedy institution, The Second City. Notable alumni include Tina Fey, Amy Poehler