Now – Track My Appearances!
If you’d like to know where I’ll be appearing next doing my stand-up then take a look at the new page of my website: Upcoming Appearances. Yes, it’s self-explanatory. Check it out!
Read MoreNice Review of the Gilda’s Club Gig
The Stand Up Sisters gang were rightly pleased with the $7,500 we raised for Gilda’s club at our benefit gig back in January. And it’s also sweet to have a nice review of the event which Daniela found online at Snap Bloor West. Check it out – great pictures of Heidi, Muniza, Dawn, Leanne and Elvira, as well as this nice one of Elvira, Dawn and Daniela above. Click here to read the...
Read MoreStand-up Showdown!
This coming Tuesday 24th February I will be one of the eight comics competing in the Comedy Bar‘s Stand-Up Showdown – a contest to see who can write and perform the best material on three given topics in less than a week. The show is hilarious, owing mainly to the banter between the host, Craig Brown, and the judge, Mark Forward. Each comic starts by presenting two minutes on the first topic. Craig asks them how they thought it went and then Mark gives his (often barbed, sometimes...
Read MoreGilda’s Club Event a Fabulous Success!
Last night at Hugh’s Room our StandUp For Your Sisters charity gig for Gilda’s Club raised $7,000! I couldn’t be more happy or proud. The turn-out was amazing – we totally sold out and there was standing room only. The audience was incredibly warm and supportive, and the energy in the room was electric. Elvira Kurt, our fabulous MC, was pretty much solely responsible for keeping them going on what turned out to be a long, but hugely enjoyable evening. I had to wait until...
Read MoreStanding Up For Your Sisters
On Tuesday January 27th I will performing at a charity gig in aid of Gilda’s Club at Hugh’s Room in Toronto. I am ridiculously excited – there are nine of us newbie female comics plus guest Marjorie Malpass from Vancouver. The headliner is our old teacher Dawn Whitwell and Elvira Kurt is hosting. Tickets are only $20 in advance and there will be a silent auction of thousands of dollars-worth of stuff including a pair of Raptors tickets, an Apple iPod Touch, Roots gear and much...
Read MoreWhen you fall off a horse…..
…you get right back on. So I’m on at the 8 o’clock show at the Comedy Hole tomorrow night at Celt’s Pub (Dundas West on the north side just west of Keele). I had an interesting moment last Saturday at Elvira Kurt‘s stand-up masterclass at Second City. I was trying to understand why I had such a hard time at my gig at the Diesel Playhouse. Elvira was saying how she always tries to “read a room” before she performs – by that I think she means...
Read MoreMy first bomb
Wow. So now I know how it feels. And it sucks. Ass. Big time. There was a very small crowd tonight at the Diesel Playhouse and they didn’t dig my gags and the lights were in my eyes and…and…and…. Okay. Enough whining. It felt awkward and uncomfortable and I’m not experienced enough yet to know how to turn it around or work a small crowd. I wasn’t the only one who bombed. It’s just never happened to me before. My friend Inge swears up and down that it...
Read MoreMy first live radio performance
This coming Thursday (6th November) I have a five minute set at the 7 o’clock show of Live at the Diesel Cabaret at, where else, the Diesel Playhouse. This is my third public performance and it’s being broadcast live on XM Radio. Jake Labow is running the show and it’s thanks to Dawn Whitwell (yet again) that I got this gig. She emailed Jake the link to my website where I’ve posted my stand-up debut and he asked me to be on the bill on the strength of it – hurrah!...
Read MoreMarilla who?
I am a British-born actress and stand-up comic who does lots of voice work (for commercials, cartoons and corporate clients) and sometimes, when I'm very lucky, tv and film. When I was in England I did mostly theatre. Now I'm in Canada I spend the majority of the time writing and performing stand-up. When I'm not making episodes of Talking Bollocks, that is. And that's me for you.