Kiri Pritchard Mclean

Kiri Pritchard-Mclean
Born (1986-11-06) 6 November 1986
Gloucester, England
Nationality British

Kiri Pritchard-Mclean (born Kiri Mclean; 6 November 1986) is a British comedian. Born in Gloucester, she was raised on a farm in Anglesey, Wales. She has performed for several consecutive years at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and won two Chortle awards.

Comedy career

She is the director and writer for sketch group Gein's Family Giftshop who were nominated for Best Newcomer in 2014 for the Edinburgh Comedy Award.[1] As a sketch group they were also nominated for Chortle Awards in 2015. She took her debut show Hysterical Woman to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2016.[2] It transferred to the Soho Theatre for a run in June 2017.

Pritchard-Mclean has appeared on Russell Howard's Stand Up Central on Comedy Central and ITV's Elevenish and has made multiple appearances on the BBC Radio 4 shows The Now Show, The News Quiz and Ellis James' State Of the Nation.

She is also co-host of the podcast All Killa No Filla along with fellow comedian Rachel Fairburn.[3]

Comedy awards

Pritchard-Mclean was nominated as Best Compere in 2016 & 2017. She won Best Compere and Best Club Comedian at the Chortle Awards in 2018.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Logan, Brian (2015-08-14). "Edinburgh comedy roundup: the best of the rest – week one". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  2. ↑ Logan, Brian (2017-04-28). "Hysterical Woman: the standup show addressing sexism in comedy". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  3. ↑ Hershon, Marc (2016-03-18). "Podcast Reviews: I Am Rapaport & All Killa No Filla". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  4. ↑ Chortle. Chortle Awards http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2018/03/18/39430/women_dominate_the_chortle_live_comedy_awards. Retrieved 22 April 2018. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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