Following her Best Newcomer-nominated debut, the winner of Amused Moose National New Comic 2018 and So You Think You’re Funny? 2017 Maisie Adam is heading out on tour with her latest show Hang Fire that asks why we are so obsessed with blame? The tour starts on October 9 in Aberdeen and currently ends in Liverpool on February 5.
When Maisie was in Year 9, she googled herself on the school computer. The top result was a news story, and Maisie discovered she was part of something much bigger...something known, to everyone but her. At that tender age, this story was enough to lead Maisie to ask the question: why are we so quick to point the finger of blame, without knowing all the facts?
Maisie Adam first tried stand-up comedy in 2016, in her native North Yorkshire. Months later, she applied for the UK's largest stand-up competition: So You Think You're Funny? and won, becoming only the fourth woman to have done so in thirty years. Maisie returned to the Edinburgh Fringe the following year with her debut show Vague, which sold out the Gilded Balloon every day, received rave reviews and earned her a nomination for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
Maisie also won the Amused Moose National New Comic whilst up at the Fringe, and Vague was picked up by the Soho Theatre for an extended post-Edinburgh run in January 2019.
She has appeared on 8 out of 10 Cats, Mock the Week, ITV2’s Stand Up Sketch Show and Urban Myths for Sky Arts. Other credits include BBC Three’s Period Dramas.
