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this bad assed black country lass takes no prisoners with her irreverent, close to the knuckle honest humour cut through with razor sharp cynicism.

winner of the first ever jongleurs competition and a seasoned regular on the circuit, susan has emerged as one of the best female stand-ups around. susan is working nationally; comedy store, jongleurs, up the creek, off the kerb, banana cabaret, lee hurst’s backyard, comedy café and internationally; quatar, dubai, abu dabi, china, indonesia, germany, luxembourg, brussels, ireland. her versatility means that as well as corporates

and tv warm up, susan has handled biker festivals and music festivals inc. glastonbury. acting credits include starring in the tv comedy drama “love, lies and lipstick” for carlton west and arthur smith sings leonard cohen (pleasance, edinburgh festival and garrick london) following writing and performing for bbc radio 1 on the milk run she received a writing bursary from the bbc. other writing projects have included work for steve coogan’s production company baby cow, writing and performing solo edinburgh show happy hour and a recent 1 hour long show, 21st century fox (themed on the modern day phenomenon of internet dating). susan one of the main writers touch me i’m karen taylor (avalon for bbc3) and has been touring the uk with puppetry of the penis.

"she has the mentality of a spiteful 14 yr old boy! very admirable in a young lady!" - arthur smith

“i like her jokes so much, i’m doing them now!” - scott capurro

“susan murray’s baffled everywoman persona cloaks a dry, intelligent wit.” - stewart lee

“mainstream success written all over her..brightly energetic, a real talent” - edinburgh guide.com

“a right cheeky little lass who oscillates brilliantly and wildly between characters, accents, stories and banging the mike on her head” - three weeks

tv appearances

  • penis envy – v1 productions 2007
  • get me the producer – princess/channel 4 tx in 2007
  • britain’s favourite tv wedding- multi media arts/channel 5, 2006
  • the world stands up – paramount / iwm prods jan, 2006 prod ian wilson
  • the love boom / money program – (authored feature) bbc2, jan 2006 prod terry messenger
  • brain candy – baby cow productions / bbc3 march 2003 dir roger pomfrey
  • love, life and lipstick - 6 part comedy-drama series itv / carlton west, dir cathy waite, july 2000. this won best entertainment program at the royal tv society awards.
  • net. comedy – carlton world, 1999
  • house of fun – meridian tv, 1998
  • daily telegraph open mike awards – channel 5/ avalon, 1997

stage

  • the eternal optimist – etc theatre, dir tim arthur 2005/6
  • arthur smith sings leonard cohen – pleasance edinburgh & garrick theatre, 2002
  • arthur smith’s inverleith putting show – edinburgh, dir john dowey, 2000

film

  • losers anonymous – canned comedy prods, dir kevin w. smith

radio

  • serious about comedy – radio 7 prod ed morrish
  • 28 acts in 28 minutes – stand up appearance radio 4 2006 prod ed morrish
  • the milk run – radio 1 2004/5 writing and performing prod colin anderson
  • guest on bbc world service, fred mccauley bbc scotland, bbc leeds, bbc leicester, bbc radio 5 live

  commissioned writing credits

  • the karen taylor show 2005 avalon / bbc3
  • the milk run 2004/5 bbc radio 1
  • the sketch show series 2 2003 avalon / itv
  • in crowd sketch show series 2, 3 & 4 bbc radio 4
  • mayor of balham pilot 2003 bbc radio 4
  • love, life and lipstick additional material smith& watson/ carlton

awards

  • jongleurs new act competition 1998 winner
  • daily telegraph open mike 1997 finalist