EDFRINGE COMEDY WIP SHOW - Sian Davies

SIAN DAVIES

Sian Davies is a comedian from the North West of England. She won the Edinburgh Comedy Award Panel Prize for Best in Class in 2022, the award for Best Debut Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival in 2020, was runner up in the Funny Women Stage Award in 2019 and winner of Hilarity Bites Best New Act in 2018. She is the driving force behind sell out fringe phenomenon’sBest in ClassandComedy Queers.

Sian’s 2023 show, This Charming Man was produced by Impatient, directed by Elf Lyons and supported by Homotopia. The show received4 star reviewsat the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was nominated forThe Biggest Award in Comedy.

Her first comedy show, About Time debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022 before being recorded as a stand up special for Next Up streaming service.

Sian has appeared on Comedy Central Live and has been a guest on severalpodcastsincluding Menkind with Mark Watson and Thats Me on Screen with Evelyn Mok. She has written articles for The Guardian, The Museum of Liverpool and British Comedy Guide. Sian has led Comedy workshops atAngel ComedyandSoho Theatre.

Sian Davies is working class and queer, and fiercely proud of belonging to both communities.

“A very funny observational stand-up … imagine a queer Peter Kay with more emotional literacy and a quiff like young Morrissey.” 

The Evening Standard