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Maggie Gordon-Walker

Finalist in the Funny Women Awards 2006

Next gig YOICKS! at the Hare and Hounds, Brighton Fringe, May 17th

Maggie has flirted with comedy throughout her career, mostly through sketch shows, including Parsons and Naylor's TBA at The Gate and Variety Nights with Isoceles Comedy Company at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East many moons ago; but never had the courage to give the circuit a try.

Finally fed up with being at the bottom of the decision heap as an actor and in reality spending far too much time as a market researcher, she turned to comedy in the autumn of 2003. Venues she's performed at include The Kings Head, Comedy Cafe, Amused Moose Camden, Battersea Barge, Balham Banana, Laughing Horse Soho and Ginglik.

Temporarily curtailed by motherhood at the end of 2004, she has recently been performing in Sketch Club - Downstairs at the Kings Head, purveyors of the highly successful Comedy 365 podcast and Channel 4's 'Pets'.

She prefers to appear as somebody else - her two main personas to date are Mary Christmas, with her self-help group for singles entitled 'Get Laid' and Margo Crabstick, an alcoholic, lecherous Edinburgh Festival reviewer.

She believes that character acts bring variety to the circuit and hopes to see more of them out there. Her greatest comic manifestation to date was meeting Archbishop Rowan Williams at her mother's ordination and trying to engage him in Bishop and Actress banter.


Credits include:

Presenting as Mary Christmas for Friendly TV, Sky Digital and for BAGGAGE RECLAIM on Resonance FM Radio

Mary Christmas has also appeared in her own show 'AN ENCHANTED EVENING WITH A GOOD FRIEND' at the Canal Cafe alongside Russell Churney and in Sketch Club at the Gilded Balloon (Edinburgh 02)

She has performed extensively with The Black Sheep: as Mary Magdalene in 'HOLY DAYS' at the Soho Theatre and as a storyteller for FAIRLY TALES; Lyric-Hammersmith,

‘C’ Edinburgh and tour (Critics Choice: Time Out, The Stage, Times Education Supplement, Chortle)

A series of promos for UK FOOD for Living TV, BBC Digital

Founder member of Fluxx, the improvised theatre group, who created 'La Ronde-Improvised'. Fluxx has performed around Britain, in Athens, Paris, Atlanta, at the International Impro Festival in Amsterdam and the Shifti Festival at Warwick Arts Centre.

Reviews:
'YOICKS delivered the most original and entertaining comedy I have seen so far this festival - The Black Sheep, Wilkie and Walker, Mark Katz and special guests proved a winning combination. Maggie Gordon-Walker -spot on, brilliant as Margo Crabstick.' - Three Weeks

Margo Crabstick: The shows Margo told the audience she went to review included a performance called 17 Bisexuals and a Bassoon, which got a roar of laughter from the audience. It was a performance that will appeal to audiences who are familiar with life at the Edinburgh Festival. Inside Comedy

Mary Christmas: In silver-pinned headdress, Mary's dressed to allure: 'A stranger's just a husband in disguise'. A well-formed and written set littered with sharp gags, many of them subtly filthy. Fringe Report

The Black Sheep: Delightful images are conjured up by the talented cast of the improvised storytelling show FairLy Tales. Sitting somewhere in the Venn diagram overlap of comedy, theatre and kids' entertainment, this is a magical and entertaining way to start the day. FairLy Tales is warmly funny - and many of the yarns spun reduced the technician and cast members sitting out that scene to laughter. A clear indication of the genuinely improvisational nature of what was being created.There's a creative, surreal strand running through, and it never sacrifices narrative threat or genuine, warm humour for a gratuitously bizarre non-sequiteur. This is all about storytelling, after all, and it's brilliantly done. Worth getting up in the morning for. Chortle

Holy Days: Each actor delivers an entertaining and funny performance. Maggie Gordon-Walker however steals the show with a Mary Magdelene combining raunch and a Mae-West-quality delivery of glorious one-liners ('Jesus, if you're going to give me a sermon, make it the Sermon On The Mount'). If Mary Magdelene's statue subsequently attracts more prayers than normal at churches during Advent, it will be for entirely the wrong reasons. Fringe Report

The Bath: Maggie Gordon-Walker's Sandy, all chippy self-defensiveness, is an intriguing mixture, intent on having her man whatever the cost...an unsettlingly intimate two-hander, offering an evening of fringe at its very best. Time Out