LIZZIE BATES

Lizzie is a comedy writer and performer.

 

In 2013, she won the BAFTA Rocliffe sitcom competition with writing partner Anna Emerson. Their winning script was performed at the New York TV Festival as part of the Future of British Comedy showcase.

 

As part of critically acclaimed sketch group The Boom Jennies, Lizzie

co-wrote and co-starred in two series of their BBC Radio 4 sitcom Mission Improbable and Sketchorama.

 

Lizzie has written sketches for ITV’s Off Their Rockers, starred in the pilot for primetime BBC1 show, Richard Hammond’s Secret Service, and played a Zombie Princess Diana in the short film Misguided.

 

Lizzie regularly performs solo character comedy. She runs her own sketch and character night, Hoot, and in 2014 she took her debut character comedy show, Lizzie Bates: Reprobates, to the Edinburgh fringe.