comedian, podcaster, actor, improviser & writer.
Hello there! I am very glad you clicked on through to my face. My name is Cariad and I do a lot of things because it’s hard to be one thing now thanks to Arts Cuts and the rise of inspirational quotes encouraging us all.
I’ve been on telly in shows such as Alan Partridge, Murder in Successville and Peep Show not being me. I’ve also been on Have I Got News For You, Would I Lie To You and QI being me. I like doing both.
I regularly pretend to be a Regency lady with my improv show, Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel. We wear bonnets and breeches and make up a comedy play in the style of Jane Austen. We’ve had five sell-out Edinburgh Festivals and are currently performing weekly in London’s West End.
I am the creator and host of the award winning podcast, Griefcast. It won Best Entertainment, Best Interview and Podcast of the Year at The British Podcast Awards 2018 and Best Podcast at the ARIA’s too. It’s been featured in The Times, The Independent, You Magazine, Radio Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian. You can follow on twitter @thegriefcast and subscribe on iTunes or listen on Acast.
Austentatious
An entirely improvised comedy play in the style of Jane Austen, based on nothing more than a title suggested by the audience.
Performed in full Regency costume, with live musical accompaniment, Austentatious’s past works include ‘Bath to the Future’, ‘Strictly Come Darcy’ and ‘Mansfield Shark’.
“one of the most enjoyable 60 mins on the fringe” ★★★★ – The Guardian
Griefcast
A multi award-winning podcast that examines the human experiences of grief and death - but with comedians, so it’s cheerier than it sounds.
Griefcast won three Gold prizes at the British Podcast Awards 2018 (Best Entertainment Podcast, Best Interview Podcast, and Podcast of the Year 2018). It also won Podcast of the Year 2018 at the UK ARIA’s, and was nominated for a Rose D’Or in 2019 .
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Other podcasts
Cariad really likes podcasts. She has also appeared as a guest on Richard Herring’s LSTP, Two Shot Podcast, Adam Buxton, Jamie Laing’s Private Parts, Jessie Ware’s Table Manners, R4 Extra’s Podcast Radio Hour, Do The Right Thing, Scummy Mummies, Hoovering, Films to be Buried with Brett Goldstein, Rule of Three, Emma Gannon’s Ctrl Alt Delete, The Trap Door and she’s also appeared on the Guilty Feminist.