Harriet Dyer
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Harriet has been performing stand-up comedy professionally since 2013. She was shortlisted for the BBC New Comedy Award competition in 2014 and has performed a number of solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe including the award-winning and critically-acclaimed, Harriet Dyer: Trigger Warning.
Her TV and radio credits include The Russell Howard Hour (Sky Max), The 13 Million Club (BBC Radio 4) and Sarah Millican’s Elephant In The Room on BBC Radio 4. In addition to this, she has written for both series of Jon Richardson’s Channel Hopping on Comedy Central, and written for and starred in Dave’s Meet The Richardsons.
Harriet is a mental health advocate having founded The Upstanding Citizens Bureau in Oldham, Greater Manchester, which serves as a safe space for those with mental health conditions. She also created the multi-award-winning comedy night, Barking Tales, where fellow comedians talk and tell stories about their own mental health, and she is the author of the book Bipolar Comedian.
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" half mania, half Victoria Wood. Her sprawling stand-up is endearing and complex. Hilarious…She has quietly reinvented the confessional stand-up "
" Delightful…wonderful…understated excellence…with a sense of the joyful absurdity of life. Entirely charming. "
" Much of Trigger Warning is heartbreaking and sobering…her astute humour elevating it to anecdotal art that humanises the horror and is all the more affecting for it. "
" If all you want is a hilarious show, performed by an exquisitely expressive comedian, with an ease of making even the darkest moments in her mental health history funny, then Harriet Dyer is definitely your person! If you don’t fight the fun, it will no doubt find you! It oozes out of Harriet Dyer and infects us all! "