by Joanna Orland with Ruth Thomson, Katharine Fry & Ella Jean Foreword Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a huge undertaking.  The longer you are there, the less meaning time has to your existence.  You fully immerse yourself in a summer camp for the arts, a playground filled with high school dramas, tears, broken dreams and shattered […]

Mae Martin’s Workshop by Joanna Orland There’s something about Mae.  Canadian comedian Mae Martin did not bring a prepared show to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe but instead is using this opportunity of having a month-long audience to workshop new material.  Her WIP stories often focus on her family, in particular her mother.  Some material is […]

by Joanna Orland Mae Martin is one of the lucky ones.  At the young age of 13, she already knew what her life would hold for her as she began to forge her career in comedy.  Paving her career path by starting out studying improv, Mae continued full steam ahead by leaving school behind to […]

Jay Foreman & Mae Martin The Vault Festival February 13th, 2014 Presented by Such Small Portions by Joanna Orland For its second year running, The Vault Festival returns to the labyrinth of tunnels that lives beneath Waterloo station.   With six weeks of performances until the 8th of March, the lineup for Vault could not […]