Angie Le Mar

Angie Le Mar is one of Britain’s top comediennes. Angie’s wide ranging career achievements enable her to deliver top quality performance and production values on stage, screen and the airwaves. From being the first British performer to storm the legendary Harlem Apollo to making history in London‘s West End, Angie is a proven hit with audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
   Angie founded Straight to Audience Productions to draw not just on her unsurpassed reputation as a performer and writer but also on her acknowledged expertise in direction, production and marketing, to serve the growing international market for vibrant, top quality entertainment. Amongst her many productions include the hard hitting and topical drama Do You Know Where Your Daughter Is? in which Angie wrote and produced. It features a cast of teenage actors and focuses on the tensions of mother daughter relationships and the often devastating consequences of peer pressure.
   In the theatre, Angie’s award winning standup comedy has been celebrated with two star studded “Audience with...” Events, while she is equally well known as the writer, director and star of the ground breaking Funny Black Women on the Edge- the unique sketch show broke box office records at the Edinburgh Festival, and Forty the story of five women who discover that what was intended to be a celebration of old school ties turns into a night of score settling, personal revelation and ultimately forgiveness.
   The Angie Le Mar Show on Choice Fm, Britain’s Leading Urban Talk and Music station has trebled the station’s listenership in the weekend morning slot and has attracted guests ranging from Stevie Wonder, Danny Glover and John Singleton to India Irie, Maya Angelou and Whoopi Goldberg. Angie’s TV work includes memorable appearances on top rated shows such as BBC’s Grumpy Old Women, Must Try Harder, The Real McCoy, and her starring role in four successful series of Get Up Stand Up (Channel Four).
   Straight To Audience launched in May 2001 with the video release of Angie Le Mar The Movie making her live stand up available to eager fans for the first time. The success of the video allowed Angie to develop her work as a writer, director and producer of shows with other artists including Will the Real Wayne Rollins Please Stand Up, Big Sister which used the Big Brother format as a vehicle to showcase up and coming young comics and 26 episodes of Sharp Cuts a radio comedy/drama which Angie wrote and starred in for Choice FM. The success of Sharp Cuts led to the development of The Brothers, a radio drama which attracted 40,000 new listeners to the show and convinced Angie that there was a market for a live production.
    Not only has Angie Le Mar won numerous awards and accolades, as Britain’s First Lady of Black Comedy, but by her example she continues to raise the bar for women in the entertainment industry.