Career
The next year she co-wrote Psister Psycho - a musical about a killer robotic lesbian nun - with Martin White for the 2007 Edinburgh Festival which was a cult hit and was nominated for the Chortle Award for Best Full Length Show 2008. Ward has written for many radio shows including The News Quiz, The Now Show, The Lee Mack Show, Look Away Now and Day the Music Died. She also wrote one whole joke for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts award winning Harry Hill"s television Burp.
She is known for her dark and idiosyncratic writing and was the holder of the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio writers bursary 2006-2007.
Ward also featured on Newswipe with Charlie Brooker for British Broadcasting Corporation Four. Ward co-presented Dave Gorman"s Absolute Radio Sunday morning show from when the show started in October 2009 until its end in November 2012.
Her frequent collaborator Martin White was also a long term contributor to the show. Ward also hosts "Ward and White"s Karaoke Circus", a live music karaoke night at the Edinburgh Festival, The 100 Club and its regular home of The Albany.
An experienced bass player she has released three albums with Cardiff indie band The Loves.
She plays guitar in Brighton indie band The Super Wolfgang. Alongside David Reed, Ward co-presents the weekly Absolute Radio film podcast, Film Fandango. The series began in November 2011.
From November 2012, Ward has been in Phyllida Lloyd"s all-female-cast stage production of Julius Caesar.
In her absence from the Film Fandango podcast, her place was taken by comedian Marek Larwood, though she did appear alongside Reed and Larwood in the final episode of 2012 (episode 60). Ward also hosts the Sony Award-winning comedy panel-show podcast Do the Right Thing in addition to devising and writing the comedy panel show Dilemma on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4.
