Susan Calman

Education

University of Glasgow.

Career

She appeared in Channel 4 sketch shows and was one of the relief presenters for Fred MacAulay on his British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Scotland show MacAulay and Company which ran until March 2015. She has also appeared in Rab C. Nesbitt. Calman is a regular at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and at The Stand Comedy Club.

Other television work includes presenting the CBBC programme Extreme School and providing the comic voiceover on the CBBC series Disaster Chefs.

She played the "sandwich lady" frequently throughout Series 5 of Dani"s House, and presented a quiz show called The Lie on STV. Since 2014 Calman appears on most episodes of Comedy Panel Show The Dog Ate My Homework in The First Three Series. She is currently a team captain on the British Broadcasting Corporation Northern Ireland comedy panel show "Bad Language".

Calman went to a fee-paying independent school, The High School of Glasgow, and then went on to study law at Glasgow University, winning a Judge Brennan scholarship and a three-month stint in North Carolina working with criminals on death row. She gradually became dissatisfied with working as a specialist in freedom of information and data protection and developed her stand-up comedy during evenings, eventually giving up her job with Dundas & Wilson to develop a career in comedy.

She reached the semi-finals of the British Broadcasting Corporation New Comedy Awards in 2005 and was a finalist in the Funny Women competition in 2006.

Between 2011 and 2013, Calman played therapist Nadine in the comedy Fresh Meat. In 2013, Calman wrote about receiving online abuse after joking about the Scottish independence referendum on the Radio 4 satirical comedy programme The News Quiz, including accusations of betraying her country, and of being "racist" towards other Scots. 2015 - Lady Like (Go Faster Stripe).

Achievements

• The Channel 4’s sketch show Blowout won a Scottish British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2007, with Calman amongst the cast. In 2009, she won Best New Scottish Comedian at the Real Radio Variety Awards. Her debut Radio4 solo series, Susan Calman is Convicted won the 2013 Writers" Guild of Great Britain Awards for "Best Radio Comedy" and featured in the 2012 sitcom Dead Boss for British Broadcasting Corporation Three. In July 2014, Calman appeared in the British Broadcasting Corporation Scotland one-off stand-up/sketch show Don"t Drop the Baton which featured sketches about the 2014 Commonwealth Games and narrated the British Broadcasting Corporation Three dating show Sexy Beasts.