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The Writer - Angie Lemar

Sharp, funny and above all stylish, Angie Le Mar is one of Britain’s top comediennes. Whether on TV, Radio or in her dynamic live show which regularly sells out 1,000 seater theatres, Angie is a proven hit with male and female, black and white audiences and is equally at home with quick-fire comedy, acutely observed character sketches and solid acting performance.

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 black entertainment. This market is far wider then just the black community itself, but one the mainstream media has been unable to tap into...until now.

Angie’s wide ranging career achievements, from being the first British performer to storm the legendary Harlem Apollo to making history in London‘s West End with the first ever sell out show by a black comedienne, not only enable her to deliver top quality performance and production values on stage, screen and the airwaves, but also to attract a large and loyal fan base along with greatly increased audiences wherever her work appears.

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 and Maya Angelou.

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). She was the only broadcaster given an exclusive interview by Hollywood legend Whoopi Goldberg; and her coverage of Whoopi’s autobiography helped make it a UK best-seller. In the theatre, Angie’s award winning stand up comedy has been celebrated with two star studded “Audience with...” Events, while she is equally well know as the writer, director and star of the ground breaking Funny Black Women on the Edge- the unique sketch show which broke box office records at the Edinburgh Festival, had two sell out runs at Theatre Royal Stratford East, will return by popular demand for one final celebration at the newly refurbished Hackney Empire for International Women’s Month in Spring 2007. She has also played in the West End with The Vagina Monologues as well as her one woman show.

Straight To Audience was 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.

The theatrical version of The Brothers sold out it’s first run at The Hackney Empire’s Bullion Room and returned by popular demand to the Theatre’s 1200 seater Main Space where it became the theatre’s fastest selling show in ten years, with extra nights having to be added to meet the demand.

Forthcoming productions at The Hackney Empire include Do You Know Where Your Daughter Is? which opens August 2006. Written and directed by Angie, Daughter features a cast of teenage actors in a hard hitting and very topical drama focusing on the tensions of mother daughter relationships and the often devastating consequences of peer pressure and street violence. Forty written, directed by and starring Angie is 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.

Angie Le Mar is Britain’s First Lady of Black Comedy and as such has won numerous awards . including several BECA awards-for Best Stand Up Female and twice for Most Original Material, The Men and Women of Merit award and the prestigious EFBWO - European Federation Of Black Women In Business 2002. BECA 06 The Best Comedy Drama Award for ‘THE BROTHERS.’