Cariad Lloyd
Katie Cariad Lloyd (born 21 August 1982) is a British comedian, actor, writer, and podcaster who has been performing since 2007. She was nominated in 2011 for Best Newcomer at the Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Awards for her debut solo show, "Lady Cariad's Characters". She also won the Edtwinge award for most positively tweeted-about show during the Fringe. She is a member of the improvisational comedy group Austentatious and teaches improv. Early life. Lloyd was born in London. She is of Welsh descent on her father’s side. Her father died of pancreatic cancer when she was  15. She studied English literature at the University of Sussex, where she first met her friend and fellow comedian Sara Pascoe. Lloyd worked with Pascoe as a tour guide on open-top buses in London. Career. Television and radio work. Lloyd has performed in numerous sketches on BBC Comedy Online including "Funtime" (a Dawson Bros. pilot), "The Proposal" and "Dirty Dancing". She has performed for the BBC Radio 4 shows "Newsjack", "My First Planet", "The Now Show", "Small Scenes" and "The Guns of Adam Riches". Lloyd has appeared on television shows such as Channel 4's "Cardinal Burns" and CBBC 's "Fit "and "DNN" and in films such as Baby Cow Productions' "Caravan" and Film4's "Hallo Panda". She wrote and performed in her own comedy pilot for BBC3, "The Cariad Show". In May 2014, BBC Radio 4 aired a pilot for "The Cariad Radio Show", which was featured on the BBC Comedy of the Week podcast. Since 2014 she has been co-writing and performing in the BBC Radio Wales sketch comedy show "Here Be Dragons". In 2014 Lloyd starred as Holly in the BBC Three comedy pilot "Vodka Diaries" and as Poppy in the comedy series "Give Out  Girls" on Comedy Central. In 2015 she played Dawn, a warden in a young offenders' institution in the BBC Three comedy series "Crims". In 2016 she appeared in the initial two episodes of Walliams & Friend on BBC One. She was also a series regular, playing several semi-improvised characters on "Murder in Successville" with Tom Davis. Lloyd is a regular panellist on "QI", having appeared in 12 episodes as of January 2022. She has also appeared on "Have I Got News for You", "Would I Lie to You?", "The News Quiz" and "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown". She  appeared in the final series of "Peep Show" as Megan. In 2020 she appeared in Sara Pascoe's comedy series "Out of Her Mind" for BBC television. In March 2021, she presented the BBC Radio 4 programme "What Have We Learnt About Grief?" This programme mentioned the work of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Live performance. Lloyd has performed in a variety of live shows since 2006, including "The Freewheelin' Cariad Lloyd" at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2012. In 2013, she performed in "The 50 Hour Improvathon" at Hoxton Hall, and "The Freewheelin' Cariad Lloyd" at Soho Theatre among others. In 2014  she performed at the Edinburgh Fringe with Louise Ford in "Cariad and Louise's Character Hour". Lloyd is a member of the improvisational comedy group Austentatious. In 2014 the show won the Chortle Award for Best Character, Improv or Sketch Act, and two DVDs of one of their live shows have been released by Go Faster Stripe in 2015 and 2018. Other members of the group include Rachel Parris, Amy Cooke-Hodgson and Joseph Morpurgo. Writing. In August 2019 it was announced that Lloyd is writing a book on grief called "You Are Not Alone" to be published by Bloomsbury  Publishing. Podcast. Since 2016 Lloyd has hosted a podcast called "Griefcast" which is a series of downloadable conversations Lloyd has, mostly with fellow comedians, about dealing with the loss of a loved one. It won three awards: "Best Entertainment podcast", "Best Interview podcast" and "Podcast of the Year" at the 2018 British Podcast Awards. Lloyd has appeared on other comedians' podcasts including "Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown" in 2012, "Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast" in 2016 and "Do the Right Thing" in 2017.