Double Bill: Celtic Connections + Little Smith Sunshine
Fem de la Femme called, and you came…so much so that we can’t fit you all through door! Soo, we have some very exciting news for you…drum roll please… this spring we are launching – Fem de la Festival!
Fem de la Festival brings you 3 whole nights of all your favourite women comics downstairs at the Everyman. The crème de la crème of Fem de la Femme will be performing 5 utterly hilarious shows, plus some open mic mayhem on our final night.
The Fem De La Femme women comedians will be taking over downstairs at the Everyman from Thu 22 May to Sat 24 May 2025, with stalls from female led businesses too. We are also offering Find Your Funny Workshops that are open to all and a Q&A panel session for all those women trying to navigate the industry.
Katie Gill-Wiliams & Lorraine Hoodless: Celtic Connections, 7.45pm
Katie Gill-Williams
“Endearingly friendly and gregarious” (Chortle) Katie has performed across the UK including Machynlleth Comedy Festival in 2022, and this year. Katie also features in series two of The Learners for BBC Radio Wales. And was a finalist in Frog and Bucket World Series, 2022.
“Katie is remarkable. She managed to nail the material, confidence and warmth of a pro comic in ten gigs when most take ten years. Joke heavy and joyful stand up packed with smart observations”
Kiri Pritchard-McLean
Katie Presents – Take me to Church
Can all the women that have faced adversity help Katie through the hardest year of her life so far?
And is too soon to do a comedy show about upheaval, heartbreak and breakdowns just a few months after the events? Yeah probably, fun to watch her try though innit.
Lorraine Hoodless
Lorraine Hoodless is building towards her fifth Edinburgh fringe festival. Energetic, incredulous delivery of observational and self reflective funny stuff. ‘well written funny material’ ‘thoroughly deserves to be seen’ one4review. Wildcard Amused Moose New Comedian 2020, and Semi-finalist British Comedian of the year 2021.DINK feedback 2024 Edinburgh Fringe
**** “Finding the funny wherever she goes”
One4Review
Lorraine Presents – Good Girl
Lorraine has conformed, fit in and been a good girl. Kind of…it’s only when she got a puppy dog, she realised what it is to be conditioned by society. Wildcard Amused Moose New Comedian 2020, and Semi-finalist British Comedian of the year 2021.
Allyson June Smith: Little Smith Sunshine, 9.30pm
Canada’s Allyson June Smith is Little Smith Sunshine! If you have had the pleasure of seeing her perform then you know the feeling of Allyson’s presence. You leave her shows feeling like you have made a new pal. Allyson has been a fish out of water for the past 10 years in the UK, now finally feeling like a proper Brit and settled in Manchester she looks forward to her first UK Tour. A self-confessed “over sharer” this show will inevitably serve up a potent observational cocktail of wit, bite and shame.
Allyson June Smith is courageously self-deprecating, her comedic gift is making every room, whatever the size, feel like an intimate group therapy session. That intimacy is at the heart of Allyson’s magic as a comedian. She has received multiple nominations for Best Female Stand-up at the Canadian Comedy Awards
“Simply one of the funniest comedians I’ve ever worked with”
Jason Manford
“Assuredly self-deprecating… hilarious comedian”
The National (UAE)
“Ultra likeable and versatile”
Now Magazine (Canada)
Other A-listers Allyson has been called to share the stage with include Katherine Ryan, Stewart Francis, John Bishop, Stephen Merchant, and Samantha Bee (The Daily Show).