
TOP 3 FINALIST, FUNNY WOMEN COMEDY SHORTS 2022
Winner, the tv foundation/comedy 5050 bursary & mentorship, Edinburgh tv festival 2022
2 x finalist, Edinburgh tv festival best web series & un-commissioned pilot, and top 20% of best screenplay award
BBC WRITERS ACADEMY 2022 tOP 26%
Winner, Fulwell 73/Comedy 5050 Comedy Short Competition 2021
Finalist, female voices rock film festival for new tv half hour co-written about adhd
BCG Pro Talent Writing Award Runner-up, British Comedy Guide 2021
Edinburgh TV Festival New Voice Awards ‘Best Un-commissioned Pilot’ Nominee 2020
Winner, BCG Pro Best Editing for ‘Russian Doll: ADHD’, British Comedy Guide 2020
BBC Writers Room top 4 % 2019
Thousand Films Competition Long-listed 2019
Funny Women Awards 3 times nominee & commendation 2018, 2021
Comedy Crowd Chorts Festival Official Selection 2017 & 2019 and Short Film Breaks 2019

‘🤣 SO TRUE.’ RORY BREMNER ‘Genius’ The Stage ‘properly funny’ david reviews
‘wonderfully weird & Brilliantly funny’ SHOTS
‘stunning & a worthy cause’ british comedy guide
‘Very funny’ Deborah Francis White & Guilty Feminist
“Neurodivergent at its best. 🙂 Dying here… LOL”, The IQ Marketer
“😆 funny af! I just fell down a rabbit hole of watching ]these] videos” The ADHD Gift
“A lovely sketch about the Pythons trying to sell their show to the BBC and receiving a response many female comedians will recognise …” Dick Fiddy, BFI
A Guardian & BBC-featured author & comedy writer from London & Brighton, Lorelei Mathias writes sketches, novels & articles about falling in love… and out again. She is in various screenwriting writers rooms from The Treason Show to BBC’s Breaking the News.
She’s founder of cause-powered comedy collective MelonComedy, and she’s currently writing a new book about the hilarity of Adult ADHD. Here’s the companion TV show:

You can read all about it here...read her latest blogs & articles, or stroll the aisles of her online shop.
Hear her on the BBC talking about her two specialist subjects, neurodiversity & mermaids…
…And her sketch show Batshit by Melon Comedy (Edinburgh TV Festival nominated) licensed to various online channels but still looking for its broadcast home. More at Meloncomedy.com

Pic: Steve Ullathorne.

