Isy Suttie - Career

Career

Suttie trained as an actress at the Guildford School of Acting, graduating in 2000.

She began performing stand up comedy in 2003 and her act normally consists of music, stand-up and stories, either as herself or under the guise of a character.

BBC Radio writing and performing work includes The Mitch Benn Music Show, Tilt (BBC 7); Out to Lunch, "The Trap" (BBC Radio 2); The Milk Run (BBC Radio 1); The Now Show, The Alternative Women's Institute, Four on the Floor, Danny Robins Music Therapy, Laurence & Gus: Hearts & Minds, Sarah Millican's Support Group, Charlie Brooker's So Wrong It's Right, and Pearl and Dave (all BBC Radio 4). She is also a regular presenter of The Comedy Club on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

For series 3 and 4, she wrote for the popular teenage drama Skins under the guise of "comedy consultant".

At the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe, Suttie was one of the acts in stand-up showcase The Comedy Zone. In 2006, she acted in Danielle Ward's Take-a-Break Tales at The Pleasance with Neil Edmond and Emma Fryer. In 2007, she performed her debut solo stand-up show, Love Lost in the British Retail Industry, which she took to Sydney Arts Festival and on a UK tour in 2010-11, and in 2008 her second solo Edinburgh show The Suttie Show. She played psycho killer Sorrow in the revival of Danielle Ward and Martin White's cult musical Gutted at the Leicester Square Theatre for two performances in February and March 2011. She took her third solo stand-up show, Pearl and Dave, to Edinburgh in August 2011. Pearl and Dave was picked by BBC Radio 4 to be one of four broadcast pilots of Edinburgh shows from 2011, alongside Thom Tuck, Chris Ramsey and John Peel's Shed, and was broadcast in January 2012, followed by a UK tour. Suttie has had a four-part BBC Radio 4 series commissioned based on Pearl and Dave to be broadcast in 2013.

An accomplished musician, Suttie composed and directed the score for Marat/Sade at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2001. She occasionally duets with folk musician Gavin Osborn and supported Jim Bob (previously of Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine) on tour in 2010.

Suttie was nominated for Best Female Newcomer at the 2008 British Comedy Awards and Female Breakthrough Artist at the 2011 British Comedy Awards. She was nominated for Funniest Woman in the 2010 Loaded magazine's Lafta Awards, which she won in 2011. She was nominated again in 2012. She was regional winner of the Daily Telegraph Young Jazz Competition (1995) for composition, winner of the Julian Slade Songwriting Competition (1998) and Chortle Awards best newcomer nominee (2005).

In July 2009, Suttie appeared on the panel game 8 out of 10 Cats on Channel 4 and in 2011 she appeared alongside Simon Evans and Dave Gorman in Dave's One Night Stand (Dave Channel). In 2011, she appeared in Improvisation My Dear Mark Watson alongside Mark Watson, Josie Long, Rufus Hound, Colin Hoult, Stephen K Amos and Charlie Baker (Dave Channel).

She provides the voices for BBC One's Walk on the Wild Side in addition to voicing the character of Josie The Dog in Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler's Penelope Princess of Pets (Channel 4 Comedy Lab). She provides voices for children's series The Octonauts' and "The Revolting World of Stanley Brown"'.

She played a waitress called Kiki alongside Alan Davies in BBC Two's Whites, which aired in autumn 2010.

She has also made TV appearances in Holby City, as Mary Shelley in The Trouble With Love (BBC Two), as various characters in The Incredible Will and Greg (Channel 4), as Lianne in Rab C. Nesbitt (BBC), as a judge in Genie in the House and as a nurse in two episodes of Skins (Channel 4).

In March 2012, she appeared in the fifth episode of the second series of White Van Man, "They Think It's All Over".

She has been on the UK team for the monthly podcast 'International Waters', hosted by Jesse Thorn of maximumfun.org. She appeared on Episode 2 at the end of March 2012, alongside Dan Antopolski.

She was cast as IT geek Dobby in Peep Show in 2008.

In October 2012 it was reported that she will appear as a regular character in series 11 of "Shameless", due to be broadcast in 2013.

She appears in the S4C Welsh Learners Programme 'Hwb' as a Welsh learner (which she is in real life) in a regular sketch called "Y Wers Gymraeg " ("The Welsh Lesson").

In 2012, Suttie voice acted in the childrens CBBC show called 'The Cow that almost missed Christmas' along with Johnny Vegas. The show is a one off animation which gives a unique interpretation of the Christmas nativty seen through the eyes of a cow called Majorie, who Suttie voices.