Maria Shehata
Acting
Biography
Maria Shehata is a multi award-winning Egyptian-American comedian based in London. Maria has appeared on Dave Channel's 'The Comedy Guide To Life', Showtime, Comedy Central, BBC, and Comic Relief's viral Modern Dating Horror Stories. Winner of Best Comedy at the Miami Web Fest, and Best Comedian at the Hollywood Festival of New Cinema, Maria was shortlisted as one of the Five Best New Acts at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe by The 99 Club and showcased as Pick of the Fringe at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe, was tour support for Bill Burr, and her writing has been published in Funny Women, British Comedy Guide, and The New York Times. Recently Maria was shortlisted for the UKTV Writing Opportunity and named Semi-Finalist in the Lonely Wolf London International Film Festival. She is co-host of the weekly comedy podcast 2 Non Doctors.
Known For
A British stand-up comedy programme performed from the Hammersmith Apollo Theatre in west London.
Live at the Apollo
Former high school friends run into each other years later and drunkenly decide to make good on their promise to marry each other if they're both still single by 30 - only to discover too late all the things they liked about each other when they were younger have changed.
Brand New Old Love
The director takes us on a hilarious tour from Dubai to Beirut, Riyadh to New York with a gaggle of other stand-up talent. Along the way, taboos of culture and geopolitics are exploded, and a younger generation of both comedy talents and audiences is born.
Just Like Us
An art house series about a stand-up comedian and filmmaker, whose career is run by the mob. The mob wants him to write a movie but he has writer's block. When he's not writing, the characters in his script come to life.
Caesar
a short film with comedian Maria Shehata.