British Comedy Guide
Rose Matafeo
Rose Matafeo

Rose Matafeo

  • 32 years old
  • From New Zealand
  • Actor, writer, stand-up comedian and director

Press clippings Page 15

Rose Matafeo interview

"Being called the voice of millennials gave me massive imposter syndrome"

Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 26th September 2018

Comedy Awards prove that proper humour is back

In recent years, the ECAs have prompted grumbling in some quarters for praising important but challenging work over shows with mainstream appeal.

Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 26th August 2018

Why Rose Matafeo winning is such a huge deal

Last night Rose Matafeo won the Edinburgh Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, one of the most prestigious awards for comedians anywhere. Here's why that matters.

Sam Brooks, The Spin Off (New Zealand), 26th August 2018

Edinburgh Comedy Award winners 2018

Rose Matafeo has won the Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2018. Ciarán Dowd was named Best Newcomer, and the Panel Prize went to Angela Barnes.

British Comedy Guide, 25th August 2018

Award champ Rose Matafeo's Horndog is a comedy smash

The Kiwi standup thoroughly deserves her success with an uproarious, emotionally intimate and feminist show.

Brian Logan, The Guardian, 25th August 2018

There's comedy in everything

It's Thursday morning and seven comedians have walked into a bar. It should be the cue for a joke but over the next hour or so all of them seem lost in the excitement surrounding the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.

Mike Wade, The Times, 25th August 2018

Funny women on the Fringe podcasts: Rose Matafeo

Funny Women were backstage at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards to chat to a very happy Rose Matafeo, the first person of colour and the first Kiwi to ever win the prestigious prize! Congratulations Rose! with Becky Sing.

Becky Singh, Funny Women, 25th August 2018

Weekend: Edinburgh Award shortlister Rose Matafeo

Somewhere in the bowels of YouTube there's footage of a nerdy 16-year-old Rose Matafeo doing her first stand-up set.

Ashley Davies, Metro, 24th August 2018

Edinburgh Comedy Awards shortlist 2018

The shortlists for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2018 have been announced.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd August 2018

Young women are smashing it at Edinburgh with #MeToo

2018 may be the year of young women as their influence goes far beyond the fringe. But amplifying voices is not enough.

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, The Guardian, 20th August 2018

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