Rose Matafeo
- 33 years old
- From New Zealand
- Actor, writer, stand-up comedian and director
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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 2018Award 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 2018There'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 2018Funny 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 2018Weekend: 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 2018Edinburgh Comedy Awards shortlist 2018
The shortlists for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2018 have been announced.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd August 2018Young 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 2018Video: Rose Matafeo
Rose Matafeo took some time out of her busy Edinburgh Fringe run to chat to us at EdFestMag.com.
Edinburgh Festivals, 13th August 2018Opinion: Edinburgh Comedy Awards - Predictions
It's what I'd like to see on the list. There are over a thousand comedy shows in Edinburgh. I've barely scratched the surface. But I'd also say if you are in Edinburgh or see these shows below coming to your town bag a ticket. Even if they don't win any awards I don't think you'll be disappointed.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 12th August 2018The best shows we saw before the festival started
Reviews from Melbourne and elsewhere.
Chortle, 2nd August 2018