I love the sound of collaboration and would love to be a guest at your podcast, an actor in your sketch, a performer in your show, a sound board to your creative idea.

I also love the sound of paid work, if only for the fact I need to feed and shelter myself and Madeleine McCatt. Yes that’s the name of my cat.

I can:

• perform comedy
• create site specific performance (have done so on several occasions including The British Museum Pride events in 2022 & 2023, and Duckie’s Princess Promenade in 2021)
• be a part of your writers room
• write on a variety of subjects (I’m old and have a long past not in the arts!)
• photograph you or your show/event
• film your event or promotional video
• operate the tech in your show
• facilitate workshops on standup and improv
• speak on a variety of subjects (remember I’m old and have a long past not in the arts? I also have so many opinions!)
• present or be a talking head on your corporate video
• create a graphic you can use to promote your show or podcast
• produce your podcast idea
• pitch you my podcast idea
• do research for your project
• and so much more!

I’d love to (and would love to shadow you to):

• get more experience directing comedy
• get more experience photographing in a studio
• get more experience in roles within film sets
• get more experience designing lighting and sound for a show

I’ve been thinking a lot about:

• the misinformation era we seem to be in,
• the fact that my parents paid for an academic education, that garnered me a MSc in Biochemistry and cancer research, and I don’t practice science anymore,
• the fact that the rise in the far right all over the world is probably due to lack of media literacy, particularly social media literacy, and lack of critical thinking ability, and how the removal of fact checking departments that keep being announced by these billionaire owners of social media, might make all of that worse,
• the fact that if I’ve learnt anything from that education my parents paid for, was how to research, check sources, and look at it all with a very critical eye – that’s like…what scientific research is, sprinkled with some time in the lab, and lots of pipetting
• and how I’m probably in a very good position to help out in this dystopic reality we seem to be living in

You can:

• tell me what to do with my thoughts
• contact me through marianasbits@gmail.com if you’d like to help me with the previous point, collaborate at anything, or pay me to work with you.