Olivia Lee

Olivia Lee is a performer and writer known for creating and writing her own television shows. She currently has several scripted projects in development with production companies and broadcasters in the UK and the US.

Her feature screenplay *Pardon The Interruption* won Best Comedy Screenplay at the Prague Screenplay Awards in 2024. The script was also selected for the New York Script Awards, International World Film Awards, and Budapest Movie Awards, and received an Honorable Mention at the Los Angeles Film and Script Awards. It was a finalist at the Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards and the WeScreenplay Awards. Her half-hour comedy pilot *Scapegoat* is a finalist for the Outstanding Screenplay TV Pilot Awards.

Lee began her career as a comedy performer and gained recognition on Channel 4’s *Balls of Steel*, where she starred in her own segment, *Prank TV with Miss Lee*. Following its success, she created *Olivia Lee’s Naughty Bits* for Channel 4, which led to the Comedy Central series *Olivia Lee: Dirty, Sexy, Funny*, which aired for two seasons.

Her work attracted attention in the US, resulting in appearances on NBC’s *The Tonight Show With Jay Leno*, where she wrote and starred in a recurring comedy segment. This led to truTV commissioning her comedy pilot *The Olivia Lee Show*, produced by Ben Stiller through his company Red Hour. More recently, she created and starred in the Channel 4 pilot *Make Me A Misogynist*, in which she played a male character. As an actress, she has appeared in several well-known television sitcoms.

Lee also released her debut album *Mindful Mum: How Not To Lose Your Total Fucing Sht* with Universal Records, offering a humorous take on mindfulness. The album was well received and adapted into a live show, *Olivia Lee: Losing Her Total Fucing Sht*, which explores themes of female anger and toxic femininity. A tour of the show is currently in development.