Cariad Lloyd


Katie Cariad Lloyd is a British comedian, actress, writer, and podcaster who has been performing since 2007. She was nominated in 2011 for Best Newcomer at the Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Awards for her debut solo show, Lady Cariad's Characters. She also won the Edtwinge award for most positively tweeted-about show during the Fringe. She is a member of the improvisational comedy group Austentatious and teaches improv.

Early life

Lloyd was born in London. She is half Welsh through her father. Her father died of pancreatic cancer when she was 15.
She studied English literature at the University of Sussex, where she first met her friend and fellow comedian Sara Pascoe. Lloyd worked with Pascoe as a tour guide on open-top buses in London.

Career

Television and radio work

Lloyd has performed in numerous sketches on BBC Comedy Online including Funtime, The Proposal and Dirty Dancing. She has performed for the BBC Radio 4 shows Newsjack, My First Planet, The Now Show and The Guns of Adam Riches.
Lloyd has appeared on television shows such as Channel 4's Cardinal Burns and CBBC's Fit and DNN and in films such as Baby Cow Productions' Caravan and Film4's Hallo Panda.
She wrote and performed in her own comedy pilot for BBC3, The Cariad Show. In May 2014, BBC Radio 4 aired a pilot for The Cariad Radio Show, which was featured on the BBC Comedy of the Week podcast. Since 2014 she has been co-writing and performing in the BBC Radio Wales sketch comedy show Here Be Dragons.
In 2014 Lloyd starred as Holly in the BBC Three comedy pilot Vodka Diaries and as Poppy in the comedy series Give Out Girls on Comedy Central. In 2015 she played Dawn, a warden in a young offenders' institution in the BBC Three comedy series Crims. She was also a series regular, playing several semi-improvised characters on Murder in Successville with Tom Davis.
Lloyd is a regular panellist on QI, having appeared in 11 episodes as of January 2020. She has also appeared on Have I Got News for You, Would I Lie to You?, The News Quiz and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
She appeared in the final series of Peep Show as Megan.

Live performance

Lloyd has performed in a variety of live shows since 2006, including The Freewheelin' Cariad Lloyd at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2012. In 2013, she performed in The 50 Hour Improvathon at Hoxton Hall, and The Freewheelin' Cariad Lloyd at Soho Theatre among others. In 2014 she performed at the Edinburgh Fringe with Louise Ford in Cariad and Louise's Character Hour.
Lloyd is a member of the improvisational comedy group Austentatious. In 2014 the show won the Chortle Award for Best Character, Improv or Sketch Act, and two DVDs of one of their live shows have been released by Go Faster Stripe in 2015 and 2018. Other members of the group include Rachel Parris, Amy Cooke-Hodgson and Joseph Morpurgo.

Writing

In August 2019 it was announced that Lloyd is writing a book on grief called You Are Not Alone to be published by Bloomsbury Publishing.

Podcast

Since 2016 Lloyd has hosted a podcast called Griefcast which is a series of downloadable conversations Lloyd has, mostly with fellow comedians, about dealing with the loss of a loved one. It won three awards: "Best Entertainment podcast", "Best Interview podcast" and "Podcast of the Year" at the 2018 British Podcast awards.
Lloyd has appeared on other comedians' podcasts including Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown in 2012, Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast in 2016 and Do the Right Thing in 2017.

Filmography

Television