Amy Mason

Place: Poole

Born: 1982

Biography:

Amy Mason is a British comedian, novelist and theatre maker from Bristol, England. She was born on May 17, 1982 in Poole, Dorset, England. Mason grew up in Poole, Dorset, where she attended Parkstone Grammar School, leaving at the age of 16. She subsequently completed an MPhil in writing at the University of South Wales. Mason is the granddaughter of actor, Lionel Jeffries. She has written and performed two shows, both produced by Bristol Old Vic; Mass and The Islanders. The Islanders was written with Mason's ex-partner, Art Brut singer Eddie Argos and award-winning folk singer-songwriter, Jim Moray. It won the 2013 Ideas Tap Edinburgh Fringe Fund, before being published as a graphic novel by Nasty Little Press. Mason's non-fiction has also appeared in The Guardian. In 2009 Mason's short story 'To the Bridge' was published in the Tindal Street Press anthology Roads Ahead. She has also written a novel, The Other Ida, which won the 2014 Dundee International Book Prize.