Francesca is a wobbly* comedian, disability rights activist, environmental activist, writer and speaker who has toured internationally with sell-out runs at The

Melbourne Comedy Festival, The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. She

launched her comedy career in 2000 beating a thousand UK comedians including Mathew Horne, Karl Theobald

and Jimmy Carr, to become the only woman to win the Open Mic Award. She has performed in Australia, Ireland,

France, South Africa, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, in Hollywood, on Broadway and at the World Economic

Forum in Davos, Switzerland alongside actress Emma Thompson. From 2003 to 2008, Francesca toured her hit Edinburgh solo shows 'I'mperfect' and 'In Deep' around the UK.

From 2011 to 2013, her 50 date tour of Australia and 67 date tour of the UK and Ireland with What The *** Is

Normal?! gained a nomination for Best Comedian at the Perth Fringe, won her the Edinburgh Fringe Media

Network Award 2011 and a nomination for Best Show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2013. Her best-selling book,

also called What The **** Is Normal?!, was published by Random House in 2014. Nominated Best Book in the

Chortle Comedy Awards 2015, and runner up in the Bread & Roses Book Award 2015, the book has garnered

rave reviews from critics and the public alike. In 2016 she supported Frankie Boyle on tour and was

commissioned to write and perform a new comedy show: Francesca Martinez’s Wobbly Manifesto.

* Oh yeah, she has mild cerebral palsy but she much prefers the word ‘wobbly’.