Daniel Maier

Daniel Maier (born 12 November 1968, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England) is a comedy writer and performer for television, radio, print and the stage.

Since 2002 he has been part of the writing team for ITV1's Bafta Award-winning Harry Hill's TV Burp. In 2010, he wrote two episodes of ITV1 continuing drama Emmerdale.^[1] He has collaborated with Charlie Brooker, writing on the shows You Have Been Watching and How TV Ruined Your Life, and co-writing with Brooker for Sky One the feature-length A Touch Of Cloth ^[2] (due early 2012), starring John Hannah and Suranne Jones. In 2011, Channel 4 announced it was producing a pilot of The Function Room, a sitcom written by Maier, as part of its Comedy Showcase programming strand.^[3] Other television credits include Al Murray’s Personality Disorder, The Peter Serafinowicz Show, Bafta Award-winning The Sketch Show and Alistair McGowan's Big Impression.

Maier is the author of the one-act play The Unattended,^[4] performed at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe; Trapped, a series of half-hour dramas broadcast on BBC Radio 4,^[5] co-written with his brother, the stand-up comedian Mark Maier; as well as writing for and performing in BBC Radio 4 comedy shows including One,^[6] Look Away Now and Broken Arts. He has written and performed a show on Victorian polymath Francis Galton ^[7] and a paper he wrote on the subject has been published in the academic journal Significance.^[8] His first book, Footypedia, was published by Century in June 2008 and his writing appeared in Faber & Faber's book Shouting At The Telly, published in November 2009. Maier is also a contributor to The Guardian,^[9] writing about television and as an occasional World of Lather columnist.

Since 2008, Maier has been a resident judge at the Karaoke Circus shows, both in London and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

In 2010 he compiled the CD Before The Fall for Ace Records.

References

1. ^ Emmerdale episode summary
2. ^ Charlie Brooker pens spoof crime drama for Sky1
3. ^ Lucky seven announced in new Comedy Showcase series
4. ^ British Theatre Guide Fringe Reviews
5. ^ Trapped at BBC.co.uk
6. ^ One at BBC.co.uk
7. ^ Francis Galton: Polymath, eugenicist, comedian
8. ^ [1] Francis Galton: Measuring the immeasurable
9. ^ Daniel Maier at The Guardian

External links

• Daniel Maier at IMDb

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Name	Maier, Daniel
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Short description	Performer on stage, tv and radio
Date of birth	12 November 1968
Place of birth	Newcastle upon Tyne, England
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