Sarah Kendall
Who Sarah Kendall is
Sarah Kendall is an Australian stand-up comedian, writer and actor based in London, who first played the Edinburgh Festival in 2001 and has been nominated for both the Perrier Award (2004) and the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show (2015). Her show Touchdown won the Piece of Wood, the comedians' own award, at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2014, and with A Day in October and Shaken it became her Australian Trilogy on BBC Radio 4, whose recordings won the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Scripted Comedy and the Writers' Guild award for radio comedy in 2017.
She created, wrote and acts in the comedy series Frayed, seen on Sky in the UK and the ABC in Australia, which brought her a BAFTA nomination in 2020, competed in the eleventh series of Taskmaster and played Lindsey in the BBC's Motherland.
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At a glance
- Based in
- London, England
- Podcasts and radio
- Australian Trilogy and Clare in the Community
- On screen
- Frayed, Taskmaster and Motherland
On stage
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Specials, shows and podcasts
On screen
- Frayed creator, writer and star, Sky / ABC, 2019-2021
- Taskmaster series 11
- Motherland Lindsey, BBC, 2017
Podcasts and radio
- Australian Trilogy BBC Radio 4
- Clare in the Community regular cast
Career timeline
- 2017Motherland (Lindsey, BBC, 2017) On screen
- 2019Frayed (creator, writer and star, Sky / ABC, 2019-2021) On screen
Questions and answers
Where is Sarah Kendall performing next?
No date is on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now.
What podcasts and radio shows have they been on?
Australian Trilogy and Clare in the Community.
What TV shows and films are they in?
Frayed (creator, writer and star, Sky / ABC, 2019-2021), Taskmaster (series 11) and Motherland (Lindsey, BBC, 2017).
Where are they based?
London, England, as their record gives it.
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Sources
- Token Artists · token.com.au ↗ A London-based Australian comedian, first at the Edinburgh Festival in 2001; Herald Angel (2003); Perrier nominee (2004); Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show nominee (2015); Touchdown, A Day in October, Shaken, One-Seventeen and Paper Planes; Piece of Wood (2014); the Australian Trilogy on BBC Radio 4; BBC Audio Drama…
- Melbourne International Comedy Festival — Awards ↗ Piece of Wood 2014: Sarah Kendall, Touchdown (as of 11 October 2026)
Updated 11 October 2026 · the record checked 11 October 2026