Mari Crawford (like calamari) is an artist based in NYC. She is the winner of the Bounce Emerging Artist Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for her one woman show Bipolar Badass which she premiered at the 2023 Asheville Fringe Festival and performed at the West End Theatre in NYC. As the recipient of the Bounce Emerging Artist Award, Mari headlined the Bounce Arts Festival in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Bipolar Badass made its Off-Broadway debut at the United Solo Festival on April 5th and after selling out the theater it is having an encore performance on April 24th at 8:30.
Mari has been featured on BBC WorldWide, NPR, and WNYC. The First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf wrote to Mari to congratulate her on Bipolar Badass and the Bounce Emerging Artist Award, you can see a copy of that letter here. She was a staff writer for Netflix Comedian Sammy Obeid's KO Comedy. Mari performs stand-up at several clubs in NYC including the West Side Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club and Greenwich Village Comedy Club and has performed in line-ups alongside notable acts including Tiffany Haddish and Ilana Glazer. Mari began performing comedy in New Orleans and was featured in The Last OG on TBS. Mari is an alumna of the New York State Summer School for the Arts School of Theatre, the British American Drama Academy, and Bard College where she received the Don Parker Award for Excellence in Theater Performance for her work highlighting mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex. She has served in AmeriCorps and is a singer-songwriter who plays violin, guitar, and piano. |