Charlotte Reather
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Charlotte Reather (born June 10, 1979) is an English comedy writer and actress. Educated at The Cheltenham Ladies’ College, she went on to study English Literature at Kingston University.
Charlotte first burst onto the scene after writing and performing her own stand-up show as part of the Open Mic Awards. She then went on to produce comedy events at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) featuring well-known performers such as Simon Munnery, Stewart Lee and Lee Mack.
More recently, Charlotte has written for Newsrevue, the renowned comedy troupe based in London. Some of her material appeared in NewsRevue’s 2005 Edinburgh Festival show which received 5 star reviews.
Charlotte gained much television experience after working on The Bill, Dispatches and Channel 4 News. In 2004, she took part in a ‘life-swap’ for ITV1’s reality series 'Poor Little Rich Girls'. She subsequently appeared on GMTV.
Charlotte hosts ‘society chatshow’ for www.chatshow.net and has interviewed Jilly Cooper, Stefanie Powers, Sharron Davies and Lady Apsley. She also co-presented a pilot called ‘Result’ for Sky & Granada with Sacha Baron-Cohen aka Ali G.
Charlotte is a regular features contributor to The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, Sunday Express & PQ International. She has also written for Woman & Home and Tatler.
At present, Charlotte is projecting her energies into several developments which include a proposed new sketch show: GUM!GUM! – written by and starring Charlotte and Jon Olney, featuring National Youth Theatre contemporaries Beth Winslet (Scold’s Bridal) and Marc Elliot (History Boys).
She has just completed a radio sitcom with James Harris (Blakewill & Harris) from 2DTV and is working on a TV sitcom.
Charlotte lives in the Cotswolds. She plays polo.
