Ep. 563 - Daisy Doris May - Award winning drag king, writer and performer
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Daisy Doris May is an award winning drag king, writer, and performer known for bold, character-driven comedy rooted in queerness and identity. Her acclaimed sketch acts - Steve Porters, HÄNS OFF and The Divine Karen Moonstone - have cemented her reputation as a rising comedy talent, with comparisons to the next Catherine Tate. Daisy has worked across theatre, TV, cabaret, and film for over a decade. Her screen credits include Sex Education, Professor T, The Last Kingdom, Genius, and most recently, the Downton Abbey film. She is also the narrator of Channel 4’s First Dates and the voice of KISS FM. Her live credits include solo residencies at Soho Theatre, tour support for Hannah Gadsby at the London Palladium, and a long-running spot at The Box with her queer cabaret collective, HÄUS OF DONS. At the Edinburgh Fringe, Daisy performed her solo shows How to Flirt: The TED XXX Talk and How to Mate: The Second TED XXX Talk to sold-out audiences and rave reviews. She recently completed a run at the Adelaide Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, where she was nominated for Best Comedy 2025. Daisy was the winner of MAN UP (Europe’s largest Drag King competition), winner of Screenshot 2023, and a finalist at Bristol Comedy Festival 2025.
Daisy Doris May is our guest in episode 563 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
Get tickets for Daisy’s run at Soho Theatre, here - https://sohotheatre.com/events/daisy-doris-may-big-night-out .
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to my time capsule. |
| 0:13.3 | My name's Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is, as it's been for the past 550-plus episodes, |
| 0:20.2 | the podcast where people tell me five things from their life |
| 0:22.8 | that they wish they had in a time capsule. |
| 0:25.6 | Four things that they cherish, |
| 0:26.9 | and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. |
| 0:29.9 | My guest in this episode is Daisy Doris May. |
| 0:33.8 | Daisy is a drag king, writer and performer |
| 0:36.8 | known for bold, character-driven comedy. |
| 0:39.6 | Her acclaimed sketch acts, Steve Porter's, Hands Off, and the Divine Karen Moonstone, |
| 0:45.4 | have cemented her reputation as a rising comedy talent, with comparisons to Catherine Tate. |
| 0:51.5 | Since graduating from Arts Ed, Daisy has worked across theatre, TV, cabaret and film. |
| 0:57.1 | Her screen credits include sex education, Professor T, The Last Kingdom, Genius, and most recently, |
| 1:03.5 | the Downton Abbey film. She's also the narrator of Channel 4's first dates and the voice of Kiss FM. |
| 1:10.3 | Her live credits include solo residences at Soho Theatre, tour support for Hannah Gadsby |
| 1:16.2 | at the London Palladium, and a long-running spot at the box with her queer cabaret |
| 1:21.0 | collective House of Don's, House-felt H-A-U-S. |
| 1:25.5 | Daisy was the winner of Man Up, Europe's largest drag king competition. |
| 1:29.5 | She was the winner of Screenshot 2023 and a finalist at Bristol's Comedy Festival 2025. |
| 1:36.9 | At the Edinburgh Fringe, Daisy performed her solo shows How to Flirt, the TEDXXX, and How to Mate, the second TED Triple X talk, to sold-out audiences and rave reviews. |
| 1:50.1 | She recently completed a run at the Adelaide Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, where she was nominated for Best Comedy 2025. |
| 1:58.7 | And she finished her sold-out debut UK tour in autumn 2025, |
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