Sian Harries
Sian Harries is a comedy writer and performer who co-wrote Greg Davies's Man Down for Channel 4 and Tourist Trap for BBC Wales, starring Sally Phillips.
Sian has also contributed additional material for the forthcoming BBC Sunday primetime crime drama, Death Valley.
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Sian also co-writes and stars in her own S4C sketch show, O'r Diwedd, and also co-wrote and performed in the SONY Award winning sketch show Here Be Dragons. Until very recently, she co-hosted The Rhod Gilbert Show on BBC Radio Wales and has written for programmes such as BBC2's Never Mind the Buzzcocks and BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz. Sian also creates radio documentaries such as The Welsh Women of Patagonia (2017). Sian wrote, produced and performed in the BAFTA Cymru nominated comedy short, Neckface. Sian is thrilled to be one of 18 carefully selected writers on the BAFTA 'Elevate' scheme. The group will take part in a bespoke 12-month programme supporting and nurturing new, diverse young talent.
Sian is currently witing and starring in two shows for Radio Wales, Welcome Strangers and Clonc.
Television
Death Valley Additional Material | Death Valley - Additional Material | 2024 | |
Tourist Trap Co Writer & Performer | Tourist Trap - Co Writer & Performer | BBC Wales | 2018 |
PS Co- Writer | PS - Co- Writer | BBC Wales | 2017 |
Llew ap Blew Co- Writer | Llew ap Blew - Co- Writer | S4C | 2016 |
O'r Diwedd Writer / Perfomer | O'r Diwedd - Writer / Perfomer | S4C | 2016 — 2022 |
Rhod Gilbert's Back to Llanbobl Co- Writer | Rhod Gilbert's Back to Llanbobl - Co- Writer | 2016 | |
Never Mind the Buzzcocks Additional Material Writer | Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Additional Material Writer | BBC | 2014 |
Man Down series 1 - 4 Co-writer | Man Down series 1 - 4 - Co-writer | Channel 4 | 2013 — 2018 |
Hwb Actor | Hwb - Actor | S4C | 2012 |
Tati's Hotel Co -Writer | Tati's Hotel - Co -Writer | 2011 |
Radio
Clonc Actor / Writer | Clonc - Actor / Writer | Radio Wales | 2022 |
Welcome Strangers Writer/Performer | Welcome Strangers - Writer/Performer | BBC Radio Wales | 2020 |
The Rhod Gilbert Radio Show Co-presenter | The Rhod Gilbert Radio Show - Co-presenter | BBC Radio Wales | 2019 |
The Welsh Women of Patagonia Presenter / Writer | The Welsh Women of Patagonia - Presenter / Writer | BBC Radio Wales | 2017 |
Here Be Dragons series 2 writer/ performer | Here Be Dragons series 2 - writer/ performer | BBC Radio Wales | 2016 |
Here Be Dragons series 1 writer/ performer | Here Be Dragons series 1 - writer/ performer | BBC Radio Wales | 2014 |
Short Film
Neckface Writer / Performer | Neckface - Writer / Performer | 2018 |
News
Sian Harries' NeckFace heads to Berlin 1st August 2019 Congratulations to Sian Harries, whose comedy short film, Neck Face, has been selected for the British Shorts film festival event in Berlin |
4th April 2019 Sian Harries' short film, Neckface, which she co-wrote, acted in and directed has been selected to play at Puerto Rico's Rincon Film Festival Meanwhile, Gareth Gwynn and Sian's O'r Diwedd has been nominated for a Celtic Media Award, as has Elis James' Cic Lan yr Archif which Sian and Gareth also wrote for, together with Benjamin Partridge Congratulations all and we'll be rooting for you |
6th November 2018 Gareth Gwynn's 'Tourist Trap', the semi-improvised sketch-show set in a fictionalized version of the Welsh tourist board and starring pretty much everyone you like, has had the box-set treatment from BBC Wales |
Here Be Dragons wins at Radio Academy Awards 13th May 2014 Here Be Dragons wins the Bronze Award at this year's Radio Academy AwardsPreviously known as the Sony Awards, the prizes are highly sought after in the industry |
'Here Be Dragons' new BBC Radio Wales series featuring Cariad Lloyd and Lloyd Langford. 5th November 2013 'Here Be Dragons' Radio Wales new sketch show stars PBJ's own Cariad Lloyd and Lloyd Langford |
Podcasts
The Froth Podcast Comedy Podcast with Rhod Gilbert, Sian Harries & Friends. ‘Froth': ‘something appealing, but with no serious value or interest; worthless or insubstantial talk'. That's married comedians Rhod and Sian in a nutshell.A spa-break for the mind, far away from the relentless, depressing serious news cycle, only tackling the frothiest of lifes frothy stuff - "Yesterdays Non-News, Today". |