Daniel Maier

Daniel Maier (born 1968, in

Maier is the author of the one-act play The Unattended,[4] performed at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe; Trapped, a series of half-hour dramas broadcast on BBC Radio 4,^[5] co-written with his brother, the stand-up comedian Mark Maier; as well as writing for and performing in BBC Radio 4 comedy shows including One,^[6] Look Away Now and Broken Arts. He has written and performed a show on Victorian polymath Francis Galton^[7] and a paper he wrote on the subject has been published in the academic journal Significance.^[8] His first book, Footypedia, was published by Century in June 2008 and his writing appeared in Faber & Faber's book Shouting At The Telly, published in November 2009. Maier is also a contributor to The Guardian,^[9] writing about television and as an occasional World of Lather columnist. Since 2008, Maier has been a resident judge at the Karaoke Circus shows, both in London and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Maier is married to author and fellow Guardian journalist Sali Hughes.^[10]

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