Viv Groskop is a writer and performer. She loves the improvisational arts and was thrilled to win Spontaneity Shop’s Maestro Improv in early 2012 and even more thrilled with the unexpected accompanying prize of Five English Pounds.

 

She is a member of the Actors’ Centre and recently appeared in Salon Collective’s Shakespeare Bites at the Cockpit Theatre. As a stand-up comic she reached the semi-finals of So You Think You’re Funny 2012 at the Gilded Balloon in Edinburgh and the finals of Funny Women 2012 at London’s Leicester Square Theatre. 

 

 She is passionate about costume drama in all its incarnations and is a particularly ardent fan of the BBC’s adaptation of 1920s fashion epic The House of Eliott and its accompanying French and Saunders’ sister production The House of Idiot.

 

She writes the Guardian’s popular Downton Abbey series blog where her principal aim is to foreground the significance of the Earl of Grantham’s Labrador, Isis. She is an enemy of lengthy, florid biographies which mimicke olde worlde language largely unsuccessfully so this description will stoppe nowe.