AFTER 10 years in the music business, including a memorable run on TV’s The Voice UK, transgender singer Jordan Gray has become one of the UK’s most exciting and celebrated rising comics.

The former Musselburgh resident is currently taking to the stage at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in her new show Jordan Gray: Is It A Bird?, which brings together her love of superheroes and her life as a transgender woman in an hour of comedy that resonates within and beyond the LGBTQIA+ community.

Although only starting in comedy in 2017, Jordan’s Comedy Central web series Transaction has also just been acquired for TV development by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

East Lothian Courier: Jordan Gray 'Is It A Bird?' is on at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Jordan Gray 'Is It A Bird?' is on at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Jordan, who moved to the Honest Toun from Essex with mum Terri Olley in 2015, staying in Mucklets Drive, now lives in Southend, Essex, but said: “I am missing my time in Musselburgh.”

Jordan told the Courier: “This Fringe has been a dream come true.

“A couple of amazing reviews in the first few days have spring-boarded the show into an almost-sell-out run.

“I couldn’t be happier.”

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She added: “Those two years of Covid have changed the way people feel about live entertainment.

“I think we appreciate it more than ever – but we’re also a little bit warier about booking tickets in advance because, as a nation, we were taught that things could change at a moment’s notice.”

She said: “Transaction is a short comedy series I created for Comedy Central.

“I play a transgender supermarket employee called Liv who is an absolute nightmare. The show was acquired by Stolen Pictures, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s company, and Nick will be playing my boss in the upcoming TV series.”

East Lothian Courier: Jordan plays a transgender supermarket employee called Liv in Transaction, which has just been acquired for TV development

Jordan plays a transgender supermarket employee called Liv in Transaction, which has just been acquired for TV development 

Jordan was The Voice UK’s first transgender singer, reaching the semi-finals in 2016.

Jordan Gray: Is It A Bird? in on at The Box, Assembly George Square, Edinburgh, at 10.25pm until August 28 (not August 17).

Tickets are available but are selling fast.