Gay Claitman is a Canadian sketch comedian and writer, who won two

ACTRA Awards The ACTRA Awards were first presented in 1972 to celebrate excellence in Canada's television and radio industries.

for Radio Variety Performance and Radio Variety Writing at the

8th ACTRA Awards The 8th ACTRA Awards were presented on April 4, 1979."CBC sweeps ACTRA Awards"
''

Nancy White and Robert Cameron on the radio play ''Lies My Mother Told Me''."List of winners"
''

North Bay Nugget The ''North Bay Nugget'' is a newspaper published in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. The paper is currently owned by Postmedia. The paper was launched in 1907 as the ''Cobalt Nugget'', during the silver boom at Cobalt, Ontario. It was acquired by bus ...

'', April 5, 1979. She first became known for her work alongside John Morgan,

Martin Bronstein Martin Bronstein (born 1935) is a British-Canadians, Canadian actor, writer, columnist, broadcaster and journalist. Early life and education Bronstein was born in London, England. Career Bronstein moved to Canada in 1959 and worked as a copywriter ...

, Patrick Conlon and

Roger Abbott Roger Abbott (July 10, 1946March 26, 2011) was an English-born Canadian sketch comedian who was a founding member of the long-lived Canadian comedy troupe ''Royal Canadian Air Farce'', and remained one of its stars and writers until his death. Ea ...

as a member of The Jest Society, leaving the troupe before it evolved into

Royal Canadian Air Farce The Royal Canadian Air Farce was a comedy troupe that was active from 1973 to 2019. It is best known for their various Canadian Broadcasting Corporation series, first on CBC Radio and later on CBC Television. Although their weekly radio series ...

. In 1975 she performed at the Merry Posa Revue, a comedy revue staged in honour of influential Canadian humorist

Stephen Leacock Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humorist in the world. He is known ...

. In 1976, she was a creator of the

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comedy series ''Pulp and Paper'' with

Paul K. Willis Paul Kenneth Willis (August 2, 1947 – November 24, 1999) was a Canadian sketch comedian, most noted as one half of the comedy duo La Troupe Grotesque with Michael Boncoeur in the 1970s and 1980s. Career Both natives of Vancouver, British Columbi ...

and

Michael Boncoeur Michael Boncoeur was the stage name of Michael Vadeboncoeur, a Canadian sketch comedian, most noted as one half of the comedy duo La Troupe Grotesque with Paul K. Willis in the 1970s and 1980s. Career Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, he ...

. In 1979, Claitman and White created the CBC Radio comedy series ''Gee, That's a Cute Dress Marjene'', and in 1980 they created the stage comedy revue ''Little Pink Lies''. She was a cast member of Willis and Boncoeur's radio comedy specials ''If You Love This Government'' in 1984 and ''The Year of Living Obnoxiously'' in 1985, with the cast of ''If You Love This Government'' receiving an ACTRA nomination for Best Radio Variety Performance at the 15th ACTRA Awards in 1986."ACTRA nominations for 15th annual Nellie Awards on April 2". ''

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'', March 18, 1986. She also had small supporting acting roles in the films ''

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'' (1985) and '' Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird'' (1986).

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