Sadie Kaye

Sadie Kaye (2012)

Sadie Kaye is a comic TV & radio writer-performer, filmmaker and author. She is best known in her native Hong Kong as the Radio Television Hong Kong personality "Miss Adventure".[1]

Early Life

A British national, she was born and raised in Sai Kung, Hong Kong.[2] She was educated at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University, graduating in 1998.[3]

TV & Radio Career

She was a children's television presenter in Hong Kong. She presented "Beezwacks" on TVB and a comedy slot on Hong Kong's Metro Radio.[2]

She created "Dinner Party", an interactive TV series,[4] for ETV in London. "Dinner Party" was commended for "Best Use of New Media" at the UK Broadcast Awards in 2002.[5] She was a subject of Maverick Television's "The New Entrepreneurs", a series of short films broadcast on Channel 4.[6]

She was a partner in Esther Rantzen's entertainment company Blue Reef Entertainment in 2006.[7]

She first played "Miss Adventure" in a TV skit with rock band Motorhead for HBO's Funny or Die in 2012.[8] Since 2013, she has performed as the Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) personality "Miss Adventure", with regular shows broadcast on RTHK Radio 3.[9]

In 2015 she was a guest on Radio Television Hong Kong's "123 Show", discussing bipolar disorder[10] and sleepwalking.[11]

She's a development producer and Head of Social Responsibilities for Greenhouse Media Investments, a film company in London.[12] She divides her time between Hong Kong and London.

Documentaries

She produced and presented the 2010 documentary film "Sailing Miss Sadie".[13] In the film, broadcast on Sky TV, she sails from the UK to Venezuela with three young offenders from The Prince's Trust.[14]

In 2011 she produced and presented the Sky TV documentary "Tucker's Luck".[15]

In 2015, she produced and presented a documentary about bipolar disorder for Radio Television Hong Kong.[16] "The Bipolar Express" was Highly Commended by the Association for International Broadcasting at the 2015 AIB Awards in London.[17][18]

Publications

Her children's book, "The Wishing Machine" was published 31 October 2014 by Austin Macauley Publishers in London.[19] She writes a humorous column for Sai Kung Buzz as her Radio Television Hong Kong personality "Miss Adventure".[20]

Charity

She is the creative director of arts charity Art Saves Lives International.[21] She is an ambassador for Hong Kong children's charity Child Builder.[22]

External links

References

  1. ↑ "rthk.hk 香港電台網站: Bipolar Express:The Bipolar Express". rthk.hk.
  2. 1 2 "Sai Kung Buzz - Online Newspaper - Sai Kung News". Sai Kung Buzz - Online Newspaper - Sai Kung News.
  3. ↑ "Reporter 22/4/98: Congregation of the Regent House on 21 March 1998". cam.ac.uk.
  4. ↑ Silk, Jon (2001-10-12). "Everyone's invited to dinner - Streaming Media Magazine". Streamingmedia.com. Retrieved 2012-10-21.
  5. ↑ "Broadcast awards 2002 - you the jury". broadcastnow.co.uk.
  6. ↑ http://www.mavericktv.co.uk/production/the-new-entrepreneurs/
  7. ↑ http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/rantzen-sets-up-entertainment-indie/1022974.article
  8. ↑ "MISS ADVENTURE meets MOTORHEAD". Funny or Die.
  9. ↑ "rthk.hk 香港電台網站: Steve James". rthk.hk.
  10. ↑ "rthk.hk 香港電台網站: 1 2 3 Show:Sadie Kaye - Bipolar disorder / Clifton Yip - Balanced eating and healthy life / Cherie Chun - Why people procrastinate". rthk.hk.
  11. ↑ http://programme.rthk.hk/channel/radio/programme.php?d=2015-07-07&p=5979&e=&m=episode
  12. ↑ http://www.greenhouse-media.com/our-team/tv-documentary-profiles/
  13. ↑ http://www.mediatrust.org/about-media-trust/news/news-archive-2010/
  14. ↑ http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/2952863/The-ASBOs-of-The-Atlantic.html
  15. ↑ "Tucker's Luck". horseandcountry.tv.
  16. ↑ "rthk.hk 香港電台網站: Bipolar Express". rthk.hk.
  17. ↑ http://aib.org.uk/aib-announces-winners-of-the-aibs-international-broadcasting-awards/
  18. ↑ http://www.tvbeurope.com/aibs-award-factual-excellence/
  19. ↑ https://www.evensi.com/sadie-kaye-at-waterstones-newton-abbot-waterstones/135648573
  20. ↑ http://www.saikungbuzz.com/?utm_campaign=6b31185269-Sai_Kung_Buzz_Nov2015&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Subscriber%2Bfrom%2Bwebsite&utm_term=0_2eb432b62b-6b31185269-65230341#!horoscopes-month-2/mpgig
  21. ↑ "Meet the Team". ASLI.
  22. ↑ "Child Builder 兒童發展協會". childbuilder.org.
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