Marjolein Robertson

Marjolein Robertson is a Scottish stand-up comedian and actress from Shetland. She was named Scots Speaker of the Year and has appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe, where her 2023 show "Marj" was nominated for an award. Robertson's father is Scottish and her mother is Dutch; she was born and brought up in a Christian background in Shetland and attended university in Edinburgh. She has a diagnosis of ADHD, and since the age of 16 has suffered from adenomyosis, incorporating her experience and frustration with getting proper care into her comedy routines.

In 2019 Robertson moved to Glasgow but returned to Shetland when she could no longer perform during the COVID-19 pandemic, performing comedy online and working in care during lockdown. She had previously lived briefly in Amsterdam performing improvisational comedy, where she was encouraged to try stand-up, and made her Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut after only a handful of gigs, writing and practising her act in Shetland on her own to an empty room.

In 2022, Robertson received funding to write an almanac in the Shetland dialect, and performed a one-woman show at The Stand comedy club entitled Thank God Fish Don't Have Hands at that year's Edinburgh Fringe. In September 2022 she won the Scots Speaker of the Year category at the Scots Leid Awards, reached the final of the BBC New Comedy Awards, and was awarded second place in the final of the Funny Women awards. At the 2023 Edinburgh Festival she performed her eponymous show Marj, which was nominated for best show at the (ISH) Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2023 alongside acts such as Ed Byrne, Luke Kempner, and Paul Foot, and also appeared in the historical play Me, Myself and Mary (Queen of Scots).