Katherine Cairns

Close-up photo of a smiling person wearing a straw hat and a red braided wig, with a teal hoodie, indoors in a shop-like setting. The text “KATHERINE CAIRNS” appears in bold at the bottom.

All Access Comedy (May 10)

Katherine is a Charlottetown comedian known for her candid, offbeat storytelling. She has been navigating Crohn’s disease since she was 12, including a stretch of teenage years spent in and out of surgery, and was diagnosed as autistic in her mid-30s, which finally made a lot of things make sense.

She weaves both into her comedy, finding humour in the overlap between chronic illness, late diagnosis, and the strange expectations of everyday life.

She is passionate about increasing visibility for both chronic illness and late autism diagnosis, particularly for women.

Katherine was originally born in Ontario but after being indoctrinated by Anne of Green Gables at an early age, she is now proud to call PEI home. To earn this right, in 2023, she ate her weight in potatoes for a jury of her peers.

​Katherine has been heard on CBC’s Laugh out Loud and has written for the Debaters. She can also be seen in the sitcom Brit Out of Water on Bell Fibe and YouTube. In 2024 she won Hubcap Comedy Festival’s amateur contest as the second woman ever to grace the trophy.