Emer Maguire, a musical comedian from Strabane, trained as a speech therapist and began performing as a science communicator after winning FameLab UK in 2015. Comedy bookings and her own BBC Radio Ulster show, Science and Stuff, followed. She has won two Irish Radio Awards and given four TEDx talks. In 2025 she was commissioned by Channel 4 to write the sitcom Socially Awkward, based on her life as an autistic adult.