Bethany Black is an actor, stand-up comedian, and transgender activist from Preston, Lancashire. She started performing in comedy clubs in 2005, reaching the final of Chortle's Student Comedy Awards and being nominated for "Best Debut" at the Leicester Comedy Festival. Her highly confessional solo shows (covering gender reassignment, alcoholism and drug abuse) have played at the Edinburgh Fringe and all around the world. [[Cucumber]] and [[Banana]] mark her debut as a professional actor, where she was also the first trans woman to play a trans woman in a leading role on British Television.