Sadie Kaye
Creative Director Sadie Kaye started in television as a children’s TV presenter on TVB, ITV and Disney Channel. She’s devised, co-written, presented and performed in comedy and entertainment series for UK indies and broadcasters, including BBC3, E4, Channel 4, MTV, Maverick, cable & web.
She’s produced & presented documentary shorts and feature-length films for Sky, Discovery, Channel 4 and France 3, including Sailing Miss Sadie, Tucker’s Luck, The CSJ Awards, Wild Horses & Polo Field of Dreams.
In 2012 she played shambolic presenter Miss Adventure in an improvised skit on Funny or Die before taking the character onto the airwaves of RTHK Radio 3 and presenting a variety of comic slots on the Afternoon Drive and123 Show.
In 2015 she produced and presented a documentary for RTHK Radio 3 about bipolar disorder. Bipolar Express was Highly Commended by the Association for International Broadcasting in 2015. The following year it won an internal RTHK Award. Her sequel, As Bad As It Gets, about OCD, aired on RTHK in 2019.
In 2020 she produced & presented the Mental Ideas Podcast for RTHK, exploring innovative approaches to tackling mental health in a quirky and accessible way. The series was shortlisted by the Association for International Broadcasting for a 2020 AIB Award in the Factual Podcast category.
In 2020 she co-produced Transference with Mental Ideas for Contro Vento Films. The bipolar love story was released by 1091 Pictures Nov 2020 and has since gone viral on YouTube, with over 29M views. In 2024 she joined the Contro Vento’s team and produced To Love A Narcissist (2025).
Her monthly humour column Sharp Pains on RTHK Radio 3 was shortlisted for Best Regularly Scheduled Comedy Program by the 2022 New York Festivals Radio Awards. The Bake Fail episode was a 2022 Official Select of the On Air Fest in Brooklyn, New York. She was nominated for Moment of Comedy Gold by the International Women’s Podcast Awards in 2022 and 2023 for the Bake Fail and Home Spa episodes.
Her humour, fiction, poems, rants & reviews have appeared in the South China Morning Post, Post Mag, Cha, The Hooghly Review and anthologies Coming of Age, Imprint 24, Score, Imprint 23, Lost in Transition, Imprint 22, After the Storm, Imprint 21, Through the Remains, A Book of Changes, The Tentacle, Mingled Voices 5, Mingled Voices 7, Mingled Voices 8 and Mingled Voices 9. She’s art editor for The Apostrophe. In 2024 she won the Comedy Women in Print Prize for Flash Fiction. Four of her poems will be published in the Spring 2026 issue of The Awakenings Review.
She’s an ambassador for Mind HK and founder of Mental Ideas and Bipolar Hong Kong. In 2020 she set up Home Kong Kitchen as a community project to help feed the homeless during the pandemic. She was a mentor for the Resolved Foundation‘s 2022 fellowship: Wellbeing Reimagined.
Contact Sadie: sadie@mentalideas.org
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