MUCH the same as your average comic book hero, comedian Sahar Mirhadi - a self-confessed geek - leads a double life.

Aside from her nine-to-five office life, the Leyton resident is preparing to début her first solo stand-up show - Dawn of the Geek - at the Camden Fringe later this month.

"As I put on my Twitter: account manager by day, comedian by night," laughs the 27-year-old.

Dawn of the Geek tracks Sahar's journey to embracing her inner nerd and is a story of self-acceptance, passion, obsession with a healthy dose of Star Trek on the side.

“Effectively it’s about how I’ve become a geek – and I use the word broadly, while I’m definitely a geeky person and I do like Star Trek and all that sort of stuff, because it’s about how it’s come to be," explains the comic, who also draws upon her Iranian heritage in her routines.

“I start with a definition that geekiness is effectively just people being passionate about a particular thing.

“It’s relatable, everyone has a thing they’re interested in and can get excited about. I think everyone is a geek in some form or fashion."

Along with her 'geeky' passion for watching wrestling, playing Pokemon and following crime dramas on TV, it seems Sahar is also pretty geeky about comedy.

When she first began performing on the stand-up circuit in 2011, she racked up an exhausting 100 gigs in six months around various venues in London.

“When I first started I was trying to gig three or four times a week and it was getting ridiculous, now I kind of pick shows and focus time on writing," explains the young comedian.

"I work in a professional environment so you can’t be walking from a gig at one in the morning and getting up at 7am,” she laughs.

But at the start of this year Sahar never expected she would be performing her first solo show, as she was busy becoming a homeowner with her cameraman boyfriend (and most trusted critic).

"I haven’t had the six months to let it [the show] develop, it has been accelerated a bit," says Sahar, who will be returning to The Camden Head - the venue she performed her first gig at - for her Camden Fringe shows.

"I am so excited to do it, I’m itching to get back on stage and throw myself into it."

Dawn of the Geek, The Camden Head, Camden High Street, August 20 to 23, 8pm. Details: camdenfringe.com