BAFTA nominee and British Comedy Award winner Nina Conti is gearing as much as make a spectacular return to theatres up and down the nation, along with her brand-new reside present ‘Whose Face Is It Anyway?’.
The critically-acclaimed Conti heads again to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August, performing her highly-anticipated new hour to audiences within the 7.30pm primetime slot every night on the Pleasance Grand, from Wednesday 31st July – Sunday 25th August 2024 (previews 31st July – 1st August. No efficiency on 7th, 13th, 19th August).
And to comply with on from her month on the Fringe, Conti can now announce a brand-new 21 date tour throughout the UK in 2025.
On taking her new present out to audiences throughout the nation, Conti mentioned: “The amazing thing is, I’m naturally quite shy, and many in the audience are shy too. But when I put one of my masks on one of their faces, it creates a monster that doesn’t give a f*ck about tomorrow. I’m addicted to the liberation it brings to the room, and I can’t wait to travel with it. I’ve chosen all my favourite theatres!”
Join Conti for ‘Whose Face Is It Anyway?’ as she presents an unparalleled, unscripted new present that delves deep into who we’re, hijacking faces to spark a daring, hysterical actuality warp.
Tickets obtainable at pleasance.co.uk or ninaontour.
Conti’s return to the Fringe follows her earlier critically acclaimed hour ‘The Dating Show’, which debuted on the Pleasance in 2022 to rave evaluations, earlier than touring the globe with a sell-out UK tour, reveals on the Sydney Opera House, and culminating with a two-week residency at New York’s Soho Playhouse. You can watch ‘The Dating Show’ particular on Nina’s YouTube channel here.
Elsewhere, Nina has just lately completed filming on her narrative movie directorial debut ‘Sunlight’. Set in New Mexico, the movie is a darkly humorous and unconventional love story between a person and a girl who doesn’t need to come out of a monkey swimsuit. In a intelligent reference to Conti’s personal ventriloquism act, which all through her profession has seen her voicing her uncensored ideas by way of a monkey puppet, this movie is the upshot.
The movie co-stars and was co-written with Shenoah Allen, of the Pyjama Men duo, and is govt produced by This Is Spinal Tap creator Christopher Guest. Sunlight is being lined as much as premiere at upcoming movie festivals for 2024 / 2025 and just lately featured as a part of the BFI and British Council’s annual ‘GREAT 8’ showcase this 12 months at Cannes, which presents new characteristic movies from the UK’s most fun first and second-time filmmakers to worldwide distributors and pageant programmers.
In a continuation of her work with Christopher Guest, Nina has additionally just lately been completed filming as a part of the solid of the upcoming sequel to the 1984 cult basic This Is Spinal Tap.
Across her profession, comic and ventriloquist Conti has received a British Comedy Award, stormed ‘Live at the Apollo’, ‘Russell Howard’s Good News’ & ‘Sunday Night at the Palladium’, and made a BAFTA nominated movie – all with out shifting her lips.
Nina started her profession as an actress on the Royal Shakespeare Company earlier than the genius, and anarchic theatre director Ken Campbell impressed her to turn into a ventriloquist.
In 2008 she received the celebrated Barry Award on the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for her solo present Complete and Utter Conti.
Other tv credit embrace QI, The John Bishop Show and Chris O’Dowd’s HBO collection Family Tree. She was additionally a daily in Sony award-winning BBC Radio 4 present Clare and the Community.
Her directorial debut, Her Master’s Voice, through which she took the bereaved puppets of her mentor, Ken Campbell, to a puppet graveyard in Kentucky, received her a BAFTA nomination and a Grierson Award.
Conti visits Glasgow on the King’s Theatre on Sunday 16 February 2025.
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