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Nina Conti

Nina Conti has won a British Comedy Award for storming 'Live at the Apollo', 'Russell Howard's Good News', 'Sunday Night at the Palladium', and made a BAFTA nominated film - all without even moving her lips

Nina began her career as an actress at the Royal Shakespeare Company before the genius, and anarchic theatre director Ken Campbell inspired her to become a ventriloquist.
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Agent:
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Voice Over Agent

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Nina Conti has won a British Comedy Award for storming 'Live at the Apollo', 'Russell Howard's Good News', 'Sunday Night at the Palladium', and made a BAFTA nominated film - all without even moving her lips

Nina began her career as an actress at the Royal Shakespeare Company before the genius, and anarchic theatre director Ken Campbell inspired her to become a ventriloquist.

In 2008 she won the prestigious Barry Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for her solo show Complete and Utter Conti. In 2010, Talk to the Hand had sell-out seasons in Edinburgh, London, Melbourne, the Sydney Opera House and New York.

Other television credits include QI, The John Bishop Show and Chris O'Dowd's HBO series Family Tree. She was also a regular in Clare and the Community – the Sony award-winning show on BBC Radio 4.

Nina has also done documentary film-making with her most recent exploit, Clowning Around (in which she trained as a children's hospital clown), airing to great critical acclaim. Her directorial debut, Her Master's Voice in which she took the bereaved puppets of her mentor, Ken Campbell, to a puppet graveyard in Kentucky, won her a BAFTA nomination and a Grierson Award.

In 2023 she directed her first narrative feature film, Sunlight. Set in New Mexico, Sunlight is a darkly funny and unconventional love story between a man and a woman who doesn't want to come out of a monkey suit and is co-starring and co-written with Shenoah Allen.

Nina will be touring the UK in 2025 with her new show Whose Face Is It Anyway? following it’s debut at the Edinburgh Fringe 2024.

Television

Pointless
Celebrity Guest
BBC2021
Richard Osman's House of Games
Celebrity Guest
BBC / Remarkable TV2021
Alan Davies: As Yet untitled
Celebrity Guest
Dave / Comedy Central 2021
Micky Flanagan: Peeping Behind the Curtain
Herself
SKY1/Double Busy Productions2021
Just for Laughs Sydney Festival
Headliner
2019
World's Best
Herself
CBS2018
The Nightly Show
Guest / Performer
ITV2017
Edinburgh Nights
Herself
BBC 2 2016
Nina Conti Clowning Around
Writer / Director / Producer
BBC42015
Live At The Apollo
Host
Open Mike2014
Russell Howard's Good News
Performer
BBC 3/Avalon2012
Live at the Apollo
Host / Performer
BBC 1 / Open Mike2012
The Late Late Show with Craig Feguson
Performer
CBS2012
QI
Guest
BBC 1/Talkback2011
The Rob Brydon Show (Series 2)
Performer
BBC 2/Talkback2011
Golf War
Artist
CHX for E42007
Blunder
Writer
Channel x for Channel 42007
One Free Hand
Artist
BBC2006
Blunder
Artist
CHX for Channel 42006
Tickled Pink
Artist
ITV2005
Comic Relief
Artist
BBC12005
28 Acts In 28 Minutes
Artist
BBC2005
Bromwell High
‘Latrina'
Hat Trick for Channel 42005
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Take Away
Guest
Granada for ITV12005
Single
Mary
Tiger Aspect for ITV12003
The Live Floor Show
Guest
BBC Scotland for BBC22003
All New Comedy Store
Guest
Open Mike for FIVE and The Paramount Comedy Channel2003
Stand Up Britain
Artist
ITV2002
The Late Late Show
Guest
RTE 12002
Sunday Lip Service
Artist
BBC Pilot2002
The Ralph Little Show
Guest
BBC Choice2002
BBC New Comedy Awards
Winner
BBC1 and BBC Choice2002
100 Greatest TV Treats
Guest
Yorkshire for Channel 42002

Film

Sunlight
Writer/Director/Performer
2024
Philippe Parreno: Anywhen
Performer
Short Film, Tate Modern Exhibition2016 — 2017
Her Master's Voice
Writer / Performer / Producer / Director
2012
Make Me Happy – A Monkey's Search for Happiness
Presented and Co-directed
Nina Conti and Monkey2012
Peacock Season
Artist
2009
For Your Consideration
Artist
Christopher Guest2006

Theatre and Live Performance

Your Face Or Mine – Melbourne Comedy Festival 2024
Creator/performer
Melbourne Comedy Festival 20242024
Whose Face Is It Anyway?
Creator Performer
Edinburgh Fringe2024
The Dating Show: UK Tour / Edinburgh Fringe Festival / Soho Playhouse, New York
Nina Conti
Show & Tell2021 — 2022
Underbelly Festival
Herself
2019
Work in Progress
(Writer/Lead Performer)
Pleasance2019
In Therapy
Writer/Performer
Edinburgh Fringe Festival2017
Derren Brown and Nina Conti In Conversation
Herself
British Library 2017
In Your Face
Writer / Performer
World Buskers Festival, Christchurch NZ2017
In Your Face
Writer / Performer
Criterion Theatre, March2016
In Your Face
Writer / Performer
Criterion Theatre, September 2016
In Your Face
Writer / Performer
New York Barrow Street Theatre2016
In Your Face
Writer / Performer
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Pleasance Grand2016
Nina Conti and Simon Munnery Whack It Up the Flagpole
Writer / Performer
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016
In Your Face
Writer / Performer
UK Tour / Edinburgh Fringe Festival / Melbourne International Comedy Festival / Soho Theatre2015
Dolly Mixtures
Performer
Soho Theatre, UK tour, Melbourne2014 — 2015
Talk to the Hand
Performer
Soho Theatre2010
Evolution
Artist
Edinburgh & Melbourne Comedy Festivals and Soho Theatre London2008 — 2009
The Complete and Utter Conti
Artist
Edinburgh Festival, UK Tour and Melbourne Comedy Festival2007 — 2008
As You Like It
Audrey
2000
Back To Methuselah
Savy
2000
Comedy of Errors
Cowenson
2000
The Warp
Artist
Three Mill Island Studios1999
Intimate Death
Artist
RNT Studio and Gate Theatre1998

Awards

BBC Comedy Awards
Host
2019
BAFTA
Nominee
Single Documentary2013
The Grierson Awards
Winner
Most Entertaining Documentary2013
British Comedy Awards
Winner
Best Female Television Comic2013
Friar's Club Festival
Winner
Jury Award for Best Documentary2013
SXSW Film Awards
Winner
Audience Award2012
Maverick Movie Award
Winner
Best Performance2012
Melbourne International Comedy Festival Awards
Winner
Barry Award - Best Show2008
BBC New Comedy Award
Winner
2002
Laughing Horse New Act
Finalist
2002
Amused Moose Talent Quest
Winner
2002
So You Think You're Funny?
Runner Up
2002
Hackney Empire New Act of the Year
Winner
2002

Radio

The Museum Of Curiosity
Guest
BBC Radio 42018
Sneekiepeeks
Sharla
Radio 42010
Flight Of The Conchords
Performer
Radio 22005
Speaking From The Belly
Writer
Tony Staveacre Productions Radio 42004
Speaking From The Belly
Presenter
Tony Steveacre Productions Radio 42004
Clare In The Community (Series 1-11)
Megan/Nali
Radio 4 / Megan Whardby / Nali "Ramsbottom" Jakovlivicz2004 — 2019
You And Yours
Guest
Radio 42003
Woman's Hour
Guest
BBC Radio 42003

Podcast and Online Content

BedTime Stories
Nina and Monkey
2021
In Therapy S2
Nina and Monkey
2020

News

PBJ clears up with the best reviewed Edinburgh Fringe shows of 2024

9th September 2024

Huge congratulations to Ed Night, Christopher Hall, Rhys Nicholson, Michelle Brasier, George Fouracres, Tarot and Nina Conti who have some of the best reviewed Fringe shows of 2024

Kaleidoscope Festival on 15th July to Host A Bevvy of PBJ Clients

15th July 2023

Kaleidoscope Festival on July 15th will be hosting a bevvy of PBJ clients at Ally Pally in London

Nina Conti - **** Broadway Baby review

7th August 2022

Read Nina Conti's Four Star review from Broadway Baby here: 

Nina Conti at the Peligoni Club's House Party in Greece!

31st July 2019

Nina will be performing during Medium Rare's variety show at the Peligoni Club's House Party this September

Nina Conti stars in Philippe Parreno's new exhibition at the Tate

5th October 2016

'Mesmerising and Unmissable' high praise by The Guardian for Philippe Parreno's nex exhibition at the Tate in the Turbine Hall, and Nina Conti stars

Nina reveals all on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour

8th June 2012

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Nina Conti Live on Tour with 'The Dating Show'

19th November 2021

Following a 4 year absence, Nina Conti embarks on a UK tour with her new show, The Dating Show, opening at Bristol Old Vic on 31 October 2021

Nina Conti, Mawaan Rizwan, Fin Taylor and Sean McLoughlin all to perform at this year's Underbelly Southbank Festival

29th April 2019

As the nights grow lighter and longer, the Underbelly Southbank begins and the summer evenings on the Southbank are more and more desirable

Nina Conti on tour with 'In Your Face'

20th October 2017

Nina Conti is currently touring her biggest show yet

Nina Conti's online improv sketch 'In Therapy'

18th October 2017

Nina Conti has released five online installments of her 'In Therapy' improvisation sketch, made popular at this years Edinburgh Fringe Festival

PBJ at the Edinburgh Fringe 2017!

26th July 2017

We can't believe it's time for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival already

PBJ nominations at The British Comedy Awards

7th December 2012

Cardinal Burns have been nominated for three awards - Breakthrough Act, New Comedy Programme and Best Sketch Show

Broadcast Awards 2013!!

22nd November 2012

'' Nina Conti ' 'is nominated for 'Best Documentary Programme' with 'Nina Conti - A Ventriloquist's Story: Her Master's Voice' (Nina Conti Productions for BBC Four)

Peacock Season

25th August 2009

The film stars James Wren with a host of comedy names, including Nina Conti, Rhys Darby, Paul Foot and John Biddle

Podcasts

Richard & Greta
How to get the most - or too much - out of your partner, with unqualified experts Richard and Greta. Tis a broth for your ears. From multiple award winning comedians Nina Conti and Shenoah Allen.

Podcast Guest Appearances

The Horne Section Podcas‪t: Nina Conti
The third instalment of the Isolation Series: recorded via technology with each band member sat in a chair in their own home with special guest Nina Conti! Surprisingly, it nearly all works and it's the usual mix of stupid songs and nonsense talking.