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Nina Conti is a ground-breaking ventriloquist, BAFTA nominated filmmaker and British Comedy Award winner. With three sell out UK tours under her belt, Nina embarked on her fourth much anticipated tour in 2021.
Alongside her live work Nina Conti is a regular on our screens with hugely successful appearances on Russell HowardтАЩs Good News Live at the Apollo and The John Bishop Show. Nina has also appeared on QI, Celebrity Squares, Sunday Night at the Palladium, the Rob Brydon Show and HBOтАЩs Family Tree.
Nina Conti started doing stand-up ventriloquism in January 2002 and shot to fame by winning the BBC New Comedy Award that same year. Famed for her foul-mouthed тАШsidekickтАЩ Monkey (Monk), Nina has won numerous comedy awards for her writing, acting and ventriloquism. Nina regularly headlines at UK and London comedy venues, and has appeared at The Comedy Store and Soho Theatre and has taken numerous shows to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has also appeared at both the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Montreal Comedy Festival. In 2014 she was nominated alongside 3 other female comics for The British Comedy Awards: Best Female Television Comic.
NinaтАЩs broadcast work includes four series of Claire in the Community, the BBC Radio 4 Sony-Award winning series (2005 тАУ 2009), and a starring role in BBC Radio 4 Comedy show Sneekiepeeks in 2010. She has appeared in several television shows, including Comic Relief (BBC1), Ant & DecтАЩs Saturday Night Take Away (ITV1) Golf War (E4), Blunder (Channel 4), The Late Late Show (RTE 1), One Free Hand (BBC), Tickled Pink (ITV), Single (ITV 1), the BAFTA-winning Black Books (Channel 4), The Rob Brydon Show (BBC2), and most recently HBOтАЩs Family Tree.
Nina Conti fronted two documentaries for BBC 4 in 2012. Make Me Happy: A MonkeyтАЩs Search for Happiness saw Nina take Monk on a journey into the world of new age and alternative therapies. She also directed, and produced her other documentary that year, A Ventriloquists Story: Her Masters Voice, in which Nina took the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erstwhile lover Ken Campbell on a pilgrimage to Vent Haven. The documentary went on to be nominated for a BAFTA TV Award.
Alongside her live and broadcast work Nina Conti is an experienced corporate act and one of our most sought after clients. She has performed after-dinner cabaret with Monk for clients as varied as Nokia, Deloitte, Adobe, the Duke of Edinburgh Awards and Euromoney, among many others. NinaтАЩs sophisticated intelligence and playful style suits a wide range of corporate audiences, and Monk can be as clean or as rude as each client wishes!
