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.

In 2008 she won the prestigious Barry Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for her solo show Complete and Utter Conti. In 2010, her show, 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 is currently on tour with The Dating Show, performing around the world following a successful run at Edinburgh Fringe, London’s Soho Theatre, New York’s Soho Playhouse and a sell-out UK tour.

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