FRI.15.SEPT.23
JENNY COLLIER
KATE MCGANn
RICKY BALSHAW
RICH WILSON
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JENNY COLLIER
The proudly Welsh Jenny Collier is a multi-award winning stand up comedian, writer and actor. An established regular on the international club and festival circuit, Jenny has supported Jason Manford, Arthur Smith, Shappi Khorsandi and Dave Johns on their UK tours and has performed in Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland and Australia where she won the Percy Award during the Adelaide Fringe.
The sharp tongued, multi-lingual Jenny has mastered the art of deftly welcoming her audiences into a false sense of security with her lilting Welsh twang, before taking a dramatic U-turn with her outrageously raw punchlines. She leaves audiences squirming in their seats, heads in hands and always wanting more. Her perfectly crafted, confident and in-command performances are a favourite at clubs and festivals everywhere. An unapologetically bold, brilliant and seriously talented rising star.
Jenny has appeared on The Rhod Gilbert Show (BBC Wales), New Comedian of the Year Award (BBC Radio 4 Extra), The Comedy Club (BBC Radio 4 Extra), What’s The Story (BBC Wales), Newsbeat (BBC Radio 1), The Leak (BBC Wales) and has written for BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz, The Now Show, Huffington Post and Glamour Magazine.
KATE MCGANn
So You Think You’re Funny Finalist 2019, South Coast Comedian of the Year Runner Up 2021.
‘wild force of nature performer’ Steve Bennett Chortle
RICKY BALSHAW
Ricky Balshaw is a comedian and Paralympic, World Championship and European Championship dressage medallist.
Ricky reached the semi-final stage of the 2021 BBC New Comedy Award competition, and appeared on on BBC One and BBC Three. He also won Best New Act in the 2021 Midlands Comedy Awards and he has performed at comedy clubs and festivals around the UK including Just The Tonic, Glee, Leicester Comedy Festival and Brighton Fringe.
Born with cerebral palsy, he started riding as part of his physiotherapy at the age of 4. At the age of 14 he was invited to join the British Paralympic dressage team and is still the youngest person to be inducted to the senior team.
He was named as first reserve for the Athens Paralympic Games in 2004 and was subsequently on the team for the Beijing Paralympic Games at which he secured an individual silver medal in the freestyle dressage on his horse, Deacons Georgi. He then won medals at the World and European Championships before retiring from dressage at the start of 2016.
RICH WILSON
Rich Wilson is a multi award winning comedian and podcast host. For the first 10 years of his comedy career, Rich cut his comedic teeth at all of the UK’s major comedy clubs and has remained a steadfast presence on the British comedy circuit ever since. This has taken him around the world, culminating in multi award winning, sell out shows at the biggest comedy festivals such as Melbourne, Perth and New Zealand. In 2017 Rich won “Best International Act” at the New Zealand Comedy Festival and was nominated for the same award the following year.
In 2019 he won another comedy award for “Best show of the Festival” with Just Be Botanicals at the Edinburgh Fringe festival. Rich has also worked as a TV warm up on ITV’s Loose Women as well as tour support for Kevin Bridges, Rob Beckett, Jayde Adams and Clinton Baptiste.
As well as an in demand live performer, Rich’s TV writing credits include working for the BBC, Sky Arts and Channel 4 on various projects with his partner Jayde Adams.
Acting credits include: Jawbone (2017) Brainiacs (SKY) My Favourite Affordable Meats (BBC3) the voice of David Bowie in Bloody Tracy (SKY) as well as acting in comedy sketches with Turtle Canyon Comedy and gaining impressive viral stats like 6.5million views with sketches on The Hook. He also appeared as the silent character ‘Pudding’ in Jayde Adams’ sell out show The Divine Ms Jayde with The Pleasance in 2018 and Soho Theatre in 2019.
Rich is also the host of the wildly popular podcast Insane In The Men Brain where he talks to funny and interesting people about their experiences with mental health featuring interviews with Heston Blumenthal, Nicholas Pinnock, Michael Smiley, Scroobius Pip and many more. He has earned himself an award for “Best Podcast” with JOE and gained a nomination for “Best Social Conscience Podcast” at the Podbible Poll Winners Awards.
Rich is also an indemand podcast guest and has been featured on: BBC Radio 4’s You’ll Do, Global Radio’s Job’s A Goodun, Scroobius Pip’s Distraction Pieces and Dave’s Conversations Against Living Miserably.