Nina Conti announces 2025 tour

As her new movie prepares to hit the festival circuit

Nina Conti has announced a 2025 tour of her new live show Whose Face Is It Anyway?

The comic and ventriloquist launches the show at the Edinburgh Fringe this August, with a full run at the 750-seat Pleasance Grand at 7.30pm.

That will be followed by a 21-date tour, kicking off in St Albans on Thursday January 16.

The show features audience participation, with Conti giving masks to her volunteers so she can control the movement of their jaw and put words in their mouths.

She said: ‘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 fuck 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.’

Conti is also hoping to debut the first narrative film she has directed, Sunlight, at film festivals later this year.

Set in New Mexico, it is described as ‘a darkly funny and unconventional love story between a man and a woman who doesn’t want to come out of a monkey suit’ – a reference to Conti’s own ventriloquism act.

The film co-stars and was co-written with her partner Shenoah Allen, the Albuquerque native and half of the the Pyjama Men duo. It is executive produced by This Is Spinal Tap creator Christopher Guest.

Man and a woman in a monkey suits in the front seats of an RV

Last month, the film was picked as one of the BFI and British Council’s ‘Great 8’ films, with footage aired exclusively to buyers and festival programmers.

Continuing her work with Guest, Nina Conti also recently been finished filming as part of the cast of the upcoming sequel to the 1984 cult classic This Is Spinal Tap.

Tickets for Conti’s UK tour go on sale this Friday.

» Nina Conti tour dates

• Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Ania Magliano has announced a tour of her new show, Forgive Me, Father, with 19 dates across the UK early next year. It follows its debut at the Edinburgh Fringe and a 12-night run at London’s Soho Theatre, Downstairs, from Monday October 14. Ania Magliano tour dates

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Published: 19 Jun 2024