Nottingham Comedy Festival 2023: Get a Bucket and a Mop for this Work in Progress (WIP)
A musical romp with lewd lyrics, raunchy rhymes and smutty songs from the comedic mind of Kitty Messalina. Kitty's unique perspectives on prejudice, promiscuity and polyamory quickly earned her a nomination as a Finalist for the NCF New Act of the Year Award 2019, and since then she has gone from strength to strength; most recently, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, she was shortlisted for the ADHD Comedy Award 2022. She has performed with greats such as Rosie Jones, Paul Sinha, and as tour support for Shaparak "Shappi" Khorsandi, and earlier this year she performed solo at the Nottingham Playhouse as the Nottingham Queer Arts Collective's Featured Artist of the Month. Following the sold-out success of her initial stand-up show "Is This Thing Turned On?" at the Nottingham Comedy Festival 2021, this is the debut performance of her brand new solo comedy show, combining witty observations and anecdotes with original songs and parodies. Work-in-progress.
First gig:
My first stand-up gig was 26th June 2019
Recent clubs:
Late Stage Comedy
Quantum Leopard
Ofton Funny
Often Funny
Rock Central
Alternative Cobra Meeting
Bradford Fringe: LGBTQ+ Month Special
Awkward Question Time (Alex Leam)
Provocateur Comedy
Comedy Crate
Who Needs A Netflix Special Anyway (WHANSA)
Stand Up Edwards
Women Got Talent Nottingham
Derby Clown School
NCF £1 Comedy Night
Nottingham Comedy Festival (NCF) New Act of the Year 2019
Washdown
Com-Od'z
Jezebels
Treehouse Comedy
Below the Belt (Benny Shakes)
Blizzard Comedy
Social Distance Warriors
Booze at Ten (Graham Whistler)
Cross-Borders Comedy
LarkLord (MissImp)
Improv Provocateur
LaughAble
Den of Fools
CLOGG
KD's Comedian Quiz-Off
Pints of View (Friz Frizzle)
Sounds Proper Comedy Showcase
Leeds LGBT+ Literature Festival
Furthest from the Sea
Belper Fringe Festival
Bradford Fringe Festival
the Crafty Clowne (Derbyshire Comedy)
That's Entertainment Sheffield
Toolmaker Comedy
Indie-Go @ SteelYard Kelham
Hollybush Arts Centre Cradley Heath
MissImp
Laffa Cake Comedy
Keighley Pride Showcase
the Bonington Nottingham
Toolmaker Comedy Sheffield
Sexquisite
Liquid Light
Den of Laughs
NCF Canalhouse Comedy Nottingham
NCF Comedy Draycott
Women in Comedy Festival Manchester
Jokes at the Oaks Manchester
Birmingham Comedy Festival
Boardgame Smackdown LIVE
Tickled Pink
Percy Picklebackers Nottingham
Queer, As In Funny
Homotopia Arts Festival
Homotopia (Liverpool)
Capstone Arts Theatre Liverpool
Ten Feet Tall
Opening/Tour Support for Shaparak Khorsandi: It Was The Nineties
Lakeside Arts
Queer as Joke
Loft Bar Birmingham
Molasses Cane
YMCA
Malt Cross
Nottingham Playhouse
Nottingham Queer Arts Collective
Annie's Burger Shack
Comedy Karaoke
King Richard III Leicester
Leicester Comedy Festival
SMUT! The Verbal Burlesque!
The Playwright Nottingham
Liverpool Royal Court Theatre
the Alternative Black Comedy Showcase
the People's Comedy Bristol
PRSC the Space Bristol
the Carousel Hockley
Troy Club (London)
Aces and Eights Saloon Bar, London
Friz Frizzle's "What's in the Box?" at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Friz Frizzle's "What's in the Box?" at Nottingham Comedy Festival
the Star of Kings (Kings Cross, London)
XS Malarkey Manchester
Blizzard Comedy (Manchester)
Laughienda Comedy (Manchester)
Improv Provocateur at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
the Alternative Black Comedy Showcase at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
the Blue Badge Bunch at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Comedy Queers at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
the Globe Bar (Edinburgh)
the Counting House (Edinburgh)
Bannermans Bar (Edinburgh)
Pleasance - Baby Grand (Edinburgh)
Kilderkin (Edinburgh)
Press, Quotes, Awards:
Finalist (nominated, longlisted and shorlisted) - ADHD Comedian of the Year 2022 (Neurodiverse Review, Edinburgh Fringe)
Runner Up/Finalist: Nottingham Comedy Festival - NCF New Act of the Year 2019
Honourable Mention: Notts Comedy Review - New Act of the Year 2019
"Fierce, filthy and funny in equal measure" ~ Paul Sinha
"She’s got what it takes." ~ Notts Comedy Review
“Kitty is full of joy and hilarious!” ~ Rosie Jones
"she has more than enough charm and presence to hold more or less any audience" ~Notts Comedy Review
"Kitty is a born entertainer pure and simple" ~Blizzard Comedy
"Messalina went down a storm." ~Notts Comedy Review
"The filthiest song I've ever heard onstage - I love it!" ~Paul Sinha
Review posted at 3:03pm on Wed 21st Apr 2021.
Kitty Messalina
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