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Fab Comedy proudly presents:
NINA GILLIGAN
WINNER - BBC Audio Awards – Best Sit Com or Comedy Drama - 2024
WINNER - Chortle Awards - Best Act 2023
WINNER - NW Comedy Awards - Best Act 2023
WINNER – Yorkshire Comedy Awards – Best Act - 2023
WINNER – Leicester Mercury Award - 2021
WINNER – Liverpool Hot Water Comedian of the Year
NOMINATED – Greater Manchester Fringe Best Comedy Play
FINALIST – English Comedian of the Year 2016
Title of Show: Nina Gilligan: Goldfish
Venue: Canalhouse 48 - 52 Canal Street, Nottingham, NG1 7EH
Time: 7pm
Dates: 10th November 2024
“Must See Show .... Phenomenal Performer” Rolling Stone
BEYOND THE JOKE 4 STARS 04 AUGUST
SQUIRREL COMEDY 4 STARS 04 AUGUST
ENTERTAINMENT NOW 4 STARS 06 AUGUST
NEURODIVERSE REVIEW 4 STARS 11 AUGUST
SCOTSUP 4 STARS 24 AUGUST
ECCENTRIC ENGLAND 5 STARS 26 AUGUST
“a brilliantly talented comic with a serious purpose” Beyond the Joke
“Must See Show .............Phenomenal Performer” Rolling Stone
“From the moment Nina Gilligan opens her mouth, you know you’re in safe hands....
Nina is a consummate comedian, her one-liners, observations and general funniness is a joyful
constant” Neurodiverse review
“achingly relatable and effortlessly funny” Scottish Field
“Goldfish’ is articulate, funny, touching, and powerful, but most of all it is memorable. Gilligan is the
clearly-spoken voice of a generation” Entertainment Now
“Golden and fantastic, blowing bubbles of joy at having created uplifting art out of the darkness”
Squirrel Comedy
Gilligan was sparkling, hilarious, in control, as she performed Goldfish The Guardian
"an impressive, emotive performer with enough charm to win over any audience" The List
“Naturally funny” JOHN THOMSON (Cold Feet)
“A hidden gem of the Circuit” KIRI PRITCHARD MCLEAN
“Brilliant, an outstanding comic” TOBY FOSTER (Phoenix Nights)
Award-winning comedian Nina Gilligan embarks on her debut tour following a criticlly
acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe Festival run with her brand-new show entitled ‘Goldfish’.
Since her last Fringe show, ‘Late Developer’ in 2022, she has won numerous awards.
Nina is sometimes outrageous, always hilarious with a charming, loveable persona and
an acerbic wit. She has the ability to transcend age barriers effortlessly and has a
relatable and authentic working-class voice.
“She’s a vivacious, life-embracing performer, with a cheeky, ready wit”. SCOTSMAN
Nina thinks she is losing her memory…she is positive she is…but she also has health
anxiety, which she gets from her Nurse mother. But there was a bigger underlying issue
- she has a migraine that affects her memory and causes Transient Aphasia, a term for
temporary memory loss. This would not be too problematic, but she has 15 plus
migraines a month! Her Fibromyalgia is a misunderstood illness that is stigmatised as
‘the widespread pain illness with no underlying organic cause’ or the ‘you are making
this up to get benefits’ disease. Largely found in women with current research that links it
to trauma and ‘internalised rage’ – that’s weird because what have women got to be
angry about?
Nina talks about how she struggles to show anger in appropriate ways. This will be the
first time she has talked about the illness that she has suffered from for a decade but
since she found out Lady Gaga has it and she feels a bit better... She has a lot of
worries about from the size of her boobs to dying with Alzheimer’s like her grandmother.
‘Goldfish’ tells the story of Nina’s personal experience with memory loss brought on
through migraine and fibromyalgia but made worse by menopause.
She explores both the silly and the scary sides of health anxiety and memory loss. The
things she can’t remember, the memory short cuts and unexpected benefits, before
delivering the gut punch of a thing she can’t forget, but wants to share about sexual
harassment within the industry. The collective noun for goldfish is a ‘troubling’ and Nina
firmly believes in the collective power of the female troubling and the precious nature of
memory. Let Nina talk you through her pain to hilarious effect and watch her as she
continues to rise through the comedy ranks.
A skilled writer, creator and improviser she has written several comedy shows and plays
including ‘Rescued’ Nominated for Best Comedy at Greater Manchester Fringe and
‘Broad Shoulders’ receiving 5-star reviews at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival. She trained
as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now The Royal
Conservatoire of Scotland) and she received the award for best actor in her final year.
Equally at home in clubs and art centre’s, Nina is opening, closing, and hosting gigs up
and down the country. She was acknowledged as 2023's Best Act at both the Chortle
and Northwest Comedy Awards, and 2021 saw her crowned as the WINNER of the
prestigious Leicester Mercury Award after also Winning Liverpool Hot Water and being a
finalist in English Comedian of The Year in previous year’s.
WATCH NINA IN ACTION: https://youtu.be/3vKwj7t5K4Q
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www.ninagilligan.com
https://www.nottinghamcomedyfestival.co.uk/nina-gilligan--goldfish
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