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LIZ CARR
Email: liz.carr@virgin.net
Location: London
Playing Age: 25-45
Unions: Equity
Hair Colour: Black
Hair Length: Mid length
Disability: Electric wheelchair user
Credits:
Stand Up
Regular on the mainstream, disability and gay comedy circuits performing each year at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Gigs include: The Comedy Store, Manchester and London, The
Comedy Cafe, London, Rawhide, Liverpool, Hackney Empire, London, Hampstead Comedy Club,
London, Soho Theatre, Hammersmith Palais, Funny Women, London, Liverpool and Leicester
Comedy Festivals, Manchester and London Pride, DADAfest, Liberty Disability Rights Festival
and Melbourne comedy festival.
Co-founded, wrote and performed with the disabled women’s comedy sketch group Nasty Girls
in shows across the UK, festivals in Edinburgh, Vancouver and Wales 2001. Regularly performs
with Abnormally Funny People (AFP) with various other disabled comedians. AFP premiered at
Soho Theatre in 2005 with a subsequent month run at the Edinburgh Fringe and a SkyTV
documentary. Finalist in the 2006 Funny Women competition, the Laughing Horse Comedy
Competition and runner up in the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year 2007.
Gigs include: The Comedy Store, Hackney Empire, Hammersmith Palais, Liverpool and Leicester
Comedy Festivals, Manchester and London Pride, DADAfest, Liberty Disability Rights Festival
and most recently, Melbourne comedy festival.
Other Performance/Theatre
IT HASN’T HAPPENED YET!, Wolverhampton Arena Theatre, one woman showwritten and
performed by liz Carr, dir. Huw Thomas. To be showcased at Soho Theatre and in Melbourne
2009
RHINESTONE ROLLERS, all-women, spoof, wheelchair-using line dancing troupe
PEELERS ON WHEELS/VEGETABLE PEELERS, burlesque show with London School of Striptease
MOTHER COURAGE, Mother Courage, Brecht, Graeae Theatre Company
THE EXCEPTION AND THE RULE, Guide, Brecht, Young Vic Theatre
THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, Chorus, Cochrane Theatre
GEORGE DANDIN, Madame de Twitville, Moliere, Graeae Theatre Company
Writing & Broadcasting
Co-host of comedy podcast for the BBC disability website Ouch! www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/podcast.
Regular columnist for various disability and mainstream media including You & Yours and The
Guardian. Frequent contributor on Radio 4, Five Live and BBC radio and television.
Training:
Burlesque: Jo King & The London School of Striptease, Stand-Up Comedy: Jill Edwards
Singing, Voice Into Text, Exploring Text, Shakespeare: Graeae Theatre Co.
Access Certificate in Performing Arts: Missing Piece 3 with Graeae Theatre Company and
London Metropolitan University.
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