Stuart Silver is an award-winning Writer/Performer/Director. He works solo and collaboratively and is co-founder of the BAFTA-nominated, performance duo nobleandsilver, who won the 2000 Perrier Award (now the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards) for Best Newcomer. Stuart has since appeared onstage in his own one-man show, ‘You Look Like Ants’ and in shorter pieces. He has also featured in television shows such as (nobleandsilver):GET OFF ME, The Mighty Boosh, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, and Man to Man with Dean Learner.
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Stuart Silver and his writing and performance partner Kim Noble first came to national prominence upon winning the Best Newcomer Perrier Award in 2000.[1] Trained in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, the duo received as much praise from the art community as from comedy aficionados. Their work drew together visual art, stand-up, theatre, spoken word and performance art.
Noble and Silver’s post-Perrier shows include the 2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show in Pleasance Above which was a collage of video, recorded sound and performance[2] and a month-long residency in London's Beaconsfield art space, entitled We're Spending Four Weeks at Beaconsfield, So Let's Hope Everything Goes OK (Part 4) Throughout this time in residence, they performed daily "situational" shows within and around the gallery, which became a live work environment, building in complexity and using a small cast to become a part of the visitor's art experience. This residence included an increasingly spoof corporate video at the entrance proclaiming an inflated series of benefits and services offered by the gallery, a performance in the upstairs gallery space every 15 minutes directed to 1 visitor at a time and nobleandsilver having to prepare and serve food from the kitchen.
In Spring 2001 the UK digital channel E4 commissioned a six-part series entitled Noble and Silver: Get Off Me!.[3] Each part playfully deconstructed a TV genre. The parts were (a) The Making of (a documentary on the making of a documentary on itself) (b) Single-take (a 24 minute continuous shot, filmed in Soho, London) (c) Sitcom (d) nobleandsiver live (in a theatre the duo performed solely for a couple unaware that they were placed among an audience of actors who were in on the joke) (e) Travelogue (an oddysey across Europe in a made up language with strange interactions and dark undertones) (f) An episode created and filmed in nobleandsilver’s house in a couple of days due to genuine budgetry constraints. This final part of the series featured Matthew Horne in noble and silver’s kitchen talking into a microphone about where the teabags were.
Nobleandsilver were also commissioned to make a Comedy Lab for Channel 4 - ‘My Mouth Shall Speak The Praise Of Thy Lord’
In 2010 Stuart created a solo piece ‘You look Like Ants’ and performed it at The London Word Festival and Soho Theatre. You Look Like Ants is a monologue and musical performance that interweaves several narratives non-sequentially. Stuart plays electric ukulele during the piece.
Stuart has twice collaborated with the contemporary performance duo Lone Twin, co writing and co-directing ‘Cabaret Simon’ [4] for The Barbican, London in December 2009. For Lone Twin, he also produced the in-show video for ‘Beastie.’
Stuart is the lead mentor for musician/spoken word artist collaborations for Phrased & Confused. [5]
On television, Stuart played various roles (doctor, receptionist, keyboard soloist and barman ) in episodes of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace:. He also featured in the Garth Marenghi episode of Man to Man with Dean Learner, as well as the episodes with Merriman Weir, Randolph Caer and Glynn Nimron. He has also appeared in series three of The Mighty Boosh, as Mickey Jizz ' in Journey to the Centre of The Punk'.
Stuart regularly posts his video work and news about his projects on his website.[6]