Bridget Christie
| Bridget Christie | |
|---|---|
| Born |
17 August 1971 Gloucester, England[1] |
| Occupation | Stand-up comedian, writer, actress |
| Spouse(s) | Stewart Lee (2006–present) |
| Children | 1 son, 1 daughter |
| Website | |
| www.bridgetchristie.co.uk | |
Bridget Christie (born 1971) is a British comedian.
Her BBC Radio 4 series about feminism, Bridget Christie Minds the Gap, was broadcast in March 2013.
Early life
Christie was born in Gloucester and studied acting at The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in Wandsworth, London.
Career
Christie has appeared in several TV and radio comedy shows, including BBC One's The Omid Djalili Show, E4's Cardinal Burns, Harry Hill's Little Cracker for Sky, The Culture Show on BBC Two, Anna & Katy Channel 4, It's Kevin, Have I Got News for You and The Alternative Comedy Experience, Comedy Central.
BBC Radio 4 shows include The Broadcasting House Programme, Andy Zaltzman's History of the Third Millennium, The News Quiz, Miranda Hart's House Party, It's Your Round, Sarah Millican's Support Group (Series 2), Loose Ends, The Fred MacAulay Show, Dan Tetsell's The 21st Century for Time Travellers, It's Not What You Know, Kerry's List, The Now Show, Heresy, The Unbelievable Truth and Dilemma hosted by Sue Perkins.
Podcasts include Danielle Ward's Do the Right Thing and Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown.
Bridget is a board member of The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society and in 2009 was nominated for a Chortle Award in the Best Breakthrough Act category.[2]
She has written and performed 8 critically acclaimed consecutive solo Edinburgh Festival shows, The Cheese Roll, The Court of King Charles II, for which she won the Funny Women Fringe Award for Best Show, The Court of King Charles II - The Second, My Daily Mail Hell, A Ant, Housewife Surrealist, War Donkey, and A Bic for Her for which she won the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award. Her last 5 shows have had runs at London's prestigious Soho Theatre. She also performed War Donkey at the Southbank Centre as part of the Women of the World Festival. A Bic for Her was a total sell out at the Edinburgh Festival and The Soho Theatre, where it ran for 8 weeks.
In 2009 Christie played Lady Teazle opposite Lionel Blair's Sir Peter Teazle in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, directed by Cal McCrystal at the Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh and in 2010 was a regular cast member in Broadway hit Celebrity Autobiography, both in Edinburgh and the West End, which also guest-starred Jennifer Coolidge, Michael Urie, Caroline Rhea, David Tennant and Stephen Merchant.
In 2011 Christie was one of a number of actors who read Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s play about power, exclusion and scapegoating, White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, without previous knowledge of the text, at the Edinburgh Festival.
She can also be seen in Harry Hill's Little Internet Show as an ant, and also as a person on a beach, shouting.
Her BBC Radio 4 series about feminism, Bridget Christie Minds the Gap, was broadcast in March 2013. The series also starred Fred MacAulay as "man". A second series has been commissioned.
Her book, A Book for Her, will be published by Century in 2015.[3]
In August 2013 Christie was awarded Best Comedy Show in the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards for her show A Bic For Her. In January 2014 she won a South Bank Sky Arts Award for the same show.
Shows
- Bridget Christie: A Bic for Her Edinburgh Fringe 2013 and Soho Theatre.
- Bridget Christie: War Donkey Edinburgh Fringe 2012 and autumn tour
- Bridget Christie: Housewife Surrealist Edinburgh Fringe 2011
- White Rabbit, Red Rabbit Edinburgh Fringe 2011
- Bridget Christie: A Ant, Edinburgh Fringe 2010
- Celebrity Autobiography, Edinburgh Fringe 2010
- The School for Scandal, Edinburgh Fringe 2009
- Bridget Christie: My Daily Mail Hell, Edinburgh Fringe 2009
- The Court of King Charles II - The Second, Edinburgh Fringe 2008
- The Court of King Charles II, Edinburgh Fringe 2007
- The Cheese Roll, Edinburgh Fringe 2006
- Christie and Doyle's Axis of Evil, Fringe 2005
Awards
- Funny Women Final 2004 - Finalist
- Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2005 - Nominee
- Funny Women Best Show Fringe Award 2007 - Winner
- Chortle Awards - Best Breakthrough Act 2009 - Nominee
- Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2013 - Winner Best Comedy Show
- South Bank Sky Arts Award 2014 - Winner Best Comedy
References
- ↑ "Comedy profile: Bridget Christie", The Guardian, 26 March 2010. Accessed 15 April 2013
- ↑ "5,500 vote in Chortle award". 'Chortle.co.uk. 5 February 2009.
- ↑ Brand, Katy (8 March 2013). ""Bridget Christie is trying her hardest to make feminism funny"". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-08-28.