About this Event
These are "Work in Prgress" shows. A great opportunity to catch top comedians perform new material before taking them on national tours. And there are more coming your way.
This show is a double-headliner from Larry Dean and Laura Davis. Two brilliant comedians each performing new one-hour WIP shows (with interval) for just £15.
LARRY DEAN
Sharp and unexpected lines…an irresistible chutzpahChortle
Larry Dean is an award-winning comedian, writer and actor.
Larry has thrice been nominated for the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Awards for his sellout, critically acclaimed solo stand up shows. His stand up special Fandan, produced by 800 Pound Gorilla Media, was released this year and aired on Channel 4.
He has performed multiple tours across the UK and Ireland and has built a strong international fanbase with regular appearances at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, New Zealand Comedy Festival, Perth Fringeworld and Just For Laughs in Montreal. This year he will make his New York touring debut and 2024 will see him embark on his biggest tour to date.
Larry’s broadcasting career goes from strength to strength, with credits including: two appearances on Live at the Apollo (once as host), Mock the Week, House of Games, Roast Battle, The Stand Up Sketch Show and he performed stand up on Michael McIntyre’s Big Show for BBC1. He will soon be seen in World’s Most Dangerous Roads. He is a regular guest on podcasts and co-hosted the series Shared Baggage for Audible with Catherine Bohart.
Larry is a talented actor – he’ll soon be seen in the forthcoming feature film This Time Next Year with more in the pipeline.
LAURA DAVIS
Since making her name in 2008 as a national finalist in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival RAW competition, Davis has returned to MICF twelve times with ten different solo shows, garnering a reputation as one of the most talented and distinctive acts performing at the festival. Davis’ sixth offering, Ghost Machine, won both the Golden Gibbo and the Melbourne Fringe Best Comedy Award in 2015. Marco Polo, Davis’ 2016 show for MICF and the Adelaide Fringe Festival, won the prestigious Comedy Channel Moosehead Award.
Davis debuted at Edinburgh Fringe in 2017 with Cake in the Rain and returned in 2018 with a reprise of Ghost Machine. Both shows received critical acclaim and ran at London’s Soho Theatre. They returned to the Fringe in 2019 with Better Dead than a Coward, which also received press accolades. Davis’ 2022 show, If This Is It, received a nomination for the Most Outstanding Show at MICF, and received further acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe. The Scotsman lauded Davis’, “considerable elan, making series points with wonderfully silly flourishes.” and The List praised Davis’ ability to have “the audience firmly in their palm, refusing to hold back.” 2023 sees Davis return to MICF and the Edinburgh Fringe with their new show: Well Don’t Just Stand There Dancing.
Davis is an experienced comedy director, most recently having worked with James Nokise and Grace Jarvis. Davis was a writer on the seventh and eighth seasons of ABC TV’s Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell, Australia’s long-running satirical news and current affairs program, and has also performed stand-up on ABC TV’s Comedy Up Late, MICF Upfront Gala and ABC Comedy Next Gen Special plus the New Zealand Comedy Festival Gala 2020.
Davis has also been a guest on several of the UK’s leading podcasts, including The Adam Buxton Podcast, The Comedian’s Comedian Podcast and The Guilty Feminist.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Temperance, 33 Bath Street, Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
GBP 15.00
