BOOTHBY GRAFFOE

Boothby Graffoe is a comedian, singer/songwriter and playwright. He has won numerous awards, including the 2002 Adelaide Fringe Award for Excellence, the Time Out Comedy Award and has been nominated for the Perrier.

Graffoe's surreal, sharp, often improvised humour, combined with his unique line in original comic songs such as Umbrella Head Boy and Planet Dog, is winning him a legion of fans around the world. His first CD of songs Wot Italian?, with Antonio Forcione, has just gone on general release in the UK to great acclaim.

In 2002 his live shows in Adelaide, Edinburgh and London played to sell-out houses and received a clutch of five-star reviews.

In 2001 Graffoe's first play Condition of the Virgin premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe to wide acclaim and was nominated for a Fringe First award. It was later broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In 2002 his second play God and Adam played a sell-out season at the Old Red Lion Theatre in London, starring Steve Frost and Mark Arden. His new play Hitler Sells Tickets premiered to acclaim at the Assembly Rooms for the Edinburgh Fringe 2004 and will play the London Fringe later in the year.

Television appearances include BBC1's Stand-Up Show and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. He has written and hosted two series of The Big Booth for BBC Radio 4, which has commissioned a third series of the popular Boothby Graffoe in No Particular Order, for broadcast in spring 2005.

Live appearances in 2003 included Melbourne, Bermuda, Paris, Antwerp, Glastonbury, Dublin, London & Edinburgh. Graffoe made his first appearance on network American Television in January 2003, appearing on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and he returned to New York to play a hugely successful one-week Off- Broadway season at the Village Gate Theater in April 2004, part of the New York British Comedy season.

2004 kicked off with sell-out shows at London's Old Red Lion Theatre - his third Christmas/New Year season at this Islington venue, where he is booked to return for a fourth festive outing.

In February Boothby became the first comic ever to play the New Zealand International Arts Festival in Wellington and in June played the Kilkenny Comedy Festival in Ireland. Boothby was also invited to appear at the prestigious Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal in July.