Bridget Christie

Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, actor and writer. In 2013 she became the third woman to win the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show with A Bic For Her, which went on to win the 2014 South Bank Sky Arts Award for Best Comedy, the 2014 Chortle Award for Best Show, a 2014 Hospital 100 Club Award for Performance and broke box office records at Soho Theatre. In December 2019 the show was named as one of The Times comedy shows of the decade.

Bridget has had great success with subsequent stand-up shows, An Ungrateful Woman, Because You Demanded It and 2017’s Stand Up For Her which became a Stand-Up Special on Netflix and made her the first British female comedian with a Special on the service. Bridget has made two series of her award-winning radio show Bridget Christie Minds The Gap and one series of Bridget Christie’s Utopia which was a finalist in the BBC Audio Drama Awards for best long form Comedy. In 2016 Bridget’s debut book A Book For Her was released to wide critical acclaim, the e-book release being no.1 on Amazon.

Bridget has made numerous TV and Radio appearances as a guest on Harry Hill’s Alien Capsule, Room 101, Have I Got News For You, QI, The News Quiz, Dilemma, Museum of Curiosity and starred in It’s Kevin and Cardinal Burns. Bridget is currently working up to a new 2021 tour and developing a new series for Radio 4.