Hatty Ashdown – Nan Child & More at Comedy Festival

Hatty Ashdown – Nan Child &Other Workings

(work in progress show)

At

Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival

Venue:  Manhatten 34 Rutland Street, Leicester, LE1 1RD
Doors 8.15pm – start 8.30pm (50mins)  *£5 (£4)

Top five free fringe shows – List  Magazine (Edinburgh 2011) 

“Anecdotal humour that never feels stilted or scripted…One to watch!”       **** Three weeks 

Remember that kid at school who never had the latest stuff, whose mittens were joined by a string, and who smelled vaguely of biscuits?

The one who got picked up at the end of the day by an old lady that everyone thought was their nan?

Well it WASN’T their Nan, right? It was their mum who decided to have another child rather late in life, and that kid, that Nan-Child was Hatty Ashdown.

Hatty Ashdown reveals all about her life growing up as ‘a pleasant mistake’ in this funny, true confessional about growing up and going out into the world with a head full of strange ideas brought about by mixing almost solely with the elderly.

Hatty invites you to her one-woman stand-up show to hear tales about her dotty mum, failed childhood parties,the odd toys,and stories about the unglamorous bottom-end of show business.

Hatty is very excited about her debut at the Leicester comedy festival following a successful run of her 40 min show (Nanchild) at the Edinburgh Festival, featuring in List magazine top five free fringe show, and receiving 4 stars from Three weeks.
After two years of gigging she has gained an enviable reputation for her unique brand of warm, inclusive, unpretentious comedy.

Hatty Ashdown had a varied career working as a presenter in TV and Radio.  She has interviewed dozens of celebrities including Lou Reed (who kept calling her ‘Patty’), Jon Bon Jovi and Esther Rantzen, and was one of the last people to interview James Brown. Not that she in any way contributed to his demise, as far as she knows.

As a stand-up she has supported Stewart Lee, Robin Ince, Isy Suttie and Josie Long at the Udder Belly, South Bank in London and this year supported Josie at the three day Home Game Festival in Fife Scotland.

She is currently in development with a sitcom for Big Talk Production

‘Warm, infectiously funny and brilliant’ -Josie Long

‘Wonderfully inventive, consistently funny’ -Time Out

 ‘Hatty Ashdown’s brain is made up of funny molecules. She makes me laugh. And laugh. And then laugh’ -Robert Popper (channel 4 Friday Night Dinner).

 

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