Award-winning comedian Shazia Mirza takes her critically acclaimed 2015 Edinburgh Fringe show on a nationwide tour stopping off at the Epsom Playhouse on Thursday 5 May.
The revered, applauded, loved and reviled comedian and columnist has appeared on various TV and radio shows including Have I Got News For You (BBC), F*** Off, I'm a Hairy Woman (BBC) for which she spent seven months in the service of hirsutism, NBC's Last Comic Standing, Beautiful People (BBC2), The World Stands Up (Paramount Comedy), and a regular slot on Radio 2’s Vanessa Feltz Show and Radio 4’s The Now Show. She has performed internationally from Texas to Kosovo and has been a regular contributor to The Financial Times, The Daily Mail and wrote a weekly column in The Guardian entitled 'Dairy of a Disappointing Daughter’.
In 2008 she was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy, won 'Columnist of the Year’ at the prestigious PPA Awards for her fortnightly column in The New Statesman and won The GG2 Young Achiever of the Year Award.