BIGHEAD is a new live comedy production company bringing you regular mixed bill shows blending traditional stand-up with alternative comedy and clowning in venues across London, as well as producing exciting new projects from rising stars.
Upcoming Shows
Everything we're doing (that we've announced).
Pleasance WIP Season
7th February to 9th April
Pleasance Theatre, London
BIGHEAD Comedy brings a massive selection of shows to Pleasance Theatre in London as part of their work-in-progress season in Spring 2025.
Shows include new projects from BIGHEAD favourites like Bebe Cave, Rosa Garland, Kate Cheka and Rosalie Minnitt, plus debut shows from Ozzy Algar, Su Mi, Cabbage The Clown, Pedro Leandro and Anna Hale.
Kate Cheka: A Messiah Comes
23rd February to 14th June
Various Venues, UK Tour
The reigning Funny Women Award winner and Chortle Best Newcomer nominee Kate Cheka brings you her debut hour where she tries to save the world.
Where does this messiah complex come from? Is it the second coming or has she just inherited her mother's psychological disorder? If you're anxious about the state of the world (or just your own mental state), join this 'impressive, frank and relatable' (Chortle.co.uk) BBC New Comedy Awards semi-finalist as she becomes the first woman to wonder what many men have wondered before her: am I actually God?
Pedro Leandro: Soft Animal (WIP)
Sunday 30th March
The Glitch, London
A work-in-progress of the debut show from Pedro Leandro, a comedian who has famously been described as “magnetic” (Guardian) and “a beautiful bright-eyed joy” (Everything Theatre). Sadly, he has found this praise to be insufficient. Standing atop the lonely Everest of his innumerable achievements, he invites his audience to reflect: will it, can it, ever be enough?
A BAFTA might do the trick. It certainly won’t hurt.
Rosalie Minnitt: Clementine
3rd - 5th April 2025
Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
The critically-acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe hit from Rosalie Minnitt featured in The Telegraph’s Funniest Comedy Shows of Fringe 2024 and The Guardian’s Top 10 Comedy Shows of 2023.
Lady Clementine has until her 27th birthday to find The One. When her latest beau goes missing, Clementine embarks on a hilariously unhinged quest to solve the mystery of her ill fortune. But with neither sense nor sensibility, will our romantic heroine find love in time? Set roughly “in the past”, this is a story about sickly sisters, self-love and Sylvanian Families.
Bonnets at the ready, ladies, for the debut character comedy show of the (Scorpio) season.
Harriet Richardson: Please Don't Come To This If You Know Me I'm Begging You
10th & 11th April
Rosemary Branch Theatre, London
Self-proclaimed "online performance artist" Harriet Richardson presents her first-ever test show. Featured in The Guardian, The New York Times, and ranked third on Meta's 'Watchlist of Concern 2024', Harriet continues to challenge the definition of performance art, taking it from screen to stage, in her solo debut. Expect an experimental evening that will leave you questioning whether you're witnessing art, comedy, or both.
Holly Spillar: Tall Child (WIP)
Thursday 24th April
Museum Of Comedy, London
Following her critically-acclaimed sell-out debut Hole (‘An impressive debut from a compelling performer’ ★★★★ Chortle), musical comedian Holly Spillar is returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe armed with a loop pedal and some ever growing dissonant rage.
Tall Child is a surreal but observational hour about the impossibilities of making professional art in an ‘age of insecurity’. In a cost of living crisis and a country defined by class, Holly Spillar is searching her pockets for low cost joy - from Caravan holiday parks to 2p machines. She's Bo Burnham if he didn't have the means, she's Kate Bush…if Kate Bush smelt of damp.
Bebe Cave: CHRISTBRIDE (WIP)
Sunday 27th April
Hen & Chickens Theatre, London
In the dark, desperate, deathly world of the middle ages, one (quite annoying) woman strives to find the light. Join CHRISTBRIDE, a female mystic in a world of male dullards, as she escapes from a life of monotony to a life of devotion. Expect fantasy, prophesies, miracles both real and fake and a mystical marriage in her bedroom to Jesus Christ our lord and saviour.
The writer and star of critically acclaimed 2024 fringe hit The Screen Test ('Full of madcap ideas and caricatures...a riot from start to finish' Broadway Baby) presents a work in progress of her debut character comedy show.
Hilarious at Hoxton Hall with Rhys James
Thursday 15th May
Hoxton Hall, London
London’s hottest new comedy night returns to the iconic Hoxton Hall for another evening of some of the biggest stand-ups in the country, headlined by Mock The Week and Live at the Apollo legend Rhys James!
He’ll be joined by an all-star line-up of comedy talent, including star of Taskmaster and co-host of the Three Bean Salad podcast Mike Wozniak as well as Live at the Apollo star Helen Bauer! More acts to be announced soon!
Paulina Lenoir: Puella Eterna
Saturday 17th May
Hoxton Hall, London
Would you like to live forever? This is a show about LIFE, in all its stages. Told by a poetic idiot in search of eternity – between the pages.
Acclaimed designer turned 'virtuosic clown' (FringeReview) Paulina Lenoir presents a tale of birth, life and death told through the eyes of this generation's most renowned couture poet, Puella Eterna.
Cabbage The Clown: Sinnyworld (WIP)
Saturday 14th June
Museum of Comedy, London
A work-in-progress debut show from multi award-winning drag star Cabbage The Clown.
The winner of NADC and Top of the Slops presents their first ever full work-in-progress performance of their upcoming debut comedy show.
Join them as they work on putting together a full solo show for the first time ever.
Rosa Garland: Primal Bog (WIP)
Sunday 15th June
Hen & Chickens Theatre, London
Rosa Garland is a critically acclaimed clown who likes slime. She is the brain and body behind the sell-out queer cult hit Trash Salad (Soho Theatre, Pleasance).
This is a new WIP for people who want to see what happens when a clown explores kink, but don’t necessarily want to date Rosa to find out. If you fancy her you should defo still come tho.
Bebe Cave: The Screen Test
10th - 12th July
Soho Theatre, London
Bebe Cave’s critically-acclaimed dark comedy of delusion, desperation and dreams.
Betsy Bitterly is an aspiring actress in 1930s Hollywood, so desperate to become a star that she might just sacrifice herself along the way.
Through a series of “screen tests” for roles that could change her life, Betsy herself changes in ways she never expected in her never ending quest to “make it”. But what does “making it” really mean? And when do you let go of the dream?
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Want to be on a show?
BIGHEAD run mixed bill shows most months of the year, including Hilarious at Hoxton Hall in Hackney, Live at the Escape in Stratford and Live at Seven Dials Playhouse in Central London.
We also occasionally work with performers and groups on individual projects for performance at venues across London and at festivals around the UK.
We especially encourage acts who come from a non-traditional comedy performance background who would like to try performing on a mixed bill stand-up night.
If you would like to perform at one of our nights, or you have a project you'd like to pitch to us, please send a bio and video clips if you have them to:
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