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Conti Brings Subversive Puppet Humor To Theatre Festival

Nina Conti

Women's Focus, 03/16 Noon: British actress and comedian comes to Albuquerque this week for two shows with the . She has won a British Comedy Award, stormed Live at the Apollo, Russell Howard’s Good News, Sunday Night at the Palladium, and made a BAFTA nominated film. She and her most well-known puppet, Monkey, were also in the HBO series 

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Idil Sukan
Conti in one of her prop masks she uses with audience members.

Conti began her career as an actress at the Royal Shakespeare Company, before theatre director Ken Campbell inspired her to become a ventriloquist. In 2008 she won the prestigious Barry Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for her solo show Complete and Utter Conti. In 2010, her show Talk to the Hand had sell-out seasons in Edinburgh, London, Melbourne, the Sydney Opera House and New York.

Conti will have two shows at Revolutions, including her solo performance " on March 23rd at the KiMo, and a show with Albuerque native Shenoah Allen of The Pajama Men on March 21st at the Tricklock Performance Laboratory called

Find out more information and buy tickets . 

 

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Megan has been a journalist for 25 years and worked at business weeklies in San Antonio, New Orleans and Albuquerque. She first came to 91°µÍø as a phone volunteer on the pledge drive in 2005. That led to volunteering on Women’s Focus, Weekend Edition and the Global Music Show. She was then hired as Morning Edition host in 2015, then the All Things Considered host in 2018. Megan was hired as News Director in 2021.