Nina Gilligan
Nina Gilligan

Nina Gilligan

  • Actor and comedian

Press clippings

Graeme Garden wins Lifetime Achievement Award at BBC Audio Awards

The winners at the BBC Audio Drama Awards include Graeme Garden, Sarah Keyworth, Where To, Mate?, Trust, Mark Heap and Cracking.

British Comedy Guide, 25th March 2024

BBC Audio Awards 2024 nominees

Call Jonathan Pie, Kat Sadler's Screen Time, Michael Spicer: Before Next Door, Mockery Manor, She Stoops To Conquer and Where To, Mate? are amongst the nominees for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2024.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd December 2023

Chortle Awards 2023 results

Jazz Emu won in two categories at the Chortle Awards 2023. Other winners included Dara O Briain, Seann Walsh, Bob Mortimer, Joe Lycett and Zoe Lyons.

British Comedy Guide, 6th February 2023

Chortle Awards 2023 nominees announced

Shortlisted nominees for the 2023 awards run by comedy website Chortle have been announced. Bob Mortimer, Alasdair Beckett-King and Jordan Gray have secured two nominations each.

British Comedy Guide, 24th January 2023

Ones to watch 2023

As another year begins, we asked some of the UK's top comedy promoters to suggest which comedians might be ones to watch over the next 12 months. Here's what they told us...

Chortle, 2nd January 2023

Comedians call for safer working conditions

With research showing sexual harassment is a routine occurrence, there is growing demand for arts venues to commit to protecting entertainers.

Rachael Healy, The Guardian, 18th August 2022

Yorkshire Comedy Awards results

Nominations were taken initially via the Yorkshire Comedy Forum, the top nominees were then voted for online via an online multiple choice survey open to comedy industry. There were over 500 votes.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 1st August 2022

Several comedians withdraw from Tramlines due to 'unforeseen circumstances'

Tom Ward, Michelle Shaughnessy, Lily Phillips and Spoken Word artist Arielle Cottingham will no longer be joining them. Instead, they have been replaced with Sammy Dobson, Daisy Earl, Nina Gilligan and Jay Chambers.

Rahmah Ghazali, The Sheffield Star, 21st July 2022

Line ups announced for Just The Tonic's Edinburgh Fringe Big Value shows

Edfringe's longest running mixed bill show brings these hopeful comics to you every night.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 20th July 2022

New organisation launched to tackle sexual harassment in live comedy

Get Off! was set up by Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Nina Gilligan in order to create safer workplaces within little-regulated industry.

Rachael Healy, The Guardian, 19th November 2021