Sarah Kendall
Credits
Biography
Biography
Time Out Comedy Award Nominee 2006
Perrier Award Nominee 2004
2007 has so far seen Sarah completing a European Tour of her show 'Attention Seeker'.
She debuted the show with a critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival throughout August last year follwed by ten nights at London's Soho Theatre in October.
She has recently completed recording on Comedy Cuts, an exciting new sketch show for ITV.
She is also working on a brand new live show 'My Very First Kidnapping' which she will perform at the Edinburgh Fringe.
On top of this Sarah also performed acclaimed sets ay a number of this years festivals including Cats Laughs Kilkenny and the Guardian Hay Arts Festival.
In 2004, Sarah returned from a sell-out run at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, performed for a week at the Soho Theatre and then headed to the Edinburgh Festival. She returned with a Perrier Award Nomination for her highly acclaimed show. She followed this with appearances at the Brighton Comedy Festival and a performance at the Gielgud Theatre in the West End.
This show was the fourth solo show that Sarah had taken to Edinburgh. In 2003, she was one of only five acts selected by NBC to perform their Edinburgh Nights season in New York. In 2002, Sarah was the only stand-up performer to win the Festival's prestigious Herald Angel Award.
Such success typifies Sarah's success on the International circuit. She has performed at the Hong Kong Fringe, the Adelaide Fringe, three times at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, at the Berlin and Stavanger Comedy Festivals, and in Los Angeles, Holland, South Africa, Singapore, New York and Belgium.
Having eschewed TV and radio appearances for years, Sarah has recently accepted guest appearances on The Comic Side of Seven Days (BBC 3) The World Stands Up (Paramount/ Comedy Central) The Glasshouse (ABCTV) Edinburgh and Beyond (Paramount) Four at the Store (Radio 4) and Parson's and Naylor's Pull Out Sections (Radio 2)
What the Press Have Said:
"Kendall has the slickness and originality to be great" Metro
"A consummate storyteller" Evening Standard
"She has that X Factor which makes a great comedian" The Scotsman
"Most importantly she's bloody funny" The List
"The Oz lady charms & disarms in abundant measure"
The List
"A lesson in how comedy should be staged"
The Sunday Times
"She can move from deadpan wit to daft, stage consuming physical comedy in a sentence"
Metro
"A beautifully structured, charming show…somebody must have sprinkled comedy fairy dust on her"
The Times
"Confident, cheeky and very funny"
The Sunday Times
"This Aussie wizard is pure comedy gold" ****
The List
"Sarah Kendall is about the best young stand up around"****
The Herald
"A cross between Minnie the Minx and Nicole Kidman, she is naturally funny…the most hilarious monologues you'll see at the fringe" *****
Three Weeks
"Wry and weird…lovely stuff"
The Scotsman
"Her stance is a winning combination of the intelligent and the downright stupid…Kendall is blessed with a naturally funny mind and she knows how to use it" ****
Chortle
"Funny and self-deprecating, irreverently political with a big dollop of surrealism…her humour is never less than intelligent, but she's not above clowning around." ****
Fest
"Sarah Kendall makes it all look like a doddle. All smiles and no-nonsense charm, she let's an audience relax into their seats - then wallops 'em" ****
Metro
"Her intelligence separates Kendall from the pack"
The List
"Kendall killed"
Hollywood Reporter
"A terrific writer with a towering presence"
The Stage
"Her timing is split-second perfect and her content the kind of intelligent humour you only dream of encountering"
The Herald