Become a Live Puppet at NINA CONTI: IN YOUR FACE, Headed Off-Broadway This Winter

Nina Conti: In Your Face will play off-Broadway at Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street) beginning December 12th with the official opening scheduled for December 14th. The show is produced by Staci Levine of Groundswell Theatricals and Barrow Street Theatre and will play a limited 13 performance run.

In her New York debut, Nina Conti brings her edgy flair and original touch to a classic art form. With handcrafted masks that transform Audience members into "live puppets," along with her sidekick, the "foul-mouthed" Monkey, Conti creates a hilarious new show nightly. This is ventriloquism for a new generation...hip, cool, and off the charts. Direct from her engagement at The Criterion Theatre in London's West End, the voice-throwing queen leaves the crowd speechless without even opening her mouth.

"I can't wait to slip my masks on those New Yorkers," said Nina Conti. "Now if only I can just make it to Barrow Street without dying of excitement then all will be well."

Tickets for Nina Conti: In Your Face are $45, with premium seating available. Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.BarrowStreetTheatre.com, on the phone at (866) 811-4111, or in person at the Barrow Street Theatre box office, open at 1:00PM daily.

Barrow Street Theatre is located at 27 Barrow Street at 7th Avenue South in the heart of Greenwich Village. Nearby subway stops are the 1 at Christopher Street (walk 1 block South on 7th Avenue to Barrow) and the A, C, E, B, D, F and M at West 4th (walk West on West 4th Street, left on Barrow).

For more information, visit www.BarrowStreetTheatre.com and www.NinaConti.net.

Nina Conti is a ground-breaking ventriloquist. She started performing stand-up ventriloquism in January 2002 and shot to fame by winning the BBC New Comedy Award that same year. Famed for her foul-mouthed 'sidekick' Monkey (Monk), Nina has won numerous comedy awards for her writing, acting and ventriloquism. Nina regularly headlines at UK and London comedy venues, and has appeared at The Comedy Store and Soho Theatre and has taken numerous shows to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She has also appeared at both the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Montreal Comedy Festival. In 2014 she was nominated alongside three other female comics for The British Comedy Awards: Best Female Television Comic.

With two sell out UK tours under her belt, Nina recently completed her third much anticipated tour, In Your Face, in the autumn of 2015, In March 2016, Nina made her West End debut with In Your Face at London's Criterion Theatre.

Alongside her stage work Nina is a regular on UK television with hugely successful appearances on Russell Howard's "Good News" Live at the Apollo and "The John Bishop Show." Nina has also appeared on "QI," "Celebrity Squares," "Sunday Night at the Palladium," "Comic Relief" (BBC1), "Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Take Away" (ITV1) "Golf War" (E4), "Blunder" (Channel 4), "The Late Late Show" (RTE 1), "One Free Hand" (BBC), "Tickled Pink" (ITV), "Single" (ITV 1), the BAFTA-winning "Black Books" (Channel 4), "The Rob Brydon Show" (BBC2), and, most recently she played a lead role in HBO's new comedy series "Family Tree", alongside Chris O'Dowd.

Nina's UK broadcast work includes four series of Claire in the Community, the BBC Radio 4 Sony-Award winning series (2005 - 2009), and a starring role in BBC Radio 4 Comedy show Sneekiepeeks in 2010.

Nina created two documentaries for BBC 4 in 2012. Make Me Happy: A Monkey's Search for Happiness saw Nina take Monk on a journey into the world of new age and alternative therapies. She also directed, and produced her other documentary that year, A Ventriloquists Story: Her Masters Voice, in which Nina took the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erstwhile lover Ken Campbell on a pilgrimage to Vent Haven Museum in Fort Mitchell, KY, the resting place for puppets of dead ventriloquists. The documentary went on to be nominated for a BAFTA TV Award 2013.