PHIL NICHOL

A veteran of the comedy scene, since March 1987, he launched as a guitar-playing lunatic for Canadian live-wire musical comedy trio sensation Corky and the Juice Pigs. He learned his comedy songwriting craft as Juice Pigs producing comedy classics such as I Used My Grandma As Skateboard and The Only Gay Eskimo. The height of the Juice Pigs success saw Phil appearing on Mad-TV for a season and a half on Fox in the States. Phil left the group 1996 and moved to London to ply his trade as a stand up winning the prestigious Time Out Comedy Award in 1998, being nominated for the Perrier Award in 2002 and finally winning the Perrier in the form of the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2006. Since then, Phil has been a stalwart of comedy and acting popping up in the West End and on your TV in sitcom after sitcom including playing Terry Gilliam in Tony Roche’s Holy Flying Circus.

As a stand-up, Phil is internationally renowned, having performed in 52 countries, has written 23 sold out hour long shows for the Edinburgh Festival and appeared on Festival TV Galas including Just for Laughs, Melbourne International CF, New Zealand CF and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Phil has filmed four stand-up comedy specials including his Edinburgh Comedy award winning show The Naked Racist and the groundbreaking Nearly Gay for ITV2.

Acting-wise, Phil Nichol recently played pagan pub landlord, Paul Chambers, in Agatha Raisin for Acorn and Sky Max. He has appeared as Mark in Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney's hit Channel 4 sitcom Catastrophe and as Jerry in the award-winning BBC3 show Uncle. Phil played gay priest Drew in the Greg Davies sitcom Man Down. He was guest lead, George Harper, in BBC’s Siblings and most memorably, he was seen in BBC's BAFTA nominated Holy Flying Circus playing ex Monty Python animator/director, Terry Gilliam.
 

On the stage, Phil originated the role of Loco Chanelle in the Olivier award nominated, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie in London’s West End as. He starred alongside Christian Slater in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Boy George in Taboo and Bill Bailey in the fringe sensation Twelve Angry Men. Phil travelled to New York with the Donmar Warehouse to perform in The Machine written by Academy award nominated Matt Charman. Phil has won numerous performance awards including the 2005 Stage Award for Acting Excellence (The Zoo Story), the 2006 Edinburgh Comedy Award (The Naked Racist) and a Scotsman Fringe First for the monologue Somewhere Beneath It All, A Small Fire Burns Still (2011).

Phil has developed three feature films, Say You Love Satan (Warp Films), Yinka and Dinka’s House of Hoax (Sinner Films) and most recently, Bardo, an environmentally friendly faerie tale. He has directed sketches for ITV2 and BBC 3. He has also directed extensively for the theatre as founder and Artistic director of the award-winning Comedians Theatre Company, which is now in its 19th year having produced over 30 productions including a radio series for BBC Radio 4.