Tickets for Amy Schumer's UK tour on sale this Friday!
The highly acclaimed, world-famous stand-up comedian Amy Schumer will be touring the UK this Summer, arriving at the Edinburgh Playhouse on Tuesday 30th
August. Tickets go on sale Friday 10th June from Live Nation.
Amy is one of the entertainment industry’s leading forces as
a standup comedian, actress, writer, producer and director. She is the creator, star, writer and
executive producer of the award winning Inside
Amy Schumer, for Comedy Central, which premiered in April 2013 to the
network’s highest season premiere ratings of that year, it is currently in its
fourth series. H
Inside Amy Schumer won the 2015 US Writers Guild
Award for Best Comedy/Variety Sketch series. Last Autumn, the show was honored
with the first-ever Emmy Award for “Outstanding Sketch Variety Series.” She was
also nominated for “Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series,” and
“Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series.” Schumer received honors for “Individual
Achievement in Comedy” and “Outstanding Achievement in Comedy” from the US
Television Critics Association in 2015. Additionally, she was awarded (US) The
2015 Critic’s Choice Television Award for “Best Actress in a Comedy Series.”
Among the show’s many accolades, it also received the prestigious Peabody Award
in 2014.
Simon & Schuster’s imprint Gallery Books will publish
Schumer’s first book “The Girl with The
Lower Back Tattoo” on August 16th, 2016.
Schumer can next be seen in the independent film Thank You For Your Service opposite
Miles Teller for director Jason Hall. The film is an adaptation of David
Finkel’s book of the same name, and follows a group of U.S. soldiers returning
from Iraq who struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while
living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after
they’ve left the battlefield.
Schumer is currently in production on the "untitled
mother-daughter adventure" comedy opposite Goldie Hawn for director
Jonathan Levine. The film centers on a mother-daughter duo trapped in a
vacation gone wrong. Schumer and Kimberly Caramele are executive producing the
project and completed additional script work on Katie Dippold’s screenplay. The
film will be released in 2017 by 20th Century Fox.
Schumer’s Universal Pictures hit Trainwreck dominated the 2015 summer comedy international box
office. Amy wrote the film which co-starred Bill Hader, Tilda Swinton, Brie
Larson, Lebron James and Vanessa Bayer. Judd Apatow directed the film which was
nominated for two Golden Globes including Best Actress, Comedy or Musical, as
well as Best Picture, Comedy or Musical. Additionally, she won the Critic’s
Choice Award for “Best Actress in a Comedy” and was nominated for a Writers’
Guild Award in the category of “Original Screenplay.”
Her one-hour HBO comedy special, Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo directed by Chris Rock, premiered
on October 17th, 2015 and was HBO’s most watched Saturday night comedy special
debut since December 2009. The special earned her a Writers Guild nomination
for Best Comedy/Variety Special.
In 2015 The British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA)
honored Schumer with The Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for “Excellence in
Comedy.”
As a stand-up comedian she continues to tour to sold out
shows around the world. Schumer’s hit one-hour stand-up special for Comedy
Central, Mostly Sex Stuff, stands as the network’s highest rated original
stand-up special since 2011. She was also one of the featured comedians on
Comedy Central’s Roast of Roseanne, which followed her memorable and quotable
performance on the 2011 Roast of Charlie Sheen.
She made her network debut in 2007 when she starred on NBC’s
Last Comic Standing and soon after co-starred on 30 Rock and received her own
Comedy Central Presents special. Her other television credits include FX’s
Louie, HBO’s Girls and Curb Your Enthusiasm as well as Adult Swim’s Delocated.
Additional film credits include Seeking a Friend for the End of the World starring Steve Carrell and
Kiera Knightley, and Price Check, an
independent feature opposite Parker Posey, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance
Film Festival.
Her album Cutting
placed in the top 5 of the Billboard Charts and has been included on multiple
Best Comedy Albums of the Year awards’ lists.
Schumer is a founding member of The Collective, a New York
based Theatre Company, and a graduate of The William Esper studio where she
studied for 3 years.
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