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Sean Hughes

In 1987, Sean started doing stand-up comedy in London clubs. He became the youngest ever winner of the prestigious Perrier Award for 'A One Night Stand With Sean Hughes' at the Edinburgh Festival in 1990. The show also played to crowds in London and throughout the UK, Los Angeles, Montreal, Toronto and toured Australia for the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 1991. Along with Owen O’Neil he was awarded a Fringe First when he returned to Edinburgh in 1999 with the short plays, ‘Dehydrated’ and ‘Travellin’ Light’. Sean then launched his successful TV career with the critically acclaimed 7 part sitcom 'Sean's Show' for Channel 4, which Sean both wrote and starred in and hot on the footsteps of the first, a second series followed shortly after. As well as his comic writing, Sean has written two collections of prose and poetry and the first, 'Sean's Book'sold over 40,000 copies. Sean has also written two critically acclaimed novels 'The Detainees' and 'It's What He Would Have Wanted'.

‘hugely impressive and intelligent' (Time Out);

‘high calibre comedy as it should be' (The Standard);

‘one of the best stand-ups of his generation' (Daily Telegraph).

His no-holds-barred, quick-fire wit shapes each performance into a one-off, unique experience for his audience.

Along with ‘Sean’s Show’,  Sean is best-known to TV audiences for his long-running stint as team captain on the daddy of all panel shows ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’ and also acclaimed drama The Last Detective … not forgetting starring as Eileen Grimshaw’s love interest, Pat, in Coronation Street.

Despite a nine-year break from performing stand-up, he was recently voted No. 40 in Channel 4's ‘World's 100 Greatest Comedians’ poll. His equally wide-ranging film and theatre career includes starring roles in the film adaptation of Spike Milligan's Puckoon and, with Sienna Miller on the West End stage, in As You Like It.

TV CREDITS
The Legend Of the Lost Tribe (Animation)      Tapir                             BBC1
The Rubbadubbers                                          Voice                             CBeebies
So You Think You Can Nurse                            Guest                            Channel 5
Best Man’s Speech                                           Contributor                   ITV2
The Last Detective Series 1&2                        Mod                              ITV1
Friday Night Hijack                                        Guest                            Sky Arts
World Rally Championship                               Guest                            Dave
100 Greatest Albums                                       Presenter                      VH1
The World Comedy Tour – Melbourne              Performer                     The Comedy Channel
Turn The World Down                                     Performer                     Channel 4
Up late With…                                                 Presenter                       BBC Choice
Celeb Blind Man’s Bluff                                   Guest                             Channel 4
The Comic Strip Presents 4 Men in a Plane      Ian Crisp                        Channel 4
Gormenghast                                                   Poet                               BBC1
Inside Tracks                                                  Presenter                       BBC Choice
The Greatest Store In the World                   Elf                                 BBC1
Never Mind the Buzzcocks 10 series                Guest/Capt                    BBC2
Life’s A Bitch                                                  Hippy                             Channel 4
Sean’s Shorts                                                  Writer/Performer          BBC2
Sean’s Show Series 1&2                                   Writer/Performer          Channel 4
Aah, Sean                                                       Writer/Performer          Channel 4
Murder Most Horrid                                        Zak Mitchell                  BBC2

FILM
Puckoon                                                           Madigan                         Dir. Terence Ryan
Fast Food                                                        Fish                               Dir. Stewart Sugg
The Butcher Boy                                             Psychiatrist                   Dir. Neil Jordan
Snakes and Ladders                                         Martin                           Dir. Trish McAdam
Rocket Man II                                                 Einstein                          Dir Suzie Halewood
The Commitments                                            Dave                               Dir. Alan Parker         

THEATRE AND LIVE
Patrick’s Day                                                   Patrick McGlin               Battersea Arts Centre
What I meant To Say Was                              Stand Up                       UK Tour
Sick Room                                                       Writer                           Nat. Youth Theatre
Sean Hughes, LIVE Australia                           Stand Up                       Australian Tour
Sean Hughes, LIVE UK                                    Stand Up                       UK Tour
The Right Side Of Wrong Tour                       Stand Up                       UK Tour
As you Like It                                                 Touchstone                    Wyndham’s Theatre
The World Comedy Tour                                 Performer                      Melbourne
Art                                                                  Ivan                               Wyndham’s Theatre
Travellin’ Light and Dehydrated                      Co writer                        Edinburgh Festival
Thirtysomehow                                                Stand-up                        Riverside Studios

RADIO MUSIC AND V/O
The Sunday Lie In                                           Presenter                       BBC6 Music
And This Is Them                                           Presenter                       Radio 2
Dead Meat                                                      Writer/Performer          Radio 4
Sean’s Show                                                    Presenter                       GLR