TV host and award-winning critically acclaimed comedian Zoe Lyons has announced an extensive UK tour for 2023.
The ‘Bald Ambition Tour’ takes in 39 dates and starts on Thursday 2nd February at Edinburgh’s The Stand and culminates on Sunday 30th April at Plymouth’s Quad Theatre.
During the Cornish leg of the tour, Zoe will be performing at Trebah Gardens in Mawnan Smith on Saturday, April 15, and at Launceston Town Hall on Saturday, April 29.
Zoe has kept herself busy in the last couple of years by having what can best be described as a monumental midlife crisis after turning 50.
This involved buying a sports car, having a brief marital separation from her partner of 23 years and running a 100k ultra marathon which really didn’t end well.
She even turned her back on her career and started delivering vegetables from a van. Along the way her hair decided the best thing to do was abandon ship.
It ain’t easy being a middle aged woman: but try doing it with a combover!
Thankfully Zoe has been able to explore the funny side of all these twists and turns. Now it's time to sell the silly car and try and put the wheels back on her life.
Zoe said: "I'm beyond excited to be touring again in 2023, what with going mad during lockdown and getting a job driving a van, running 100km races, and my alopecia recurring with a vengeance...I need to be back to my first love - the stage!
"So please come and see my most personal show yet and help me out of my (late) midlife crisis."
She performs regularly at the Edinburgh Festival. Her shows ‘Entry Level Human’ (which is available on Next Up and Amazon Prime), ‘Mustard Cutter’ and ‘Little Miss Misfit’, have all toured the UK and been praised by critics and audiences alike.
She has also performed at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Latitude, Kilkenny and Pride Festivals.
She is the winner of Dave’s Joke of the Fringe, Comedian’s Comedian of the Year, and The Funny Women Award, and at the start of her career was nominated for the Edinburgh Best Newcomer Comedy Award.
Zoe is a trained actor, who performed the lead role in the play An Act of God at the Vaults in London in 2019. Theatre also includes Outings at the Gilded Balloon, Hedda Gabler at the Workhouse Theatre and Shut Up I’m Your Mother at the Gilded Balloon.
Full April tour dates are as follows:
Friday, April 14 - Salisbury – Arts Centre
Saturday, April 15 - Mawnan Smith – Trebah Garden
Sunsay, April 16 – Bath - Komedia
Wednesday, April 19 - Crawley – The Hawth
Friday, April 21 - Kendal – Brewery Arts
Saturday, April 22 - Southport – The Atkinson
Saturday, April 29 - Launceston – Town Hall
Sunday, April 30 - Plymouth - Quad Theatre
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