Following the success of her critically acclaimed recent shows, Comedian Shazia Mirza heads to the Monmouth Savoy on 2nd June with her award-nominated tour Coconut.

Recently seen back to absolute basics in Channel 4’s Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls, taking a speedy turn in BBC2’s Top Gear and temporarily enjoying the high life in Channel 4’s Travel Man – 48 Hours In… Côte d’Azur, Shazia has also guested on ITV’s Jonathan Ross and Loose Women, BBC1’s The One Show, and is a regular panellist on Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff.

Shazia will appear in the next series of BBC 2’s The Pilgrimage, due to air in the spring.

In 2008 she was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.

And she won ‘Columnist of the Year’ at the prestigious PPA Awards for her fortnightly column in the New Statesman and won The GG2 Young Achiever of the Year Award.

She has performed all over the world, selling out performances from Singapore to Kosovo, and regularly writes for various publications, including The Guardian, The Financial Times and New Internationalist.

Shazia Mirza Photograph by IDIL SUKAN