Artists and Comedians
Helen Duff
Comedy award-winning, critically acclaimed and socially conscious clown, Helen Duff started performing comedy in 2014. Her first solo show, Vanity Bites Back, won a Fringe First nomination at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was subsequently selected for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival and Perth Fringe World. A clown cookery show about anorexia, it won a Pick of the Festival Award at VAULT Festival, London before completing a 5 star rated tour of regional theatres across the UK. The same year, Helen was also a semi-finalist in the So You Think You’re Funny Awards. In 2015 Helen was named a Finalist in the Brighton Comedy Festival 2015 Squawker Awards and this year, was a Finalist in the 2017 Amused Moose New Act Awards.
Helen debuted her first comedy hour, Come With Me at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, selling out the 26 night run at the Pleasance Courtyard, receiving rave reviews and invitations to tour internationally, including Berlin, Perth Fringe World and VAULT Festival, London. This August Helen returned to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with her eagerly awaited new show When The Going Gets Duff which fearlessly unpicked the role of a woman in a post-truth world.
In addition to her blossoming stand-up career, Helen is also a talented actor and voice-over artist, holding a BA Hons in Acting from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She recently wrapped filming on her first feature film, Holmes and Watson, with Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, scheduled for release in 2018.
