ALISON SPITTLE BIO

ABOUT

Alison Spittle is an award-winning screenwriter, actress and comedian. She has appeared on ‘Celebrity Gogglebox’, ‘Richard Osman’s House of Games’, ‘Pointless Celebrities’, and as a judge on the ‘BBC New Comedy Awards’

She is co-creator and co-presenter of the BBC sounds podcast ‘Wheel of Misfortune’ with Kerry Katona, is a regular co-host of ‘The Guilty Feminist’ and had her own hugely successful vehicle ‘The Alison Spittle Show’. Her BBC Radio 4 series 'Petty Please' is available now.

She is the creator and star of the television series ‘Nowhere Fast’, which aired on RTÉ2, BBC America and Stan Australia to critical acclaim. She wrote and starred in ‘Alison Spittle in Ireland’, a short film produced by Baby Cow Productions for Sky. Her first play, ‘Starlet’ picked up five stars from The Sunday Times and her second play ‘Glacier’ ran at Old Fire Station Oxford with four stars from The Stage.

Her latest show 'Big' won the Comedian's Choice Award for Best Show 2025 and had a full sell out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, with multiple extra shows and a transfer to Soho Theatre. Rolling Stone included it in their top shows of the Fringe. She tours it in the UK and Ireland in 2026.

Her 2023 show ‘Soup’ had a full sell out fringe run and toured the UK and Ireland. Her 2022 show ‘Wet’ was one of British Comedy Guide’s best reviewed shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, and went on to tour around UK and Ireland including Soho Theatre in London.

‘A kind of genius'

- Irish Times

‘A natural comedian’

- Funny Women ★★★★

‘Spittle’s quick wit and delivery continues to flourish’

- The List ★★★★

‘Nuanced, cheeky and joyful… a show with many layers’

- The Herald ★★★★

'An hour of near faultless material'

- The Skinny ★★★★

'Had the full house rolling in the aisles'

- Daily Express ★★★★

CREDITS

Winner: Best Show - Comedian's Choice Awards - Big (2025)

Winner: Best Performer - Belfast Fringe Festival - Big (2025)

BBC New Comedy Awards (Television) Performer/Judge. BBC (2023 & 2025)

Pointless Celebrities (Television) Performer. Banijay UK Productions/BBC (2024)

Celebrity Gogglebox (Television) Performer. Kite Entertainment/Studio Lambert (2023)

Eastenders (Television) Performer. BBC Studios (2023)

House of Games (Television) Performer. Banijay UK Productions/BBC (2023)

Glacier (Stage) Writer. (2023)

Soup (Stage) Writer/Performer. (2023)

Wheel of Misfortune (Audio) Creator. BBC (2020-2023)

Wet (Stage) Writer/Performer. (2022)

Have I Got News For You (Television) Writer. Hat Trick (2019-2022)

Starlet (Stage) Writer. (2019)

Nowhere Fast (Television) Creator/Writer/Performer. RTE (2017)

Alison Spittle in Ireland (Television) Creator/Performer. Baby Cow Productions/Sky (2016)

Republic of Telly (Television) Performer. RTE (2013)

The Alison Spittle Show (Audio) Creator. Headstuff Productions (2016-2020)