ALICE BENSON

Alice B is a Stand Up Comedian – Winner of ITV’s ‘Take The Mic’/ Actress / Public Speaker

Also known as  Vi The Cleaner & Sweet Fanny Addams (cabaret act)
www.vi-the-cleaner.co.uk

Alice also teaches fun dance/exercise for everyone including disabled and elderly

TRAINING / EXPERIENCE INCLUDES

Italia Conti Stage School
East 15 Acting School – East 15 School Scholarship winner /BBC Award nomination
Pineapple Dance Studios
The Comedy School – Rudy Lickwood, Ivor Dembina
Amused Moose Comedy Course – Logan Murray

STAND UP COMEDY –
London / UK comedy circuit
The Comedy Store Manchester
Ruby Wax Show 3 episodes
Harry Hill Show
Edinburgh Festival

Drag Idol 2015 The Two Brewers

Help for Heroes Charity Gala (Performance Partnership)

Hayes FM Radio weekly topical comedy spot Gordon Baxter Show

Alice has performed at various comedy clubs around the UK including The Comedy Store Manchester, Edinburgh festival, MC’ing for Harry Hill at Hampstead Comedy Club, Ashton Court Festival, various Mirth Control venues, and most recently as an assistant coach for The Confident Club with ‘Steve McDermott three times winner of the European Motivational Speaker Awards’.

Alice also performs at various Drag clubs as Sweet Fanny Addams, recently performed at Drag Idol UK – The Two Brewers with La Voix as MC

FILM
Title role – Playing Monica Lewinsky in That Woman by Amy Rosenthal (Dir Edward Dick, Producer Joshua Davis) – main cast Ben Caplan, Maureen Lipman
Vertical Hold – A one woman film (award nominated)
BBC training videos
National Film School projects

THEATRE
Burlesque Dancer Paul Raymond Revue Bar

An evening with Charles Dickens with Simon Callow – Harold Pinter Theatre
Secret Pages – Dir Alan McCormack – RSC
The Unblest / Daylight Robbery – Kings Head Theatre
Shakespearean roles with The Chrysalis Theatre Company – Ambassadors Theatre
Aspects of Dance (Wayne Sleep production) (Me and My Girl) Hackney Empire – Adelphi Theatre
An Evening with Gary Lineker – De Montford Hall- dir Dennis Spencer
Shakespeare Review – Alternative Arts Company – dir Elizabeth Sharland, – Concert Artists Association – Fortune Theatre
Paintings by Playwrights – Dir Valerie Lucas – Kings Head Theatre
Weekly Rep Theatre company – De Montford Hall Leicester / Stoke on Trent

TV
The Green Man with Albert Finney
The Ruby Wax Show  3 episodes
Play on Four
Inside Out Comedy Workshop with Tessa Dunlop
East 15 Documentary
Eastenders 2 episodes – prostitute
The Late Show – Moulin Rouge dancer -Toulouse-Lautrec Biog

BBC Headroom with Ruby Wax
COMMERCIALS
‘Face of Tippex’ Billboard Campaign
Feast Ice Cream
The Guardian Newspaper – with John Sessions
Voice and Face of a Samaritan for Samaritans campaign
3 Halifax Adverts