2014 Edinburgh Fringe

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Multi-award-winning comedian Celia Pacquola has always been obsessed with the future, but planned for none of it. She has, however, planned to return to this year's Fringe with her most revealing stand-up show to date. Join Celia as she looks into the crystal ball to see what the future might hold. Why not go for it, she could get hit by a bus tomorrow...

Celia has cemented her position as one of the most in-demand comedians in Australia, selling out her solo shows at the Melbourne and Adelaide Festivals and starring in numerous television shows including Offspring (Network Ten), Spicks & Specks (ABC1), Chelsea Lately and Have You Been Paying Attention? (Network Ten), Good News Week (Network Ten), Laid (ABC1) and Rove (Network Ten). Since her debut Edinburgh Festival show in 2009, she has gone on to appear on Never Mind the Buzzcocks (BBC2), The Rob Brydon Show (BBC2), Russell Howard's Good News (BBC Three) and Don't Sit In the Front Row (Sky) and has also guest appeared on BBC Radio 4 shows Shappi Talk, What's So Funny?, It's Your Round, The Headset and The Unbelievable Truth. She has just been nominated for the prestigious Barry Award at this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Her debut hour show Am I Strange garnered her the Age Critic's Award for Best Comedy at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and she went on to perform that same year at the prestigious Sydney Opera House. She has performed several shows at the Edinburgh Festival to critical acclaim and was invited to play Montreal's Just For Laugh's last July. Celia is also an accomplished actor and this year will be starring in a new Working Dog production, Utopia, and as a writer she has contributed to publications such as Australian newspaper The Age.