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Manjinder Virk

Manjinder started on the stand up circuit in June 2005. Gigs include Comedy Caberet, Curly Whirly, Maniacts round the table, Amused Moose and Hogwash. She also has a double act with stand up, Jane Colenutt called VOLE.

Manjinder is also an actress and writer.

In 2004 she toured her highly successful one woman show, Autobiography of a Face (Lyric Hammersmith, London).

Other theatre credits include;
Bill Shakespeare's Italian Job (Gilded Balloon)
Come out Eli (Recorded Delivery)
Unsuitable Girls (Lyric Hammersmith)
Workers Writes (Royal Court)
Wintersun (Leicester Haymarket)
A Midsummer Night's dream (Belgrade Theatre)
Sleeping Beauty (London Bubble)

TV/Film includes;
Child of Mine (ITV)
Ghost Squad (Channel 4)
Swiss Toni (BBC)
Green Wing (Channel 4)
The Bill (ITV)
Doctors (BBC)
Two Minutes (short film - BBC)
Ready when you are Mr McGill (Working Title)

Radio includes;
London Europe (BBC radio 4 series)

Manjinder also wrote and performed in 'Tonight I Write' for BBC radio 4.

Other writing credits include 'GLOW' for Theatre Centre which toured nationally in 2003.
'GLOW' is also published as part of an anthology by aurora press - Plays for young people volume 1.

Reviews;
"Virk proves that Asian theatre can be hysterically funny...her ability to slip out of one character to another is remarkable...a beautifully performed piece" (Autobiography of a Face - Reviewsgate)

"Virk's Chumpa keeps the audience hooked with a winning combination of stroppiness and vulnerability..." (Unsuitable Girls - Evening Standard)