Kieran Hodgson

Three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Kieran is an acclaimed actor, writer and comedian.

Kieran Hodgson has had four hugely successful shows at the fringe, three of which resulted in prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show Award Nominations for Lance, Maestro and ’75. Maestro also landed Kieran a nomination for the Times Breakthrough Award at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2017. Kieran’s shows have sold out theatres and comedy venues across the UK.

Outside of the live circuit, Kieran has played series regular Gordon in two series of the smash hit BBC2 sitcom Two Doors Down alongside Arabella Weir, Doon Mackichan, Alex Norton, Elaine C Smith and Jonathan Watson. Kieran recently filmed The Irregulars for Netflix as well as indie feature, All My Friends Hate Me.

Kieran's Channel 4 special, called HOW EUROPE STOLE MY MUM, aired in late 2019. The Guardian gave it 5 stars and called it, "Nothing short of a Brexit miracle."     
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Kieran filmed the role of Dr Moorhouse in the forthcoming Victorian crime drama Miss Scarlet & The Duke over the summer of 2019. It airs on UKTV’s Alibi channel in the UK and PBS in the US.

Other recent film and television roles include: BBC3 / BBC One’s Bafta-nominated Pls Like series 2, as a regular in two series of BBC3's hit Famalam, Channel Four’s pilot The Mr Swallow Show starring Nick Mohammed, Dave's Unspun With Matt Forde, Netflix's Lovesick, and as Malcolm McLaren in Sky Arts' Urban Myths: The Sex Pistols vs Bill Grundy.           

Kieran’s Channel Four Blap, God’s Own County, which he wrote and also starred in alongside Monica Dolan and Jim Howick, was released in summer 2018. It was developed with Jonny Sweet and Simon Bird’s production company Guilty Party Pictures and produced by TV Burp’s Spencer Millman and is being developed further for Channel Four. Watch it here.

He also appeared in BBC 2’s single drama We’re Doomed! The Dad’s Army Story alongside John Sessions and Sally Phillips, BBC 2’s Ben Elton–penned Shakespearean sitcom Upstart Crow alongside David Mitchell, Harry Enfield and Spencer Jones, as well as Sky’s Mr Swallow’s Valentine with Nick Mohammed and the box office smash Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.            

His many radio credits include BBC Radio 4’s The School For Scandal alongside Roger Allam, Hugh Bonneville and Susannah Fielding and Pliny the Younger in Radio 4's How To Survive The Roman Empire by Pliny And Me. Kieran also wrote and performed his BBC Radio 4 series Kieran Hodgson's Earworms inspired by Maestro and recorded a special live version of Lance.

Kieran is also a hugely in-demand writer and performer who currently has his own scripted projects in development with Objective Fiction, Guilty Party Pictures / C4 and Merman Films / C4. He is also working with Fox Searchlight on a feature project.

Reviews for ’75:

 ‘The single most brilliant thing anyone's said about Brexit' ✭✭✭✭✭ The Londonist

 ‘It’s breathless, it’s bonkers and it’s often high-brow…’ ✭✭✭✭✭ The Wee Review 

‘There are quite a few shows about Brexit at the Fringe this year… But I highly doubt any are quite as frenetically witty and refreshingly even-handed as ‘75’ ✭✭✭✭✭ Theatre Weekly

‘Everything’s unusual – and ravishingly entertaining, informative and full of insight and laughs – in the show…’  ✭✭✭✭ The Times 

‘There’s a delicious perfectionism here to the writing, structure and delivery that puts most other shows to shame’  ✭✭✭✭ The Telegraph 

‘Another sterling display of comic prowess from Kieran Hodgson’ ✭✭✭✭ The List

‘It’s a show about Brexit that manages to be inclusive, clever and funny at the same time’ ✭✭✭✭Short Com

‘Hodgson’s considerable skills as a vocal caricaturist are part of the pleasure here; so too the frequency and quality of the jokes…' ✭✭✭✭ The Guardian  

‘This is rich, thoughtful but belly-laugh stuff from an act whose showy virtuosity as both a character and confessional comic is backed by some outstanding writing’ ✭✭✭✭ The Scotsman

'It's the mother of history lessons, both good to know and also holds your interest in increasingly inventive ways.' ✭✭✭✭ The Skinny 

'One of the best researched and most thoughtful takes on the topic you are likely to see - insightful as well as genuinely funny.' ✭✭✭✭ What's On Stage 

Reviews for MAESTRO:

'This could well be the show of the Fringe.' ✭✭✭✭✭ The Telegraph

'Simultaneously one of the funniest and most heart-warming acts at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, Kieran Hodgson is not to be missed.​' ✭✭✭✭✭ Broadway Baby

'This is comedy that feels in some way transcendental.  You leave Maestro feeling uplifted and elated.' ✭✭✭✭✭ TV BOMB

Reviews for LANCE:

‘An absolute gem...a delight to watch' ✭✭✭✭✭ The Guardian

'Kieran Hodgson has here served up a one-man effort that lets his comedic talents roar as never before.' ✭✭✭✭ The Telegraph

'A triumph of a show...with plenty of genuinely laugh-out-loud moments.' ✭✭✭✭1/2 Chortle