Jordan Gray will embark on her first UK tour, with her smash hit show ‘Is it a Bird?’ throughout September and October 2023. Jordan will visit twenty-one venues across the UK and Republic of Ireland.
Is it a Bird? – which now has over 20 x 5-star reviews - brings together Jordan’s love of superheroes, her strong Essex roots, and her life as a transgender woman in an hour of raucous comedy that resonates within and far beyond the LGBTQIA+ community. The UK’s hottest comedian takes on babies, boobies, bigots and Batman; it’s big, silly, witty, sexy, and fun.
It seems strange to think it, but due to the speed of her monumental rise to fame, a year ago, not so many people had heard of Jordan Gray. In August 2022, after 10 years in the music biz (and a memorable run on The Voice), Jordan took her brand-new show “Is it a Bird” to the Edinburgh Fringe. To call her show a runaway hit does not do justice to the enormous buzz the show created. Suddenly, Jordan is one of the UK’s most exciting and celebrated comics. And for good reason.
In September of last year, she sold out her first two week run at Soho Theatre and returned in October to sell out a further two weeks.
In October, she changed the landscape of British TV, appearing on Channel 4’s Friday Night Live with a very memorable performance; a showstopping song that brought down the house when she did away with her pink power suit and stripped naked – bringing trans bodies a level of visibility hitherto never reached within the mainstream national press.
Not to lose the pace, she followed that a week later by being the first trans person to play the London Palladium – solo. Which garnered another slew of praise and five-star reviews from the press.
And since she seemingly has an aversion to free time, Jordan also launched her brand-new podcast – Transplaining with Jordan Gray, where she answers questions both big and small. Rest assured, whatever the question, Jordan has a theory - even if she knows absolutely nothing about the subject. https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/transplaining-with-jordan-gray
And just this month she smashed the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, securing a nomination for ‘Most Outstanding Show’.
Although having only started in comedy in 2017, Jordan’s Comedy Central web series Transaction has been acquired for TV development by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. In 2023, Diva Magazine named her one of the “Top 13 most influential women in the UK”. Under the stage name Tall Dark Friend, Jordan recorded and released 7 albums, touring Europe several times and racking up numerous awards for her work, including WINNER – Artist of the Decade: Panic Awards (2018), WINNER – Special Recognition Award, Best Original Song, Best Original Artist: National Entertainment Awards (2015-2018)
JORDAN GRAY – IS IT A BIRD? LISTINGS
TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 28th April – 10am. Ticket link here.
SEPTEMBER
06/09/2023 Bristol Tobacco Factory
07/09/2023 Birmingham Glee Club
08/09/2023 Maidenhead Norden Farm
09/09/2023 Milton Keynes The Stables
15/09/2023 Liverpool Playhouse
16/09/2023 Cardiff Sherman Theatre
17/09/2023 Northampton Theatre Royal
22/09/2023 Guildford Yvonne Arnaud
24/09/2023 Leeds City Varieties
29/09/2023 Cambridge Junction
OCTOBER
01/10/2023 Norwich Playhouse
04/10/2023 Dublin Liberty Hall
05/10/2023 Belfast MAC
07/10/2023 Coventry Warwick Arts Centre
09/10/2023 Southend Palace Theatre
13/10/2023 Nottingham Lakeside Arts
18/10/2023 Portsmouth New Theatre Royal
22/10/2023 Canterbury Gulbenkian
27/10/2023 London Bloomsbury
BRIGHTON DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON
Picture: Dylan Woodley
