Nina Conti started doing stand-up ventriloquism in January 2002 and shot to fame by winning the BBC New Comedy Award that same year. Famed for her foul-mouthed 'sidekick' Monkey (Monk), Nina has won numerous comedy awards for her writing, acting and ventriloquism.

Nina regularly headlines at UK and London comedy venues, and has appeared at The Comedy Store and Soho Theatre and has often taken a show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has also appeared at both the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Montreal Comedy Festival.

Nina took her first solo full length show, Complete and Utter Conti to Edinburgh in 2007, which went on to win the prestigious BARRY Award in 2008 at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. The following year, Nina took a new show, Evolution, to the 2008 Edinburgh Festival, which proved to be a massive sellout. Nina's 2010 show, Talk to the Hand, which introduced brand new puppets, was a hit show for the full run of the Edinburgh Fringe that year.

Nina's radio work includes four series of Claire in the Community, the BBC Radio 4 Sony-Award winning series, which she featured in from 2005 to 2009.

Most recently, Nina starred in Sneekiepeeks, Harry Venning's and Neil Brand's 2010 BBC Radio 4 Comedy about a team of inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives. Nina has appeared in several television shows, including Comic Relief (BBC1), Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Take Away (ITV1) Golf War (E4), Blunder (Channel 4), The Late Late Show (RTE 1), One Free Hand (BBC), Tickled Pink (ITV), Single (ITV 1), the BAFTA-winning Black Books (Channel 4) and, most recently, The Rob Brydon Show (BBC2).

More recently Nina has fronted two documentaries for BBC 4, A Ventriloquists Story: Her Masters Voice, saw her taking the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erstwhile lover Ken Campbell on a pilgrimage to Vent Haven. For the second, Make Me Happy: A Monkey's Search for Happiness, Nina took Monk on a journey into the world of new age and alternative therapies. Alongside her live and broadcast work Nina is an experienced and extreemly popular corporate act. 

Nina has performed after-dinner cabaret with Monk (and sometimes her other puppets) for clients as varied as Nokia, Caspian Publishing, AAH Pharmaceuticals , Jardine Lloyd Thompson, Incisive Media, the DRP group, and Euromoney, not to mention countless individuals' private parties. Nina's sophisticated intelligence and playful style suits a wide range of corporate audiences, and Monk can be as clean or as rude as each client wishes!