Australian Queen of Comedy, Celeste Barber will kick off a 42-city North American tour on July 6th at Durham Performing Arts Center in Durham making stops across the U.S. in Nashville, Miami, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and more! As part of the tour produced by Live Nation, Barber will be visiting 5 Canadian cities.
Celeste Barber released her best-selling book Challenge Accepted in 2019 and she was also seen on the 2019 Showtime Special of the same name. In 2020, she won the AACTA (The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards) for Favorite Comedy Performer of the Decade and in 2021, took out a Webby Special Achievement award.
Celeste won the ‘Funniest Lady on Instagram’ Award 2017 on WhoHaha.com; a digital platform co-founded by actor, director, producer, Elizabeth Banks which showcases women in comedy around the world. In 2019 she was included in Variety Magazine ‘Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch’ and she hosted the 5th Annual Daily Front Row Awards at the Beverly Hills hotel where the best in fashion in Hollywood are honored.
She is currently shooting her Netflix Comedy Wellmania, a new comedic drama series based on the novel Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness. The show centers around human tornado Liv (Barber) and a major health crisis where she is forced to rethink her ‘live fast die young’ attitude. Throwing herself body-first into a wellness journey, she tries everything from the benign to the bizarre in an attempt to get well quickly, and reclaim her old life.
FINE, THANKS. TOUR 2022 Canada DATES:
- Fri Jul 22 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall
- Wed Jul 27 – Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings Theatre
- Tue Aug 02 – Edmonton, AB – Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
- Wed Aug 03 – Calgary, AB – Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
- Thu Aug 04 – Vancouver, BC – Queen Elizabeth Theatre
HOW TO GET TICKETS:
Tickets will go on sale to the general public starting Friday, February 18th at 10AM local time on Ticketmaster.ca.