Who am I?
Alan Committie is one of South Africa’s leading award winning comic performers. He freelances around South Africa and has also performed in the UK and the USA. He is best known for his comic one-man shows:
Live and Let Laugh (Theatre on the bay, Montecasino)
Committie’s Comedy Carousel (Theatre on the bay)
Apocolaughs Now (Theatre on the bay, Montecasino)
The Lying King - Circle of Laugh (Theatre on the bay, Montecasino)
Classy Clown (Baxter, Kalk Bay theatre, Montecasino)
Planet Mirth (Theatre on the Bay, Kalk bay theatre, montecasino)
Love Factually (Theatre on the Bay, Baxter, Montecasino, Grahamstown Arts festival, UK regional theatres)
Laughing Matters (Theatre on the Bay, Montecasino)
180 Punchlines (Grahamstown arts festival, Kalk Bay Theatre)
Sound of Laughter (Theatre on the bay, Montecasino)
A load of Bull (Theatre on the bay, Montecasino)
No, Seriously (Theatre on the Bay, Montecasino)
Happily Ever Laughter (Theatre on the bay, Montecasino)
Bigger, Better, Faster (Theatre on the Bay, Montecasino)
Fully Committied (Theatre on the bay, Montecasino)
Stressed to kill (Montecasino, Theatre on the Bay)
Stressed for Success (Kalk bay theatre)
Return to Sendup! (Post Box Theatre)
One Man, One Remote! (Kalk Bay Theatre)
Once Upon a Laugh (Baxter Studio)
Tv or not Tv (Kalk Bay Theatre,Theatre on the Bay,Montecasino)
Dick and I (Montecasino, Theatre on the bay, Artscape Arena)
Titanic on Ice (Theatre on the Bay, Montecasino)
Dracula Unclotted! (Baxter Studio,Theatre on the Bay)
The Clown Jewels I and II (Theatre on the Bay).
This talented stand-up comedian was also part of all the Smirnoff International Comedy Festivals (Cape Town, Durban and Jo’burg) between 1997 and 2003! And, subsequently has MC’d 10 of the 15 Jive Cape Town Funny Festival events between 2004 and 2019.
Alan Committie is renowned for his 8 year stint as the star of the Broadway hit Defending the Caveman and racked up 963 performances around South Africa. He has subsequently written a hugely successful sequel to this show called Love Factually (already over 240 performances) which he continues to present at corporate and charity events. To book LOVE FACTUALLY click here.
Other Stage Work
Alan trained as an actor before focussing on stand up comedy and theatre performance has always been a great passion of his. To this end, Committie returns to straight theatre at least every 12 to 15 months and has won three acting awards along the way. He continues to produce numerous theater projects too and has had a leading producing/backing role in the last three years at Maynardville Open Air theatre.
Recent theatre Credits (starring roles)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (produced by Gloucester Theatre productions at Theatre on the Bay and Montecasino)
Richard III (produced by Artscape, Bryan Heydenrich and Alan Committie Productions for Maynardville open-air theatre)
Oleanna (Fugard Studio theatre)
Little Shop of Horrors (co produced with Pieter Toerien Productions at Theatre on the Bay, Montecasino)
Alladin (New Wimbledon Theatre, UK for First Family Entertainment)
Sleeping Beauty (Woking theatre, UK for First Family Entertainment)
The Merry Widow (Artscape Opera House)
Funny Business (co-produced with Pieter Toerien Productions, Cape town & Joburg)
Perfect Wedding (co-produced with Pieter Toerien Productions, Cape Town & Joburg)
Boeing! Boeing! (Cape town and Joburg)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (produced by Alan Committie at The Little Theatre)
Noises Off (co-produced with Pieter Toerien Productions, Cape Town & Joburg)
De Fledermaus (Artscape Theatre)
Loveborg’s Women (Intimate Theatre)
Bedside Manners (Theatre on the Bay)
Mozart and Salieri (Oude Libertas Theatre)
Annie (Artscape Opera house)
Macbeth (Artscape Theatre)
Pump (a street theatre clown show)
Beds on Bricks (Young Vic theatre, London)
Recent Theatre (directing Credits)
The Outlaw Muckridge (Baxter Studio)
The Play that goes Wrong (Theatre on the Bay, Montecasino)
Offbeat Broadway 5 (Theatre on the bay)
Wild (Theatre on the Bay Montecasino)
Offbeat Broadway 4 (Theatre on the Bay, Montecasino)
Comics Choice Awards year 5 (Teatro Montecasino)
Not the Midnight Mass: 21 years celebration (Produced by Alan Committie Productions at Theatre on the Bay, Montecasino
Again with Rob van Vuuren (Grahamstown Festival)
Supernatural with Stuart Taylor (Artscape Arena)
Cracks in the City (New Space Theatre, Baxter)
Fugard Fest of Comedy (Fugard Theatre)
Sacred Elephant (Los Angeles regional theatre)
Joker in the Pack (Roxy Revue Bar)
Awards
2023 Comics Choics Awards HALL OF FAME recipient
2022 Fleur du Cap Award for best Production The Producers
2019 Fleur du Cap Award for best actor (Richard III)
2019 BroadwayWorld.com award for best play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
2015 BroadwayWorld.com Best director of the decade The Play that Goes Wrong
2008 Fleur Du Cap Award for Best Actor (Rosencranz & Guildenstern Are Dead)
2007 South African FIlm And TV award for best supporting actor (Laugh Out Loud)
2008 Naledi Theatre award for best Comedy (Stressed to Kill)
2018 SATMag award for Best Director (The play that Goes Wrong)
2018 SATMag award for Best Play (The Play that goes Wrong)
2018 Ovation award Grahamstown Festival (180 punchlines)
Nominations
Naledi nomination best actor Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Naledi nomination best comedy performance in solo show Live and Let Laugh
Fleur du Cap Theatre best actor in a musical for The Producers
Naledi Theatre award for best solo show Apocolaughs Now
Vita theatre award best supporting Actor (Bedside Manners)
Vita Theatre award for best new Indigenous Script (Dick and I)
Fleur Du Cap and Naledi Theatre award for best solo show (Defending the Caveman)
Naledi Theatre award for Lead Male in Musical Theatre show (Little Shop of Horrors)
Fleur Du Cap award for Best Actor (Oleanna)
Comics Choice award Best solo show (Love Factually)
Comics Choice award Giant of the Industry
Comics Choice award Best solo show (Planet Mirth)
Naledi Theatre nomination for best ensemble (The Play that goes Wrong)
