WHO IS ABI ROBERTS?
Abi Roberts is a singer, comedian and cabaret artist.
She started her career singing at venues such as Pizza On the Park, the Jazz Café and the Shaw Theatre, after training as an actress and classical opera singer at the Bristol Old Vic and Moscow Conservatoire.
Abi has released two best-selling albums and has appeared in numerous TV and drama shows and a film, “Beached”, playing the leading role as a girl from Kent who travels to Las Vegas hoping to meet her real mother Bette Midler.
Abi performs at clubs and venues across the US and UK and regularly take several one-woman shows to the Edinburgh Festival. Her shows in the States such as at the Laugh Factory, in Hollywood, were a sell-out and she was personally asked to compere a charity night at the Temple Bar, in Santa Monica.
Early in 2008 she filmed the BBC pilot, Sounds Like a Laugh, with Rhys Darby, who stars as band manager Murray Hewitt in Flight of the Conchords (HBO), and she has also compered the Sitcom Trials in London.
In 2010, Abi took her show, “Abi Roberts Gets Her Hits Out” to the Edinburgh festival where it sold out in three days and played to packed audiences at the Underbelly.
She is currently working with a US TV company on a show about music styles for primetime broadcast on one a major network in 2012.