{"id":1114,"date":"2016-02-17T14:04:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T14:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2016-02-17T14:04:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T14:04:03","slug":"alumni-laura-lexx-and-tom-parry-nominated-for-chortle-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2016\/02\/17\/alumni-laura-lexx-and-tom-parry-nominated-for-chortle-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Laura Lexx and Tom Parry nominated for Chortle Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to both Laura Lexx and Tom Parry, School of Arts Alumni, who have both been nominated for prestigious Chortle Awards for Comedians.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Lexx, who graduated from our MDrama course in 2009, has been nominated for Best Compare. She has been back to Kent to perform numerous times, comparing our Stand-up Comedy student&#8217;s shows and headlining our stand-up showcase at the 50th Festival last September.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2016\/02\/Laura-Lexx-Edinburgh-slider-404x330.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1117\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1117\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2016\/02\/Laura-Lexx-Edinburgh-slider-404x330-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"Laura-Lexx-Edinburgh-slider-404x330\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2016\/02\/Laura-Lexx-Edinburgh-slider-404x330-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2016\/02\/Laura-Lexx-Edinburgh-slider-404x330-367x300.jpg 367w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2016\/02\/Laura-Lexx-Edinburgh-slider-404x330.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom Parry&#8217;s <em>Yellow T-Shirt Show<\/em> is nominated in the \u2018Best Show\u2019 category. Tom is one third of the popular sketch trio Pappy\u2019s, and he studied Drama &amp; English at Kent. This is Tom\u2019s first full-length solo stand-up show, and it was also nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award at the Fringe in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2016\/02\/Tom_Parry.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1118\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1118\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2016\/02\/Tom_Parry-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tom_Parry\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2016\/02\/Tom_Parry-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2016\/02\/Tom_Parry.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All of us at the School of Arts\u00a0wish Laura and Tom good luck for the awards!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chortle.co.uk\/news\/2016\/02\/12\/24169\/vote_in_the_2016_chortle_awards\">All of the nominations for all categories can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to both Laura Lexx and Tom Parry, School of Arts Alumni, who have both been nominated for prestigious Chortle Awards for Comedians. Laura Lexx, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2016\/02\/17\/alumni-laura-lexx-and-tom-parry-nominated-for-chortle-awards\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39610,"featured_media":1115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50018,26567],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}