Lara Ricote

Winner of the 2021 Funny Stage Women Award, Mexican-American-Venezuelan stand-up comedian and writer, Lara Ricote won the Best Newcomer Award at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival with her debut show GRL/LATNX/DEF.

Lara Ricote is a Mexican-American-Venezuelan stand-up comedian and writer whose debut show, GRL/LATNX/DEF, won the Best Newcomer Award at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The year before that, she won the 2021 Funny Stage Women Award.

Since starting to work in the UK in 2021, she’s been on Mel Giedroyc’s Unforgivable, Question Team, QI, Alan Davies' As Of Yet Untitled, Comedy Central Live, World’s Most Dangerous Roads and Live at the Apollo.

She has performed all over the UK, Europe and Argentina, performing in both Spanish and English.

Currently based in Amsterdam, she produces/performs comedy shows and sketches, having previously opened for Maria Bamford and Hannah Gadsby.

The Guardian describes her as a “razor-sharp goofball,” and her debut show as a “riotously inventive show that blurs notions of race, gender and disability.”