Alan Committie

Alan Committie is one of South Africa’s leading award-winning comic performers. In 2023 he was inducted into the Comics Choice Awards HALL OF FAME for his career in comedy.

International credits include hosting a SA comedy festival at Leicester Square theatre from 2014 to 2017. He has performed starring roles in two London Pantomimes, headlined the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles and various New York comedy stages.

Stand up shows he has written: Comedy Gold, Fast and reasonably Furious, Live and Let Laugh, Apocolaughs Now, The Lying King, Planet Mirth, Love Factually, The Sound of Laughter and 19 others.

Committie is also remembered for his starring role in Defending The Caveman (over 974 performances)

Straight theatre performances include lead roles in Black Coffee Amadeus,  Same Time, Next Year, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Producers, Richard III, Oleanna, Noises off, The Merry Widow, Little Shop of Horrors and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.

Committie has also directed My Brilliant Divorce, The Outlaw Muckridge,  Offbeat Broadway,  The Play that goes Wrong, The Comics Choice Awards and Not the Midnight Mass: 21 years

Television credits include a lead role in Recipes for love and Murder (MNET), Laugh Out Loud (MNET), Van Der Walt’s Fault (MNET) Those Who Can’t (SABC 3)

Fleur de Cap best actor awards: Richard III and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Naledi theatre Awards (best comic performance) for Stressed to Kill and Live and Let Laugh.

South African Film and Television award (SAFTA) for best supporting actor in Laugh Out Loud.