TV comedian and festival regular Alun Cochrane will be appearing live in the Lake District this month.

The award-winning stand-up is one of the guest names in the pop-up Roundabout Theatre, which arrives in Grasmere on Thursday September 14.

He plays the open night at the dome venue, on the green opposite Heaton Cooper Studio.

Cochrane has appeared on numerous TV shows, including Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Russell Howard’s Good News, Mock The Week, Dave’s One Night Stand, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Have I Got News For You and 8 Out Of 10 Cats.

He was featured as series regular Sam in the Sky Living sitcom Trying Again, alongside Chris Addison, and has appeared in Coronation Street, Boomers and Russell Howard’s Christmas film, A Gert Lush Christmas.

He is the co-host of The Frank Skinner Show on Absolute, for which he received a 2012 Arqiva Award nomination for Best Newcomer. The show also won a Sony Award in 2011 for Best Entertainment Programme and was nominated again in 2012.

He regularly features on BBC Radio 4’s The Comedy Club. Other radio credits include The Now Show, Just A Minute, Dilemma, Loose Ends, Lee Mack And Friends and Listomania.

Cochrane wrote and starred in the Radio 4 series Alun Cochrane’s Fun House, offering listeners a room-by-room stand up tour of his home.

He is a master at observational comedy, an expert in storytelling and uniquely able to to gather material from anywhere he wanders in mind or body.

Alun Cochrane appears at the Roundabout Theatre, in Grasmere, on Thursday September 14, from 9pm. Tickets are available from the Brewery Arts Centre, in Kendal.

  • He also presents his new tour, Alunish Cochranish, at the Beggar's Theatre, in Millom, on February 3, 2018.