"I began my comedy career in Liverpool in 2001 when I co-founded, wrote and performed with the disabled women?s comedy sketch group Nasty Girls. Prolific in devising and writing, we gigged all over the UK and took our many shows to festivals in Edinburgh, Vancouver and Wales! "My stand-up debut was in the 2005 show, Abnormally Funny People (AFP) where I performed alongside disabled comedians Tanyalee Davis, Simon Minty, Steve Day, Chris McCausland and the abnormally normal Steve Best. The show premiered in London at Soho Theatre before a month run at the Edinburgh Fringe. SKY TV funded and filmed the show for a documentary shown on Sky and regularly repeated on the Community Channel. I continue to be an Abnormally Funny person. "Since my involvement with AFP, I have focused my comedy career on stand-up, becoming a regular on the disability, gay and mainstream comedy circuits and performing each year at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I perform 10/20 minute sets, opening 20?s, closing 20?s and increasingly am MC-ing. "I was a finalist in the 2006 Funny Women competition, received a special commendation (!) in the Laughing Horse New Act competition 2007 and was runner up in the 2007 Hackney Empire New Act of the Year, performing at their Edinburgh Fringe showcase, Four On The Floor." "Feisty wheelchair user LIz Carr packs a considerable comic punch." - Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard "She soon brings the house down with a cocktail of caustic observational gags." - Mary O'Hara, The Guardian "Liz's act did start out well but again deteriorated into foul mouthed nonsense and one or two really sick comments." - Manchester Coalition magazine "Liz Carr takes a particularly inspired dark humour approach to her set, unsettling and challenging comfy ideas and ignorant notions about disability by shooting one liners Bill Hicks would've been proud of." - notbbc.co.uk review of Four on the Floor show at Edinburgh Fringe "It's hard to pick out a star, but for me Liz Carr was the real star in the making. Coming on in a wheelchair, she did more for disability rights than the Paralympics and Christopher Reeve put together." - Review of Sheila's Wheels Funny Women in Latest 7 (May 2006)

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