Dee Allum is an award-winning stand-up comedian and writer. She started her comedy career performing sketches with the Cambridge Footlights and wrote the prestigious Footlights Pantomime in 2018. Since then, Dee has been nominated for Best Newcomer at the Chortle Awards, placed as runner up in the Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year Award 2021, won the 2Northdown New Act Competition 2021 and was a finalist in the 2022 BBC New Comedy Award competition. Dee’s broadcast credits include ITV1’s The Stand-up Sketch Show, Radio 4’s The News Quiz and One Person Found This Helpful.

Dee Allum: Raumdeuter

Dee Allum (The Stand-up Sketch Show, The News Quiz, One Person Found This Helpful) brings her sophomore show to the Pleasance Courtyard following on from her award-nominated debut.

In a World Cup year, when England have again failed to bring it home/end sixty years of hurt (delete as appropriate), the question of whether sport can truly be for everyone is as pertinent now as ever. It’s also been a tough year for Dee, much like/unlike the England team, as she’s entered a long-distance relationship, got a real job and started the process towards getting life-changing surgery.

The show’s title ‘Raumdeuter’ literally means ‘space interpreter’, a word coined by footballer Thomas Müller to describe his style, floating between the striker and the winger, getting into half-spaces and causing mischief. In other words, the most transgender thing to ever happen in sports. 

Drily revelling in the in-between, Dee takes stock of what it means to authentically be someone in a world where everyone wants you to be something. Dee is transitioning in every aspect of her life. Will this ever end? Can any of us ever truly finish becoming the person we want to be? Is it ever really coming home?

‘Refreshingly candid, sincere and full of innovative humour…naturally, undeniably, laugh-out-loud funny…a truly genius and important show.’ ★★★★★ – Ed Fringe Review