Following his second consecutive British Podcast Award win and a critically acclaimed, sold-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, multi award-winning comedian, podcaster, and writer Rob Auton (Starstruck, The End of the F***ing World, Miracle Workers) brings his latest show, The Eyes Open and Shut Show, to Lighthouse Poole on Wednesday 26 March.

Through his acclaimed trademark humour and unique perspective, Rob explores the nature of our approach to the world through our eyes – both open and shut – interweaving guided meditations with evocative imagery. In examining how language shapes our perception in these states, Rob seamlessly transforms the everyday into the extraordinary, leading audiences to “walk out feeling transformed. And fully alive.” (The Scotsman).

It's just over a year since Rob relaunched The Rob Auton Daily Podcast, which “makes you see the world differently” (Miranda Sawyer, The Observer). With over 500 episodes and more than two million downloads, the podcast was named the 2024 British Podcast Awards Gold Winner for Best Daily Podcast, marking Rob's second consecutive win in the category, following his first award in 2020 with the original series.

Rob appeared on the latest series of Starstruck (BBC), adding to numerous on-screen credits including Miracle Workers (TBS), The End of the F***ing World (Netflix/Channel 4), The Russell Howard Hour (Sky), Cold Feet (ITV) and Random Acts (Channel 4). A clip of Rob performing on Stand-Up Central With Rob Delaney (Comedy Central) went viral with over 11 million views on Facebook alone, and has since found a new audience on TikTok with over 1.8 million views. Elsewhere on radio, Rob has appeared on Stewart Lee: Unreliable Narrator (BBC Radio 4), Front Row (BBC Radio 4), Craig Charles (BBC Radio 6 Music), Your Place or Mine with Shaun Keaveny (BBC Radio 4), The Exploding Library (BBC Radio 4), Nihal Arthanayake (BBC Radio 5 Live) and Sara Cox (BBC Radio 2). On podcasts, Rob has been a popular guest on Films to Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein, The Moon Under Water with John Robins, Memory Lane with Kerry Godliman and Jen Brister, and The Daily Grind with Shaun Keaveny. 

In 2021, HarperCollins’ Mudlark released Rob’s latest book, I Strongly Believe in Incredible Things, comprising of poetic prose, short stories and biro drawings detailing and celebrating a selection of some of our world’s everyday wonders, which he both wrote and illustrated. Previously, Rob had published three collections of writing and drawing, Take Hair, Petrol Honey and In Heaven The Onions Make You Laugh, with Burning Eye Books and released a spoken word album At Home With Rob on Scroobius Pip’s record label Speech Development Records.

ROB AUTON: THE EYES OPEN AND SHUT SHOW

WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH

8pm (SHERLING STUDIO)
Age guidance: 14+

Tickets and information 01202 280000 

www.lighthousepoole.co.uk