Jeez Louise

Clare Bartholomew has been performing, writing and producing new work in Australia and overseas for 17 years. She teaches clown master classes, has been a clown doctor working in children’s wards for 15 years. She assists in training and development of clown doctors nationally, and in 2014 completed a three week intensive with 20 other international clown doctors in Barcelona.

Clare is also co-producer of the highly successful cabaret/comedy act Die Roten Punkte, a Berlin indie pop punk duo that has toured Australia and had 18 international tours since 2006. Her work has received seven Green Room Award nominations and winner of Best Cabaret.

Clare’s latest venture with bouffon group We3 resulted in The Long Pigs, which is being presented by the Sydney Festival in January 2015.

Judith Lucy is one of Australia’s most popular comedians. A best-selling author, her work in radio, television and film and her sell-out national live tours have made her a household name.

A standup comedian for over 20 years, she sprang to national prominence in 1993 when she joined the cast of ABC TV’s The Late Show. Her television appearances since then have been many and varied. ABC TV’s current season of Judith Lucy’s Spiritual Journey represents her first solo TV project.

On radio, she was a presenter on Triple J and was a regular on the legendary Martin Molloy program. In 2004 she was announced as co-host of the 2DAY-FM breakfast show in Sydney, and was famously sacked the following year, which became the subject of one of her most successful live touring shows, I Failed.

Her live stage shows, filled with sharply observed and painfully funny, honest personal monologues, have a huge and devoted following. In addition to her appearances at comedy festivals in Edinburgh and Montreal, she regularly sells out theatres in Australia’s capital cities and regional centres, from her 1995 hit, King of the Road, through to her most recent solo show, Judith Lucy’s Not Getting Any Younger. She was also one of the award-winning trio behind Comedy Is Not Pretty and Comedy Is Still Not Pretty, with Denise Scott and Lynda Gibson.

In feature films, she has appeared alongside Mick Molloy and Bill Hunter in both Crackerjack and Bad Eggs, written and directed by her old Late Show buddy Tony Martin and also featuring Bob Franklin, Shaun Micallef, Robyn Nevin and Alan Brough.

As a writer, Judith has contributed features and columns to publications including The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and Madison magazine, but it was her 2008 memoir, The Lucy Family Alphabet, which established her as an author. The book, which recounted life with her much-loved but nutty Irish parents and her discovery, at age 25, that she was adopted, was a roaring success, garnered rave reviews and was reprinted several times.

Anne Edmonds is one of Australia's most exciting new stand up, character and banjo playing comedians. Since bursting onto the scene in 2010, she has brought her exquisitely incisive characters, songs and worldview to TV (Dirty Laundry Live, Back Seat Drivers, It's A Date, Wednesday Night Fever), to clubs and to comedy festivals around Australia and all over the world. 

Anne won the ‘Comedian’s Comedian’ award – The Piece of Wood at the 2015 Melbourne International Comedy Festival for her critically acclaimed, sell-out season of her new solo show You Know What I’m Like!