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.

Adrienne Truscott is one-half of the infamous Wau Wau Sisters and winner of the Panel Prize for the 2013 Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards.

Celia Pacquola is a chameleon – a stand up comedian, writer and actor who springs effortlessly between stage and screen and has become one of our best-loved and most in-demand performers in any genre. Celia has been nominated twice for the Melbourne Comedy Festival Award and won the Amused Moose and Helpmann Awards. Three of her solo shows have been recorded as specials: The Looking Glass (Stan, 2018); All Talk (Amazon Prime, 2020) and Let Me Know How It All Works Out (Paramount+, 2021). She won the Best Supporting Actress AACTA for her role as Dolly Faraday in the acclaimed ABC1 drama The Beautiful Lie. She starred in the AACTA award-winning Laid, Logie Award winning drama Offspring and in all four seasons of Working Dog’s Utopia, for which she won an AACTA Award in 2015. Celia made her feature film debut in 2019 with the smash hit NZ film The Breaker Upperers, and her theatrical debut in the same year, starring in Black Swan State Theatre/Sydney Theatre Companies’ production of Oriel Gray’s The Torrents. In 2016 Celia co-created, co-wrote and starred in the smash hit comedy Rosehaven with Luke McGregor for ABC-TV. Over the show’s five seasons she won the 2017 AACTA for Best Performance in a Television Comedy, was nominated twice for Most Popular Actress at the Logies, as well as garnering two AWGIES and numerous further nominations. In 2021 the much-loved series aired for its fifth and final season.   A regular on Have You Been Paying Attention, Celia appears in Binge drama series Love Me, and is writing for its second season. Nude Tuesday, a feature film in gibberish with subtitles written by Celia and Ronny Chieng, is now streaming on Stan.

Sara Pascoe is an English writer, stand-up comedian and actress.

Pascoe has appeared in a number of television programmes, including Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Stand Up for the Week, The Thick of It, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret and QI, as well as all-female sketch show Girl Friday (part of Channel 4’s Comedy Showcase), which she co-wrote.

Hannah Gadsby is an award-winning Australian comedian who thinks quickly and moves slowly. She quickly rose to prominence after winning the national final of the Raw Comedy competition for new comedians in 2006. She has toured internationally and appeared on Australian and New Zealand television.

You can see her on ABC TV’s Adam Hills In Gordon Street Tonight, or live at a festival near you.

Desperate to make use of her art history degree, Hannah has written and presented two specials for ABC TV’s Artscape and takes every opportunity to present her incredibly popular comedic art lectures at festivals around the world.