The Last Tuesday Society: Alternate Endings

Laura Davis is a stand-up comedian and television host known for her peculiar style – riding the line between charming and challenging. Recently winning awards for Best Comedy at Melbourne Fringe and Best Independent ...

Joel Tito is a Gaulier-trained clown and comedian. A founding member of the critically acclaimed comedy collective Vigilantelope, Joel was a was a recipient of a Moosehead award for his solo show The Trial and Death of Socrates (No Relation).

Bron Batten is a Melbourne based theatre-maker and performer. She has worked with artists such as post, My Darling Patricia, The Sisters Grimm and Willoh S. Weiland and companies like The Malthouse, Arts House, Performance Space, Vitalstatistix and Arts Centre Melbourne.

Her award-winning pieces have been presented at festivals such as The Edinburgh Fringe Scotland, The Neo Futurists Theatre in Chicago, FOLA, Dark MOFO, Next Wave, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide Fringe Festivals, This Is Not Art Festival in Newcastle, The Falls Festival in Lorne and Tasmania and On Edge Festival in Cairns.

She has been the co-creative producer of the successful independent theatre event The Last Tuesday Society since 2008. The Last Tuesday Society has been presented at venues and festivals locally, nationally and internationally as well as an upcoming season at The Malthouse as part of the 2014 Helium independent series.

She developed the performance work Sweet Child of Mine in collaboration with her parents for the 2011 Melbourne Fringe Festival where it won the award for Best Experimental Performance.

Sweet Child of Mine was presented in Sydney in June 2012 as part of PACT’s Tiny Stadiums Festival and has since toured to The Adelaide Fringe Festival where it won a Special Commendation for Best Theatre, and Perth Fringe World where it was nominated for Best Theatre Production.

Laura Jean McKay is the author of Holiday in Cambodia (Black Inc. 2013), shortlisted for three national book awards in Australia. Her work appears in Meanjin, Overland, Best Australian Stories, the Saturday Paper, and the North American Review. Laura is a lecturer in creative writing at Massey University, with a PhD from the University of Melbourne focusing on literary animal studies. She is the ‘animal expert’ presenter on ABC Listen’s Animal Sound Safari. The Animals in That Country (Scribe 2020) is her debut novel.

Josh Ladgrove (aka Dr Professor Neal Portenza, aka Jesus Christ) is a Melbourne-based comedian and clown. He recently performed four separate shows in the Melbourne Fringe Festival and has toured nationally and internationally with his interactive improvised performance Come Heckle Christ.

Truly unique, Tina Del Twist is Australia’s much-loved nightingale, known for her ‘beautiful voice and wicked sense of comic timing’ (the Age). With a voice as smooth as honey and a comedic wit that could shred brie, you’ll have a ball enjoying the talents of Tina Del Twist.

Tina Del Twist has featured on ABCTV’s Comedy Up Late, has performed sell-out seasons with Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Melbourne Cabaret Festival, Darwin Festival and has been invited to perform in Copenhagen, Berlin, Edinburgh, and New York. Tina has also performed with the Melba Spiegeltent playing a lead role in La Soiree. And then some.

'Fabulousness' - Age
'Super fabulous' - Herald Sun
'I must apologise for my overuse of the word "fabulous"' - Inpress

Richard Higgins is a comedy writer and performer. He is one half of comedy duo The Listies, with Matt Kelly. The most recent show they made was called 'Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark' to the dismay of English teachers throughout Australia.

Richard was co-convener of the alternative comedy and performance night, The Last Tuesday Society, with Bron Batten. He recently published his first book with Matt Kelly, Ickypedia: A Dictionary of Disgusting New Words. It's a best smeller.

He is also a Clown Doctor at the Royal Children's Hospital, Dr Noodles, most Doctors have a PhD, he has an MsG.