Jeez Louise

Series

Comedy Festival

Where

The Wheeler Centre

When

Monday, 7 Apr 2014, 06:15pm - 07:15pm

Event Status

Past event

Men may outnumber women in standup comedy but on large and small screens as well as on stage, they definitely don’t out-funny them. Jeez Louise is here to embolden, inspire and grow the population of ladies in showbiz comedy. Join us for a panel discussion that will explore the potential and prejudice, frustrations and friendships that define the professional world of female comics. The aspiration to liberty, equality and sorority is not quite met yet.

Featuring Adrienne Truscott (Wau Wau Sisters), Celia Pacquola, the UK’s Sara Pascoe (Never Mind The Buzzcocks, QI, Girl Friday), Hannah Gadsby and chair Clare Bartholomew (The Business).

Presented by Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Wheeler Centre as part of The Comedy ConFAB – A conference for people serious about their comedy.

Featuring

Featuring

Clare Bartholomew

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 complet... Read more

Adrienne Truscott

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

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 a... Read more

Sara Pascoe

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 Frida... Read more

Hannah Gadsby

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. Y... Read more