Wellness during comedy festival season

As a stand-up comedian you need to look after your audience, but to do that properly you need to look after yourself first.
A concert venue with three raised hands reaching upwards fro the crowd, through purple and yellow spotlights. Wellness comedy.

For Australian comedians, festival season is the biggest time of the year – the chance to showcase your finished work, win new fans and level up in your career. It can also be a draining whirlwind of activity, with long runs of shows, plenty of late nights and opportunities to socialise, plus the stressful prospect of financial loss and the pressure to make the most of the opportunity.

ArtsHub talks to four Australian comedians about how they look after their well-being come festival time.

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Daniel Herborn is a journalist and novelist based in Sydney. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and others. He has also practised law at an Intellectual Property firm specialising in creative industries clients.