The 2025 Stand Up! grant recipients have arrived

With the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) now off and running, the Stand Up! initiative is bringing three emerging comedy artists to the stage. Created in 2019 through a partnership between MICF and the Victorian Government, Stand Up! aims to strengthen and support the careers of talented women and non-binary comic performers. With young Melbourne comedian Eurydice Dixon, who was murdered on the way home from a gig in 2018, as the inspiration behind this program, each year this grant reminds crowds of her ambition and promise, as well as the importance of bolstering support for emerging creatives.