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Building a following in comedy

In an ever-growing sea of comic performers and stand-ups, how do you cut through and grow your audience?

A concert venue with three raised hands reaching upwards fro the crowd, through purple and yellow spotlights. Wellness comedy.
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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…

Hobart Festival of Comedy. Image is of a man wearing a lot of makeup and sporting a huge open mouthed grin, while standing in a blue strobing spotlight.
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Hobart to host new comedy festival in 2024

Building on Hobart’s strong local comedy scene and presented by the team behind Dark Mofo, the new festival will run…

children's theatre. three performers on stage dressed as cave people attacking each other with clubs.
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Performing and creating for children

How creating work for children can enrich not only a performer's repertoire, but also their own personal growth.

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Creating a new Australian musical through a personal story filled with love and joy

Keir Nuttall and Kate Miller-Heidke’s 'Bananaland' promises musical fun and side-splitting hilarity with some underlying serious themes.

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Overcoming threshold anxiety

Geelong Arts Centre’s redevelopment opens the venue up to the public eye, in a way that’s deliberately designed to ensure…

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When your comic other half is your actual other half

What would it have been like if Morecambe and Wise were a couple offstage too?

Salamander, Brisbane Festival. Image: Damien Bredburg
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Commitment to community at the Brisbane Festival

Celebrating home-grown talent, the Festival also includes significant international collaborations.

'Duck Pond' rehearsal, Yaron Lifschitz and cast. Photo: Jade Ferguson.
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A world premiere from the ever-inventive and imaginative Circa

The leading performance company explores the art of ballet, classical music and fairy tales alongside the physicality of circus in…

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The future-proofing of funny

Some of New Zealand's leading comedy forces explain how they managed to turn the sector's darkest times into bright beacons…

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