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Janet McLeod (The Fairy Godmother of Melbourne Comedy) has been working in the comedy industry for over 20 years as a writer/performer/behind-the-scenes-whiz-kid. She regularly hosts live trivia nights across Melbourne, is the producer of the longest running weekly standup comedy room in Melbourne (Local Laughs on Monday nights in St Kilda) and is co-host of Cinema Fiasco (the show where she and her co-host Geoff Wallis screen B-grade movies in cinemas and provide a live running commentary as they play. Yes, it is as much fun as it sounds).

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Gordon Southern is a UK stand-up comedian with over 20 years of comedy experience, He has performed all over the world, and is a regular on the Australian comedy circuit. He writes copy in the daytime and performs comedy live at night – earning him the moniker, “International Word Clown”. For Gordon, improvising comedy is when the magic truly happens. Maybe it’s also because when you do a well-honed bit of material, you can already anticipate where it’s going. There’s no thrill anymore. But when you surprise yourself, the audience will join in on that. The world can see the joy that you clearly get from it.

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They often say laughter is the best medicine, but so is music. Gillian Cosgriff is a singer, songwriter, musician, and comedian. She graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in 2010 with a Bachelor of Music Theatre and went on to write her first solo show, Waitressing…and Other Things I Do Well, which debuted at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Television credits include Offspring, House Husbands, Fat Tony & Co., Ricketts Lane, and Get Krackin’. She was a backing vocalist for Kate Miller-Heidke’s 2012 album Nightflight and her theatre credits include The Pirates of Penzance (The Production Company), A 3-Handed Mikado with Colin Lane (Lano and Woodley) and David Collins (The Umbilical Brothers), Loving Repeating (Vic Theatre Company), Company (Watch This), and Vivid White (Melbourne Theatre Company). Her solo shows have garnered rave reviews and toured nationally, winning Best Cabaret Melbourne Fringe and a Green Room Award for Original Songs.

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Ivan Aristeguieta became a full time comedian after having a successful career as a Brew Master and Food Technologist in his home country of Venezuela. He left the Brewery but drinking beer is still part of his job. He quickly escalated to become part of the new Venezuelan comedy movement selling out shows around Venezuela and Miami-Florida (USA). In the year 2012 Ivan migrated to Australia and took the great challenge of performing comedy in a second language and aimed for Australian laughter. Six years after performing comedy for the first time in English Ivan is one happy comedy-migrant and he’s squeezing all the privileges the First-World can give him. From his own TV show, Lost in Pronunciation, his live stand-up TV special debut, Chorizo Sizzle, to be invited to perform in the prestigious Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal in 2017.

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Ross Floate is a designer, writer, podcaster, and bizarrely enough, ethicist from Melbourne, Australia. Over his 25 year career, he’s helped create magazines, newspapers, websites, and apps for some of Australia’s biggest brands. He currently works at Australia’s leading independent experience agency Loud&Clear as a design strategist. His french bulldog, Hitchens, was named Melbourne’s most hipster dog by the Herald-Sun Newspaper, and Ross is quite upset that his dog is more famous than he is.

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Sarah Bennetto is a Melbourne-born, London-based comedian. As well as playing comedy clubs in London, Ireland, Wales and Scotland, Sarah is also a stalwart of BBC Radio, plus hosted her own radio show on Dalston’s NTS Radio “Sarah Bennetto’s Mix-Tape”, as well as at her cult favorite annual show from backstage at Glastonbury Festival. Sarah is the brains behind Storytellers’ Club, which tours internationally, and guests regularly on huge UK podcasts like Global Pillage, all the great comedy panel shows. Sarah has performed a variety of solo comedy shows for Edinburgh Fringe, Adelaide, Perth Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

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Nancy Norton is a Boulder-based comedian and a local Headliner at Comedy Works in Denver. You may have seen Nancy there or on various TV comedy showcases over the years: from doing standup in comedy clubs across the US–to performing on “Evening at the Improv” on A & E, or perhaps in her one-woman show, “The Yellowish-Green Girl” on PBS and featured on Nickmom Night Out on Nickelodeon. Norton has toured nationally and internationally, headlining clubs, colleges, cruises and USO tours. Nancy Norton is one of the founders of MENTALPAUSE! A Comedy Show focused on Laughing-off the Middle-Ages. Norton has also worked as a Registered Nurse.

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Janae Burris is a comedian, writer and actor in Denver Colorado. She’s been a featured performer at Portland’s Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Limestone Comedy Festival in Bloomington Ind and Denver’s High Plains Comedy Festival. She is the 2016 Comedy Works New Faces Champion, and performs regularly at both Comedy Works locations in Denver. Janae is a member of Pussy Bros, a comedy trio which hosts shows every first Friday at The Comedy Room Room. Catch her podcast “Let’s Talk about Death, baby” @sexpotcomedy.com and see her in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival production of Cyrano De Bergerac summer 2018.

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