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Hannah
Gadsby

Award-Winning Comedian

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Tasmania's own Hannah Gadsby stopped stand-up comedy in its tracks with her multi award winning show, Nanette, which played to sold out houses in Australia, the UK and New York. Its launch on Netflix, and subsequent Emmy win, took Nanette (and Hannah) to the world.

Hannah's difficult second album (which was also her eleventh solo show) was named Douglas after her dog. Hannah walked Douglas around the world, selling out the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Opera House in Sydney and the Kennedy Center in DC, a sit down run in New York and shows across the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

Douglas was an Emmy nominated smash hit, moving beyond the trauma at the centre of Nanette and instead letting the world see the view from Hannah's brain – one that sees the world differently but with breathtaking clarity. The show covered Hannah's autism diagnosis, cleared up some confusion regarding a penguin, lectured some great masters, and saw the patriarchy needled with various levels of vigour. Douglas is available throughout the world on Netflix, recorded in Los Angeles.

Hannah has done plenty of other things over the course of more than a decade in comedy, but that will do for now.

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The most successful is Josh Thomas he's a standout. The Pun

The future of Australian comedy

Time Off Magazine

Energetic and original with a quirky sense of timing Josh left the audience in tatters.

The Courier Mail

The comedy festival's most junior player is also one of it's bestfiercely funny.

The Age
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