2025 MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL AWARD NOMINEES ANNOUNCED!
Today, on the steps of the Melbourne Town Hall the 2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award nominees for Most Outstanding Show and Best Newcomer were announced.
A bumper list of 9 nominees have been revealed for the 2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award for Most Outstanding Show: Gary Starr – Classic Penguins, Flo & Joan starring George Fouracres – One Man Musical, Ahir Shah – Ends, Olga Koch – Olga Koch Comes From Money, Lou Wall – Breaking the Fifth Wall, Brett Blake – Little Turd, Greg Larsen – Geggy, Rahul Subramanian – Who Are You and Scout Boxall – God’s Favourite.
Best Newcomer nominations for performers doing their first full Festival show are: Anisa Nandaula – You Can’t Say That, Ethan Cavanagh – Bond, Lost My Bond, Jessica Barton – Dirty Work, Kura Forrester – Here if you Need, Meg Jäger – Renaissance Woman, Rapha Manajem – The Salmon Was Good and Robyn Reynolds – What Doesn’t Kill You.
The Golden Gibbo – in memory of the late, great Lynda Gibson – is aimed at finding a local, independent show that pursues the artists’ idea more than it pursues commercial gain. The 2025 nominees are: Kate Dolan – The Critic, Andy Balloch – The Wedding, Taylor Griffiths – Sublime Avenue, Conor Lynch – Chimp, Sugar Bits – Feminist Trash and Charlie Lewin – Frogaccini.
Winners will be announced on Saturday with additional awards bestowed including; Directors’ Choice, awarded by the Festival Director in consultation with festival programming colleagues to a show they think deserves to be celebrated; the People’s Choice Award for the most popular show of the Festival as determined by the ticket buying public; The Pinder Prize, honouring Festival co-founder John Pinder, and supporting a performer to travel to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; and the Piece of Wood comics’ choice award, selected by past winners and presented to a peer literally for “doin’ good stuff ‘n’ that”.
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival runs from 26 March – 20 April. For more information and to buy tickets, visit comedyfestival.com.au
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