Education
Australian National University.
Australian National University.
She quickly rose to prominence after winning the national final of the Raw Comedy competition for new comedians in 2006. She has toured internationally and appeared on Australian and New Zealand television Gadsby is a regular on the local and international comedy festival circuit.
Below is a listing of some of her appearances.
2007 - Hannah Gadsby is Wrong and Broken. Adelaide Fringe Festival
2008 - Meat, The Musical (with Amelia Jane Hunter).
Moosehead Award recipient. Adelaide Fringe Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival
2009 - Kiss Maine Quick, I’m Full Of Jubes.
Melbourne International Comedy Festival, New Zealand International Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
2009 and 2010 - Australian Art History With A Comic – Art History Lecture.
National Gallery of Victoria during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
2010 - The Cliff Young Shuffle. Brisbane Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, New Zealand Comedy Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival
2011 - Mary. Contrary.; Edinburgh Fringe Festival
2012 - Hannah Wants A Wife.
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
2013 - Happiness is a Bed Side Table.
Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Brisbane Comedy Festival
2014 - The Exhibitionist. Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Canberra Comedy Festival, Just Foreign Laughs - Sydney.
Although Hannah is best known for her pure comedy work, she also combines her comedy talents with her art qualifications (she has a degree in Art History and Curatorship) by presenting comedy art tours in conjunction with the National Gallery of Victoria. Since 2009, Gadsby has presented tours with themes such as paintings of the Holy Virgin, Dadaism, Modernism, Impressionism and the nude in art
Gadsby also gives talks on art and opens exhibitions.
Gadsby is an active supporter of various charities. Organisations she has assisted include Big Brothers Big Sisters of Melbourne, Edmund Rice Camps of Victoria and the Sacred Heart Mission.