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Dates & Times
Friday 04 April
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Twilight without four books-worth of boring foreplay? Gay werewolf porn? The Hunger Games: Pants on Fire? The world of fan fiction has taken a whole new direction in recent times as writers stiffen their literary muscles and rip the bodices off their favourite literary characters.
Take a flight of fantasy with Erotic Fan Fiction, and don’t forget your safe word (there isn’t one). Step boldly into a world where all bets, and underpants, are off. Leave your umbrellas and inhibitions at the door. Sidle on in and slip into something a little more comfortable (one of our chairs).
Curated by Eddie Sharp, this much-loved Wheeler Centre regular has been around the block a few times, and picked up a few eye-watering tricks along the way. Seasoned voyeurs will know all too well the rules of the game – four writers share their personal filth on stage while everyone watches. The only rule? Keep those hands where we can see them, people.
Let’s Talk About Sex
It’s time to reveal what really goes on under and between the covers, as the Wheeler Centre embarks on a week of frank literary bedroom chat, with the focus firmly on female sexuality. Brace yourselves for a series of sweet nothings whispered in your ear as we delve into a cornucopia of pleasures sure to satisfy even the most ardent book lover.
Featuring
Lewis Hobba
Lewis Hobba is a Triple J presenter, as well as a producer and writer for shows including Hungry Beast, Can of Worms and Good News Week.
Michael Hing
Michael Hing is a comedian from Sydney Australia who is increasingly worried his 10,000 hour Malcolm Gladwell ‘Outliers’ skill is erotic fan fiction. He has performed sold out shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival, Brisbane Comedy Festival, and done several poorly attended runs at the Adelaide Fringe.
He has also performed stand up at Splendour in the Grass, Harvest, Homebake and Falls Festival, all the while wishing he was in a band and did work of meaning.
Genevieve Fricker
Genevieve Fricker is a Sydney-based comedian, writer and classically-trained musician.
Since reaching the national finals of Raw Comedy in 2011, Genevieve has played sold out shows across Australia, worked as a writer/performer on ABC 2’s The Roast, co-hosted a season of breakfast radio with fellow performer Michael Hing, and her work has featured in The Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph, Vogue Australia, and Time Out magazine.
Kate McLennan
Kate McLennan is an award-winning writer, stand-up comedian and actress.
She is the co-writer of The Katering Show, where she plays an intolerable foodie alongside her food intolerant mate, Kate McCartney. The show launched on YouTube in 2015 and hit over 2 million views in its first week online. In 2016, a fresh new season of the hit series premiered on ABC iView. To date, the series is iView’s most viewed original series, has had over 9 million views on YouTube and the channel has over 100,000 subscribers. The pair have also written a short-form narrative comedy called Bleak, which originally launched on YouTube before it was made into a TV pilot for ABC’s Comedy Showroom in 2016.
In 2017, having conquered the world of satirical cooking shows, the Kates set their sights on the chirpy world of morning TV with their signature brand of social awkwardness and unprofessionalism in their full-length series titled Get Krack!n, which aired on the ABC that same year. The second and final season aired to much critical acclaim on the ABC in 2019.
Kate’s TV appearances include It’s A Date, Comedy Up Late, Winners & Losers, House Husbands, SlideShow, Offspring, Ricketts Lane and The Project. Most recently, Kate has had a guest appearance in Aunty Donna’s Glennridge Secondary College on YouTube. Her voice features in the animations 1001 Nights, Dogstar, The Flamin' Thongs, Wakkaville and Exchange Student Zero.
Kate has appeared in thirteen Melbourne International Comedy Festivals and performed stand-up comedy throughout Australia, the UK, US, Hong Kong and Singapore. Kate also toured India with MICF where she hosted the Roadshow and RAW Comedy competitions.
Both Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan won a 2018 AWGIE award for an episode of Get Krack!n and received an AWGIE for The Katering Show in 2015. The second season of The Katering Show was nominated for an AACTA award in 2016. The Katering Show won Best Short-Form Digital Series and tied for a Best of the Fest award at the New York Television Festival in 2015.
Virginia Gay
Virginia Gay graduated WAAPA, then spent four years pretending to be a nurse on All Saints, six months pretending to be cop on Savage River (ABC), and then five years on Winners & Losers, where she pretended to know a lot ...