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Richard Higgins is a comedy writer and performer. He is one half of comedy duo The Listies, with Matt Kelly. The most recent show they made was called 'Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark' to the dismay of English teachers throughout Australia.

Richard was co-convener of the alternative comedy and performance night, The Last Tuesday Society, with Bron Batten. He recently published his first book with Matt Kelly, Ickypedia: A Dictionary of Disgusting New Words. It's a best smeller.

He is also a Clown Doctor at the Royal Children's Hospital, Dr Noodles, most Doctors have a PhD, he has an MsG.

Anne Edmonds is one of Australia's most exciting new stand up, character and banjo playing comedians. Since bursting onto the scene in 2010, she has brought her exquisitely incisive characters, songs and worldview to TV (Dirty Laundry Live, Back Seat Drivers, It's A Date, Wednesday Night Fever), to clubs and to comedy festivals around Australia and all over the world. 

Anne won the ‘Comedian’s Comedian’ award – The Piece of Wood at the 2015 Melbourne International Comedy Festival for her critically acclaimed, sell-out season of her new solo show You Know What I’m Like!

Mark Wilson is a Melbourne based maker, performer, dramaturg and director. He trained at the VCA (Performance Creation, Directing) and Monash (Performing Arts), has studied with Philippe Gaulier and is an International Fellow of Shakespeare’s Globe in London. 

Performance work ranges from plays to performance art, most recently Right Now at Red Stitch, and the upcoming Bottomless by Dan Lee at fortyfivedownstairs. He most recently directed Bighouse Dreaming by Declan Furber Gillick, and regularly directs Shakespeare, including three productions for Essential Theatre.

For a year he was a Dramaturgy Intern at MTC. In 2016 he completed his trilogy of radical Shakespeare adaptations: Unsex Me – which toured fringe festivals for five years – Richard II with Olivia Monticciolo, Melbourne Fringe/Brisbane Festival and Anti-Hamlet, nominated for Greenroom awards for writing, direction and production. 

Tegan Higginbotham is a writer, actress and comedian.  

For the past four years, she’s been a regular columnist for the Sunday Age Sport.  Tegan’s writing credits also include Open Slather (Comedy Channel), Little  Lunch (ABC), whimn.com.au, and Fernwood Magazine.  

Her acting credits include Oddball, Holding the Man, It’s A Date, Nowhere Boys and the tv series Molly. Tegan is also known for making regular appearances on The Project, Whose Line is it Anyway?, Have You Been Paying Attention?, Show Me The Movie, Whovians and ABC News Breakfast.

Over the past decade, Tegan has also engrained herself as a frank, funny and intelligent female voice amongst Melbourne’s sporting landscape. She co-hosted Sideliners on ABC alongside Nicole Livingstone, The Greatest with Matt Tilley on Fox Footy, and was a regular panelist on The Bounce. Tegan also hosts as weekly Facebook Live show, The Warmdown, for the AFLW. Her first two critically acclaimed and award nominated stand up shows for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (Million Dollar Tegan and Touched By Fev) investigated the world of boxing and football, with Tegan actually taking part in two pro-rules boxing matches for research. 

In recent months, Tegan has been invited as a guest speaker at The Stella Sparks Party and Longlist Announcement, The Hamilton Pride Cup, and has filmed segments for a soon-to-be-released documentary, “Is Australia Sexist?” to be screened on SBS. 

Liam Pieper is an author and journalist. His first book was a memoir, The Feel-Good Hit of the Year, shortlisted for the National Biography Award and the Ned Kelly Best True Crime award. His second was the Penguin Special Mistakes Were Made, a volume of humorous essays. He was co-recipient of the 2014 M Literary Award, winner of the 2015 Geoff Dean Short Story Prize and the inaugural creative resident of the UNESCO City of Literature of Prague. His first novel, The Toymaker, received the 2016 Christina Stead Fiction Award from the Fellowship of Australian Writers.