Hannah Gadsby

At 46 years old, Hannah Gadsby has this physical status:

Career

Gadsby began to perform in Raw Comedy in 2006 on a visit to her sister in Adelaide, South Africa, and won the national prize despite the heat. She was chosen to So You Think You're Funny because she was the winner of the So You Think You're Funny competition. She won second prize at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Hannah Gadsby is Wrong and Broken, her first solo performance, and she received the 2007 Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before going on tour with the show in Edinburgh and New York. Meat the Musical with Amelia Jane Hunter at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2008. She continued to perform at festivals, including the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Kilkenny Comedy Festival, Just for Laughs Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Gadsby signed a multi-title contract with Netflix in September 2022.

Gadsby developed Nanette partly as a result of the public debate in Australia before the law was amended to allow same-sex marriages and also after she was diagnosed with autism. Nanette explores topics including homophobia, xenophobia, misogy, misogyny, and gendered violence. Although Nanette is a comedic act, Elahe Izadi of The Washington Post states that the audience must be aware of the ugly truth of torture and assault. Gadsby says she will no longer be doing comedy during the program. "Gadsby's main aim, according to Douglas, Ben Neutze's review of her forthcoming exhibition was to present a fiery and tense interpretation of the heterosexual patriarchy in Nanette." "During Nanette, Gadsby ritually murdered her old persona and assumed a new high-status role that dramatically changed her audience," Mary Luckhurst, writing in Persona Studies. In 2018, Netflix announced Nanette's film version after winning the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Comedy Award, and the Best Comedy Performer Award. Nanette was given a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes as a result of 49 reviewers.

In March 2019, Gadsby premiered Douglas, her latest show in Adelaide, before heading to the United States and Australia, where many shows were sold out in advance. According to one reviewer of the preview show, she explores new personal revelations "with empathy, wit, and some very relatable metaphor" and creates something "bigger than comedy." She discusses her autism in Douglas, aiming to help people recognize neurodiversity as part of a common human condition. "Douglas will bring change and help people, especially undiagnosed women, to learn that they don't have the right words to describe life," Anne-Marie Peard said in a Time Out review; it's also describing those who do not have the right words to describe how they live; it's not saying or thinking the terms that belittle and harm." A filmed version of the live show was released in 2020 by Netflix.

Gadsby began her solo show Body of Work in many venues around Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the United Kingdom in July 2021. In the United States, dates were also announced. "Its predecessors, the smash hits Nanette and Douglas, shot the Tasmanian to fame, but not all smiles," Brian Logan wrote in a Guardian article. Jenney Shamash's latest film, which retells love and latest marriage, has a lighter, looser feel.

Gadsby co-wrote and co-starred in Adam Hills Tonight, the Australian ABC television show Adam Hills Tonight, from February 2011 to July 2013. She appeared on "On This Day" and "Hannah Has A Go" as host Adam Hills, as host Adam Hills interviewed his guests. Hannah Gadsby's Oz co-wrote (with Matthew Bate) and produced a three-part series on ABC, Hannah Gadsby's Oz, which premiered in March 2014. This series, which was produced by Closer Productions, was intended to "debunk the myths of the Australian identity perpetuated by [its] national art." She co-wrote 20 episodes of the television show Please Like Me from 2013 to 2016. Hannah, a fictionalization of herself, appeared in the film.

Samantha Gadsby's Australian and international television appearances include Rove Live (2009), Good News Week (2009), Spicks and Specks (2009), Agony Aunts (2012), QI (2018), Jimmy Fallon (2018, 2020), and TV3's game show, 7 Days. She was a host at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2018, presenting the award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series. In 2019, Gadsby appeared on Conan O'Brien's podcast Conan O'Brien's Conan O'Brien's podcast Conan O'Brien Does a Friend.

Gadsby ran comedy art tours in conjunction with the National Gallery of Victoria between 2009 and 2013, with topics such as paintings of the Holy Virgin, Dadaism, Modernism, Impressionism, and nude in art. She has given lectures on art and opened exhibitions. Hannah Gadsby has written and presented two documentary specials for ABC TV's Artscape program: Hannah Gadsby Goes Domestic (2010) and The NGV Story (2011). Hannah Gadsby: Arts Clown, a BBC Radio 4 film based on her comedy art shows, premiered in 2015.

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Awards

• 2006: Melbourne International Comedy Festival Raw Comedy winner
• 2006: Edinburgh Festival Fringe, So You Think You're Funny? – Second place
• 2007: Adelaide Fringe, Best Newcomer Award for Hannah Gadsby is Wrong and Broken
• 2010: Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer – nominee for The Cliff Young Shuffle
• 2010: Melbourne International Comedy Festival – Directors' Choice Award
• 2011: Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer – nominee for Mrs Chuckles
• 2011: Melbourne International Comedy Festival Barry Award nominee
• 2017: Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer for Nanette
• 2017: Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Barry Award winner for Nanette
• 2017: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Comedy Award – joint winner for Nanette, tied with John Robins for The Darkness of Robins
• 2017: Adelaide Fringe Best Comedy Award
• 2018: 7th AACTA International Awards Best Comedy Program – nominee
• 2018: AACTA Award for Best Performance in a Television Comedy
• 2019: Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer for Douglas
• 2019: MTV Movie & TV Awards – nominee for Best Real-Life Hero
• 2019: Peabody Award for Nanette
• 2019: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special for Nanette