Profiles
- 1929 Studios
- 2011 National Theatre Graduates
- 3 Shades Black
- A Small Press & Justin Heazlewood
- Abbie Cardwell
- ACTU and VTHC
- Adams Management
- Aduki Independent Press
- Affirm Press
- Ainslie Wills
- Allen and Unwin
- Aluka
- AMG Productions
- Ampilatwatja Walk Off & Anti-Intervention Collective
- Andrew McSweeney
- Andy and Adrian
- Anthony Salame
- APA
- Arts in Action
- Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
- Back 2 Basics Theatre
- Baggage Productions
- Bang Productions
- Bart Willoughby
- Bella Union Events
- Ben McKenzie & Richard McKenzie
- Beth King and the Hemingway Collective
- Better Than the Wizards
- Biddy Connor
- Bloomsday In Melbourne
- Box 4
- Brolga Publishing
- Burma Campaign Australia & New Hope Foundation
- Butterfly @ Trades
- Cabaret di Bella
- Cath Styles
- Catherine Deveny
- Celia Pacquola
- Century Entertainment
- Circus Trick Tease
- Comrade Dubs and Jesse I
- CXP Music
- Damian Callinan
- Damian Clark
- Dandenong Theatre Company
- Daniel Burt
- Dave Bushell & Xavier Michelides
- Dave O'Neil
- David Rovics
- Deakin University
- Departed Sounds
- Des Bishop
- Dirty Work Comedy
- DJ Hannah Fox
- DJ Tom Lowndes
- Don Paul
- Doppelganger Theatre Company
- Dun Dun Daa Productions
- Eddie Ifft
- Elizabeth Campbell
- Emerging Writers Festival
- Emily and Tash
- Emma Dean & Jake Diefenbach
- Emma Sachsse
- Enter Closer
- European Man
- Fiona Claire
- Fred Smith
- Freeplay Festival
- Future of Rap
- Geraldine Quinn
- Harvest Productions
- Herman, Mellado & Serra
- Holmesglen Writers Press
- Hybrid Publishers
- INH Productions
- Jambands Australia & Melbourne Music Week
- James Dowdeswell
- Jess Love
- Jo Lloyd
- Jon Bennett
- Jones, Quinn & Zaid
- Julz Hay
- Kale Bogdanovs
- Kill Your Darlings
- La Mauvaise Reputation
- Lakes
- Laughing Stock Productions
- Laura Davis
- Lawrence Leung
- Lee Gambin
- Lord Uke
- Lou Sanz and Claire Hooper
- Lucie Thorne
- Lucy Watson
- Lucy Wise and Jeremiah Rose
- Luke & Wyatt
- Marieke Hardy & Michaela McGuire
- Max Mortimer
- Melbourne International Comedy Festival
- Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival
- Melbourne Women's International Jazz Festival
- Merrigoround Music
- Michael Chamberlin
- Michelle Alina Dabrowski
- Mike McLeish & Fiona Harris
- Milke
- Miss Anna's Go-Go Academy
- Miss Anna's Go-Go Academy
- Missing Supergirl
- Mobile Industries
- Mongolian Workers Party
- Mr Jimmy
- Mr McClelland - DJ Extraordinaire
- NAIDOC
- Nakedfella Productions
- National Union of Workers
- Neil Murray
- Neil Sinclair & Doug Pickering
- Nev and The Blues
- New International Bookshop
- NGO Fuan Nabilan Ba Matan Aat
- Nicholas Roy
- North Melbourne Language and Learning
- P A O'Reilly
- Pan Macmillan Australia
- PBS 106.7FM
- Philip Escoffey
- Pigeons Projects
- Political Asylum
- Pop! FM
- Puncher & Wattmann and Philip Salom
- Puppy Fight Social Club
- RABBIT Journal
- Red Room Theatre
- Right Now Inc.
- RMIT Fine Arts Photography Studio
- Rocket Clock
- Rod Quantock
- Ross Daniels
- Ruby Hunter
- Runners / The Hazelman Brothers / Monte Morgan
- S>M>E>G: The Stick Monkey Enterprise Group
- Sammy J, David Quirk & Felicity Ward
- Scribe Publishing
- Shaolin Punk
- Short Fuse Productions
- Shu Liu in association with magro
- Sleepers Publishing
- Socialist Party of Australia
- Sometimes She Sings
- Soyfish
- Speed Orange
- Spontaneous Broadway
- Stage Masters
- Steve Hughes
- Sticks Stones Broken Bones
- Stop. Traffick
- Straightup Agency & Footprints Inc.
- Stuart
- Sweet Thursday Productions & Theatre on a Horse
- TaDaa Productions
- TESS
- The Aerial Maps
- The Anarchist Guild Social Committee
- The Ancients
- The Centre for Poetics and Justice
- The Combs
- The Comedy Zone
- The Forsaken Poets
- The Great River
- The Greens Melbourne
- The Half-Arsed Three
- The Hazelman Brothers
- The Hounds
- The Junes
- The Lost and Lonesome Recording Co.
- The Shambles
- The Vulgar Press
- The Wheeler Centre
- Think Big Productions
- Tim Helmy
- Token Artists
- Tony Martin
- Tracy McNeil
- Tristen Bird
- Triumvirate Theatre
- Victorian Opera
- Victorian Trade Union Choir
- Victorian Trades Hall Council
- Victorian Writers' Centre
- Vigilantelope
- Vitamin Records
- Vocal Australia
- Winternationale
- Word of Mouth Reviewers
- Yeo - Charlie LIm - Matt Witney
Presenter Profiles
1929 Studios
2011 National Theatre Graduates
3 Shades Black
3 Shades Black is Melbourne’s newest contemporary music ensemble, aiming to make experimental classical music accessible and transparent to a new audience.
A Small Press & Justin Heazlewood
Abbie Cardwell
ACTU and VTHC
Adams Management
Aduki Independent Press
Affirm Press
Ainslie Wills
This songstress, who hails from country NSW, started her musical career at a young age learning the piano from her Aunt and was exposed to everything from Barbara Streisand to Mozart. However, after hearing Jeff Buckley’s 'Grace' while still in high school, Ainslie started composing her own songs and was inspired her to pursue her musical path.
Allen and Unwin
Allen & Unwin commenced publishing in Australia in 1976 as part of the UK company George Allen & Unwin Ltd established in 1914.
Aluka
AMG Productions
Ampilatwatja Walk Off & Anti-Intervention Collective
Andrew McSweeney
Andy and Adrian
Anthony Salame
APA
Arts in Action
Arts in Action is a Melbourne based film screening initiative that presents local and international art and social documentary films which focus on creating social change.
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Back 2 Basics Theatre
Baggage Productions
Bridgette Burton and Christina Costigan have been working together as Baggage Productions since 2000, when they presented their first show at the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Frustrated with the lack of roles for women, they decided to strike out and create their own, and have been delighting audiences and critics alike ever since.
Bang Productions
Bart Willoughby
Bella Union Events
Bella Union runs all year round as both a performance space and a casual bar, hosting parties, fundraiser benefits, theatrical performances, live comedy, forums, book launches and just about everything else you can think of.
Ben McKenzie & Richard McKenzie
Beth King and the Hemingway Collective
Better Than the Wizards
This funking five piece from Melbourne’s south east reckon everything is coming up Millhouse!
Biddy Connor
Biddy Connor is the string wizard behind artists and bands such as Laura Jean, Kes Band, Super Melody and Magic Silver White.
In her new project Sailor Days, she finally reveals her own compositions. Serpentine, dizzying and rich, Biddy’s songs play gracefully with harmony, melody and structure, creating strange and beautiful architecture.
Bloomsday In Melbourne
Bloomsday is the day readers around the world celebrate with Dubliners one of the great novels of the twentieth century, James Joyce's 'Ulysses', set in 1904, and published in 1922. The novel is witty, bizarre, surreal, learned and humane, and it gives us Dublin and its citizens in all their gritty reality, and their wry and romantic responsiveness to music.
Box 4
Brolga Publishing
Burma Campaign Australia & New Hope Foundation
Butterfly @ Trades
The Butterfly Club moves north for a three-week spring season at Trades Hall
Cabaret di Bella
Cath Styles
Catherine Deveny
Celia Pacquola
Celia Pacquola burst onto the Melbourne comedy scene in 2006. After only a handful of gigs, but a barrelful of laughs, she was crowned the Raw Recruit, winning the prize for Best First Time Entrant in the prestigious Raw Comedy open mic competition as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Century Entertainment
Circus Trick Tease
Comrade Dubs and Jesse I
CXP Music
Damian Callinan
Damian Clark
Dandenong Theatre Company
For almost forty years, Dandenong Theatre Company Inc (DTC) has been presenting quality theatre to the City of Greater Dandenong.
Daniel Burt
Dave Bushell & Xavier Michelides
Dave O'Neil
Dave O'Neil's friendly, easy going manner has made him one of Australia's most popular and versatile comics.
David Rovics
David lives with his family in Portland, Oregon and tours regularly on four continents, playing for audiences large and small at cafes, pubs, universities, churches, union halls and protest rallies.
Deakin University
Departed Sounds
Des Bishop
Dirty Work Comedy
DJ Hannah Fox
One half of the former juke joint Sweet Jelly Roll, Hannah Fox has played all over the place including Golden Plains, Silent Disco (Big Day Out), Melbourne Fringe Club and many more!
DJ Tom Lowndes
DJ Tom Lowndes is a stalwart of the Sydney comedy scene. As a founding member of legendary impro crew Puppy Fight Social Club, he's played at comedy venues around Australia.
Don Paul
Don Paul is the author of more than 20 books, including four novels and four books of poems, and
the leader or producer of more than 20 albums.
Doppelganger Theatre Company
Doppelgänger Theatre Company consists of a group of young professionally trained actors working towards growing in their art, creating, experimenting and entertaining. Our goal is to work in conjunction with artists at all different stages of their careers to help each other reach new levels.
Dun Dun Daa Productions
Eddie Ifft
Elizabeth Campbell
Emerging Writers Festival
Emily and Tash
Emma Dean & Jake Diefenbach
"Welcome, my friend, to the end of the world. Went with a sigh that nobody heard." (The Devil You Know)
Emma Sachsse
Enter Closer
European Man
Fiona Claire
Fred Smith
Freeplay Festival
Freeplay is Australia’s longest running independent games festival exploring the intersection of indie development, culture, arts and education.
Future of Rap
Geraldine Quinn
Possessor of an astonishing voice, a wicked sense of humour and a keen intelligence, this queen of hardcore cabaret is a force to be reckoned with.
Harvest Productions
Herman, Mellado & Serra
Holmesglen Writers Press
Holmesglen Writers Press is a student run publishing initiative designed to give students an opportunity to experience the challenges of writing, editing and producing their own professional publications.
Hybrid Publishers
INH Productions
INH Productions is a company started by a group of friends who are passionate about theatre and performing.
Jambands Australia & Melbourne Music Week
James Dowdeswell
Jess Love
Jo Lloyd
Jon Bennett
Jon Bennett began his comedy career with successes in many comedy competitions around Australia including Triple J’s Raw Comedy, Green Faces and Laughing Gas.
Jones, Quinn & Zaid
Julz Hay
Kale Bogdanovs
Kill Your Darlings
La Mauvaise Reputation
Lakes
Since 2002 Lakes has released a constant stream of 7”s, cassettes, CDR’s and LP’s, with a challenging take on bleak folk, medieval wanderings, and the darker side of post-punk.
Laughing Stock Productions
Laura Davis
Lawrence Leung
Lawrence Leung writes and tells jokes...
Lee Gambin
Lord Uke
Lou Sanz and Claire Hooper
Lucie Thorne
Lucy Watson
Lucy Wise and Jeremiah Rose
Luke & Wyatt
Marieke Hardy & Michaela McGuire
Co-curated by Age writers Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire
Max Mortimer
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2011, The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is one of the three largest comedy festivals in the world, alongside Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival.
Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival
Melbourne Women's International Jazz Festival
Merrigoround Music
Michael Chamberlin
Michelle Alina Dabrowski
Mike McLeish & Fiona Harris
Milke
Miss Anna's Go-Go Academy
Miss Anna's Go-Go Academy
Anna Achia is the glamorous mistress of Anna's Go-Go Academy. She is a firm believer in the cure-all powers of dance. Every week, she leads groups of up to 60 go-go dancing enthusiasts through a hit parade of retro favourites at a number inner-city bars where the King Kong, the Hitchhiker, Fancy Dance Kicks and the Going My Way are groovy dance moves, not cocktails.
Missing Supergirl
Mobile Industries
Mongolian Workers Party
Mr Jimmy
Mr McClelland - DJ Extraordinaire
NAIDOC
Nakedfella Productions
National Union of Workers
Neil Murray
Neil Sinclair & Doug Pickering
Nev and The Blues
Nev & The Blues is an act that’s been performing intimate venues around Melbourne’s near east for about three years in various pubs, soirees and as a guest at CD launches of some of the highly talented singer-songwriters of the independent music scene.
New International Bookshop
The New International BookShop, in Melbourne’s historic Trades Hall building is one of Australia's very few progressive bookshops with a comprehensive range of new and second hand books on politics, alternative opinions and a progressive view on pressing world issues.
NGO Fuan Nabilan Ba Matan Aat
Nicholas Roy
As a piano player / singer-song writer, Nicholas Roy is somewhat unusual in the indie rock venues he frequently plays. Regularly slotted in amongst jangling guitar bands, his material often surprises audiences and has been very well received. Whilst living temporarily in Western Australia in 2006, Nicholas produced and recorded his debut EP titled “Cardboard Heart”, which sold well at gigs.
North Melbourne Language and Learning
P A O'Reilly
P A (Paddy) O′Reilly is a writer from Melbourne.
Pan Macmillan Australia
PBS 106.7FM
Philip Escoffey
Philip has spent ten years traveling the world, leaving the rich and royal intrigued (and occasionally embarrassingly clingy).
Pigeons Projects
Political Asylum
Conceived by Mathew Kenneally and Courteney Hocking and featuring the best political comedy Australia has to offer.
Pop! FM
Puncher & Wattmann and Philip Salom
Puppy Fight Social Club
RABBIT Journal
Red Room Theatre
Right Now Inc.
Right Now is a volunteer, not-for-profit media organisation led by young people focused on human rights issues in Australia.
RMIT Fine Arts Photography Studio
The RMIT Fine Art Photography Studio prides itself on the training of artists in historical, theoretical, technical and conceptual aspects of photographic practice.
Rocket Clock
Rocket Clock is a story slam competition. Ten people each have five minutes to tell a story around a particular theme. Judges in the audience rate each story on both content and performance. Everyone has a great time.
Rod Quantock
Rod Quantock has been working in comedy for over forty years. He has written, performed in, produced, directed and promoted hundreds of solo and ensemble comedy shows and events.
Ross Daniels
Ruby Hunter
“How do you listen to the birds or see the blessed dawn? What do you say when there are no words, when the reason for words is gone? Never say goodbye, till we meet again.”
Your loving husband, Archie Roach.
Runners / The Hazelman Brothers / Monte Morgan
S>M>E>G: The Stick Monkey Enterprise Group
The Stick Monkey Enterprise Group is committed in its five year plan to building trust, respect and uncanny, unsustainable, irreducible and uncouth next level theatre experiences.
Sammy J, David Quirk & Felicity Ward
2010 Barry Award Winner SAMMY J
2010 Golden Gibbo Award Winner DAVID QUIRK
2009 Melb Comedy Festival Best Newcomer Nominee FELICITY WARD
Scribe Publishing
Scribe is an independent Australian book-publishing company, founded by Henry Rosenbloom in 1976. We publish 65–70 titles a year, and specialise in serious non-fiction and quality fiction.
Shaolin Punk
Shaolin Punk is the brainchild of Ben McKenzie, a production company that produces comedy which has a brain, drama which exercises the imagination and fantasy that embraces science.
Short Fuse Productions
Shu Liu in association with magro
The group formed in Boston, USA in 1994 with the guitarist, Masaru Uchida (Berklee College of Music) and and poet, Miyuki Ogata (myu). With a focus on live performances, the group travelled Canada and America under the name [jazzaholic*].
Sleepers Publishing
Sleepers run book-related events and publish books, including the annual critically-acclaimed Sleepers Almanac.
Socialist Party of Australia
Sometimes She Sings
Soyfish
Speed Orange
Spontaneous Broadway
Stage Masters
Steve Hughes
Sticks Stones Broken Bones
Stop. Traffick
Straightup Agency & Footprints Inc.
Straightup Agency is a boutique music and arts touring and management agency established by Blair Stafford in 2005.
Stuart
Sweet Thursday Productions & Theatre on a Horse
TaDaa Productions
TESS
The Aerial Maps
The Aerial Maps are a Sydney band based around the vocals and lyrics of Adam Gibson, with Simon Holmes (ex Hummingbirds), Simon Gibson, Sean Kennedy, Tim Byron, AJ Johnsen and Lucy Lehmann on board in various musical capacities. The band is influenced by the bright landscapes and long distances of Australia.
The Anarchist Guild Social Committee
The Anarchist Guild Social Committee is a collection of some of Melbourne’s most talented and awarded comedians: Richard McKenzie, Celia Pacquola, Dave Bushell, Tegan Higginbotham, Andrew McClelland and Nick Caddaye.
The Ancients
The Centre for Poetics and Justice
The Combs
The Comedy Zone
The Forsaken Poets
The Great River
The Greens Melbourne
Adam Bandt - Greens candidate for Melbourne
The Half-Arsed Three
Ben Hendry (drums), Enio Pozzebon (keyboards) and Vincenzo Ruberto (bass) have worked on a startling array of projects, both together and individually.
The Hazelman Brothers
rom foreign correspondent to folk singer
The Hounds
The Junes
The Lost and Lonesome Recording Co.
Lost & Lonesome Recording Co. is an independent record label based in Melbourne, Australia. The label specialises in indie pop, and has released both recordings by local artists and local releases by overseas indie bands.
The Shambles
The Vulgar Press
Established in 1999, Vulgar Press is dedicated to the publication of working-class and other radical forms of writing. We publish novels, non-fiction, history and poetry and are not limited by genre.
The Wheeler Centre
Think Big Productions
Tim Helmy
Token Artists
The Token Group is a personal management firm and live touring business working with the finest comedians in Australia.
Tony Martin
Tracy McNeil
Tristen Bird
Triumvirate Theatre
Victorian Opera
Victorian Opera - your opera company
Led by Music Director Richard Gill, Victorian Opera approaches its fifth birthdaywith a distinct artistic program, championing the creation of new Australian opera whilst presenting less familiar repertoire to audiences in Melbourne and across regional Victoria.
Victorian Trade Union Choir
Victorian Trades Hall Council
The major role of the VTHC is the co-ordination of union activities and campaigns.
Victorian Writers' Centre
The Victorian Writers' Centre is a non-profit organisation that assists writers through all stages of their development. They provide high-quality information and professional development for aspiring and established writers, and special benefits for members.
Vigilantelope
Bringing together five of the best young unsigned comedians in Melbourne, comedy cartel Vigilantelope has burst onto the festival scene and is stealing hearts, minds and biscuits from the biscuit tin.
Vitamin Records
Vitamin Records and Distribution aims to break the barrier between record labels, record stores, the artist, and the fan by increasing the flow of communication and personal contact.
Vocal Australia
Vocal music, a cappella, or harmony singing… it’s currently sweeping the globe in popular media, and for good reason!
Winternationale
Word of Mouth Reviewers
Word of Mouth Reviews are a group of local Melbourne punters who enjoy seeing live comedy shows throughout the year and especially during the festival time.
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