Yesterday, on the steps of the Melbourne Town Hall, the 2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award nominees for Most Outstanding Show and Best Newcomer were announced.
A bumper list of 9 nominees have been revealed for the 2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award for Most Outstanding Show:
Gary Starr – Classic Penguins
Flo & Joan starring George Fouracres – One Man Musical
Ahir Shah – Ends
Olga Koch – Olga Koch Comes From Money
Lou Wall – Breaking the Fifth Wall
Brett Blake – Little Turd
Greg Larsen – Geggy
Rahul Subramanian – Who Are You
Scout Boxall – God’s Favourite
Best Newcomer nominations for performers doing their first full Festival show are:
Anisa Nandaula – You Can’t Say That
Ethan Cavanagh – Bond, Lost My Bond
Jessica Barton – Dirty Work
Kura Forrester – Here if you Need
Meg Jäger – Renaissance Woman
Rapha Manajem – The Salmon Was Good
Robyn Reynolds – What Doesn’t Kill You
The Golden Gibbo, in memory of the late, great Lynda Gibson, is aimed at finding a local, independent show that pursues the artists’ idea more than it pursues commercial gain. The 2025 nominees are:
Kate Dolan – The Critic
Andy Balloch – The Wedding
Taylor Griffiths – Sublime Avenue
Conor Lynch – Chimp
Sugar Bits – Feminist Trash
Charlie Lewin – Frogaccini
Winners will be announced on Saturday with additional awards bestowed including; Directors’ Choice, awarded by the Festival Director in consultation with festival programming colleagues to a show they think deserves to be celebrated; the People’s Choice Award for the most popular show of the Festival as determined by the ticket buying public; The Pinder Prize, honouring Festival co-founder John Pinder, and supporting a performer to travel to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; and the Piece of Wood comics’ choice award, selected by past winners and presented to a peer literally for “doin’ good stuff ‘n’ that.”
The 2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival ends on 20 April 2025.
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Photo credits: Nick Robertson
