Hallo! I’m in Italy.
The filming of TWIST at the Bill Murray went really well. I think I did a solid job of a show I’m very proud of - dropped one thing but remembered to pick...
2023-09-08 10:55:52 +0000 UTC View Post
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is over for another year which feels like a big thing of course; the festival is so absorbing and intriguing and fractal and full of wildness that it become...
2023-09-01 13:32:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo friends,
Today’s the last day of the fringe. I’m genuinely wrecked and the Wi-Fi’s bad. I’m going to have to pull today’s salon. But there will be a book club on Fr...
2023-08-28 16:23:51 +0000 UTC View Post
The second Gargle recording was a chaotic delight. I love how visual the jokes get at a podcast recording but yet somehow it still works if you weren’t there. Well, I say somehow. It...
2023-08-22 18:45:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Past the halfway mark of this festival, by one day. How many days is one day anyway? What with late night calls and daytime naps, it all seems pretty surreal. Still enjoying the show. It...
2023-08-16 10:34:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo! Edinburgh wifi is so bad it’s just deleted this post for the third time.
Short version, no book club today.
The show is going well, I had an epiphany about it last...
2023-08-11 12:29:26 +0000 UTC View Post
The show is feeling good and fun to perform. I’m finding new things in it each time, and it’s enough of a challenge to get the balance right that I don’t see myself getting stuck i...
2023-08-09 07:06:21 +0000 UTC View Post
So, after two preview nights knocking out glitches, getting used to the tech and stage and tinkering with the show, I opened TWIST officially for Opening Night on Friday night.
It may have b...
2023-08-06 18:56:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Right! Sorry to do two updates in one day, but I did say it’d be a bit chaotic for the month of August! Thanks to Sam Streeter for keeping me on the straight and narrow.
First things first,...
2023-08-03 11:41:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Arrived in edinburgh around midday yesterday and had my first preview last night. Probably a mistake, TBH. I was so tired by the end of the day from waking up early pre-train-trip to pac...
2023-08-03 06:40:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo, last minute change today for the writers meeting - with the packing and last few days of pre edinburgh seeing people and getting things done logistics have had some undodgeable st...
2023-07-30 10:06:32 +0000 UTC View Post
There is one final WIP for Twist at the Jokes on Us Minifringe in Leicester (https://www.ticketso...
2023-07-27 14:28:14 +0000 UTC View Post
We had a lovely holiday with friends in Switzerland. I filled myself up with cold water swims in mountain streams and walking and talking and hanging out with their new baby and their si...
2023-07-20 09:50:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo friends, it’s hot in London and I made the mistake of heading to a paddling pool with Laser Fraser. A viler swamp of chaos and villainy I have never seen. The Australian water-ac...
2023-07-08 14:39:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I am offering paid 1 on 1 consultations, primarily to Patreon people; by primarily, I mean you get preferential booking because slots are very limited.
I’ll try to answer any que...
2023-06-29 12:20:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday was exciting because the D’Ancey LaGuarde Reader hit 100% of the pre-sales/support required to make it financially viable as a project (they can afford to print it). More presales now w...
2023-06-27 17:10:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo friends!
I just wrote this update to the unbound pledgers on the D’Ancey La Guard...
2023-06-23 17:03:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Big announcements and exciting news this week. Stay to the end of this post to find out more about this picture!
Also, if you know any podcasts or shows that would like to have me...
2023-06-21 14:21:20 +0000 UTC View Post
On Saturday night I got back from my gig around midnight (the downside of being more of a headliner than anything else these days is that you go “what’s stage time?” And they’ll say “10pm...
2023-06-04 12:33:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I love a book club. Discovering new art and talking about it with people is one of my favourite things! BUT I find that half the time I’m too busy to read the assigned text, so they’re a recipe...
2023-05-31 14:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
NEW TWA: Episode 309
I had a lovely time talking to Jesse Thorn about what we choose not to talk about, and Burt Reynolds and sexiness and masculinity and imperfection.
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Time: May 28, 2023 11:30 AM London
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2023-05-28 08:08:21 +0000 UTC View Post
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People tend towards efficiency. By which I do not mean effectiveness. By efficiency I mean the reduction of effort and thought. You forget whether you brushed your tee...
2023-05-27 19:05:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo,
I’m taking this week off work. The last week I took off work was when Laser Fraser was born, and that was the weirdest holiday I’ve ever taken, to a strange night land and was also...
2023-05-18 04:18:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Just got home from my last Sydney Comedy Festival show. It was a lovely little run, and beautiful to see some of you in the audience (you know who you are).
Links for this week’s things! 2023-05-14 11:56:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo! Tomorrow I am doing two salons to cater to the current terrible timezone divergence (like a quantum timeline convergence but it means that there’s no way to run a single zoom th...
2023-05-09 10:02:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Each week I run a writers meeting and workshop. I really enjoy them, and if you’d like to write with me, you might wonder what they involve. Here’s me trying to explain what they are...
2023-05-08 21:53:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Writers Meeting and Workshop
Time: May 8, 2023 08:00 AM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
Tea With Alice 109
Time: May 4, 2023 08:30 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
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2023-05-04 05:46:23 +0000 UTC View Post