Katherine Phelps

Participating in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is a significant committment of time, money, and personal resources. This is not for the faint of heart. Last year I attended the Jeez Louise Funny Women’s Conference. One of the attendees to that conference was the charming Claire Hooper. She gave me the advice that it’s perhaps [...]

Last Sunday my TheatreSports improvisation class was asked to perform for the Almond Blossom Festival. This was a great way to farewell all the wonderful people with whom I’ve been developing my performing and improvising skills before moving to Melbourne. The festival itself was charming. I watched open dog trials where little scruffy moppets up [...]

I wrote this yesterday, but because I came home after midnight the previous evening, I fell asleep before posting it! I’ve decided not to worry about announcing my current open mic gigs, because  I have a list I’m working my way through and am never certain what night I will be attending and whether I [...]

My apologies for not warning people about this performance. I didn’t want to promise anything, because I had no idea what I was going to be walking into. The Joiners Arms open mic night is run by Corey Stewart. He also runs open mic at the Daniel O’Connell and is establishing a South Australian Open [...]

A year and half back I went to The Gov open mic night in order to find some talent to include in the Fly Glass Wings variety show. I very fortunately heard the talented Jamaica Bastiras that night and convinced her to join us. She was one of the big hits of that show. I [...]

The RU-Funny event was amazing. I turned up an hour early, so that the organisers could run all the comedians through the housekeeping. Twenty people turned up to compete. At five minutes each plus Mark Trenwith’s incomparable compering we had a long night ahead of us. I had to quickly write a new routine Friday [...]