- Comedy & Cabaret
Topics:
- Comedians
- Musical Cabaret
Tim Minchin
Award winning comic, TIM MINCHIN has been a hit on the corporate and comedy circuit with his hilarious performance and musical interludes
The Rise of the Comedian
Tim’s brand of dark comedic cabaret has received increasing critical and public acclaim in the last 2 years. His show “Dark Side” won the 2005 Perrier Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Festival Directors’ Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and was featured at the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival in 2006.
His more recent show, “So Rock” was nominated for Most Outstanding Show at the MICF and received universally rave reviews.
He has appeared live in the UK at the Soho Theatre and the Lyric Theatre, and at the “Tickled Pink” breast cancer fundraiser at the Royal Albert Hall. He has also appeared on British television and radio, and on Paramount Comedy’s “The World Stands Up”.
Back In Australia
In Australia his first show, Navel, received Green Room Award nominations for Most Innovative Use of Form and Most Outstanding Songwriter. The following year his second effort, Perineum Millennium, received Green Room Award Nominations for Best Cabaret Artist and Most Outstanding Songwriter.
Composer and Musician
Tim composed many scores for theatre before focussing on live performance. Shows include several Shakespeares (Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, MacBeth), a couple of Brechts (Mother Courage, Caucasian Chalk Circle) and his own musical play, Pop – a tragically musical romantic black comedy. In the past he has written music and lyrics for Tamarama Rock Surfer’s This Blasted Earth. He most recently wrote music and lyrics for Railway Street Theatre Company’s Somewhere. He has also composed and produced music for Discovery Channel.
