BRIDIE CONNELL is a multi award-winning writer and performer. She has written and performed three one-act plays which have been performed across Australia and New Zealand.

She won the award for Best Screenplay and Best Series at Sydney Webfest for her work on the proof-of-concept webseries Gut Feeling, and was nominated for a host of other awards at various festivals. The series has since been picked up by ABC Iview.

Bridie was a writer and actor on Tonightly with Tom Ballard, and a song she co-wrote for the show won the 2018 ARIA for Best Comedy Release.

Bridie’s first play was the winning entry in a high school writing competition. It toured around her native New Zealand to 25,000 high schoolers, and was just about the most melodramatic thing she’s ever written (as you can probably tell from the title: Fallen Tears). Thankfully, she’s improved since then.

Bridie is also an in-demand performer: recent acting credits include We Interrupt this Broadcast, The Moth Effect, Ellie and Abbie (and Ellie’s Dead Aunt), Pieces of Her, Darryl: from Beach to Snow, Tonightly with Tom Ballard, True Story with Hamish and Andy, Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia and The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill. Bridie is a former national improv champion and a regular fixture in the comedy rooms of Sydney with her unique blend of character, music and improv comedy.

GRACE ROUVRAY hails from the regional town Albury Wodonga. Since moving to Sydney in 2012, Grace has worked across writing, acting, comedy and podcasting. In 2016, Grace started a blog chronicling her thoughts and feelings on dating. Following a viral response to her blog, she turned the stories into the scripted series 600 Bottles of Wine. The series premiered on BBC Three in 2018 and has since been acquired by Network Ten, Virgin Inflight Entertainment, TVNZ On Demand, YLE Finland, CBC Canada, ABC iview and Netflix AU/NZ.

The Guardian UK listed Grace’s writing with the likes of Hannah Gadsby, Felicity Ward, Claudio O’Doherty, The Letdown, calling her “A unique and refreshing voice, great things are expected of Grace.”

Grace wrote and performed the Hour Of Power stand up series with Katie Lees to a sold out audience at Sydney Fringe Comedy, following its success the two comedians took the show to a stand alone season at Flight Path Theatre and Adelaide Fringe online.

Her acting credits include House of Gods, Heartbreak High, The PM’s Daughter, Colin From Accounts, biopics House of Hancock, Brock and Bruce Beresford’s film Ladies in Black.

Most recently Grace has been working as a host and podcaster curating events at VIVID Sydney and working across multiple podcasts at Mamamia.