The overnight success of Hannah Gadsby was more than 10 years in the making, with her award-winning stand up shows a sell out fixture in festivals across Australia and the U.K. since 2009. She played a character called Hannah on the TV series Please Like Me and has hosted three art documentaries, inspired by comedy art lectures she created to accompany collections at major galleries. Hannah’s first book, Ten Steps To Nanette, will be released in 2022 through Ballantine.
Hannah Gadsby, who captured the world’s attention with her groundbreaking standup shows Nanette and Douglas, announced that her highly anticipated new show Body Of Work will embark on a North American tour. In 2018, Hannah’s global sensation Nanette played to sold-out houses across the world before launching on Netflix, garnering Hannah an Emmy and a Peabody. After that, a lot of people (heaps actually) started paying attention to what she had to say. Opportunities came a knocking, but Hannah decided to stick with what she loves and couldn’t quit: standup comedy.
So, in 2019 she wrote and toured the critically acclaimed Douglas from Helsinki to New York, including an Off-Broadway run, and everywhere in between culminating in recording the show for Netflix in Los Angeles in February 2020, just in time for, well … the rest of 2020. The year that was like no other saw Hannah bunkering down in regional Australia sheltering from a global pandemic and pondering what was next.
That ponder is now a show. A brand-new live show. One could say it’s a new body of work. Couldn’t one?
Photo courtesy of Hannah Gadsby
