Zoe Coombs-Marr

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Zoë Coombs Marr is a performer, writer, artist and comedian. She grew up in Grafton, where she and her best friend staged a musical instead of going to schoolies week. Zoë has performed stand up comedy extensively in Australia, London and New York. Her solo show, Trigger Warning, won the 2016 Melbourne Comedy Festival Award for Most Outstanding Show as well as the Golden Gibbo, and two Green Room Awards. It was also nominated for Best Show at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Drama. In 2008 Zoë completed a double degree in Performance Studies at UNSW and Fine Arts at COFA, where she was awarded the Dinosaur Designs Prize and the Art and Australia Award. Her video works and sculptures have been exhibited at a number of galleries, including First Draft, Kudos and King’s ARI and in 2006 she won the National Poetry Slam Championships under dubious circumstances. In 2012, her solo theatre/comedy work And That Was The Summer That Changed My Life was awarded the Philip Parsons Young Playwright Award and was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Other works include Gone Off or I’ve Been Everywhere, Man (Old Fitzroy Theatre, MCF 2012, SMAC award Best On Stage 2012) and Dave (MCF 2013, Edinburgh Fringe, Soho Theatre, London). Zoë’s five-woman ensemble play Is This Thing On? was presented at Belvoir Theatre in 2014. Zoë is also one third of the contemporary performance company post. Most recently, post’s work Oedipus Schmoedipus was presented at Belvoir for Sydney Festival, Arts House Melbourne, and won a Green Room award for best experimental text. post’s other works include: Who’s The Best? (Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Arts House, Brisbane Powerhouse, Darwin Festival, and Noorderzon Festival, NL, 2011-2013), Everything I Know About The Global Financial Crisis In One Hour (Belvoir Theatre, 2010), Shamelessly Glitzy Work (Performance Space Sydney, Melbourne Arts House, Brisbane Powerhouse) and their newest work Ich Nibber Dibber played at Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre and the Sydney Opera House in 2018. Zoë filmed Trigger Warning as part of the Next Gen series, was a regular panel member on Dirty Laundry Live, and has also been seen on Cram (Ten), ABC’S The Chaser’s Media Circus, How Not To Behave, Backseat Drivers, and Live at Bella Union (SBS). In 2017, Zoë’s theatrical collaboration with Ursula Martinez and Adrienne Truscott, Wild Bore, premiered at the Malthouse Theatre and went on to be performed at the Soho Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe and at the Skirball Centre at NYU. Since 2013 Zoë most frequently appeared in comedy circles (including in her award-winning show Trigger Warning) as Dave, a retrograde male comedian with a neck beard. But in 2018 she appeared as herself, sans Dave’s neck beard, with her hit festival offering Bossy Bottom. The show saw Zoe nominated for Best Comedy Performer at the Helpmann Awards and won her a prestigious Herald Angel Award in Edinburgh. Bossy Bottom has been filmed for international release on Amazon Prime Video in 2020.


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Upfront: The Queens of Comedy

as uncredited
Released: 2018-04-22

The fiercest and funniest ladies of comedy join forces to slay in a night of outstanding wit,...

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Zoë Coombs Marr: Bossy Bottom

as Self
Released: 2020-04-10

There is no comedian quite like Zoë. Bossy Bottom is a joyously silly return to very serious...

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Spicks and Specks

as Self
First aired: 2005-01-31

Adam Hills, one of Australia's favourite comedians and winner of Edinburgh's Best of the Fest...

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The Weekly with Charlie Pickering

as Herself - Correspondent
First aired: 2015-04-22

News comedy show, tonight show and chat show all in one, allowing Charlie to return to his...

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Would I Lie to You?

as Self - Panelist
First aired: 2022-02-28

Australian version of the British comedy panel show featuring team captains joined by a stellar...

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Get Krack!n

as EJ Hayes
First aired: 2017-08-30

Having conquered the cutthroat world of satirical online cooking shows with The Katering Show,...

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Finding Yeezus

as uncredited
First aired: 2022-09-26

FINDING YEEZUS is a six-part investigative comedy web-series starring comedians and pop-culture...

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Queerstralia

as Self - Host
First aired: 2023-02-28

Join award-winning comedian and professional lesbian Zoe Coombs Marr, as we wipe away the...

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