OPENING NIGHT 2022
WRITING FUNNY WITH CASSIE WORKMAN AND LOUIS HANSON
“I’m not missing a minute of this. It’s the revolution!” – Sylvia Rivera
Thursday 3 November 2022
7:00 pm - 08:00 pm - Wallace Theatre, University of Sydney
In the spirit of celebrating queer joy, EnQueer’s Opening Night will explore finding the absurd and the funny in the queer experience, featuring two comedic contemporaries: acclaimed stand-up performer and poet Cassie Workman and writer, podcaster and content creator Louis Hanson.
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Cassie Workman is a comedian, writer and poet, known for her heartfelt and emotive storytelling, incisive wit, and brutal deconstructions of the status quo. Cassie entered the public eye after winning Triple J’s “Raw Comedy” national open mic competition in 2009, then debuted at Edinburgh and Melbourne Comedy Festival.
From 2011-2017, she performed a number of full-length shows at multiple comedy festivals, including “Humans are Beautiful”, “Mercy”, “Ave Loretta”, “War”, “We Have Fun Don’t We” and “Nothing You Do Means Anything”, to acclaim, awards and sold-out audiences.
In 2017, Cassie came out as transgender. After a brief absence from the stage she returned with a vengeance, as an ABC contributor for “Tonightly with Tom Ballard”, a series ‘So You Think You Can Trans’ and the show “Giantess”. Her recent work, an epic poem called “Aberdeen” about rock star Kurt Cobain, has won significant acclaim.
Louis Hanson is an Australian presenter, writer, podcaster and comedic content creator whose work has appeared in publications such as PEDESTRIAN.TV, The New York Times, SBS, Out Magazine, VICE and The Guardian.
In 2021, Louis appeared in the Amazon original sketch comedy show ‘The Moth Effect’. In the presenting realm, Louis has fronted campaigns for TikTok, Instagram, Dan Murphy’s, PEDESTRIAN.TV, Tinder, AirAsia, Bonds and adidas Australia, among others.
He currently hosts 'Pedestrian Daily' - a Spotify Exclusive morning news podcast - writes for his fortnightly GQ column 'Asking for a friend...' and posts content to the 200k audience he's grown across social platforms.