Andrea Gibbs

Andrea Lauren Gibbs (born in Donnybrook, Western Australia) is an Australian comedian, actress and radio presenter.

Gibbs currently presents Weekends with Andrea Gibbs on ABC Local Radio.[1]

Early life

She spent her childhood on a family farm in the small country town of Donnybrook, Western Australia. She attended Donnybrook District High School and Bunbury Senior High School. In 1999 she moved to Perth, Western Australia where she attended Curtin University of Technology completing a Bachelor of Arts English.

Career

After working in Edinburgh, Scotland for a year with the Edinburgh International Arts Festival, she returned to Perth in 2001 and joined improvising comedy troupe The Big HOO HAA!. In 2004, she entered Triple J’s Raw Comedy competition performing stand-up for the first time. She became a National Finalist the following year and performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2005. In 2006 she was handpicked by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival talent scouts to perform in The Comedy Zone, a showcase of Australian comedy’s hottest new comics.

Late 2005 started her career in broadcasting after she was headhunted by Southern Cross Broadcasting to co-host 96fm’s Breakfast Show, one of WA's highest rating breakfast shows, until 2007. She has continued to work in radio with ABC and now hosts her own program 'Weekends with Andrea Gibbs'.

As an actor, her television credits include 'Very Small Business' (ABCTV) and 'Stepmonsters' (Nickelodeon). Film credits include 'Three Summers' by Ben Elton, 'My Year without Sex', written and directed by Sarah Watts and multiple shorts.

In 2014 she toured with Griffin Theatre Company and Perth Theatre Company's production of 'Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography'[2] and was called a 'revelation' by The Australian.[3] She also spoke at TEDxPERTH[4] about the 'Power of Storytelling'.

As a producer she is the creative behind Barefaced Stories, launching the Think Back Stack in 2018 and The Chin Wagon in 2019.

Currently

Andrea is the host of Weekends with Andrea Gibbs on ABC Radio Australia-wide, the co-creator of Barefaced Stories and can be seen on stage in Van Badham's Animal Farm for Black Swan State Theatre Company in 2021.

References
  1. "More Radio Choice". Local Marketing. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
  2. Schuur, Courtney (2014-07-09). "Stage star Andrea Gibbs returns to Perth | News and Events - Curtin University, Perth, Australia". News and Events. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
  3. Jones, Deborah (9 May 2014). "Enter the World of Inner Demons".
  4. TEDx Talks (2015-01-27), The power of storytelling | Andrea Gibbs | TEDxPerth, retrieved 2016-04-07
  • Andrea's Official Website
  • Barefaced Stories
  • The Home of The Big HOO HAA!
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