Nationality Australian Active from 2011 | Years active 2011–present Former members Joe KoskyAdrian Dean | |
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Medium Internet, theatre, television Members Mark Samual BonannoBroden KellyZachary RuaneMax MillerTom ArmstrongSam Lingham Similar Matt Okine, Max Miller, Sammy J, Arj Barker, Tommy Little | ||
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Aunty Donna is an Australian absurdist sketch comedy troupe from Melbourne. The group consists of Mark Samual Bonanno, Broden Kelly and Zachary Ruane as writers and performers, director/writer Sam Lingham, filmmaker Max Miller and musician Tom Armstrong. Adrian Dean is a former member, in the capacity of writer and performer. They have performed at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Melbourne Fringe Festival. In 2015, they were one of five comedy groups chosen as part of ABC and Screen Australia's Fresh Blood Pilot Season joint initiative.
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History
The group originally formed in 2011 when they met at the University of Ballarat's Arts Academy.
In 2012, their debut show, Aunty Donna in Pantsuits, was nominated for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Golden Gibbo Award, and their second show, Aunty Donna and the Fax Machine Shop, debuted at the 2012 Melbourne Fringe Festival winning the People's Choice Award.
In December 2012, they created Aunty Donna's Rumpus Room, a seven-part web series which originally aired on C31 Melbourne and then on their YouTube channel, which has more than 8 million total views.
2014 saw the group's third live show, World's Greatest Showbag, debut at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, as well as a Best Of live show that debuted the group internationally at both SF Sketchfest and Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
In 2015, their self-titled live show toured around Australia at Adelaide Fringe Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and in Sydney as well as the UK at Edinburgh, Soho Theatre and in Dartmouth. They created Aunty Donna, a half-hour television pilot for the ABC and Screen Australia as part of the Fresh Blood Pilot Season comedy initiative, as well as 1999, a ten-part web series exclusively for YouTube as part of Screen Australia and Google’s Skip Ahead funding, which was released in early 2016.
