Coffee and Conversation with Zoë Coombs Marr and Rhys Nicholson
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Coffee and Conversation
Zoë Coombs Marr and Rhys Nicholson
When
11am-12pm
Where
Market Hall
Building 189
The University of Melbourne
761 Swanston St, Parkville VIC 3052
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Zoë Coombs Marr and Rhys Nicholson have been friends for over a decade, and in 2016 were married at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in the lead up to the same-sex marriage plebiscite.
The marriage didn’t work out.
Now, for UMAC’s Coffee and Conversation, these two gay divorcees reunite to talk about the things they actually do love: the books, performances, divas and legends that have inspired their creative journeys.
Presented by University of Melbourne Arts and Culture in partnership with Readings.
Tickets
This is a free event but bookings are required.
Coffee provided by Standing Room
Coffee can be purchased at the venue for a gold coin donation.
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
You can catch Zoë and Rhys’s new shows at this year’s Festival — Everything Single Thing In My Whole Entire Life and Huge Big Party Congratulations.
Cast & Creatives
Zoë Coombs Marr
Zoë Coombs Marr is a performer, writer, artist and comedian who makes intersectional feminism funny. She is one-third of the contemporary performance company post, and has performed stand-up comedy extensively in Australia, the UK and the US, sometimes as a retrograde male comedian named Dave. Most recently Zoë created, wrote and hosted ABC TV’s Queerstralia, a fascinating look into the untold LGBTQIA+ history of Australia.
Rhys Nicholson
Rhys Nicholson has become a familiar face on screens around the world, appearing on Taskmaster, The Imperfects and as a regular judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under in addition to their very own Netflix special. Off screen, Rhys’s stand-up career has sent them across the globe, and in between all that they’ve also co-opened a new comedy venue and released their first book, Dish: Spiels, Scoops, Emotional Outbursts and the Occasional Recipe.
Zoë Coombs Marr and Rhys Nicholson have been friends for over a decade, and in 2016 were married at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in the lead up to the same-sex marriage plebiscite.
The marriage didn’t work out.
Now, for UMAC’s Coffee and Conversation, these two gay divorcees reunite to talk about the things they actually do love: the books, performances, divas and legends that have inspired their creative journeys.
Presented by University of Melbourne Arts and Culture in partnership with Readings.
Cast & Creatives
Zoë Coombs Marr
Zoë Coombs Marr is a performer, writer, artist and comedian who makes intersectional feminism funny. She is one-third of the contemporary performance company post, and has performed stand-up comedy extensively in Australia, the UK and the US, sometimes as a retrograde male comedian named Dave. Most recently Zoë created, wrote and hosted ABC TV’s Queerstralia, a fascinating look into the untold LGBTQIA+ history of Australia.
Rhys Nicholson
Rhys Nicholson has become a familiar face on screens around the world, appearing on Taskmaster, The Imperfects and as a regular judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under in addition to their very own Netflix special. Off screen, Rhys’s stand-up career has sent them across the globe, and in between all that they’ve also co-opened a new comedy venue and released their first book, Dish: Spiels, Scoops, Emotional Outbursts and the Occasional Recipe.