Tom Walker is an Australian comedian, podcaster and Twitch streamer.
Career
Walker trained in clowning at the
École Philippe Gaulier
Philippe Gaulier (born in Paris, 4 March 1943) is a French master clown, pedagogue, and professor of theatre. He is the founder of École Philippe Gaulier, a prestigious French theatre school in Étampes, outside Paris. He studied under Jacques ...
. His
improv
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*Improvisation, an act of spontaneous invention
** Improvisational theatre (includes improvisational comedy)
**Musical improvisation
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awards include the 2007 Sydney School Theatresports Cup (Senior Division) and 2011 National Theatresports Championship.
He won the
Melbourne International Comedy Festival's ''Best Newcomer'' and ''Director's Choice'' awards in 2016 for his show ''Beep Boop''
and appeared in ''
Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia''. His show ''Bee Boo'' was nominated in the category of ''Best Show'' for the 2017
Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award
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It has been awarded ...
. Walker was long-listed for the 2021
AACTA Awards.
His 2019 show ''Very Very'', directed by
Zoë Coombs Marr, was picked up as an Amazon Prime special and released in May 2020.
Walker and his partner
Demi Lardner's 2019 show ''We Mustn't'' won the Sydney Comedy Festival's Directors Choice award in 2019. They also co-host the podcast ''bigsofttitty.png''.
References
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Living people
Australian stand-up comedians
Australian male comedians
Australian podcasters
Year of birth missing (living people)