BRIDIE CONNELL

Bridie Connell is a multi award-winning writer and performer. She has written and performed three oneact plays which have been performed across Australia
and New Zealand.

She won the award for Best Screenplay and Best Series at Sydney Webfest for
her work on the proof-of-concept webseries Gut Feeling, and was nominated for a host of other awards at various festivals. The series has since been picked up by ABC Iview.

Bridie was a writer and actor on Tonightly with Tom Ballard, and a song she cowrote for the show won the 2018 ARIA for Best Comedy Release.

Bridie’s first play was the winning entry in a high school writing competition. It
toured around her native New Zealand to 25,000 high schoolers, and was just
about the most melodramatic thing she’s ever written (as you can probably tell
from the title: Fallen Tears). Thankfully, she’s improved since then.

Bridie is also an in-demand performer: recent acting credits include We Interrupt
this Broadcast, The Moth Effect, Ellie and Abbie (and Ellie’s Dead Aunt), Pieces
of Her, Darryl: from Beach to Snow, Tonightly with Tom Ballard, True Story with Hamish and Andy, Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia and The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill. Bridie is a former national improv champion and a regular fixture in the comedy rooms of Sydney with her unique blend of character, music and improv comedy.