Kitty Flanagan

At school Kitty was a small, stick like child with very large front teeth and fuzzy hair. Nothing much has changed.

After several attempts at university, studying things as diverse as Spanish, Poetry and P.E teaching, the government introduced HECS and the free ride was over. No more enrolling for a semester of tertiary good times then dropping out.

Advertising beckoned because it was the job that paid the most money for the least amount of qualifications. She fooled them for a while, then she got fired.

Then she tried doing stand up. Kitty Flanagan is one of Australia’s best-known comedians. She has played clubs and theatres all over the world and tours Australia relentlessly, taking her award-winning stand-up shows to regional arts centres and theatres everywhere.Kitty is a writer and performer, and can be seen regularly on the comedy/quiz show, Have You Been Paying Attention? She is also co-writer, co-director, and star of the hit comedy series Fisk on the ABC, which recently won two AACTA awards for Best Comedy Performer and Best Narrative Comedy as well as a 2022 Silver Logie Award for Most Popular Actress. She played Rhonda, the annoying PR woman, that everybody loved to hate on the highly acclaimed series, Utopia. Her segments on The Project and The Weekly with Charlie Pickering are still some of the shows’ most popular clips with millions of views on Youtube.

Her best-selling book 488 Rules for Life won multiple awards, including Australian Book of the Year.  To date it has sold over 150,000 copies and is still selling well. Following this success, the world changed, and Kitty realised she had more work to do and more rules to give and released the perfect companion volume, More Rules for Life – another bestseller.

Kitty lives with her cat, two dogs and an awesome mandarin tree. Her favourite food is soup – currently in rotation are a gorgeous carrot, butterbean & coconut delight, a comforting fennel & brown rice crowd-pleaser and a creamy, red lentil & roasted capsicum bowl of deliciousness. Feel free to hit her up for a recipe anytime.

“…layer upon layer of magic, making this show a joyful, side-splitting wonder” ★★★★★ Herald Sun Melbourne

“Kitty Flanagan will have you in stitches from the moment she walks on the stage.” ★★★★ Adelaide Advertiser

“If you’ve seen Flanagan on The Project and Good News Week you’ll have an idea of what to expect but she’s even better – and faster – live.” The Independent Weekly