Jun 25, 2026 · 36 min · 10 segments
How long does it take to build a world-class arts program? House of Oz has been championing and supporting Australian artists for the past five years, and has become one of the standout producers at…
Claire RobinGuest
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So let's just start out with talking a little bit about your journey as an artist.
So as we read in your bio, you kind of started out like a lot of theater kids studying theater, but then you got into improv and standup and comedy.
So what took you from kind of like the traditional theater model into the comedy arena? Yeah.
I guess during acting school and after that, I always knew that I resonated more with comedic roles.
Like that's where I really came alive and had kind of like the most effect on the audience, I think.
And so after acting school, after a couple of years, I decided to just try a few open mics and really wanted to do like sketch comedy and just did a smattering of experimenting and And I bought this like little kids kind of janky little keyboard and taught myself some little kind of ditties that I would then write songs to and try them out.
I just remember one night in an open mic in Sydney and I got up and someone yelled out, Not another girl.
And then so I got up there and said, not another dumb bogan, which is an Australian term.
The connotation is uneducated or like Australian kind of like, oh, yeah, mate, kind of person.
There's like a couple of terms in the US we would either call you a dumbass or if you're in the South, you might be called a redneck.
Look, I couldn't see him, but I definitely had the audience on side, like from that moment.
So let's just start out with talking a little bit about your journey as an artist.
So as we read in your bio, you kind of started out like a lot of theater kids studying theater, but then you got into improv and standup and comedy.
So what took you from kind of like the traditional theater model into the comedy arena? Yeah.
I guess during acting school and after that, I always knew that I resonated more with comedic roles.
Like that's where I really came alive and had kind of like the most effect on the audience, I think.
And so after acting school, after a couple of years, I decided to just try a few open mics and really wanted to do like sketch comedy and just did a smattering of experimenting and And I bought this like little kids kind of janky little keyboard and taught myself some little kind of ditties that I would then write songs to and try them out.
I just remember one night in an open mic in Sydney and I got up and someone yelled out, Not another girl.
And then so I got up there and said, not another dumb bogan, which is an Australian term.
The connotation is uneducated or like Australian kind of like, oh, yeah, mate, kind of person.
There's like a couple of terms in the US we would either call you a dumbass or if you're in the South, you might be called a redneck.
Look, I couldn't see him, but I definitely had the audience on side, like from that moment.
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