Komedia New Comedy Award
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
COMIC BOOM COMEDY CLUB AND VICTORIA NANGLE
Since 2020 the Komedia New Comedy Award in association with the award-winning Comic Boom Comedy Club and Arts Journalist Victoria Nangle has been championing rising original comic voices.
The award is open to comedians who have been gigging regularly for less than three years but have not won any major comedy competition.
The awards took a break in 2021 and 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
WINNERS
MICHAEL CAMPUZANO (2026)
SYDNEY MAY (2025)
ANDREW FOX (2024)
SAM WILLIAMS (2023)
MICHAEL AKADIRI (2020)
RUNNERS-UP
2026 – SHANNON ONG, ORO ROSE, (MICHAEL CAMPUZANO – WINNER), GEORGE HARVEY
2025 – WES DEFOE, (SYDNEY MAY – WINNER), AIDEN LONERGAN
2024 – JAMES DANIELEWSKI, (ANDREW FOX – WINNER), AMELIA HAMILTON, MATTHEW ALI
2023 – (SAM WILLIAMS – WINNER), DAMAN BAMRAH, SHALAKA KURUP, JACK SKIPPER
2020 – FRAN KISSLING, (MICHAEL AKADIRI – WINNER), DINESH NATHAN, WILL ROBBINS
ALL IMAGES (C) JAMES ENNIS PHOTOGRAPHY
