AUSTRALIA!!! Thank you so much for having me at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival!! Presented by MICF and Hannah Gadsby! Produced by Jenney Shamash! Directed by Lara Ricote!!

Fresh off a four-week NYC Off-Broadway run produced by Jenney Shamash(Hannah Gadsby: Douglas, Something Special, WOOF!), Mike & Carlee Productions (Broadway’s Oh, Mary!) and Ally Engelberg (The Other Two, Just For Us), and sell out runs in LA, London and Edinburgh I had just the best time in Australia! Sold it all out! Added shows! Got nominated for Most Outstanding Show along with my friends including Lara Ricote’s beautiful show Inkling that I directed!! And she directed mine!!! How sweet and how cute!! I also got a staff discount from the guy who worked at the Puzzle store! Honestly I had the best time!!

WINNER
2024 ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards: Best Newcomer
2024 European Comedy Awards: Best Show
2024 Theatre Weekly: Best of the Fest, Best Comedy
2024 On The Mic: Best Ticketed Show

NOMINEE
2024 Edinburgh Comedy Awards: Best Newcomer
2024 Comedian’s Choice Awards: Best Newcomer
2024 Next Up: Biggest Award in Comedy: Best Show

2025 Chortle Awards: Best Newcomer

2026 Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Most Outstanding Show

'Sheer genius… I did not want this show to end.'★★★★★ Broadway World (UK)

'A joyous romp through the inner workings of a brilliant mind.'★★★★★ Theatre Weekly

'A masterpiece of construction.' ★★★★ The Guardian (UK)

'Hits each comic beat perfectly.' ★★★★ Chortle (UK)

'Bursts with creativity and unexpectedness.' ★★★★ The Observer (UK)

'Utterly charming.'  ★★★★ The Telegraph (UK)

'Delightfully joyful, honest and vulnerable.' Forbes

'One of the most inventive comedy shows of the theatre season.' New York Theatre Guide

ABBY WHO-MBAUGH??

ABBY WAMBAUGH is a multi award-winning American comedian, writer and improviser who lives in Copenhagen and regularly performs in the UK. Abby debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2024, winning Best Newcomer in the Jones ISH Comedy Awards, Best Show in the European Comedy Awards, and Best Comedy in the Theatre Weekly Fringe Awards. Abby was also nominated for Melboune International Comedy Festival Most Outstanding Show, Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Newcomer, Comedian’s Choice Best Newcomer, NextUp’s Biggest Award in Comedy and Best Newcomer at the 2025 Chortle Awards. Abby has a BA in Humor and Social Change, and was an Autumn 2021 Resident of St. Nells Humor Writing Residency (run by New Yorker cartoonist and comedian Emily Flake).