Bridie Connell is an award-winning writer and multi-disciplinary performer, having extensive experience and training in acting, comedy, voice artistry and musical theatre.
Bridie is a former NSW and National Theatresports Champion, as well as a 2015 World Theatresports Championship finalist for her home country, New Zealand. She performs regularly at the Giant Dwarf Theatre as part of the ITS Soap Opera and is one half of multi-award-winning improv duo MotherFather with Tom Walker.
An avid writer, Bridie has written and performed several one-act plays, which have toured to great success across Australia and New Zealand. Her solo show Natural Habitat was an official selection of Sydney Fresh! Comedy as part of Sydney Comedy Festival, a program which handpicks the best emerging talent from across Australia. Most recently, Bridie has had two comedy scripts commissioned by Insert Coin, the Screen Australia-funded online sketch show aimed at video gamers.
Bridie was a cast member of the Australian version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? which premiered on Foxtel's The Comedy Channel in 2016 and screened on Network TEN in 2017.
Bridie made her Melbourne International Comedy Festival debut with Player in 2017, which also enjoyed a hugely successful season at the Sydney Comedy Festival. She appeared on True Story with Hamish & Andy on the Nine Network and was one of the four reporters on the ABC Comedy show Tonightly With Tom Ballard.
More recently her web series Gut Feeling, which she co-wrote and acts in, has won a string of awards on the WebFest circuit including Best Comedic Performance (Minnesota WebFest), Best Lead Performance (Toronto WebFest). She also starred in the web series Resting Pitch Face, available to watch on YouTube, and appeared in the feature film Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie's Dead Aunt).
