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Rod Quantock is one of the reasons that Melbourne is the live comedy capital of Australia. As a pioneer of stand up comedy, Rod has more than thirty years experience working in cabaret, theatre, television, radio, advertising and the corporate sector. For an old boy, Rod is still doing extremely well, thank you very much. His live shows are predictably box office hits at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and the Adelaide Fringe Festival and he is an evergreen favourite at corporate events. He most recently won the Director's Choice Award (2012) at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

The truly remarkable thing about Rod is that for more than thirty years he has remained a contemporary stand up comedian, evolving and staying at the forefront of the craft. His contribution to Australian cultural life was rewarded when he received the Individual Award at the 2004 Sydney Myer Performing Arts Awards, putting him in the company of such arts luminaries as Geoffrey Rush, Robyn Nevin, Nick Enright, Lucy Guerin & Paul Grabowsky. That he continues to build new, younger audiences all the time is testament to possibly the most impressive career in Australian comedy.

“A living Melbourne treasure”
The Age, Melbourne

“Sophisticated satire, unpretentious, daffy. His easy rambling fills the stage. Clever, simple and acid... a comedian for thinkers.”
The Melbourne Times

“A gloriously shambling style, punctuated by sudden gags and proposals of Swiftian excess... He is the archetypal wise fool adrift in a dark & dangerous world.”
The Australian

“For sheer cheek and inventiveness, the amazing Rod Quantock must take the honours. Bizarre, fresh, theatrically dangerous, unpredictable”
The Guardian, London

“wit, warmth & aplomb... wise, scary, funny.”
The Age, Melbourne

“We walked away entertained, reflective and finally, amazed. If you only see one comedy show this year, make it Sunrise Boulevard.”
Daily Telegraph, Sydney

“We walked away entertained, reflective and finally, amazed. If you only see one comedy show this year, make it Sunrise Boulevard."
Daily Telegraph, Sydney

“Quantock is hilarious, accessible & passionate.” - Herald Sun
"He’s the thinking audience’s comic – holing it in absolute fascination. His ability to maintain several through-lines throughout the show holds everything together in near perfection. You must see him."
The Adelaide Advertiser

"…always funny, intelligent and socially responsible"
Herald Sun, Melbourne

“Rod Quantock is still our best political comedian. He may simply be our best comedian."
Herald Sun

“This show has huge belly-laughs, but it is often so close to the truth of the mad events in our world at present that we laugh with an ache. Quantock’s show is about learning and laughing. Go now”
Herald Sun

“Quantock is the master of comedy as social criticism”
The Sunday Age, Melbourne

“Bus is the most chaotic, unplanned fun you can have. Take a friend. Take a camera. Take the risk."
The Age, Melbourne

“Rod Quantock is an extremely sophisticated comedian
at the height of his craft.”
The Adelaide Advertiser


Live Shows

2011 The Insane Asylum (You’re Standing In it)
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
2011 Court in the Act
Melbourne
2010

The People We Should Eat First (And How To Cook Them)
Melbourne International Comedy Festival

2010 In The Beginning: A Walking Tour Of The Birth Of Melbourne Comedy
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
2009

Bugger The Polar Bears, This is Serious – Solo Show
Trades Hall, Melbourne

2009 Rod Quantock Eats Himself – Solo Show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
2008

Last Man Standing
Solo Show
Trades Hall, Melbourne

2008 2050 AD The Musical
Solo Show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
2007

The John Howard Farewell Party
Solo Show
Canberra, Melbourne

2007 anconvenientlie
Solo Show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
2007 Hand In Bloody Hand: The John & Janette Story
Solo Show
Adelaide Fringe Festival
2007 Court in the Act - Solo Show
Melbourne
2006 The Annual Report - Solo Show
Regional Arts Victoria National Tour, Tasmanian Regional Arts Tour
2006

Rod Quantock's Australia! - Solo Show
Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival

2005 Demockracy - Solo Show
Melbourne
2005 A Brief History Of The End Of The World
Solo Show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
2004 Howard On Ice: The Musical - Solo Show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Changing Regimes - Solo Show
Adelaide Fringe
2003 The Axis Of Stupidity - Solo Show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Darwin Festival
Sun, Sex & Sydition - Solo Show
Big Laugh Comedy Festival - Parramatta
2002 Scum Nation - Solo Show
Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Boredom Protection Policy - Solo Show
Melbourne
Bus - Solo Show
Big Laugh Comedy Festival - Parramatta, Melbourne
2001 Lest We Forget: An Inquiry Into Police, Politics & Protest - Solo Show Melbourne
The Rodtacular - Solo Show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival (Celebrating Rod's 30 Years in Comedy)
2000 Utopia - Solo Show
Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival
1999 Eureka - A Blueprint For The Revolution - Solo Show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
A Major Event: The Final Report of the Comedian General into the State of Victoria - Solo Show
Melbourne
1998 Crown Of Thorns - Solo Show
Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Harold Park Hotel - Sydney, Return Melbourne Season
Double Dissolution - Solo Show
Melbourne
1997 Sunrise Boulevard - Solo Show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Adelaide, Return Melbourne Season, Harold Park Hotel - Sydney 1998
Happy Birthday Jesus - Ensemble Show
Melbourne
1996 Bus: A Moving Experience - Solo Show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
1988 Rod Quantock Inflates - Solo Show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Bus - Solo Show
Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Bus was specially chosen by the Australian Bicentennial Authority to represent Australia at the Edinburgh Festival)
1981 Bus, Son Of Tram - Solo Show
Melbourne. Return Melbourne Seasons 1982, 1984. Sydney 1983.
Melbourne International Comedy Festival 1986
1980 Tram - Solo Show
Melbourne
** Various shows between 1973 & 1980, both solo and group devised with Mary Kennealley, Stephen Blackburn & Geoff Brooks, at Melbourne's pioneer comedy venues The Comedy Cafe & Banana Lounge, Fiobles Theatre Restaurant, The Flying Trapeze Cafe, The Last Laugh and The Pram Factory.

**Rod has also toured his stand-up show, Bugger The Polar Bears, This is Serious to dozens of regional venues and sustainable living festivals across the country.

Television

2006 ABC-TV Enough Rope with Andrew Denton
(Interview)
2006 SBS Insight (Guest Appearance)
2006 Comedy Channel Stand Up! Australia
(StandUp Appearance)
2005 ABC-TV Talking Heads (Interview)
2004
ABC-TV Stand Up! (Stand Up Appearance)
2003
Network TEN GNW Debate (Adjudicator)
2002
Network TEN GNW Debate (Adjudicator)
2001
ABC-TV


Network TEN

ABC-TV
The Glass House
(Development Consultant)

GNW Debate (Debater)

The Peoplescape Concert

Celebrating Centenary of Australian Federation
(Solo Sketch Appearances x 2)
1999/00 ABC-TV Backberner (Head Writer)
2000 ABC-TV One Size Fits All
(Producer & Writer)
1999 ABC-TV Standing Up (Interviewer)
1998/01 ABC-TV Comedy Unit
Script consultant & Associate Producer
1997/00 ABC-TV/Network TEN Good News Week
(Regular Panellist)
1997 Nine Network Melbourne International
Comedy Festival Gala

(Stand Up Appearance)
1996 Seven Network Denton (Writer)
1990 Seven Network Lift Off (Writer)
1989 - 90 ABC-TV The Big Gig
(Writer & Stand Up
Appearances x 2)
1989 Seven Network Fast Forward
(Associate Producer/Script Editor)
1986 ABC-TV Book Program (Host)
1983/84 ABC-TV Australia You're Standing In It
(Cast Member & Writer)
1981 Network TEN Ratbags (Cast Member & Writer)
1976 ABC-TV The Razzle Dazzle Revue
(Writer & Performer)

Corporate

Various clients such as AMP, the Australian Bicentennial Authority, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, the Department of Premier & Cabinet (Victoria), IBM, Kraft Foods, NAB, Privacy Victoria & Red Tulip Chocolates to name just a few.


Awards

2012
Winner of the Director's Choice Award at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
2004
Winner of the Sydney Myer Performing Arts Award (Individual Award).
2003
Nominated for the Barry Award for the best show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
1997
Winner of the Green Room Award for Best Fringe Performance for Sunrise Boulevard. This is the first time a comedian has won this prestigious award
1999
Nominated for the Campus Activities Victoria Best Comedy Act Award


Other Notable Work

- Rod has been a founding member on the Melbourne International Comedy Festival board, a consultant to the Melbourne Moomba Festival and a member of the Arts Committee of the Bicentennial BHP Awards For Excellence

- Rod opened and operated The Comedy Café & Banana Lounge along with comedy cohorts Mary Kenneally, Geoff Brooks & Stephen Blackburn

- Rod wrote a column for The Sunday Age between 1989 and 1994. Lothian Books published a compilation of these columns in 1999 called Double Dissolution

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Updated: March 2011



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