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Cassie Workman is an Australian comedian from Perth, Western Australia. In 2009, she was the winner of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Raw Comedy competition and was sent to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. [1] She then performed a number of successful shows at festivals around Australia during the early to mid-2010s, including Ave Loretta, War, We Have Fun Don't We and Nothing You Do Means Anything. [2] She has also written for Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell and Aaron Chen Tonight . [3]

Workman is a transgender woman, having come out in 2017. [4] [2] The ABC podcast The Signal documented her quest to save money for gender-affirming surgery, which was also featured in a 2018 feature article on "The hidden $100,000 price tag on being transgender". [5] She contributed a regular segment entitled "So You Think You Can Trans" on Tonightly with Tom Ballard , and in 2019 toured a show about her transition entitled Giantess. [6]

In 2022, she performed Aberdeen, a show about Kurt Cobain. She told NME she considered him a "queer icon" and was inspired to name the show after his home town of Aberdeen, Washington after travelling there "because it explained so much about him". [7] The Guardian called the show "a darkly beautiful hour of spoken word... a sad and sorry voyage around Cobain’s stomping ground", [8] In 2023, she provided the voice of trans filmmaker Betty Palmer in the Alice Maio Mackay film T Blockers . [9]

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  4. ↑ "Cassie Workman tells love stories to fund her transition". Frooty. 2023. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  5. ↑ Lavoipierre, Angela (2 March 2018). "The hidden $100,000 price tag on being transgender". ABC. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  6. ↑ Cahill, Mikey (11 April 2019). "Transgender comedian Cassie Workman reveals deeply personal transition in 2019 Melbourne comedy festival show". The Herald Sun. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  7. ↑ Trendell, Andrew (8 December 2023). "Kurt Cobain "made a huge difference to how the LGBTQ+ community was perceived," says writer of new play". NME. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
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  9. ↑ Bitel, Anton (30 July 2023). "T Blockers review at Fantasia: Monstrous metamovie explores trans experience". SciFi Now. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
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