Naomi Higgins

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Naomi Higgins
Occupations
  • Writer
  • performer
  • comedian
  • Twitch streamer
Years active2016–present
Known forComedy entertainment
Notable work Why Are You Like This
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Channel
Years active2020-2022
Followers3.9 thousand
Last updated: 12 June 2022

Naomi Higgins is an Australian writer, performer, comedian, influencer, and former Twitch streamer. She wrote and starred in Why Are You Like This , for which she won an AWGIE comedy award.

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Early life

Higgins has a double degree in science and engineering. She dreamed of being a stand up comedian from a young age. [1]

Career

Higgins was a 2016 Raw Comedy National Finalist. [2] Danielle Walker, the 2016 Raw Comedy National Winner, co-hosts the podcast Batch Bitch alongside Higgins. [3]

Higgins co-hosts the online video game review show Gamey Gamey Game, [4] along with Evan Munro-Smith and Ben Russell.

In 2021, Higgins' TV show Why Are You Like This was released in Australia by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and internationally by Netflix. [5] She co-wrote the series with Humyara Mahbub and Mark Bonanno, and starred as Penny, a younger version of herself. [5] Higgins and her co-writers won the Comedy - Situation or Narrative category at the 54th Annual AWGIE Awards in 2021 for their work on Why Are You Like This. [6]

Filmography

Television

YearTitleRole
2017 The Aunty Donna Live Spooktacular Self
2017 Gocsy's Classics Amy
2017-2019 Utopia Sacha
2018-2021 Why Are You Like This Penny
2020 YOLO: Crystal Fantasy Maddison

References

  1. ↑ "Why Are You Like This". YASS Magazine. 27 April 2021. Archived from the original on 7 August 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  2. ↑ "2016 RAW Comedy National Grand Final". Raw Comedy . 2016. Archived from the original on 7 March 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  3. ↑ "Naomi Higgins". Wheeler Centre . Archived from the original on 7 August 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  4. ↑ "ABC's Why Are You Like This Is Your New Aussie Gen Z Obsession". Girlfriend . 23 February 2021. Archived from the original on 7 August 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  5. 1 2 Martin, Josh (19 February 2021). "INTERVIEW: Naomi Higgins Talks Her New ABC Comedy 'Why Are You Like This'". MTV Australia . Archived from the original on 11 April 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  6. ↑ "Writers of Cursed!, The Dry, New Gold Mountain, The Great and Nitram among winners at the 54th Annual AWGIE Awards". Australian Writers' Guild . 8 December 2021. Archived from the original on 25 March 2022. Retrieved 29 January 2022. Other 2021 AWGIE Award winners: ... Mark Bonanno, Naomi Higgins and Humyara Mahbub won the Comedy – Situation or Narrative category for Why Are You Like This [original emphasis]
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