Supper Club

The festival Supper Club, hosted by the magnificent Nancy Denis (Ma’p Boulé), showcases hot new works in two tasty variety nights. Join us for snippets of scripts where blood-magic and reality collide, stories that point a crooked finger at the modern body positivity movement and, of course, a comedy with a ChatGPT theory session.

 Featuring new works from Erica Brennan, Geneva Valek, Kate Bubalo, Pratha Nagpal, Tiffany Wong and Youssef Sabet. Book early to avoid disappointment as Supper Club is sure to sell-out quick smart.

Thursday 26 June & Thursday 3 July – 8.30pm
Different Programme each night
All tickets include supper

Hosted by Nancy Denis

Help Me, ChatGPT </3 by Tiffany Wong
A single gal conducts a dating experiment using ChatGPT and the audience as test subjects. The only problem? She’s also the guinea pig. Meet Tiffany: she’s not a comedian, but a self-proclaimed scientist, hopeless romantic, and now the enthusiastic test subject in her own AI-powered love experiment. After months of using ChatGPT as her unofficial therapist, she’s promoting it to research assistant – and together, they’re on a mission to find her soulmate from the audience. With ChatGPT’s help, Tiffany is diving into the unpredictable world of love, using data and storytelling to see if AI can truly crack the code of compatibility.

Remarkable Realisation of Ricky’s Modern Life by Erica Brennan
A breath taking exploration of legacy, motherhood, and the unseen forces that shape us, The Remarkable Realisation of Ricky’s Modern Life invites audiences into a world where memory, blood-magic, and reality collide. As Ricky, a visionary urban planner, records the story of her life, strange interruptions unravel the truth she’s fought to control—until she’s confronted with a reckoning she never saw coming. Lyrical, thought-provoking, and deeply imaginative, this spellbinding monologue asks:  if legacy isn’t found in bloodlines, what do we leave behind that truly matters?”

Hey Simon! by Kate Bubalo
Lovebirds Aj and Amber live in domestic bliss, eagerly planning their upcoming wedding. However, their third wheel Simon the AI home assistant, begins to shed light on the cracks in their relationship; or is he creating these cracks himself? This story is a meditation on the male gaze and digital panopticons. As we increasingly rely on technology to live our lives, it begs the question: is there such a thing as a private space anymore? And when women have always been haunted by the unseen eye of patriarchal expectation, it poses another question: is this feeling even new for women?

Hosted by Nancy Denis

The Ozempic Diaries by Geneva Valek
When a mother is forced to move into her daughter’s share house, will the two be able to survive their deep divides on everything from the correct way to use a tea towel to whether Peter Dutton is actually a lizard in a flesh suit, or will they literally rip each other’s hair out in the cockroach-filled kitchen? The Ozempic Diaries points a crooked finger at the modern body positivity movement and asks us to question everything we’ve come to think about the reality of plus-size living and politics

The Juggling Act by Youssef Sabet
Written and performed by Egyptian Australian writer/performer Youssef Sabet, The Juggling Act is an entirely true (but possibly fictional) autobiography of Sabet’s life. Deftly mixing storytelling and stand-up comedy this solo work charts the highs and lows of being a first gen Aussie and Sabet’s path to self-acceptance.

Azadi by Pratha Nagpal
1947 is known to be a pivotal year in Indian history. It is the year that some may say India gains Azadi from the British Rule and is divided in two nations. It’s a violent affair. No one talks about it. In this new work by Pratha Nagpal we meet Qala, an Indian Hindu who is taught one thing – she cannot marry a Muslim man and Veer, a Pakistani Muslim who is taught the opposite – no Hindu women. Their fated love demands answers to questions they would never have faced otherwise. Will their love free them? What if it can’t? Do they still try? In each lifetime?

Erica J Brennan is a writer, living on Gadigal Land. She is a proud Gamillaroi woman and grew up on the beautiful country of the Gundengurra and Darug (Blue Mountains). Her full length works include ‘This In Not Mills & Bon (2017 Old 505) and The Hero Leaves One Tooth (2023 Ratcatch Theatre/ KXT on Broadway). She has develop work with The ABC, AFTRS, Elbow Room Theatre, First Stories Festival, and Critical Stages. Her work Jurassic Bark! received a highly commended for the Griffin award in 2024 and her work ‘Fortress’ was shortlisted for the Silver Gull in the same year.

Kate Bubalo is a writer and dramaturg who is based on the land of the Gadigal and Wangal people. She recently completed her MFA in Writing for Performance at NIDA in 2023. Kate honed her writing skills through devising and performing sketch comedy, starting with her involvement in Sydney University’s Women’s and Arts Revue. She has also appeared in various independent shows in the Sydney Comedy Festival and Sydney Fringe Festival. Her play, ‘[Your Name]‘, was shortlisted for the Griffin Award in 2023 and was part of KXT’s 2024 season. As a child of the internet, Kate’s work often interrogates preconceptions of how the internet has shaped our world and culture, and her extensive background in writing and performing comedy is a driving force for getting to the authentic heart of her stories.

Nancy Denis is a multidisciplinary artist and stand up comic who has graced the Australian stage, television and Film. Such accolades include Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, Netflix’s 600 Battles of Wine, Sydney Theatre Company’s Raisin in the Sun, Ensemble theatre Clyde’s and much more. This year she has embarked upon a national tour of her play with songs Ma’p Boulé produced by Performing Lines written, created and starring herself. If you happen to be in Queanbeyan in August catch her performing in Ma’p Boule or on stages around Sydney doing her stand up comedy.

Pratha Nagpal is a director, writer, activist and a passionate theatremaker working on unceded indigenous land. Pratha’s arts practice is deeply inspired by BIPOC stories and art. Being a first-generation immigrant, she deeply understands the need for art that centres BIPOC voices, in both the stories that are being told, and the process undertaken to tell these stories. In 2023, she Assistant Directed Constellations at STC directed by Ian Michael. She also Assistant Directed Sunderella, a queer Bollywood twist to Cinderella, programmed for World Pride 2023 and Directed by Bali Padda. She is the recipient of the TheatreLab Residency at The Q Theatre for 2023 and is currently creating a new work named Aurat Raj (The Woman’s Rule) which explores invisibility of BIPOC women. Aurat Raj was programmed as part of the Belvoir 25A program in 2024.

Youssef Sabet is an Egyptian Australian actor and comedian who is a graduate of The Atlantic Acting School, New York City. Youssef is passionate about telling stories that humanise the Arab experience and disprove racial stereotypes. His other stage credits include Karim (National Theatre of Parramatta), We Did It (Flightpath Theatre), Cosi (CGA Theatre Project); I Know When To Go Out And When To Stay In (The Balcony Arts); Bad Coffee (The Australian Theatre Festival in New York) and The Second Son (Big Red Films).  His TV/ Film credits include Nowhere Boys (Matchbox Pictures); Fake (Paramount+) Neighbours (Fremantle Media) and Another Brick in The Wall (By Dayne Sagor).

Geneva Valek is a queer playwright and prose writer who aims to illuminate the humour and magic of the everyday while exploring themes like class, plus-size politics and feminism. Her work has been performed at Queerstories and Sydney Writers Festival, and published in the Star Observer, Zinewest, Writing Parramatta and many more.

Tiffany Wong is an artist whose quest for love is almost as dramatic as her theatre career. While the NY Post was busy covering her viral dating Google Form and Body & Soul documented her wedding where she married her degree, she somehow found the time to work as an associate & assistant director at Bell Shakespeare, Ensemble Theatre, NTofP, Sydney Theatre Company, and star in Amazon MGM Studio’s Five Blind Dates on Prime Video. The Artistic Director of Slanted Theatre champions Asian-Australian storytellers. Usually spotted adorned in pink, Tiffany is perpetually seeking Swifties to trade friendship bracelets with while defiantly clutching her flip phone and iPod in 2025.