:: asher treleaven::

Asher spent his early years sat in the back of an army green panel van driving up and down the east coast of Australia he attended Woodburn public school and when he wasn’t getting into trouble for being the class dick he was exploring the 200 hectare sugar cane farm his family lived on. He attended Mullumbimby High School and was promptly kicked out of Drama class in year 8 for being ‘a total idiot’ not exactly the most promising start in show business.

After Asher slunk out of high school he packed his bags moved to Melbourne and attempted to enrol in a pilot course for the National Institute of Circus Arts. Asher had very little skill and only managed to get into the school by telling the judging panel that they needed people like him who were terrible but wanted a career in the circus. Asher studied and trained at NICA for two years and completed two Diplomas in the carnie arts. After he graduated Asher moonlighted with the world renowned La Clique, (now Le Soiree).

In 2006, 5 years after he graduated from NICA Asher moved to London, met Robin Ince and was inducted into the infamous Book Club. There he found himself working alongside comedians like Josie Long, Stewart Lee and Robin Ince and in this environment of incomprehensible mentalness he flourished. Asher toured throughout England with Ince’s Book club for the entire year he lived in London and it was during this time that he began his first tentative avant-garde steps into comedy.

Since that time Asher has written 4 solo comedy shows CELLAR DOOR, OPEN DOOR, SECRET DOOR and MATADOR performed at comedy festivals all over Australia and been a regular at the Edinburgh Fringe since 2007. In 2009 with the assistance of a Moosehead Grant he performed OPEN DOOR, which was his first critical success with a nomination for a Barry Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Then in 2010 SECRET DOOR went gangbusters the show investigated the idea of manliness from Asher’s own perspective as a preening fop. It won the Age Newspapers Critics’ Award and garnered Asher a Best Newcomer Nomination at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010.

Asher’s blend of physical comedy, stand up and his burgeoning sense of socio political satire have made him one of the most fascinating comic working in Australia today. Not bad for a kid who was kicked out of year 8 drama for not being serious enough.

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS:

Winner Age Critics Choice 2010 MICF
Winner Brisbane Powerhouse Award 2010
Winner M-IE The Age Comedian 2010
Nominee Barry Award 2009, 2010 MICF
Nominee Best Newcomer 2010 Edinburgh Fringe Nominee Golden Gibbo 2010 MICF

PRESS:

‘a post-modern Barry Humphries’ The Australian

‘A born comedian with a sharp mind and engrossingly confident delivery, comparisons to Barry Humphries don’t overstate Treleaven’s talent’ The Age

‘Hysterical in all senses of the word, Asher Treleaven is fantastic’ Three Weeks (UK)

‘Cerebral, sublime and wonderful work from a comedian at the top of his game‘ The Age

‘He is mannered and fearless in front of his audience and it’s these performance skills which make him stand out, uproariously hilarious’ The Mirror (UK)

‘Matador is not only a reflection of Treleaven’s subtle comedic genius in the interpretation of social constructs, but also of the artist’s developing aptitude for seducing his audiences around the world; it is the manifestation of an inherent talent, and of the disposition of an artist who you can’t help but be captivated by’ Arts Hub

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