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Comedienne & Compere

Wendy Harmer is one of Australia’s best-known humorists. As a stand-up comedian she performed her one-woman shows at the Melbourne, Edinburgh, Montreal and Glasgow Mayfest Comedy Festivals, in London’s West End and the Sydney Theatre Company.

Wendy enjoyed huge popularity leading Sydney radio station 2Day FM’s top-rating Breakfast Show for 11 years and winning 84 of the 88 ratings surveys for that period. She has hosted, written and appeared in a variety of TV shows including ABC’sThe Big Gig.

A former political journalist, Wendy is the author of seven books for adults including her best selling novel Farewell My Ovaries, Love And Punishment and Nagging For Beginners, a how-to guide for women. Her latest novel Roadside Sisters will be released in April 2009. Wendy’s children’s book series about Pearlie the park fairy have sold more than 400,000 copies in Australia and internationally since the first title Pearlie In The Park was published in 2003.

A stage show of the books adapted by Wendy played at the Seymour Centre in Sydney and toured regional NSW in 2005 and then nationally in 2007. The animated television series based on Wendy’s Pearlie books is currently in pre-production in Australia and Canada with Sticky Pictures and Canadian broadcaster Nelvana co-producing. The fifty-two part series is expected to air on Network Ten in 2010. Wendy is developing the series as Creative Producer and has written many of its episodes.

Stuff, a four-part television documentary series which Wendy produced, wrote and presented, premiered on ABC TV in March 2008. In late 2008 Wendy and Angela Catterns recorded a 16 part podcasting series for ABC Radio Local called Is It Just Me?. Together they debate and discuss their observations and conclusions on everyday life. The podcasts are currently available for download from the ABC Radio Local website.

Wendy and her husband Brendan have two young children and live on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.