Cal Wilson is one of the most well rounded media talents in the country and consequently is in high demand. <\/p>\n
Her comedy career started back in New Zealand in 1990, where she was a founding member of the Court Jesters improv group, and was part of the NZ team that won the World Theatresports title in Los Angeles in 1994. <\/p>\n
In 1997, she received the inaugural \u2018Billy T Award\u2019, New Zealand’s most prestigious comedy award recognizing comedians with outstanding potential, and was judged Best Comedian 2000, by Metro Magazine.<\/p>\n
However, like all great New Zealand talent, Australia has claimed her as its own and Cal has made Melbourne her home for the past 8 years. <\/p>\n
Her live performances demonstrate her enormous talent as a stand-up comedian. Her festival shows play to sold out houses, with \u2018The Great Intender\u2019 2011, \u2018Lively\u2019 2010 and \u2018Up There, Cal Wilson\u2019 2006 garnering rave reviews. <\/p>\n
Cal has appeared twice at Montreal’s Just for Laughs Festival, and had a successful season of her one woman show \u2018Jekyll and Bride\u2019 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.<\/p>\n
In 2001 Cal won the Best Newcomer Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and has performed right around the country as part of the MICF Roadshow.<\/p>\n
A much loved regular guest on television shows such as \u2018Spicks and Specks\u2019, \u2018Good News Week\u2019 and \u2018Thank God You\u2019re Here\u2019, Cal was also the host of ABC\u2019s \u2018Sleuth 101\u2019 in 2010. <\/p>\n
In 2011, Cal has ricocheted back and forth between Australia and New Zealand, to be a regular panelist on NZ\u2019s TV 3 topical comedy show, \u20187 Days,’ as well as appearing in Channel 10’s \u2018Good News World\u2019.<\/p>\n
A highlight for her in 2011 was appearing on \u2018QI Live\u2019, the live stage tour with Stephen Fry and Alan Davies.<\/p>\n
If television and live performance wasn\u2019t enough, Cal is also an experienced radio host, co-hosting Nova’s national Drive Show \u2018The Wrong Way Home\u2019, with Akmal in 2007 & 2008. In 2009 she joined Dylan Lewis co -hosting mornings on Nova 100. 2010 saw her filling in for 3 months on Vega Breakfast with Ian \u2018Dicko\u2019 Dickson, after he broke his co-host Dave O’Neil.<\/p>\n
Cal is also a sought after MC for corporate events, and is exceptionally handy with a glue gun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6246,"template":"","entertainer_category":[51,45,46],"class_list":["post-2032","entertainer","type-entertainer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entertainer_category-celebrities","entertainer_category-comedians","entertainer_category-mcs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictheatreaustralia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/entertainer\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictheatreaustralia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/entertainer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictheatreaustralia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/entertainer"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictheatreaustralia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictheatreaustralia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"entertainer_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictheatreaustralia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fentertainer_category&post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}