Amy Cunningham – Automatonatron

Canadian Comedian, Amy Cunningham, returns to Perth with a new show about healing so hard you hurt yourself Automatonatron – Stand up comedy for people who suspect they may have turned out wrong.

As a child, Amy was identified as ‘high risk.’ She has been rigorously studied by medical professionals since the mid-nineties, because they were interested to see how she’d turn out. Decades into their research, the answer is… unclear – ask again later. Automatonatron is about a machine designed to heal itself as well as drive itself crazy. It is the noise that the fan makes when your consciousness is overheating. With a wry, introspective style, and deadly sense of timing, Amy tackles themes of queerness, mental health, veganism, and the best crystals for healing mass incarceration. Clever, critical, penetrating stand-up comedy that has been described on more than one occasion as, ‘kind of like an acid trip.’

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Writer and actor on the digital series, Off Kilter, which The New York Times called, “A refreshing surprise.” “…bone-dry writing and superb command of a stage … Cunningham was a low-key highlight of last year’s Comedy Festival” 2019, pedestrian.tv Back for her third tour through Australia and New Zealand, Amy Cunningham is a Toronto-based, plant-based comedian, writer and storyteller.

Her dark and deadpan comedy has been featured at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Oddblock Comedy Festival, SheDot Festival and others. Her award-winning series, Off Kilter, was called "a refreshing surprise" by The New York Times, and is available to stream on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s digital platform as well as Seed&Spark in the US.

She writes satirical pieces for several national, Canadian comedy websites and was a winner of the Independent Production Fund’s web drama series grant.

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May contain sexual themes, course language, drug references, mental health references.