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Brian Nankervis

Brian Nankervis is a performer, writer and producer. He taught primary school children at Wesley College, Glen Waverley and Kingswood College, Box Hill, for six years before fleeing the classroom in 1985 to become a waiter at Melbourne’s legendary theatre restaurant The Last Laugh.

  • Entertainment:
    Australian Comedians, Celebrity Hosts, Master of Ceremonies
  • City:
    Melbourne
  • Size:
    1 performer

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Biography

Brian Nankervis

Brian Nankervis is a performer, writer and producer. He taught primary school children at Wesley College, Glen Waverley and Kingswood College, Box Hill, for six years before fleeing the classroom in 1985 to become a waiter at Melbourne’s legendary theatre restaurant The Last Laugh. He was a writer/performer on the Channel 10 hospital soap opera Let The Blood Run Free and made regular appearances on Hey Hey It’s Saturday from 1986 as the tortured street poet Raymond J. Bartholomeuz.
Theatre credits include writing and performing in Let The Blood Run Free at various theatres and festivals. He performed in Storming St Kilda By Tram, On Shifting Sandshoes and Full House, No Vacancies for Theatreworks, Over In The West with Michael Thomas and It’s A Dad Thing at The Athenaeum Theatre. Brian has written, performed and produced the one man shows, ‘From The Cradle To The Grave’ and ‘Open Road’ for the Adelaide Fringe Festival and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. From The Cradle To The Grave was performed on ABC television as part of the Smallest Room In The House’ series.

Brian Nankervis co-produced and wrote Boys and Balls for the ABC and was a producer for Class Clowns, an annual Comedy Festival project. He does studio warm ups for a variety of television shows, including Thank God You’re Here, contributes regularly to The Age, and is an experienced MC and performer for a wide variety of public events and corporate functions. For the last 15 years he has been performing a one hour poetry show in primary and secondary schools.
He is currently writing, producing and co hosting for the A.F.I Award winning SBS music trivia show, ‘RocKwiz’. RocKwiz is a dream come true for this life long music fan, as well as hosting the hit TV show Pictures of you, regularly interviewing the big names in Australian entertainment.

Based in VIC, travels Australia wide (extra fees involved).