Simon Palomares

Biography

TOPICS: MC, COMEDY
Simon Palomares is one of the most influential performers in Australian comedy as one of the creators and stars of Wogs Out of Work and Acropolis Now, as well as being one of the most sought after stand up comedians and corporate speakers in the country.
His past appearances include the feature film Shooting Elizabeth opposite Jeff Goulblum, Stiff with David Wenham and as Salvador Dali in the stage play Hysteria directed by Simon Phillips. The Games (ABC) with the genial John Clarke, American series Ponderosa and as the bastard husband in the feature film La Spagnola.
He has worked as a writer in Madrid for Lo Mas Plus, a nightly review program on CANAL PLUS, Europe’s largest cable network. While in Madrid he studied at the drama school of the highly credited Juan Carlos Corazza sharing classes with Oscar award winner Javier Bardem.

Theatre work in Australia includes The Rover (Melbourne Theatre Company) Hanie Rayson’s Competitive Tenderness and Tobsha Lerner’s SNAG.
He wrote and directed the short film The Usual acclaimed at the St Kilda Film Festival.

Wrote and performed an episode of Smallest Room in the House for ABC, directed a flamenco version of Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at the Malthouse Theatre and, with George Kapiniaris, performed the New York comedy hit Gangster Apparel.
In 2001 Simon took time off to train as a television director on the series Neighbours.

Lately he has been touring the country cooking paella on stage in the hilarious Palomares Cooks Calamares.

A cross between a cooking program & a stand-up comedy show, Palomares makes paella like his Spanish mother used to make but combining personal anecdotes from his own life with witty observations on multicultural Australia, the Catholic Church, food, sex & death
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Based in VIC – travels everywhere