Dave Eastgate

Biography

TOPICS: MC, COMEDY, WARM UP GUY

Dave Eastgate has been described as ‘The Lovechild of Simple Plan and Tenacious D’ having gone from stunt shows to television shows, theatre to feature film and New York Comedy Clubs to the Sydney Opera House via the Tokyo Punk Scene. He has received rave reviews and has supported international comedy stars including Arj barker, Ed Burn, Stephen K Amos, Ross Noble and Emmy Award Winner Kathy Griffin, not to mention Australian comedy greats like Carl Barron, Jimeoin and The Umbilical Brothers.

At the age of 21, after being fired from every major theme park on the Gold Coast, Dave found himself in Osaka, Japan performing at Universal Studios. Immersed in the language and the culture of Japan, Dave spend four years performing his own characters and routines, six shows a day for crowds of between three adn 3000 people, in fluent Japanese.

In 2006 Dave was the runner up in the Green Faces Comedy Competition final and performed in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Showcase. He also represented Queensland at the National Theatresports Championships in Sydneys Enmore Theatre.

Since then Dave has taken his unique brand of high energy, socially conscious, stand-up comedy, characters and music throughout Australia. Not satisfied with just comedy clubs, Dave has also done the audience warm ups for the Australian Big Brother, Australian Idol and So You Think You Can Dance.

Dave’s debut one man show ‘Gaijin’ (meaning foreigner in Japanese’ was directed by Ben Knapton and required Dave to switch between five characters of different nationalities. It debuted at the Brisbane Powerhouse in August 2008 and was lauded for its innovative use of multi-media.

Dave’s second one-man show and accompanying album ‘Hot Tokyo Nights’ debuted at the Brisbane Comedy Festival in March 2009.

Based in NSW – travels everywhere