On Sunday 18 May, Sydney’s biggest annual comedy event, the Sydney Comedy Festival, drew to a close with the announcement of its 2025 award winners: Dan Rath, Ruby Teys and Jack Ansett who each took home along with their trophy a $1500 prize.
Announced at the much-loved End of the Fest gala at the Enmore Theatre, the 2025 Best of the Fest Award went to Dan Rath for his latest show, Tropical Depression, a razor-sharp offbeat observational show, offering Rath’s fresh take on the world on a broad range of topics from Uber rides, moving to Korea, chatbots and more.
The Best Newcomer Award, presented to an act presenting at the Sydney Comedy Festival for the first time, went to New Zealand comic Jack Ansett, for What’s Everyone Having for Dinner?, where Ansett kept audiences entertained with his hilarious obsession with Facebook community groups and associated online mischief.
The Festival’s Director’s Choice award went to Sydney’s own Ruby Teys for her show Cherry Vinyl: Coober Pedy’s Last Show Girl, her ode to the Gold Coast’s most treasured showgirls, bikies, predators, crisp dry White Coolabahs, prawn cocktails and the sugar daddies that kept them all in business!
For more information visit www.sydneycomedyfest.com.au
