Australian Comedy Review

Dave Eastgate is truly versatile, with 10 years of professional experience in film, theatre, television, stand-up comedy, live stunts hows, bands, musical theatre, Shakespeare, street performance, education, improvisation and even theme-park characters. As well as a four year stint performing at Universal Studios Japan in Japanese, David has performed his unique brand of musical-comedy around the world in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh. He returned from five years overseas in Jan 2006 and is currently residing in Brisbane writing the scripts for Big Brother's Friday Night Live and performing the audience warm up for Nominations, Evictions and FNL. As a stand-up comedian, David placed 2nd in the 2006 National Green Faces Competition in Canberra, was featured at the 2006 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Showcase. David has since begun headlining shows in Brisbane but his personal highlights would be supporting Arj Barker and Stephen K Amos, sharing the stage and his guitar with Lano and Woodley on a live broadcast for ABC radio and making the third round in Japan's biggest comedy competition, the M-1 Grand Prix. Film credits include the new Chris Nyst feature, "Crooked Business", where he plays a blundering news agent as well as a number of short films and TV commercials. Dave's biggest talent would be his ability to create characters and his self-devised one man show, "Gaijin" performed this year at the Queensland University of Technology received wide acclaim for it's range of characters, language and accents. "Gaijin", which is loosely based on Dave's time in Japan, will play a season at The Brisbane Powerhouse Theatre in April 2008 and will feature at the 2008 Brisbane Festival in May.