JUSTine
Sless BA MA
Author , Comedian & Kvetcher in the Wry
Hello - I teach, write, research and perform stand up comedy. And I am a community development work with project management and community engagement skills
I'm based in Melbourne Australia - was born and raised in Sunderland UK. 

I wrote a book 

Mistress of Mirth's COMEDY Tour

'Genre Smashing'
Arts Hub

'Akin to Genius'
Angela Savage CEO Public Libraires Vic
 

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ORDER THE BOOK HERE 
 

Media Release HERE

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TEACHING
Find The Funny Comedy Workshops
Bookings  HERE 
Comedy Crash Course for Kids
Bookings HERE
 

COMING UP

Weekly 'Voices of The Southside 

Speakeasy' creative writing with a performance outcome'

30 April Clunes Book Town Happy Hour - writing with wit  BOOK HERE

 12 May Women of Wit - conversation with Monica Dux at Bargoonga Nganjin, North Fitzroy Library BOOK HERE

15 May Comedy and Conversation with John Safran  BOOK HERE 

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18 May - La Trobe University Comedy night

25 May Generation Women at Howler Bar

29 May Melbourne Jewish Book Week 

8 & 9 June Vic Tas Community Transport Conference

 

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I have toured nationally and internationally, hosted conferences and events, taught comedy workshops and classes.
Co host of IGTV show Sless to Harsel.

YOU TUBES TO ENJOY

JUSTINE SLESS YOU TUBE CHANNEL 

JEWISH MUSLIM COMEDY DEBATE

MELBOURNE JEWISH COMEDY FESTIVAL


 

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BOOKS AND WRITING

Justine has an MA by research in creative writing.

BOOKS
Mistress of Mirth's COMEDY TOUR

ORDER A COPY HERE
Your Guide Justine Sless
Published by Australian Scholarly Publishing April 2022

MEDIA RELEASE HERE

Semi-autobiographical, intellectually compelling and frightfully funny.

Welcome to the COMEDY Tour;

Starting in Bourke Mall, Melbourne, the joke sequence inaugurates in a department store, segues into the homewares section and delivers the ultimate punchline at a live stand-up comedy room.
Intertwined with short stories and comedy fun facts this is the ultimate expedition into the quagmire of invective that has been directed at funny women for a millennium.
 

Fress with Sless  
12 recipes & 12 quirky illustrations 
These are some of my favourite recipes for you to savour. They come from years working as a chef, time spent at the kitchen bench raising my kids and meals made and shared with family and friends for Jewish holidays like Rosh Hashana and Passover.
ORDER YOUR COPY HERE

 

BLOG
Excuse me there are crumbs in my comedy

Winner Grace Marion Wilson Prize for Fiction in 2016.

'Tempest: An Anthology’(Patrician Press)

The Journal of Working Class Studies,

Glimmer Press anthology in 2020.

Jewish Women of Words

 Funny Women

I have written numerous one woman shows and tailored comedy for a vast range of audiences, toured comedy and story-telling nationally and internationally.

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I've worked for twenty years across the non-profit sector, education, local government and the arts - delivering festivals events, social enterprise programs and volunteer opportunities.
I have  expertise in community engagement, project management, staff and volunteer recruitment and high level skills in relationship and stakeholder engagement. As in Tomatoes and Other Stakeholders.

 ​I was the founder and creative director of the Melbourne Jewish Comedy Festival.

I am a Professional Listener - with training in telephone counselling, I support people as a Divorce and Birthday Doula - for those times when you need to kvetch and kvell.
I HOLD SPACE FOR YOU
 

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CLIENTS& reviewS

Reviews

'Sheer Comedy Panache.' MICF 2022
Arts Hub

'Such a high quality workshop - the kids loved it.'

 Hobson's Bay Library - Comedy Crash Course for Kids
Recent Clients