Funny females wanted for Hersday at Fremantle Comedy Factory
FUNNY and female? Tor Snyder wants you on stage.
The manager of the Fremantle Comedy Factory is the brain behind Hersday, a bi-monthly female-only stand-up comedy night aimed at getting more women behind the mic.
“The women love it, the audience love it, it’s so much more supportive,” Ms Snyder said. “It was a way to bring diversity to the night and to change things up a little bit.”
Hersday has been running at Fremantle’s Sail and Anchor Hotel for the past year and has proved so popular Ms Snyder is branching out with more all-female nights at The Moon in Northbridge. She has just one problem: while audiences love seeing funny women on stage, finding enough to perform can be a challenge.
“We do it every two months,” Ms Snyder said. “I wish we could do it more, but again, we need more women.
“It can still be a bit of a struggle to actually book the line-up. That’s not because people don’t want it, but because a lot of the people we are getting are mothers and their priority is taking care of their children.”