Andrea Lauren Gibbs (born 26 June 1981 in Donnybrook, Western Australia) is an Australian comedienne, actress and radio presenter.
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She spent her childhood on a family farm in the small country town of Donnybrook, Western Australia. She attended Donnybrook District High School and Bunbury Senior High School. In 1999 she moved to Perth, Western Australia at the age of 17. She attended Curtin University of Technology where she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in theatre.
After working in Edinburgh, Scotland for a year working with the Edinburgh International Arts Festival, she returned to Perth in 2001 and joined improvising comedy troupe The Big HOO HAA!. She performed with them regularly as well as writing, producing, and acting in numerous other theatre productions and short films.
In 2004, she entered Triple J’s Raw Comedy competition performing stand-up for the first time and was a Western Australian state finalist. The following year she won the state final and performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in the nationals.
Late in 2005 she was headhunted by Southern Cross Broadcasting and currently co-hosts 96fm’s Breakfast Show, one of WA's highest rating breakfast shows. She finished with them in 2007 upon deciding "breakfast radio is like the Burswood Theatre: it's where artists go to die".
In 2006 she was hand picked by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival talent scouts to perform in The Comedy Zone, a showcase of Australian comedy’s hottest new releases. She returned there for the 2008 festival with her highly successful one-person show STARKERS.
Her television credits include 'Very Small Business' (ABCTV) and 'Stepmonsters' (Nickelodeon).
In 2009 she made her feature film debut in 'My Year without Sex', written and directed by Sarah Watts and starring Matt Day and Sacha Horler.
Andrea has performed with Perth Theatre Company, Red Ryder Productions and Barkin Gecko Theatre Company and she appears regularly in The Big HOO HAA! and Free Love Improv in Perth.
Andrea is currently performing for the Barkin Gecko Theatre Company.