Penny Greenhalgh is an AWGIE Award winning writer and performer. Recent writing credits include The Betoota Advocate (Paramout Plus) and Reef School (ABC). She recently wrote and acted in Bunya Productions online series, Nice Shorts and is the head writer for Channel 10’s Trial by Kyle and Hughsey We Have a Problem S4. She has written two beer ads for Young Henrys and wrote jokes for the hosts of the AACTA Awards. In 2018 Penny was a writer and performer on Tonightly (ABC), and Orange is the new Brown (Channel 7). She also wrote over 21 half-hour episodes of narrative comedy for kids (Random, Whacky and For Real! – Channel 10). Penny wrote, produced and performed in the ABC iView series, The Lost Tapes, as part of Fresh Blood 2017. She wrote and performed on Aaron Chen Tonight (ABC), and received Gender Matters funding to complete a writer’s attachment on The Checkout (ABC); a show she also performed in and directed over three series.

 

Penny has written and performed live shows all around Australia and the world, including South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Edinburgh. In 2015 she was awarded Best Emerging Artist at the Adelaide Fringe. She currently teaches sketch writing classes at the Improv Theatre Sydney.