bio
Backtrack a bit...So who exactly is this Lauren Bok lady?
She's a comedian.
Lauren Bok is an award-winning comedian with big energy and big face. She does burlesque, stand up, mimes and silly voices, often in that order.
Nominated for the Golden Gibbo at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2019, she has been described as 'jaw-achingly brilliant' by The Music and 'a joy to watch' by the Herald Sun.
You can see her stomping on stages in Melbourne mostly and occasionally other places. It could be hosting out the front of the Melbourne Museum for The Very Big Laugh Out Loud, or on the Burlesque Showboat, listening to her D&D podcast Dice Paper Role, running around in a puppet, or doing audience warm up for TV, or running workshops, or just being that funny person in line at a supermarket. She truly is everywhere.
She's been called a champion of the independent spirit of comedy, and is a fierce advocate of fresh new ideas and intersectional spaces.
Winner of the "Prize Hog" unofficial MICF award for most gigs done at MICF 2023 (38 shows). Yeah damn right that's going in the bio.
"How does one even begin to explain how wonderfully funny Lauren Bok is" - Aussietheatre.com.au
Acting and Onscreen agent
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boklesque
Welcome to Boklesque! A hilarious burlesque variety show in which the acts and the host are all performed by one woman, the award-winning comedian and burlesque jester Lauren Bok. Be delighted and devoured by a stunning array of the finest vaudeville acts from all around Lauren Bok's brain! Meet hula hooper ordinaire Poppy Loppyplops, the queen of dimness Gothzilkia, the cabaret travesty Ivana Showoff and the balloon-erific bombshell, Rose De La Fleur Le Saint Teeze! It's Dita Von Teese meets The Muppets in this ridiculous, raunchy, rollercoaster of a show!
☆☆☆☆½ "Lauren Bok is infectiously hilarious, undeniably gorgeous and her Boklesque is fierce, proudly feminine, and funny as hell." - Lilithia Reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ "As an enjoyer of funny jokes and boob tassels, ‘Boklesque’ is an early contender for my personal (unofficial) MICF ’24 Best Of. Well worth the watch." - Theatrematters
Meet the cast of Boklesque
Poppy likes hoops and claps. She has been on stage since she was 6 months old when she came 15th runner up in a smelliest baby competition at Sunshine Plaza, and has had her eyes on the prize ever since. Age 6 she found hula hoops by the side of the road at a hard rubbish collection, fell in love and took them home and started practicing immedately, and was only interrupted by her mother who told to her that yes, they do look a bit like hula hoops, but that is barbed wire sweetie put it down.
A Rose by any other name...Rose thought about auditioning for Britain's Got Talent, but instead decided to migrate to the colonies as it would be less competitive. A consumate professional, Rose has never not washed a costume the very second it started to get a bit wiffy, never missed a deadline, and never used someone else's song without checking with them first. A blonde bombshell, a burlesque babe, an English Rose with a couple of cheeky thorns, a beauty with brains to match...Rose has it all, and also put all of it into her stage name.
GothZilika was born, spooky and alone. She lived and died a thousand times before breakfast. In the mid 1400s she developed a fetish for the loudest, most annoying sounds that humankind has to offer, and now tours the country, haunting audiences until they go insane.
Ivana Showoff hails from the far northern provences of Undisclosed Location. After escaping serfdom, she got her start as a wench aboard the Gluttony, a rat ship bound for Dar-Es-Salaam, and sung her way into the Captain's heart. After escaping and leaving no man alive to tell the tale, she went straight to Berlin and has never looked back, unless it was because someone yelled "IVANA" like, really loudly.
boklesque tour 2025
BUY TICKETS
Newcastle Fringe
27 - 29 March
Castlemaine Fringe
4- 5 April
Sydney Comedy Festival
17 - 18 May
STUFF I do
For upcoming and current appearances, Check out my LINKTREE
Comedy.
Just, in general. Generally.
She can do stand up, presenting, corporate gigs, charity fundraisers, hen's parties, any kind of hosting, MCing, Trivia, audience warm-up, basically any kind of getting-up-in-front-of-people-both-in-person-and-virtual-sense things.
She also is adept at family-friendly comedy, able to do clean sets and super-dooper kid-friendly material both as a host and an act. She has performed at The Very Big Laugh Out Loud, Comedy Club for Kids, and Dinos Got Talent.
She appears regularly at countless stand up and variety nights across her home city of Melbourne.
Check her stories on her Instagram to find out where she's popping up next!
Burlesque.
Hosting, performing, teaching
Lauren Bok performs burlesque as her alter-ego, Ivana Showoff, as well as hosting as herself, or Ivana, or maybe a bit of both!
She has hosted and/or performed at Burlesque Idol, The Apprentease, Mx Burlesque State Final Victoria, The Australian Burlesque Festival, The Lost Cabaret, and Cabaret Impedimedia.
She is one of the resident hosts of the Burlesque Showboat
She teaches comedy burlesque at Maison Burlesque in Melbourne. Check out Maison Burlesque for all the details!
Dice Paper Role.
Dice Paper Role is a Dungeons and Dragons comedy adventure podcast. With Lauren Bok, Greg Pickering, Emil Freund, Jack Crosby, Ben Clements, and Danny Last.
Over 100 episodes of pure dnd chaos!
Misc!
hi, welcome to misc. Other things I've done/can do:
PRESENTING
Trivia hosting, corporate MCing and hosting, fundraiser hosting, auctioneering, comedy for coporate events, comedy for schools
WORKSHOPS
comedy burlesque, classic burlesque, physical comedy, comedy writing, characterisation, drama skills, performance skills...the list goes on! I have a really flexible skills set, anything is possible! get in touch!
PRODUCTION
Stage management, production assistant, ASM, Volunteer coordinating, producing, grant writing, bump in/out, driving, crowd control and FoH
Past Shows.
Solo Shows:
2021 It's A Long Way To The Bok (If You Wanna Sausage Roll)
2019 Rock Out With Your Bok Out **Nominated for The Golden Gibbo - MICF**
2018 - The World's Worst Babysitter (Children's Comedy)
2017 Between a Bok and a Hard Place
2015 - Is That A Burrito In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Happy You Have A Burrito **Winner - Best Emerging Comedy Weekly Award Adelaide Fringe 2016**
Group Shows:2023 - An Evening With The Wymarra-Boks (a Split Bill show with Jay Wymarra)
2012 - 2015 Radio Variety Hour (1940s live radio plays) **Nominated Best Emerging Comedy Adelaide Fringe 2012**
2014 Wander Women (Sketch)
2014 Sullivan and Bok (Split bill stand up with Claire Sullivan)
2013 Tragedy + Time (Sketch)
2013 2 States of Lauren Bok and Bridget Fahey (Split bill stand up)
I live and work on the stolen and unceded lands of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurring People of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to Traditional Elders past and present.
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