Maggie Looke is an award-winning comedy writer, director and producer who has worked for over a decade in the comedy industry.
Her television work has been seen on high-rating series such as Hard Quiz (ABC TV), Comedians of the World (Netflix), Have You Been Paying Attention? (Network 10), Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee (ABC TV), At Home Alone Together (ABC TV) and Aaron Chen Tonight (ABC TV).
Maggie’s 2015 live directorial and writing debut, The Tokyo Hotel, earned a Golden Gibbo Award nomination and was turned by the ABC into a narrative podcast. The podcast was a cult success, reaching number one on the iTunes comedy charts.
Winner of the 2022 Moosehead Award, she wrote and directed the multimedia smash hit Ultimate Hollywood Tours selling out every show of its three-season run.
In 2024, Maggie co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed Melbourne International Comedy Festival Directors’ Choice-winning stand-up show titled Ben Russell. The same year, she also directed comedian Bronwyn Kuss’s Pinder Award-winning show.
The Age has described her work as ‘unlike anything even the most seasoned festival goer will have seen before’.