Cassie Workman is an

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comedian A comedian (feminine comedienne) or comic is a person who seeks to entertainment, entertain an audience by making them laughter, laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting foolishly (as in slapstick), or employing prop c ...

from

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. In 2009, she was the winner of the

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competition and was sent to the

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. She then performed a number of successful shows at festivals around Australia during the early to mid-2010s, including ''Ave Loretta'', ''War'', ''We Have Fun Don't We'' and ''Nothing You Do Means Anything''. She has also written for ''

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'' and '' Aaron Chen Tonight''. Workman is a

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, having come out in 2017. The

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podcast ''The Signal'' documented her quest to save money for

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, which was also featured in a 2018 feature article on "The hidden $100,000 price tag on being transgender". She contributed a regular segment entitled "So You Think You Can Trans" on '' Tonightly with Tom Ballard'', and in 2019 toured a show about her transition entitled ''Giantess''. In 2022, she performed ''Aberdeen'', a show about

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. She told NME she considered him a "queer icon" and was inspired to name the show after his home town of

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after travelling there "because it explained so much about him". The Guardian called the show "a darkly beautiful hour of spoken word... a sad and sorry voyage around Cobain’s stomping ground", In 2023, she provided the voice of trans filmmaker Betty Palmer in the

Alice Maio Mackay Alice Maio Mackay (born August 4, 2004) is an Australian filmmaker best known for writing and directing the 2023 queer horror films ''T Blockers'' and ''Satranic Panic''. Early life Maio Mackay was born in Adelaide. Career Since 2017, Maio Macka ...

film ''

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''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Workman, Cassie Living people People from Western Australia Entertainers from Perth, Western Australia Australian comedians Australian LGBTQ comedians Australian women comedians Australian transgender women Year of birth missing (living people)