NINA OYAMA
“Future of Australia Comedy.” ★★★★ 1/2
~ Herald Sun ~
WINNER Best Online Drama or Comedy AACTA Awards 2024
NOMINEE Best Comedy Performer AACTA Awards 2024
NOMINEE Best Acting in a Comedy AACTA Awards 2024
NOMINEE Best Online Drama or Comedy AACTA Awards 2024
WINNER Best Animation AWGIE Awards 2023
WINNER Comedy Runway for Tip Rats – Pilot Script SBS 2014
All Awards & Nominations
NOMINEE Best Animation AWGIE Awards 2024
NOMINEE Best Newcomer Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2019
NOMINEE Best Online Comedy AWGIE Awards 2018
Nina Oyama is an award winning writer, director, actress and comedian, best known for her work on Taskmaster Australia, Deadloch and Utopia. Nina’s TV writing credits include You’re Skitting Me (ABC), Love Me (Binge), Yolo Crystal Fantasy (Adult Swim) and Class of 07 (Amazon). In 2023, her episode of Koala Man (Disney Plus) won the AWGIE for Adult Animation. Nina also co-created the AACTA Award winning SBS series Latecomers, which screened in competition at Series Mania, and was subsequently broadcast internationally. Nina is ADG and AACTA nominated for her directing work on half hour comedy pilots The Angus Project and Urvi Went to An All Girls School – which were both funded by ABC’s Fresh Blood Initiative. As a stand up comedian, Nina has sold out multiple seasons at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, opened for Hannah Gadbsy, and appeared on Just For Laughs Sydney, Thank God You’re Here, Spicks and Specks and many other panel shows.
Nina is a queer, mixed race, Australian/Japanese woman who grew up feeling like an outsider in her hometown of Sydney, Australia. She specialises in creating funny, subversive work which brings minority experiences to the forefront, with offbeat humour and dumb jokes.
LIVE
LIVE TOURS
2024 | Nina Oyama is Coming
2023 | We Should Hang Out! (with Jude Perl)
2021 | Nina Oyama Is “Doing Me” Right Now
2019 | Nina Oyama Needs A Lift
OTHER FESTIVAL APPEARANCES
2025 | Just For Laughs Sydney – Rhys Nicholson’s Gay Panic Show
2024 | Canberra Comedy Festival
2024 | Melbourne International Comedy Festival – Upfront Gala
2024 | Melbourne International Comedy Festival – Screen Presence 24
2024 | Melbourne International Comedy Festival – Hannah Gadsby (Support Act)
2024 | Perth Comedy Festival Gala
2023 | Midsumma Festival
2023 | Lunar New Year Comedy Festival
2023 | Splendour in the Grass
2021 | Lunar New Year Comedy Festival
2021 | Sydney Mardi Gras
2019 | Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow
2019 | BeerFest Sydney
2019 | Splendour in the Grass
2019 | Woodford Folk Festival
2019 | Strawberry Fields Festival
THEATRE
2022 | Celebrity Theatre Sports
SCREEN
TELEVISION
In Production | Gnomes (Stef)
Post Production | Deadloch S2 (Abby Matsuda)
Post Production | Sunny Nights (Sylvie)
Post Production | The Role of a Lifetime (Social Influencer)
Post Production | Haven’t You Heard? Everyone Hates Me (Andy)
2025 | Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee (Guest Panellist)
2025 | Big Backyard Quiz (Guest Panellist)
2025 | House of Games (Guest Panellist)
2025 | Andy Lee’s The Hundred (Guest Panellist)
2025 | A Bite To Eat With Alice (Guest)
2025 | Spicks and Specks (Guest Panellist)
2024 | Shaun Micallef’s Origin Odyssey (Guest Interviewee)
2024 | Andy Lee’s The Hundred (Guest Panellist)
2024 | Thank God You’re Here (Guest Performer)
2024 | Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee (Guest Panellist)
2024 | 13th AACTA Awards (Opening Video)
2024 | The Big Backyard Quiz (Guest Panellist)
2023 | Deadloch (Abby Matsuda)
2023 | The Cook Up with Adam Liaw (Guest Cook)
2023 | The Weekly with Charlie Picketing (Instant Expert)
2023 | Taskmaster Australia (Comedian)
2023 | Would I Lie to You? (Guest Panellist)
2023 | Have You Been Paying Attention? (Guest Panellist)
2023 | Just For Laughs Australia (Stand Up)
2023 | Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee (Guest Panellist)
2023 | Home and Away (Slyvie Grey)
2023 | We Interrupt This Broadcast (Melissa Yeong)
2023 | Koala Man (voice of Little Nina)
2023 | Utopia S5 (Courtney)
2022 | Would I Lie To You? (Guest Panellist)
2022 | We Interrupt This Broadcast (Melissa Long in Masterchef)
2022 | Celebrity Letters and Numbers (Guest Panellist)
2021 | Question Everything (Guest Panellist)
2021 | Win the Week (Guest Panellist)
2021 | Celebrity Letters and Numbers (Guest Panellist)
2021 | The Cheap Seats (Guest)
2021 | The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (Guest Performer)
2021 | Mikki vs the World (Feels 3, Cortisol, Erika)
2020 | Kinne Tonight (Various Characters)
2020 | The Chaser’s War on 2020 (Various Characters)
2020 | Moments of Clarity (voice of Nat)
2020 | Dom and Adrian: 2020 (Debbie)
2020 | Reputation Rehab
2019 | Utopia S4 (Courtney)
2019 | Kinne Tonight (Various Characters)
2019 | Spicks and Specks (Guest Panellist)
2019 | The Project (Guest)
2018 | The Angus Project (Nina)
2018 | Fresh Blood Pilot Season (Nina)
2018 | Tonightly with Tom Ballard (Guest Reporter)
2017 | Utopia S3 (Courtney)
2015 | Game Night
2015 | Utopia S2 (Courtney)
2015 | About Tonight
2015 | Utopia (Courtney)
2014 | Stand Up @ Bella Union (Stand Up)
FILM
Post Production | Forever Young (Kayla)
2025 | The Pout-Pout Fish (voice of Pip)
2015 | In the Zone IV
SHORT
2020 | Soulless (Dannii)
2020 | The Complex (Megan)
PRODUCING
2018 | The Angus Project (TV Series)
DIRECTING
2024 | Urvi Went To An All Girls School (TV Series)
2020 | Diving In (Short)
2018 | The Angus Project (TV Series)
RADIO & PODCAST
RADIO
2024 | Triple J Breakfast Live from MICF (Guest Panellist, Triple J)
2024 | Life: Please Advise (Guest, ABC Radio National)
2023 | Cocktail Chatter (Guest, ABC Radio Sydney)
2023 | Too Hard Basket (Guest, ABC Radio National)
2022 | Radiothon (Guest On-Air Host, 2SER)
2017 | Triple J Mid Dawn (Host, Triple J)
PODCAST
2019-2024 | The Little Dum Dum Club (Guest)
2024 | Won’t Be Forgetting That (Guest)
2023 | Taskmaster: The People’s Podcast (Guest)
2023 | Mixtaping Identity (Guest)
2023 | Born Funny (Guest)
2022 | Don’t You Know Who I Am (Guest)
2019 | The Phone Hacks (Guest)
WRITING
WRITING
2025 | Jennifer Eric is Cancelled (TV Series) – Script Editor
2025 | How to Kidnap Someone (TV Series)
2025 | Teething (TV Series)
2025 | The Sommerlier (TV Series)
2025 | Pirates of the Deep (TV Series)
2024 | Game Changers (TV Series)
2024 | A Christmas Heist (Film)
2024 | Urvi Went To An All Girls School (TV Series)
2024 | The Chaplain (TV Series)
2024 | Deadloch S2 (TV Series) – Additional Writing
2023 | Monologue (Online)
2023 | Year Of S2 (TV Series)
2023 | Deadloch (TV Series) – Additional Writing
2023 | Gold Diggers (TV Series) – Story Contributor
2023 | Class of ’07 (TV Series) – Developer
2023 | Erotic Stories (TV Series)
2023 | Laurinda by Alice Pung (TV Series)
2023 | Lesser Evil (TV Series)
2023 | The Eerie Chapters of Chhaya (TV Series)
2023 | Tornadohead (Animation)
2023 | The Weekly with Charlie Pickering –Instant Expert Segment (TV Series)
2023 | YOLO: Silver Destiny (TV Series) – Creative Consultant / Writer
2023 | Koala Man (TV Series) – Story Editor / Writer
2022 | Latecomers (TV Series) – Creator / Writer
2022 | Red Room Poetry – Poetry Month Ambassador
2022 | Highlights (Web Series)
2021 | Love Me (TV Series) – Creator / Writer
2021 | Australia Talks (TV Series)
2020 | YOLO: Crystal Fantasy (TV Series) – Creative Consultant / Writer
2020 | Diving In (Short)
2020 | The Chaser’s War on 2020 (TV Mini Series)
2018 | Tonightly with Tom Ballard S2 (TV Series)
2018 | Squinters S2 (TV Series)
2017 | Tonightly with Tom Ballard (TV Series)
2017 | Squinters (TV Series)
2017 | The Angus Project (Web Series)
2016 | You’re Skitting Me S3 (TV Series)
2016 | The Chaser’s Election Desk (TV Mini Series)
2013 | The Dan Report on Mornings (TV Series)
2013 | You’re Skitting Me S2 (TV Series)
PUBLISHING
2025 | The Pout Pout Fish Movie Audio Storybook (voice of Pip)
2022 | Red Room Poetry’s 20th Anniversary Anthology – Contributor
CORPORATE
The most in demand comedian in Australia right now and voice of Gen Z, Nina stars in the 2023 screen hits, Amazon’s Deadloch, ABC TV’s Utopia and Network Ten’s Taskmaster Australia. To enquire about Nina taking part in your corporate event, please contact us here.
Previous Corporate Clients:
2025 | Amazon Ads Upfronts
2025 | ACON (AIDS Council of NSW)
2025 | LADbible Australia
2025 | AACTA
2025 | Sydney Film Festival
2025 | Australian Film, Television and Radio School
2025 | Screen Producers Australia
2024 | AACTA
2024 | Asia Pacific Screen Awards
2024 | Screen Producers Australia
2024 | Queer Screen
2024 | Prime Video
2023 | Emerge Film
2023 | Paramount
2023 | Netflix
2023 | SXSW
2023 | AACTA
2023 | Amazon
2023 | Screen Australia
2023 | Australia Broadcasting Corporation
2023 | Open University
2023 | Kirin Hyoketsu campaign
2023 | Women in Media
2022 | Wollywood
2022 | Red Room Poetry
2021 | NSW Government
2021 | Australian Government
2021 | Two Good campaign
2021 | Australian Directors Guild
2020 | Worksafe
2020 | Australian Directors Guild
2019 | Remarkable Tech
2019 | Waverley Council
2019 | Events ACT
2019 | University of Melbourne Student Union
2019 | Koala Mattress campaign
