URVI MAJUMDAR
“The future of stand-up is in good hands.”
~ The Plus Ones ~
NOMINEE Best Comedy – Situation or Narrative AWGIE Awards 2026
NOMINEE Best Online Drama or Comedy Series AACTA Awards 2025
WINNER Moosehead Award Recipient Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2024
NOMINEE Best Web Series AWGIE Awards 2024
WINNER Stand-up! Grant Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2019
Urvi Majumdar is a comedian, writer, producer and actor based in Naarm. She has performed to sold-out crowds across the country at The Melbourne International, Sydney, Perth and Brisbane Comedy Festivals. Urvi has written regularly for Network 10’s The Project and ABC TV’s The Weekly with Charlie Pickering. You can see Urvi in ABC TV’s critically acclaimed series Fisk as well as Guy Montgomery s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee, Network 10’s The Cheap Seats, SBS’s Celebrity Letters & Numbers and as a supporting lead character in both seasons of the Nine Network’s Metro Sexual.
You can hear Urvi as a regular guest presenter on ABC radio, Triple J or Triple R where she’s often on the Friday Funny Bugger segment or a Fakefaster. In 2023 Urvi opened for renowned international acts Cat Cohen (US) and Kaneez Surka (IND/US). Urvi has recently completed touring her second hour of stand up titled Burnt, which was the recipient of the Moosehead award by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, given to artists who show great potential.
Urvi’s online series Urvi Went to an All Girls School was created as part of the highly competitive Screen Australia and ABC TV Freshblood initiative and is available to watch on YouTube now! Urvi was given the green light to turn the series into a pilot for the ABC, which aired in 2025.
Alongside her passion for stand-up, Urvi is interested in writing for screen, acting and show running. She’s been a part of Screen Australia funded projects: Swamped and Emu War as well as Screen Tasmania funded project: Flatearthers. Urvi was selected for and completed the Australian Writer’s Guild’s First Break Program in 2024.
LIVE
LIVE TOURS
2025-2026 | Miss!
2024 | Burnt
2023 | Urvi Went To An All Girls School
2023 | Brown Women Comedy (Ensemble Cast)
2021 | For A Good Time Call (Ensemble Cast)
2020 | Sassive Aggressive (Ensemble Cast)
2019 | Sass Attack (Ensemble Cast)
2018 | Mispronounced (Ensemble Cast)
OTHER FESTIVAL APPEARANCES
2026 | BrisAsia Comedy Gala
2026 | Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow
2026 | Melbourne International Comedy Festival Asian Allstars Gala
2026 | Brisbane Comedy Festival Gala
2026 | Party in the Paddock
2024 | Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow
2024 | Melbourne International Comedy Festival Screen Presence 24
2024 | Party in the Paddock
2024 | Sydney Comedy Festival Frocking Hilarious
2024 | Perth Comedy Festival Gala
2024 | Bendigo Comedy Festival Gala
2024 | OzAsia Festival
2023-2024 | Woodford Folk Festival
2023 | Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow
2023 | Splendour in the Grass
2023 | Golden Plains
2023 | Sydney Comedy Festival Gala
2023 | Sydney Comedy Festival Frocking Hilarious
2022 | Splendour in the Grass
SCREEN
TELEVISION
2026 | Gnomes (Waspy Mum)
2026 | Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee Dunces Edition (Guest Panellist)
2026 | Melbourne International Comedy Festival Campaign (Self)
2025 | Fisk S3 (Mareena)
2025 | Big Backyard Quiz (Guest Panellist)
2025 | Spicks and Specks (Guest Panellist)
2024 | The Cook Up with Adam Liaw (Guest Cook)
2024 | Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee (Guest Panellist)
2024 | The Cheap Seats (Guest)
2024 | Urvi Went To An All Girls School (Urvi)
2024 | Melbourne International Comedy Festival Campaign (Passenger on Train)
2023 | The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (Guest)
2023 | The Yearly with Charlie Pickering (Guest)
2023 | Hot Stand Ups (Stand Up)
2022 | Fisk (Mareena)
2022 | Question Everything (Guest Panellist)
2021 | Comedy Up Late (Stand Up)
2021 | Celebrity Letters and Numbers (Guest Panellist)
2021 | Gourmet Lazy (Self)
2019-2021 | Metro Sexual (Gwen Albright)
2020 | Stepmom Blues (Urvi)
FILM
In Production | Written in the Stars (Shop Assistant)
SHORT
2024 | Jason Is My Dad (Rian)
2019 | The Litter Mermaid (Mary Mermaid)
ONLINE
2026 | Melbourne International Comedy Festival Light The Way Home Campaign (Self)
2025 | Crafternoon (Guest)
2024 | Urvi Went To An All Girls School (Urvi)
2021 | Geraldine Hickey & Friends (Stand Up)
2021 | Comedy Rooms of Melbourne (Stand Up)
DIRECTING
2024 | Urvi Went To An All Girls School (Web Series)
RADIO & PODCAST
RADIO
2026 | Thank God It’s Friday (Guest, ABC Radio National)
2026 | Contemporary Conundrum (Guest, ABC Radio National)
2026 | Melbourne International Comedy Festival Comedy Bites (Stand Up, ABC Radio Melbourne)
2025 | Thank God It’s Friday (Guest, ABC Radio National)
2025 | Melbourne Evenings with David Astle (Guest, ABC Radio Melbourne)
2025 | Contemporary Conundrum (Guest, ABC Radio National)
2024 | Life Matters (Guest, ABC Radio National)
2024 | Funny Bugger (Guest Comedian, Triple R)
2024 | Life: Please Advise (Guest, ABC Radio National)
2024 | Fakefaster (Guest, Triple R)
2024 | Melbourne International Comedy Festival Comedy Bites (Stand Up, ABC Radio Melbourne)
2023 | Hottest 100 Campaign (Comedy Drop, Triple J)
2023 | Too Hard Basket (Guest, ABC Radio National)
2023 | Drive Quiz (Guest, ABC Radio National)
2022 | Radiothon (Guest, Triple R)
PODCAST
2025 | Wilosophy (Guest)
WRITING
WRITING
2026 | Have You Been Paying Attention? (TV Series)
2025 | House of Games (TV Series)
2025 | Class Clowns (TV Series)
2024 | Urvi Went To An All Girls School (Web Series)
2024 | Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee (TV Series)
2024 | The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (TV Series)
2024 | Spectrum (Guest Columnist) – The Age
2023 | Flat Earthers (TV Series)
2023 | The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (TV Series)
2022 | The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (TV Series)
2019-2022 | The Project (TV Series)
2021 | Stand-up Comedy: A Scene of Paradoxes – Cordite Poetry Journal
2020 | Swamped (Web Series)
2019 | The Emu War (Web Series)
2016 | That’s What She Said (Web Series)
CORPORATE
Urvi is one of the most exciting voices in Australia’s rising wave of South Asian comedians and brings a fresh perspective born from unique life experiences. You will know her face from stand out performances on hit TV shows including Fisk, Guy Montgomery’s Spelling Bee and The Cheap Seats. In 2025 she wrote and starred in her first television pilot Urvi Went to an All Girls School which premiered on ABC TV in 2025 and earned her nominations for both the AACTA and AWGIE Awards for Best Comedy. Urvi also writes for The Weekly with Charlie Pickering and Have You Been Paying Attention. She is a regular guest on ABC Radio and RN. She is a popular live performer and a representative for Life Blood and a National Ambassador for The Leukaemia Foundation. She has spoken publicly about her family’s journey as she was her father’s stem cell donor following his Leukaemia diagnosis in 2022. Professional, charming, intelligent and very funny, Urvi is the perfect face of modern Australia for your next event.
Available for: MC/Host | Comedy Performer | Panel Moderator | Keynote Speaker
Speaker Topics: Education ~ Multicultural Australia ~ Family ~ Caring for people with chronic illness
Fun facts: Urvi was born in India and migrated to Melbourne when she was 6. Her mother tongue is Bengali. Urvi studied Philosophy and Literature in Uni. Urvi loves crystals, Angel Numbers and astrology. She is a qualified school teacher.
Corporate Testimonials:
“Urvi’s winning presence warmed up a room full of nervous award nominees until everyone was genuinely laughing. She really went above and beyond to set a fun and celebratory tone which carried on throughout the event. We would book her again in a heartbeat (in fact, we already have!).”
– Lucy Nelson, AWG Emerging Writers’ Awards
Previous Corporate Clients:
2026 | AWG Emerging Writers’ Awards
2026 | Lifeblood Campaign
2026 | Woolworths Campaign
2024 | Lunchbox Laffs (Stand Up) – University of Melbourne
2023 | Myriad Magazine Launch (Stand Up) – University of Melbourne
2023 | Australia India Youth Dialogue Conference (Speaker)